Sentence examples for could have composed from inspiring English sources
No pollster or speechwriter could have composed that passage.
It is a fight song with lyrics — "They're gonna learn to fear the Yankees" — that George Steinbrenner could have composed.
Together we could have composed a convincing airport tableau, a community-college course or a depiction of an outer borough for a Spider-Man movie.
Shot entirely in the studio, "Bunraku" offers ingredients — sagebrush posturing, samurai swords, noir shadows and neon, "Warriors -style rumbles, comic-book flashbacks, a hint of MGM musicals — that could have composed a fanboy feast.
As melodists, Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers could run circles around Weill, but neither of them, nor even Gershwin, could have composed the contrapuntal choruses, large-scale musical forms and lucid orchestrations that may one day win "The Eternal Road" a secure place in the repertory.
He could have composed an open letter to Armstong and Eun, and posted it on the front page of Engadget for maximum embarrassment (posting his resignation on his own blog rather than his employers' was a classic schoolboy error).
Meryl Streep could not have played Margaret Thatcher, nor Vivien Leigh Scarlett O'Hara, Dvorak could not have composed The New World Symphony, Canaletto could not have conveyed the glory of the Thames.
Shostakovich could not have composed with the telly on.
Although Williams calls him "compulsively gregarious," Whitman could hardly have composed his monumental poems without spending a good deal of his time not being gregarious, but rather sitting, thinking, reading, writing, revising.
"How could a semiliterate country boy have composed works of such power?" Their snobbery is the surest sign of their ignorance.
Homer, he argued, couldn't write, but had composed a series of ballads (or "lays") that were short enough to be memorized and which were transmitted orally for generations, perhaps by guilds of professional reciters; these were finally assembled by someone who knew how to write into the immensely long poems we have today.
