Sentence examples for instrumental figures from inspiring English sources

Morris has been one of the most instrumental figures in English cricket in the past decade.

The music is suddenly exuberant and crazed, with spiraling riffs and cyclic instrumental figures, and manic bursts of syllables and sputtering from the chorus.

The bluesman Arthur Crudup, we learn, was a "limited guitarist" who "tended to rework the same instrumental figures time and again, which for better or for worse made his music consistent and predictable".

Both of Martha's parents were instrumental figures in Martha's life.

He switched to writing and producing shows and is now one of the most instrumental figures behind the contemporary Cuban stand-up scene.

The title track to Atom Heart Mother resulted from a number of instrumental figures the band had composed during these rehearsals, including the chord progression of the main theme, which guitarist David Gilmour had called "Theme from an Imaginary Western", and the earliest documented live performance was on 17 January 1970 at Hull University.

Pioli, 34, was an instrumental figure in the Jets' resurgence the past three years.

Ms Jowell was an instrumental figure in bringing the games to London while heading the Department of Culture Media and Sport under Tony Blair.

Cornell was an instrumental figure in the grunge community of the early nineties, which has since been virtually annihilated by suicide and drug addiction.

Former federal prosecutor David Hoffman, who spearheaded the 542-page investigation, found that Behnke was an instrumental figure in more than a decade's worth of institutional enablement by the APA of torture conducted by the CIA and US military.

All of us here have a mentor in the form of Aaron Bondaroff, who does the radio station Know Wave; he's an instrumental figure in New York streetwear culture and he's gone on to move into the gallery world.