Sentence examples for musical answer from inspiring English sources

I'll go with a musical answer: They like it.

"Disfarmer" (Nonesuch), released last year, is Mr. Frisell's musical answer to the deep solemnity and haunting beauty of the photographer's work, made in the spirit of what you might call countrified chamber jazz.

That's crucial for touchstone bits like the sketch that found Ms. Stone and the female cast members using Adele's "Someone Like You" as a musical answer to job problems and pet parakeet issues alike.

Proving themselves expert at vaudeville of a more cerebral stripe were Cherry Jones and Swoosie Kurtz, playing Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman in hell in "Imaginary Friends," Nora Ephron's pallid musical answer to The New York Review of Books.

When hit with the inevitable question of which of his seven former teams he most identifies with, the briefest of pauses produced the musical answer to George Steinbrenner's ears.

In shows like "Promises, Promises" (Neil Simon and Burt Bacharach's 1968 adaptation of the movie "The Apartment") and "42nd Street" in 1980, Mr. Orbach registered as a musical answer to the shaggier leading men who had begun to emerge on American movie screens, actors like Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson.

But for millions of people, his musical answers – those soaring chords, those weightless, timeless periods – proposed an optimistic "yes".

Supporters of Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky took a quote from a previous campaign by his opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes, in which Ms Grimes's grandmother asked: "What rhymes with Alison Lundergan Grimes?" Mr McConnell's ad gave three musical answers: "Not ready for prime time", "Left-wing mime" and "Sticks to the party line".

Was "Hair," the tribal rock musical, the answer?

This musical genre answers the question: "What if Harry Potter started a rock band?" "A lot of my songs are from my own perspective just as a fan," said Ms. Fairweather, 23. "Songs about living in a world full of Muggles and just wishing I'd gone to Hogwarts instead of college".

Recently on the ArtsBeat blog, Mary Anna Dennard, the author of "I Got In!: The Ultimate College Audition Guide for Acting and Musical Theater," answered readers' questions about how to find the right program, what schools are looking for and whether to spend big bucks on an education that can't guarantee work.