Sentence examples for material down to from inspiring English sources

The lively illustrations, with spots of humor, help bring the more technical material down to child's-eye level.

One of the most difficult things, says Halliday, was cutting the material down to a manageable size.

Then he would take those jokes to the Improv, "where the more basic and average character of the audience would cut the new material down to about three jokes".

His unnecessary topic sentence of a monologue gives you a worrisome hint that the playwright, Richard F. Stockton, doesn't entirely know how to boil this wealth of material down to a play.

The delay was caused by crippling depression while tackling the novel's thorny subject matter, as well as wrestling 7,000 pages of draft material down to just over 200.

"I think they are a real artistic development," says Frayn. "It's the finest thing you can do as a writer, to get the material down to absolutely the living nerve, the heart of the work, and nothing else at all".

It took 18 months of workshops and rewrites for the playwright, Nicholas Wright, to whittle the 1,300 pages of "His Dark Materials" down to a manageable script.

Sometimes he narrowed his materials down to pen and masking tape on the wall, as in the initially confusing "Continuous/Dis/Continuous" (1972), a single ribbon of tape applied to a long wall at about eye level.

Next door Satoru Eguchi has recreated his Brooklyn studio, in paper, clay and other art materials, down to a whitewashed wooden MacBook and a cardboard air-conditioner mounted in the acetate window.

Airport security inspected all building materials, down to the Plexiglas and drywall screws.

Airport security inspected all building materials, down to the Plexiglass and drywall screws.