Example sentences for: virtuoso

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  • There are only two works on paper in the show: an image of a geisha derived from a Japanese woodblock print on the cover of Paris Illustré of 1886, and van Gogh's virtuoso tracing of its outlines.

  • Since one source of the Francis narrative mentioned a six-winged seraph in the sky and another a crucified Christ, Tiepolo--a virtuoso in depicting wings--fudged and deployed eight wings in the shape of a cross.

  • Here are the big summer releases from the other major studios: The X-Files ; Small Soldiers ; Armageddon ; Six Days, Seven Nights ; Something About Mary ; Ever After ; The Mask of Zorro ; Dr. Dolittle ; Mulan ; Jane Austen's Mafia ; BASEketball ; Disturbing Behavior ; Madeline ; Out of Sight ; Halloween: H20 ; Saving Private Ryan ; The Parent Trap ; and Snake Eyes . Subtract Saving Private Ryan , which was a virtuoso piece of moviemaking despite its hack storytelling, and subtract one or two others that qualify as harmless fun.

  • The few who find the production enchanting claim, "It is hard to think of another American opera composed with a comparable degree of musical sophistication and sheer virtuoso compositional chops" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe ). Even the negative reviews give grudging respect to the opera, with the New York Times ' Bernard Holland admitting that it "may also be the victim of the inflated expectations surrounding it."

  • The address (Obras Completas, Aguilar, Madrid, 1963) is a 5,000-word virtuoso performance in which he describes duende variously as “the spirit of the earth,” with Dionysian roots, and as “the mysterious spirit of sorrowful Spain.”


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