Sentence examples for instruments lost from inspiring English sources

Have scientific instruments lost their soul?

Guitarists crouched over their instruments, lost in private musical peregrinations.

The song was recorded to benefit Music Rising, an organization to help raise money for musicians' instruments lost during Hurricane Katrina, and to bring awareness on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the disaster.

On September 11, the building - five blocks from Ground Zero - was evacuated, and a tap left running on a higher floor caused flooding damage; about 30 instruments were lost.

"He's like a virtuoso violin player whose instrument's lost three strings," George Plimpton told me.

Naturally, some of the drama inherent in this music when performed on a bowed instrument was lost in translation, but the compensation was flexibility: chords that are merely suggested in the cello version ring out freely on the guitar, and Mr. Sollscher played lines of counterpoint with an independence that can only be approximated on the cello.

4 5 However, in operationally defining an avoidable death, the probabilistic component of the instrument is lost because a fixed cut-off is used such that deaths where it is judged that there is more than a 50% chance that the death was preventable are classified as avoidable, and those below 50% are not.

It can be less expensive in the short term; it won't leave you liable for repair costs; and, it allows you to easily return the instrument if your student changes instruments or loses interest.

Describing his earlier map works as "instruments for getting lost rather than instruments for navigation," Mr. Kuitca said he connects his seating plans to a feeling of primal disorientation that occurs when place names have the ring of meaningless words and it feels unclear whether one has arrived too late or too early.

There is a straight line from this development to Goldman Sachs and other investment banks selling financial instruments to their clients while themselves betting that these instruments would lose money.

Modern instruments often lose their initial resonance and tonal quality within a few years, while 300-year-old instruments apparently do not.