As she draws the drapes he recites a sonnet which he has just composed.
She has just composed a play, "The Trials of Arabella," to be performed in honor of her brother's homecoming.
So naturally, when Oronte (Marcus Dean Fuller) proudly recites the sonnet he has just composed, Alceste declares that "it has neither taste nor honesty nor passion".
The New Yorker, July 13 , 1940 P. 17Pal Joey writes to his friend Ted asking him to plug a new song he has just composed.
They were in full costume and hair and makeup for the new ballet "Ocean's Kingdom," for which Paul McCartney has just composed a score and for which Stella McCartney has designed the costumes.
We can picture Shakespeare pausing to refill his pen, observing to himself that he has just composed seven or eight lines that will baffle his audience, and concluding, "But they're lovely and I shall keep them".
By John O'Hara The New Yorker, July 13, 1940 P. 17 Pal Joey writes to his friend Ted asking him to plug a new song he has just composed.
In the same letter, Machiavelli remarks that he has just composed a little work on princes a "whimsy"—and thus lightly introduces arguably the most famous book on politics ever written, the work that was to give the name Machiavellian to the teaching of worldly success through scheming deceit.
How could it be otherwise in a fictional universe where exile defines the human condition and there is no home (though there are numerous hotels), a fact expressed at the end of Brookner's Booker Prize-winovel novel, "Hotel du Lac," whose heroine, Edith Hope, crosses out the "not entirely accurate" telegram she has just composed, which reads "Coming home," and writes instead: "Returning".
Condoleezza Rice of Stanford University has just composed an endearing, skillfully mendacious account of her noble service to the Republic.
