Sentence examples for familiar materials from inspiring English sources

He's interested in the spirit of expedition, and in its power to transform even familiar materials.

The artist Thad Simerly compares that approach to his method of using familiar materials in unconventional ways.

A guitarist and composer with an itch for blending timbres, Mr. Harrison, 55, has no problem putting familiar materials to unfamiliar use.

Octogenarian pianist Ahmad Jamal's recent albums have served as fine reminders of his spirited gigs – full of familiar treatments of familiar materials, foxy rhythm-swaps with alert partners, dramatic surges impishly retreating to hushed tinkles.

Some find it close to easy listening in its repetition of catchy melody, or a irreconcilable split from the jazz tradition in its avoidance of many of the genre's familiar materials.

The glorious simplicity of the app is that it sounds like what it does; it achieves the audio equivalent of skeuomorphism, the design principle of recreating the familiar materials and visual cues of old objects.

Even choosing less familiar material has its costs.

Their audiences delighted in the unfamiliar presentation of familiar material.

disorients by presenting a familiar material in the raw.

But in her concert she focused on less familiar material from the disc.

In places, though, Gabriel's approach pays dividends by casting new, unexpected light on familiar material.