Sentence examples for up the swinging from inspiring English sources

As the years passed, Murray adopted other forebears as well, including Duke Ellington (Murray was a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet) and, of course, Charlie Parker (as the age of free jazz receded, Murray took up the swinging yet advanced styles of bebop).

How dull it all sounds, how provincial, how utterly repressive, to give up the swinging life of expense-account orgies and hedge-fund bacchanals, fuel-engorged SUVs, feel-good credit extensions and wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am mortgages.

That's what Fragonard's painting The Swing is about – the wonderful joke of the painting is that while the man tries to sneak a look up the swinging woman's skirts, Fragonard's receding, melting, luxuriant garden landscape gives the painting's beholder a sensory evocation of all he longs to see.

It's all a bit like when Gordon Brown proclaimed in 2007 that he would regularly wake up to the swinging sounds of the Arctic Monkeys.

"He started to swing but then held up the swing.

One is that they're won in the middle, by the candidate who can pivot most successfully to the center and pick up the swing voters there.

While Democrats have yet to identify a strong candidate, a number of the Republican ones are extremely conservative, Tea Party-backed candidates who could be vulnerable in the suburban counties around Atlanta and Augusta that make up the swing regions of Georgia.

Daddy got up and went through the swinging door.

When the amount of evolution goes up, the creationists swing into action.

The swinging up control for a remotely driven Acrobot (RDA) is studied and an energy based controller is designed via the Lyapunov stability theory.

A tire swing is an alternative style swing that allows children to tackle the swinging thing up to three at a time.