Sentence examples for nimble playing from inspiring English sources

The bassist Geezer Butler has now lived long enough to justify his nickname, but there was nothing geezerish about his nimble playing.

But if his costume was slightly awkward, his performance was adept and assured, with a warm and full tone in the Piper's Song and impressively nimble playing in the quicker passages.

The five concertos here (out of a total of 39) are delightfully varied and boldly theatrical: Sergio Azzolini's nimble playing of a copy of a 1710 four-keyed bassoon occasionally sounds in the fast movements as if burbling underwater, but is reedily eloquent in the slow ones.

They were swept away by songs in Gaelic and nimble fiddle playing.

9.03pm BST 33 min: Nimble play by Modric to elude three players in the middle.

The overwhelming favourite made a lot of errors and was also flummoxed by Ashe's nimble play at the net.

Did or didn't Frost betray his country is the question that the credited screenwriter David Guggenheim and Daniel Espinosa, the young, up-and-coming Swedish director, put into nimble play almost as soon as "Safe House" gets going.

They're nimble in playing with ideas and deft in building on each other's arguments.

Mr. Jurowski's own interpretive contribution was a taste for brisk but fluid tempos and a penchant for demanding nimble woodwind playing with crisp, sometimes clipped articulation that calls attention to figures usually buried in the orchestral fabric.

Instead, at an early age, he witnessed the nimble Jets playing in Miami in 1982, when a sudden bog materialized in the Orange Bowl, and Richard Todd threw an interception to A.J. Duhe.

The orchestra, led from the concertmaster's chair by Gottfried von der Goltz, quickly established its bona fides with light-textured, nimble string playing (with the violins split antiphonally); tart oboe timbres; solid, tangy brasses; and a sonorous, rounded kettledrum sound.