Sentence examples for fine string from inspiring English sources

By Russell Platt The most memorable aspects of Sivan Magen's personal style are classic features of fine string playing.

The players swayed and swooned, combining the breathy timbre of a portative organ with the expressive interplay of a fine string quartet.

And the risk that comes with handing a Strad to a touring musician is balanced by the "social capital" to be gained, according to Jason Price, the director of the Internet-based Tarisio auction house specializing in fine string instruments.

A chrome barbed-wire motif that Mr. Wang used around the ankle of a boot, for example, would become a fine string bow elsewhere on an outfit, like a belt, creating a tension between edge and beauty.

In addition, both of Magen's parents are cellists, and it's remarkable how the most memorable aspects of his personal style — his rich, full tone and lyrical, long-breathed phrasing — are classic features of fine string playing.

On the heels of a program by the Takacs Quartet built around poems, this fine string quartet begins a series of three concerts, "No Boundaries," mingling music with poetry.

My mother will lift out fat squares of the casserole, the fine strings of cheese banding across the table; I scissor them with my fingers and flinch at the tiny-striped burn.

Tina Modotti's celebrated Hands of the Puppeteer, massive and tangled in fine strings like Gulliver tied down by the Lilliputians, shows her gift for capturing the sensual materiality of life.

Within the vacuole, anthocyanins accumulate in inclusions that, when observed under polarized light, appear round and regular in shape or aggregated, like an intertwine of fine strings with blebs (Fig. 6).

Originally an eminent violist, Mr. Barshai was an inaugural member of the Borodin Quartet, founded in 1945 and long considered one of the finest string quartets in the world.

(da Fonseca-Wollheim) ★ Takács Quartet (Thursday) One of the finest string quartets currently playing, this sterling ensemble unfailingly matches penetrating interpretive insights with visceral energy.