Sentence examples for inventive directions from inspiring English sources

Collaborations with pop producer Jon Brion, on the albums Largo (2002) and Highway Rider (2010), and jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, on Metheny Mehldau (2006) and Quartet (2007), took Mehldau in additional inventive directions.

And when she sings a ballad, she takes the melody in more — and more inventive — directions while still making it at least as heartbreaking as she ever did in a studio or large concert hall.

Eric Taylor's inventive direction and the four superb performers make it well worth the schlep (3:00).

But, through inventive direction, Hytner forces us to re-examine Shaw's arguments.

But this is a show that combines a social conscience with wittily inventive direction and choreography from Susan Stroman.

James Lapine's wonderfully inventive direction helps keep the evening fresh, as do the likable performances of Tom Riss Farrell and Bob Stillman.

Adam Lenson's inventive direction summons on a tiny stage locations including No 10, an East German bar and a British Airways cabin.

Mary Testa is well cast and engaging as the chatterbox lead, as is Andrew Samonsky, as her seedy manager, but little else here works: despite some inventive direction, by Jack Cummings III, the problem of staging Annie's famous plunge is never solved.

It is to the credit of "Dirty Blonde" and to the wonderfully inventive direction of James Lapine that it can accommodate a performance as different from Ms. Shear's as Ms. Najimy's indeed is.

Similarly inventive direction amplified the intensity of Benjamin Britten's late cantata Phaedra, written a year before the English composer's death in 1975, which took place nine miles due north of Enniskillen in a dim and dusty equestrian stadium concealed within a disused 17th-century castle in Irvinestown.

"The good news is that within that overall failure are many successful elements: funny scenes, thrilling action, pathos, good acting and inventive direction," he added.