Sentence examples for extemporizing from inspiring English sources

As a kid, he stuttered, and reading aloud is still more awkward for him than extemporizing.

In recent days, as the White House speechwriters were weighing the language and the imagery of Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Bush was extemporizing his way toward war.

Talk story about reporter/"Primary Colors" author Joe Klein....Joe Klein began his press conference in Manhattan last Wednesday very simply, without any of the bold extemporizing on the subject of man's (or at least his) essential dualism that would come later.

When Anderson's vocals are most fevered, she might be extemporizing and layering the results, or she could be using the Pro Tools recording system to create roughed-up copies of her own voice.

But he sounded marvelously in his element, extemporizing with controlled bluster and blending ecstatically with the other two horns.

Mr. Binney phrased the melody as a string of hiccups and then eased into an elastic mode, coolly extemporizing over bass and drums, with ample space for Mr. Weiss to fill.

Herbart himself warned: We must be familiar with them [the methods], try them out according to circumstances, alter, find new ones, and extemporize; only we must not be swallowed up in them nor seek the salvation of education there.

His books about these experiences were Foole upon Foole; or, Six Sortes of Sottes, about six household fools, and Quips upon Questions, a collection from his masterly performances where he extemporized verse responses to audience questions; both were published in 1600 under the pseudonym Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe.

We must be familiar with them [the methods], try them out according to circumstances, alter, find new ones, and extemporize; only we must not be swallowed up in them nor seek the salvation of education there.

Written percussion parts (in instruction books only) date from the 16th century, as drummers were expected to extemporize their parts.

Such songs were spontaneously extemporized by a rabbi or one of his disciples, the entire group of men then repeating the song in unison.