Sentence examples for mute work from inspiring English sources

The history of jazz trumpet pervaded his work: Rex Stewart's half-valve choked effects, Cootie Williams's wah-wah mute work, and Dizzy Gillespie's dazzling speed.

Once you power the device back on, make sure that the Volume and Mute functions work properly.

The European Chamber Opera offers Verdi's "Traviata," and the King's Consort presents Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and "Why Are All the Muses Mute?" Contemporary works include Geoff Hannan's "Joyrider," Paul Whitty's "can't.remember.how.it.starts," Laurence Crane's "See Our Lake" and Michael Finnissy's "Casual Nudity".

The best story within a story revolves around a handsome mute who works as a servant in the restaurant of a master chef.

He remembers a time when his old label, Mute, tried to work out the demographics of his fanbase.

For nights I sat musing And musing... and musing Whilst burning the midnight oil; My scratchings seemed futile My muse seemed quite mute, while My work proved to be barren toil.

If nothing else works, mute the TV during commercial breaks when watching sports and ask how they're doing.

But although the show affirms that Ms. Grossman's long involvement with collage, drawing and sculpture is the firm foundation of her work, the mute heads evolving from these pursuits are the most original part of it.

"For nights I sat musing / And musing... and musing / Whilst burning the midnight oil; / My scratchings seemed futile / My muse seemed quite mute, while / My work proved to be barren toil," writes the schoolboy who would go on to become one of the UK's most loved authors.

His works feel mute yet directly expressive, their appeal essentially non-verbal.

P.S. 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 22-25 Jatkson Ave., at 46th Ave ., Long Island City(718-784-2084) — The score for John Cage's "4'33″" (1952), which instructs the performer to make no intentional sound, functions as a touchstone for "Organizing Chaos," a sound-art show in which about half the works are mute.