Sentence examples for not to compose from inspiring English sources

Despite the fact that the first person to be named as a composer, Hildegard of Bingen, was a woman, history is littered with women who've been told either by their brother — Fanny Mendelssohn — or by their husband — Clara Schumann and Alma Mahler — not to compose, that one composer in the house is enough.

To play C-E-G on a piano is not to compose a Mozart sonata.

The challenge for Ochoa is not to compose her victory speech before the last putt drops.

It may, paradoxically, be important for them not to compose anything too celebratory about their host city.

Sullivan has said board leaders originally told her not to compose a comprehensive strategic plan because faculty members were "fatigued and discouraged by the lack of follow-through" on earlier plans.

In most white-collar cases, the authorities subpoena reams of internal communications, but this approach had limited utility with S.A.C., whose legal department warned employees not to "compose or send any electronic communication, or leave any voice mail message, if you wouldn't want it . . .

"I once thought that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose – not one has been able to do it, and why should I expect to?" The tragedy is, there were women who had gone before Clara Schumann, if only she had known it.

If it does not seem "great," perhaps this is because he was not striving to compose masterpieces in the manner of a Beethoven.

It is not easy to compose different related sub-tasks together.

A bear is not going to compose Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, but then neither is our next door neighbor.

A great business plan is not easy to compose, Sahlman acknowledges, largely because most entrepreneurs are wild-eyed optimists.