Sentence examples for the order of composition from inspiring English sources

The order of composition cannot be determined.

It is a book of twelve hundred and seventy-nine pages, a daunting and in some ways an eccentric volume, which has been organized not in the order of composition but according to the chronological order of the periods under Mailer's observation.

When I suggest that organizing the selections in the order of composition might have offered to readers a clear spiritual autobiography of Norman Mailer, he sighs and says, "I've been waiting to write an autobiographical novel all these years, but I've been waiting to become the hero of my own life in order to write it.

Internal evidence suggests that the Lives were composed in Plutarch's later years, but the order of composition can be only partially determined; the present order is a later rearrangement based largely on the chronology of the Greek subjects, who are placed first in each pair.

Most scholars agree that the order of composition of the "erotic" dialogues is Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, though some put the Phaedrus earlier than the Symposium.

In fact, it remains a matter of dispute whether the division of Plato's works into three periods early, middle, late does correctly indicate the order of composition, and whether it is a useful tool for the understanding of his thought (See Cooper 1997, vii xxvii).

Scarlatti's sonatas did not come to publication in an orderly fashion, making it difficult to determine the order of their composition.

LeSueur's method is to page through O'Hara's poems in the order of their composition and then stop and quote whenever some lines prompt reflections or an anecdote.

The order of actual composition is: 1, 5, 4, 2, 3.

The second in order of composition, "How the Mushrooms Prepared for War," is a setting of a nursery rhyme every Russian child of Stravinsky's generation knew by heart, cast with hilarious incongruity as a huge concert aria for bass voice.

The axis of symmetry contributes to the clarity, depth and order of composition.