Sentence examples for the work refused from inspiring English sources

Yet, though Gergiev revelled in the score's contrasts and drew gutsy playing, there were times when the work refused to take flight.

But perhaps most remarkable is the way these works refuse to cohere or coalesce; for the most part the fashion ensembles, the faces and the backgrounds lead strangely separate lives.

No, and here is the prison lobbyist money at work; refusing to change structural issues while hiding behind bold rhetoric.

Despite the symphonic nature of the work, Mahler refused to number it, hoping thereby to escape the "curse of the Ninth Symphony" that he believed had affected fellow-composers Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner.

It also said Assali is accused of failing to finish the work and refusing to give his clients refunds.

For Eve, the intellectual value of Pynchon is to be found precisely in the way his works refuse to submit to any philosophical agenda or methodology.

Meanwhile, Mr Célestin could yet throw a spanner in the works by refusing to co-operate with his own party.

This presents a golden opportunity for MPs to throw a spanner in the works by refusing to vote for article 50 to be triggered without knowing precisely, or at least, generally, what Brexit will actually look like.

During the bombing's 75th-anniversary year, accept Picasso's challenge to react to the work he famously refused to interpret.

But Carvalho, who had assumed the management of the Opéra-Comique, thought the work immoral and refused to reinstate it.

True, in the best boucherouite work, refuse has been transmuted into richness.