Sentence examples for insistent lines from inspiring English sources

And it can switch into brawny funk when the horn section kicks in with choppy, insistent lines anchored by baritone saxophone.

Delicacy is not their strong suit, but every moment of the piece is fully lived: Argerich's bold and insistent lines stand out like shafts of light against the wine-dark tones of her three friends.

The great "Portrait of Yvonne Landsberg" — whose masklike face, hemmed-in torso and superannuating arcs of radiance are more scratched than painted — may sharpen your appreciation of the insistent lines and textures in several drawings and a lithograph of female nudes in the show's opening gallery.

Eduardo Rubio's flute darted and pecked up above, with insistent melody lines that doubled as percussive interjections.

With an unsteady but insistent line, he portrays the faces of friends and artists, a handful of quetsch plums, an old bicycle, a dead badger and a host of other subjects; and with his clear, sinuous prose, he gives an account of how the contours of reality "harass" the act of drawing.

"Let me see your footwork" goes the half-muttered, half-insistent line that is drawled throughout Theo Parrish's 'Footwork'.

Mr. Dylan is now a full participant in instrumental passages too, framing songs with his piano parts or picking insistent guitar lines.

Amid the beautifully fluid and rippling stretches of passagework he would bring out inner voices or insistent bass lines with punchy accents that gave intensity to music that might otherwise have seemed ethereal.

Its big, exploratory opening movement is packed with quick, insistent solo lines and dialogues between the violin and either the full orchestra or individual sections or players; its lush, slow movement (here in the form of a chaconne) exploits the violin's lyrical qualities, and its finale is driven by daredevil speediness.

Johnny Marr of The Smiths, Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, Davy Graham and Jansch himself are among those that have shown me how to combine the minor-key melody of "Anji" with its insistent bass-line, and Michael Tyack of the psychedelic folk band Circulus spent some increasingly fraught evenings trying to teach me the tricky run in the middle.

The rhythmically insistent cello line hovers for long stretches over a single note; midway through the piece, it seems to be grunting fearsomely while the other instruments do the heavy lifting.