Sentence examples for little studies from inspiring English sources

These works are quirky little studies for piano, written in 1979, when Mr. Kurtag's son was taking lessons.

The program began with a world premiere: two little studies Wolpe wrote in 1933, when he was briefly in Vienna for lessons with Webern.

In her attempts to understand what going under anesthesia really entails, Cole-Adams encounters what Kate Leslie, an Australian anesthesiologist, calls "spooky little studies" — odd, suggestive, and often unreplicable experiments.

The Japanese authorities who commissioned the film expected Mr. Ichikawa's camera to stick to events on the track and in the pool, and not wander off at every opportunity for little studies of faces and backsides and whatever oddities, endearing and otherwise, caught his fancy.

Accordingly, in his solo performances, Mr. Iverson sets the folk melodies of "I've Been Working on the Railroad" and "My Darlin' Clementine" amid an underbrush of clustered notes; he rearranges jazz ballads and sections from a series of his own compositions, little studies in improvisational devices, which he calls études.

Reviewing a program Mr. Ohno performed with his son Yoshito in 1985 at the Joyce Theater in New York, Anna Kisselgoff wrote in The New York Times that it was all too easy to see in Kazuo Ohno's work "hermetic little studies" or "flamboyant exhibitions in drag".

Apennine fauna has been little studied.

Yet there had been little study of them.

The French and Indian War of the mid-18th century is little studied by Americans.

But a little study is probably necessary to master the finer points, she said.

More unusual hailstone shapes have been recorded, but have been little studied.