Sentence examples for the right strings from inspiring English sources

It begins powerfully, pulling all the right strings, and its ending has an undeniable force.

He practices the art of emotional manipulation, eliciting responses in an audience by pulling just the right strings.

In contrast, Mazda's automatic is like a slick political operative: never drawing attention, yet in charge and pulling the right strings.

The German maestro has been pulling all the right strings this season, and shows no signs of slowing down his stratospheric assist rate.

Cohn says he went straight to the clerk in charge of assigning judges to criminal cases, pulled the right strings, and Judge Kaufman was in.

A lot of roles will carry over from last season, so it's up to the players to execute and for the coaching staff to pull the right strings.

"All of these little points coming together with finding the right tension, finding the right string, finding the right racket for each player, of course, is important," he said.

He seemed to have an unerring instinct for the right string weights and inflections in Classical and early Romantic works, the right ornaments in Baroque music and the right sense of earthy realism in contemporary scores.

Two rows of keys, comprising twenty-two on the upper for the right string and ten on the lower for the left string, yield a melodic range of two octaves.

"And I haven't seen any inclination on their part to agree to anything except as a ploy from time to time," he said, saying the Iraqis sought to "kind of play the international community and the U.N. process like a guitar, plucking the right string at the right moment to delay something".

On "Going Nowhere Fast," Mr. Stampfel and Mr. Weber transform "You've Got the Right String Baby, But the Wrong Yo Yo" into a lunatic howl, sing a perfectly sedate version of a 1920's pop obscurity called "When the Iceworms Nest Again," and still sound like they are playing folk music.