Sentence examples for pieces in progress from inspiring English sources

"They could be a lot better," he says, regarding two pieces in progress.

Since he has to wait for scrap to accumulate, he usually has a number of pieces in progress at the same time.

A worktable was strewn with pieces in progress: he was in the middle of sketching the piano part of "Split," a concerto that Jeffrey Kahane and the New York Philharmonic will introduce in December.

"Once Ben had some sound pieces in progress I began to respond in kind to his work making new paintings based on the processes he was employing.

Without cynicism, you might say this is a credible attempt to show how an artist -- Dvorak or the cellist Jan Vogler -- explores and grapples with a piece in progress.

And at Performa 07, the second incarnation of New York's biennial of new visual art performance, the Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg conjured up the indiscriminate wrath of war in a video-performance piece in progress with the working title "Kids and Dogs".

U.S. Navy Captain Heidi Agle called the coordinated effort "the biggest piece in progress in the region" since joint military operations began seven years ago. .

The troupes have now been stealing time together for several years, creating small pieces and in-progress explorations in the process, so that this culmination feels like a spirited but easy conversation between old friends.

While the piece was in progress, South Africa was in the grip of a political emergency that generated acute and continuous racial violence.

Director Sam Mendes contrives a stylishly extended continuous tracking shot to bring our hero into the proceedings and it isn't long before an outrageous set-piece is in progress with a helicopter repeatedly looping the loop while 007 vigorously punches the pilot and a fellow passenger.

A prime example is the 1965 portrait of Alexander Calder in his studio in Connecticut — he was a visitor to the East End — which shows the artist surrounded by a mess of paintings, models and mobiles, along with bits and pieces of artworks-in-progress hanging from diagonal rows of string attached to the ceiling.