Ms. Bright preferred experimenting with new or unorthodox materials, like corrugated paper or rubber or fine metal meshes, to cutting and sewing linen or wool, though her fabric designs also refined and renewed the idea of a simple curtain into something that went well beyond window covering.
She informed her shy swain, Nemorino (sung by her real-life love interest, the tenor David Gustafson), that she preferred to experiment with many men before making a commitment.
This cramped three-room apartment, where I resided between bachelorhood and marriage, was a rent-stabilized compromise, arrived at after months of negotiating with the woman who is now my wife; though also a lifelong Manhattanite, she would have preferred to experiment with cohabitation in Brooklyn.
While Sonic Youth released a total of 16 records before it broke up in 2011, and is often heralded as the blueprint for many alt-rocks bands (with Gordon herself being tagged the "godmother of grunge"), the group always preferred to experiment with unconventional tunings and custom-made instruments than to court mainstream success.
The family went to live in the Bronx when Stern was 11, and he left school at the age of 16, preferring to experiment with a Kodak camera his mother had won in a free promotion.
Cirque is known for using a highly improvisational, free-form process to create shows, preferring to experiment with clown or circus acts rather than to work with a script.
The lack of a stabilizing center has made for some dramatic oscillations in their history, but these days they have had it with drama and color, preferring to experiment, at least for now, with such exotic notions as making money and leading normal lives.
Gifted children will always investigate; asking questions is never enough for them, they prefer to experiment.
Although further analysis is indeed a way forward as demonstrated above, it does not always provide sufficient evidence to prefer one experiment over other for the same condition.
Some artists prefer to experiment rather than get to the point.
