Sentence examples for minor scale from inspiring English sources

Still, the relatively minor scale of his reported excesses did not help him.

But on a fairly minor scale, it has left some valuable physical legacies.

Perrotta's Rapture occurs on a minor scale: about two per cent of the world's population disappears in an instant on October 14th.

This is particularly evident in the instrumental sections, where we ascend the E minor scale to hit this C major7 chord a number of times.

"We thought our success in creating an audience and winning plaudits on a minor scale," he said, was something Mr. Mongerson would appreciate.

There was no point, Margaret and I decided, in seeming standoffish, provided what we did was tasteful and on a minor scale -- a gesture, so to say.

Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task — playing a C-minor scale 100 times, for instance, or hitting tennis serves until your shoulder pops out of its socket.

To put it in modern terms: if a piece is in A minor, one would expect to hear such related chords as D minor and E major, whose notes overlap with the A-minor scale.

"Folk Music," which Greenstein wrote in the summer of 2004, is one of the freshest pieces I've heard so far this year: a Ravel-like kaleidoscope of intertwining figures built up from the simple notes of the B-minor scale.

I used the A-minor scale for the amino acids based on their level of attraction to water.

Listening to his "Kaddish" today, one can't help intuiting a sense of triumphant affirmation in this minor-scale motet, the sound of proud survival, simply and eloquently stated.