Sentence examples for miniature for from inspiring English sources

Birtwistle's 'From Vanitas' was a miniature for singer and piano which might have emanated from the Second Viennese School.

The final miniature, "For Syria," suggested a different way of bearing witness to that country's sufferings — modest, personal and tender.

Set in Berlin in 1928, the hotel of the title is a miniature for a society heading towards collapse.

She increased the litany of the saints (called suffrages) to 60 — usually 10 or so suffice — with a half-page miniature for each.

"Epitaphium," a funerary 12-tone miniature for trio from 1959, eased into "Three Pieces for String Quartet," a modestly radical polytonal work from 1914.

Throughout, he says "dubbed" instead of "called" as well as "rigid" instead of "hard", "miniature" for "little"  (as in "miniature brother").

All other flowers from the Andean nations come in under a 6.4percentt levy, except for miniature carnations, for which a 3.2percentt duty is charged.

It became a jungle-in-miniature for Alondra Contrears, 7, to hop through as she searched for daffodils to pick and take home.

Her 50-year career has included miniatures for Jimmy Giuffre and Paul Bley, and magnum opuses for Gary Burton and Charlie Haden.

She has given arresting renditions of jazz standards and Schubert lieder and has composed atmospheric miniatures for voice and keyboard.

Unscrupulous jewelry makers now routinely cut up old ivory miniatures for eyes to frame in gold and gemstones.