Sentence examples for untune from inspiring English sources

"Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark what discord follows".

His most eloquent speeches are given to singers of well-ordered communities, as with Canterbury's speech on the beehive in "Henry V," or, most memorably, Ulysses in "Troilus and Cressida": "Take but degree away, untune that string / And, hark, what discord follows!

Mrs. Plotz also compiled "Untune the Sky: Poems of Music and the Dance" (1957).

Untune that string, as Shakespeare says in Troilus and Cressida, and hark what discord follows.

It was a chaotic show, thanks largely to a pair of obstreperous (and seemingly untune-able) guitars; Mr. Parry declared it the worst Arcade Fire show ever, although Ms. Neufeld disagreed.

No hero, I learned, ever made it harder on his worshippers, and no thinker gave better evidence in his person of just how much it is temperament that can fix a thinker's place in the history of thought, changing and transposing and often untuning the song he sings.

His dissertation was the basis for "The Untuning of the Sky: Ideas of Music in English Poetry, 1500-1700" (1961), the first of many works of criticism that included "Vision and Resonance (1975), "The Gazer's Spirit" (1995) and "The Work of Poetry" (1997).