Sentence examples for opening motto from inspiring English sources

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Its opening motto seems to point in an unexpected direction, toward Borodin's Second Symphony (1876).

True, the Allies made use of Beethoven too: the opening motto of his Fifth Symphony — da-da-da-dum — is a Morse code V, for victory, and that became the Allied battle cry.

Cerha is best known for his completion of the third act of Berg's Lulu, and his paraphrase takes a variant of the symphony's opening motto as the starting point for a journey into astringent Bergian darkness and back.

(That movement, "Emerson," wraps him in the mantle of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, making prominent use of its famous opening motto, which, as fate and Mr. Gilbert's savvy programming would have it, also appears in the last of Berg's Three Pieces).

A listener could quibble with his tempos, or with phrasing that could seem mannered at times (what happened to the fermata on the last note of the opening motto?), particularly when it seemed that some of these interpretive twists were driven by the pressure conductors feel to make this war horse of war horses sound fresh at any cost.

The Beethoven Fifth, in particular, will shock most listeners with a rush through the famous opening motto that flouts not only performance custom but also accrued extramusical meanings, whether suggested by the composer (fate knocks at the door) or appended by history (V for victory).

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He echoes Google's "open" motto: Open platforms "allow for choice...A carrier should not dictate your choices on your phone".

In the first episode of the BBC3 television show "Fleabag," our anti-heroine Fleabag and her loveably rigid sister Claire meet up to attend a feminist lecture called "Women Speak," whose proud motto is "opening women's mouths since 1998".

Adopting the motto "Open for Business," Governor Whitman eliminated the environmental prosecutors Mr. Florio had introduced, and replaced a public advocate's office, which had at times sued the state on behalf of environmental groups, with a business ombudsman's office to guide businesses through the permitting process.

From its opening number onward, the most apt motto of Tonys night would have been Broadway Reaches Further Into the Culture Than You Think.

The House passed HCR 1024, which will change the state motto from "Labor Omnia Vincit" to "Oklahoma-In God We Trust!" The author of the resolution stated that a constituent researched the Oklahoma Constitution and found no "official" vote regarding "Labor Omnia Vincit", therefore opening the door for an entirely new motto.

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