Sentence examples for the contraption of from inspiring English sources
In this concert the inspector is investigating the principle of counterpoint, for which he's invented the contraption of the title.
The Rebels is set in a remote provincial resort over two days in May 1918, as the contraption of the dual monarchy is winding down.
(Isherwood) Off Broadway ★ 'ADDING MACHINE' A bleak but brilliant musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1923 play about an all-American loser who kills the boss when he finds he's being replaced by the contraption of the title.
(Brantley) Off Broadway 'ADDING MACHINE' A bleak but brilliant musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1923 play about an all-American loser who kills the boss when he finds he's being replaced by the contraption of the title.
In the last moments of descent, the astronaut, who had once concluded that the real glory days of piloting had ended with the First World War, needed to take over manually and steer the contraption of a ship away from some rocks "the size of Volkswagens" which had turned up at the planned landing site.
Then he mounted the contraption on the roof of his parents' summer home on the western coast of Norway.
Here, you will see the orthodox method in operation, for which Ceylon is renowned: from picking the bud and two leaves, to withering the green leaf to rid it of around 45% of its moisture, to rolling the leaf in a great fairground-ride of a machine, little changed from the contraptions of the 19th century.
The list is varied in media -- works by performance artists like Marina Abramovic sit happily near the contraptions of conceptual bad boys like Jake and Dinos Chapman.
I'll leave the surprising genetic links among some of the characters to be discovered by audiences, since the mechanical contraption of the plot is really the chief engine of interest.
If they cooled the contraption to within 11 degrees of absolute zero and applied 200 volts to the third electrode, called the gate, the buckyballs superconducted.
Once you lash your tablet to the workout contraption of your choice and fire up the app, you're given the option to choose from a slew of locales to immerse yourself in.
