Sentence examples for devising about from inspiring English sources

With no apology to Harry Belafonte he calls "Day-O" a couple of times and gets his viewers singing along in a banana-boat song of his own devising about the Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

He was soon smuggling into his output what were little plays of his own devising, about the poets Milton and Andrew Marvell - he was fascinated by the English civil war - or the nature of the impulses to write and to act.

(Meaning bebop, a musical language devised about 60 years ago. Make that "very gently").

This was first devised about 432 bce by the astronomer Meton of Athens.

The two men have devised about 100 different combinations of bread, cheese and condiments.

Linear perspective is thought to have been devised about 1415 by Italian Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi and later documented by architect and writer Leon Battista Alberti in 1435 (Della Pittura).

Under a system devised about a decade ago by the program director, Thurston Briscoe, and the music director, Gary Walker, WBGO sticks to a format that seldom ventures into the aurally demanding.

So his mother, an early devotee of psychoanalysis, invites Carter to "come home and take a small quiz my women's group has devised" about the Oedipus complex.

Cirit -- the name means javelin -- was devised about 500 years ago as a form of training and exercise for cavalrymen of the Ottoman Empire.

The bathtub proved to be too large for brittle ceramic construction, and the porcelain-enamel cast-iron tub was devised about 1870; the double-shell built-in type still common today appeared about 1915.

The plan, devised about 1887 by Amédée Mouchez, director of the Paris Observatory, involved the cooperation of 18 observatories located around the world in an attempt to photograph the entire sky on plates, each covering an area only 2° square.