On the truck bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; ;

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.

How titillating it was to go among people who did not know him as the composer, but who talked in the most glowing terms of the promise of the piece after having heard the first rehearsals.

The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;

The head was wrapped in a turban and on top of the turban rode a great hamper across which a piece of poncho had been flung.

`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.

The clock on the mantel piece was scandalized and ticked so loudly that he glanced at it over his shoulder and then quickly left the room.

It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him.

The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.

Beccaria had almost stumbled on a lead to the relationship between electricity and magnetism when a discharge from a Leyden jar was sent transversally through a piece of watch-spring steel making its ends magnetic.

As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.

He was holding the piece of lead pipe out to me.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

Every piece of the nightmare was clear, in place ; ;

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

One important piece of advice Yamamoto gave Kurosawa was that a good director needed to master screenwriting.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Now, if you don't mind, I should like to hear my own piece performed ''.

A cappella ( Italian for " in the manner of the church " or " in the manner of the chapel ", also see gospel music and choir ) music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

In systems engineering it may involve black-box testing performed on a system ( for example: a piece of software, lots of manufactured mechanical parts, or batches of chemical products ) prior to its delivery.

* Cut-up is performed by taking a finished and fully linear text and cutting it in pieces with a few or single words on each piece.

Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.

A standard piece of database design guidance is that the designer should create a fully normalized design ; selective denormalization can subsequently be performed for performance reasons.

He performed abroad and by 1928 his piece for koto and shakuhachi, Haru no Umi ( Spring Sea ) had been transcribed for numerous instruments.

Schwitters performed the piece regularly, developing and extending it, until finally publishing his notations for the recital in the last Merz periodical, 1932.

The leader of the Leningrad Military District Andrei Zhdanov commissioned a celebratory piece from Dmitri Shostakovich, entitled " Suite on Finnish Themes " to be performed as the marching bands of the Red Army would be parading through Helsinki.

In 1965, he was invited to appear on the CBS television program I've Got a Secret, where he performed a piano piece that was composed by a computer he also had built.

Irving Berlin was the most commercially successful composer of ragtime songs, and his " Alexander's Ragtime Band " ( 1911 ) was the single most widely performed and recorded piece of this sort, even though it contains virtually no ragtime syncopation.

The piece is inspired by Song of Songs and is performed by an amplified quintet of female singers with female and male narrators performing the " Song of Solomon ".

In the rest of 2007, They Might Be Giants wrote a commissioned piece for Brooklyn-based robotic music outfit League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and performed for three dates at the event, and covered the Pixies " Havalina " for American Laundromat Records Dig For Fire-a tribute to PIXIES compilation.

Vangelis performed live and released Mythodea, a predominantly orchestral rather than electronic piece that was originally written in 1993, and used by NASA as the theme for the Mars Odyssey mission in 2001.

Beckett himself sanctioned " one of the most famous mixed-race productions of Godot, performed at the Baxter Theatre in the University of Cape Town, directed by Donald Howarth, with [...] two black actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, playing Didi and Gogo ; Pozzo, dressed in checked shirt and gumboots reminiscent of an Afrikaner landlord, and Lucky (' a shanty town piece of white trash ') were played by two white actors, Bill Flynn and Peter Piccolo [...].

Ono performed this piece again in London and other venues, garnering drastically different attention depending on the audience.

These vernacular religious performances were, in some of the larger cities in England such as York, performed and produced by guilds, with each guild taking responsibility for a particular piece of scriptural history.

The piece was first performed in Los Angeles at Disney Hall on 3 separate evenings in 2004, one act at a time, then given complete performances at the Bastille Opera in Paris in April and November 2005.

The loop price has several components built into it, including the mileage calculation ( performed in V / H coordinates, not standard GPS coordinates ) and the telco piece.

* Composer Katherine Allan Lively dedicated her piano composition, Within the Walls of China: A Chinese Episode, to Barthelmess in the sheet music published in 1923 by G. Schirmer, Inc. An article in The Music Trades reported that Mrs. Lively was inspired by a viewing of the film, Broken Blossoms, and performed the piece for Mr. Barthelmess and his friends in New York in the summer of 1922

Throughout the year Psyche performed several times in Germany, as well as a festival in Belgium, a date in Lyon, France, and then a performance for the first time ever as a five piece band at the 18th Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig.

Elisha performed two other miracles at the Jordan: he healed Naaman by having him bathe in its waters, and he made the axe head of one of the " children of the prophets " float, by throwing a piece of wood into the water (; ).

Viñes performed the public premiere of this piece and Ravel's other early masterpiece Pavane pour une infante défunte in 1902.

Instead, he wrote an orchestral piece based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex, a work that became Egdon Heath and which was first performed a month after Hardy ’ s death, in his memory.