Example sentences for: porgy

How can you use “porgy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Among the first group are many children's words-- Georgy-Porgy, Henny-Penny, Turkey-Lurkey, kitchy-kitchy, lippity-lippity, piggly-wiggly . Among the second are fuddy-duddy, funny-money, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, namby-pamby, shilly-shally, silly-billy, ticky-tacky, wishy-washy , and the double cited above, willy-nilly . The power gained through rhyme and rhythm seems to be directed by the diminutive suffix toward favorable or unfavorable meanings.

  • He had performed alongside Charlie Parker, led a marvelous quintet with John Coltrane, and collaborated with Gil Evans on such jazz orchestral arrangements as Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess . Davis' 1959 sextet recording, Kind of Blue , became, with its haikulike lyricism, synonymous with cool and provided a soundtrack for nearly every party with intellectual pretensions.

  • "Bess, You Is My Woman Now," from Porgy , has a brushed drum pattern underneath that keeps shifting its emphasis from the first and third beats to the second and fourth, constantly renewing a stirring chill.

  • T >he duality of high art and mass sensibility is at the heart of Miles Davis and Gil Evans . The three records at the core of the set-- Miles Ahead , Porgy and Bess , and Sketches of Spain --are music of fantasy, of dreaming.


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