Sentence examples for playful composition from inspiring English sources

A great variety of fiction was produced during the last century of the Tokugawa shogunate, but it is commonly lumped together under the somewhat derogatory heading of gesaku ("playful composition").

In the chapter on mating nets she published Aron Nimzowitsch's playful composition that made a great impression on her when she was growing up.

Starr says (from the 21st century) that his colleagues did not believe Rhoads' spin that his letter was a "fantastic and playful composition...intended as a parody".

He insisted that he was joking in his letter, which was intended to be confidential, calling it a "fantastic and playful composition written entirely for my own diversion and intended as a parody on supposed attitudes of some American minds in Porto Rico," explaining that nothing "was ever intended to mean other than the opposite of what was stated".

Mr. Van Zandt, who has been playing and arguing about music with Mr. Springsteen for 40 years (scholars cite Nov. 3, 1967, as the date of their first meeting), noted that in the past Mr. Springsteen's more tuneful, playful compositions tended not to make it onto albums.

Jessica Pettway is a New York based photographer with an eye for color and playful compositions.

Also released this month is trumpeter Ralph Alessi's Imaginary Friends – his best album yet for ECM, and an elegant balance of poignant, playful original compositions and gracefully probing improv – notably by the leader and his long-time saxophone partner Ravi Coltrane.

This renewal of interest in the playful aspects of literary composition was consistent with contemporary critical theory the revision by Ferdinand de Saussure and, later, Roland Barthes, of the relation between language-systems and meaning.

These passages assert, in a sense, the authority of the rest: the background that is indeed as simple as it looks, the square-within-a-square composition, the playful color scheme.

These days Mr. Pascoal's influence is especially strong among younger players, who search out vinyl pressings of his old albums and admire the complexity of the harmonies in his orchestral arrangements and the playful unpredictability of his compositions.

The latest taxidermists are based in cities such as New York and Los Angeles, they are young, predominantly women, playful in their taxidermy compositions and committed to never killing for the sake of their art and using animals that have already been killed for other purposes.