Sentence examples for play invoking from inspiring English sources

He took his time tuning his instruments, the acoustic guitar and the ukulelelike cavaquinho; he delivered, in clear, measured Portuguese, practiced reflections on what he was about to play, invoking the masters of samba and its more complex instrumental cousin, choro — Cartola, Pixinguinha and Jacob do Bandolim, with whom his father served as a guitarist from the 1930s to the '60s.

Columbia University Press has recently published in both the original French and in English translation "The Incident at Antioch," Badiou's unproduced play invoking "the three Pauls" — Cohen, Claudel and St. Paul — that would subsequently inform his philosophical work, and made the introduction available online.

Clicking across the screen and getting things to happen, making new pages show up, setting music to play, invoking jerky movie clips, is all part of the current web experience.

Above all, the play invokes a world where capital punishment camouflaged serious miscarriages of justice.

His play invoked more effectively than the original the summoning from the underworld of Helen of Troy to seal Faust's damnation.

During the hour's extra play invoked because of rain breaks, Dilley, who had bowled erratically, yorked Dyson for 102 at 6.40pm, bright sunshine at last replacing the chill and murk and leaving Australia 203 for three at the close.

The play invokes Mr. Madoff mostly as shorthand for nailing Brad, the hedge-funding son and cheating husband, and as a device, Ms. Basmajian said, that "brings sudden conflict and drama".

They were charmed by the courtesy of these young men from a communist republic against which Britain had fought a recent war; fascinated with how their fast-paced, industrious style of play invoked Chollima, a mythical winged horse who represented the North Korean revolutionary spirit, and was supposed to carry the worker or intellectual over vast distances.

Regina Spektor, whose piano playing invoked Russian Romanticism, sang about fears in "Après Moi" and "The Sword and the Pen" — which wonders, "What if nothing is safe?" — and about human conceptions of God in "Laughing With".

The moment of truth comes, you execute perfectly but an official nullifies the play by invoking an obscure rule.

The next day, the Masters rules committee assessed Woods a two-stroke penalty and allowed him to play on, invoking Rule 33-7, which allows the penalty of disqualification for signing an incorrect scorecard to be waived in exceptional individual cases.