Sentence examples for expressly written for from inspiring English sources

She videotapes the actor Joseph Chaikin performing a text by Sam Shepard that was expressly written for their collaboration, and includes the live percussion accompaniment by Skip LaPlante that Shepard planned.

It is also the first classical piece expressly written for folk icon Kathryn Tickell, the woman single-handedly responsible for making a sensual art out of squeezing a bag of wind.

To wit: He met Mr. Poulson — for whom he expressly wrote the lead in "Somebody Up There Likes Me" — at the video store where Mr. Poulson worked.

Ritchie has been criticized for not supporting local artists expressly writing about Los Angeles.

The move increases the chances of people actually being able to see the director Trevor Nunn's take on a 1957 piece written for the radio that the Irish master had expressly said he did not want performed live.

Then came The Train Driver, Athol Fugard's first play for some years, written expressly for the theatre and directed by him.

Though the law did not expressly specify a standard of proof, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the court, said Congress must have codified the general understanding about the appropriate standard, one reflected in a 1934 Supreme Court decision.

True Fire, Kaija Saariaho's new song cycle for baritone and orchestra, was written expressly for Gerald Finley.

An equally impressive work by the same composer, Supremum est mortalibus bonum pax (The Supreme Gift for Mortals Is Peace), was written expressly for the signing of the Treaty of Viterbo in 1433, when Pope Eugenius IV and King Sigismund of Bohemia were both present at the ceremony.

The next year he re-teamed with Hepburn for the sports comedy Pat and Mike (1952), the second feature written expressly for the pair by Kanin and Gordon.

The latter role may have been written expressly for Armin.