Example sentences for: concocting

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  • He went from painting realistic New York scenes to concocting mythological motifs with titles like Archaic Idol and Tentacles of Memory . In a way, the shift was less abrupt than it seemed, for Rothko traded in one set of underground subjects, the subway, for another, the "depth psychology" strata of the unconscious, with dreamscape bric-a-brac lifted from Surrealist painters Joan Miró and Yves Tanguy.

  • Having spent the two decades since the original Star Wars (1977) concocting skeletons of screenplays that other people flesh out, and overseeing productions that other people storyboard and stage, he has come to lack what one might Michelangelistically term "the spark of life."

  • Though I had spent hours concocting a strategy for teasing information out of him, he answered my toughest question nearly at the start.

  • officials have played a key role in concocting the treaty and stewarding it to its conclusion.

  • I remember concocting many a funereal top and bottom and the occasional black cape on my sympathetic mother's sewing machine.


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