How To Use Improvised In A Sentence
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The professor improvised a poem in the class.
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Targeting pod-equipped aircraft can make pre-raid surveillance videos, check for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), track targets such as gunmen or vehicles, and send information to ground units.
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It may be that in the faint candle light the improvised cook of the party ebonizes the flapjacks and puts mourning edges on the bacon.
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He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire.
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Ordered by Sennett to come up with a more workable screen image, Chaplin improvised an outfit consisting of a too-small coat, too-large pants, floppy shoes, and a battered derby.
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The burden must rest, however, upon the partially improvised text.
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It has also been used in Iraq in improvised explosive devices.
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We see them playing to throngs of hundreds in big clubs and to a handful of dutiful applauders in improvised performance spaces.
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The bodies of guards and servitors were heaped behind improvised barricades of furniture and demounted doors.
The Golden Torc
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In a sandy field of half-grown cassava plants, a group of 30 farmers were fighting a plague of locusts with long-handled weeding hoes and improvised brushes.
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The UN has already experience in supervising elections under very improvised conditions.
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The orchestral textures vary subtly and the music is alive with incident-written and improvised.
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As an aside, it occurred to me that Tyrion could have fulfilled the prophecy if he'd killed Cersei with the same improvised garotte he used to take his revenge on Shae -- and that Jaime might find the Hand's chain of office "handy" himself for the purpose, given that his gold prosthetic isn't really suitable for tasks like strangling psychopathic sisters.
Casting clues and possible solutions
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Improvised circus sounds like a bit of a contradiction in terms, since circus by its very nature requires precision, planning and exactness.
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It was only in short, improvised moments, because the rest of the time was spent with one friend playing video games, another, assumably, making out with his girlfriend, and I just fooling around on his drumset and listening to Radiohead on his great new sound system.
Oatcake Diary Entry
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This series of 11 improvised duets with Toronto saxist Brodie West is a rambunctious pleasure.
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This Toronto trio has left their mark on the scene with a unique style of improvised progressive breakbeat house, a sound driven by artistic ingenuity but upheld by talented instrumentation.
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Andrew MuellerOnce upon a time, there was an amazing Channel 4 show called Lost no, not that one, in which teams were dumped, blindfolded, in exotic places and obliged to make their way back to London by hook, crook or improvised coracle.
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Clark says audiences are more open to improvised music than people think.
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One of these days, you'll see me on the news, wandering around downtown Baghdad with a dazed, desperate look in my glinty eyes as I stumble down the streets stopping the passing terrorists as they prepare for a fun-filled day of setting off improvised explosive devices.
Bluemeany Diary Entry
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By then Saddam and eleven others had been "arraigned" on television in improvised proceedings of dubious meaning, which backfired politically when Saddam visibly summoned his powers of command and began to dominate the show.
Ziad for the Defense
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Bruce threw his infantry reserve into the battle, the arrows of the English archers wounded the men-at-arms of their own side, and the remnants of the leading line were tired and disheartened when the final impetus to their rout was given by the historic charge of the "gillies," some thousands of Scottish camp-followers who suddenly emerged from the woods, blowing horns, waving such weapons as they possessed, and holding aloft [v. 03 p. 0355] improvised banners.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Improvised restaurants and tea stalls spring up in the evening.
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They start with an instrumental prelude where the main melody is played on the harmonium, accompanied by the tabla, and which may include improvised variations of the melody.
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How much of the music is improvised?
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He trotted back to their improvised camp just as Garin hauled himself out from under the lean-to.
A TIME OF WAR
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Hand gestures to indicate the sighting of a hammerhead or a basking shark can easily be misunderstood if they are improvised at the last moment!
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To go with it, I decided to use up a couple of nectarines that were laying around, and I improvised a little tart.
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The Army said it made safe what it described as a viable improvised explosive device found under the private car.
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Two saves in particular stood out: an improvised double-stop from a close-range header by Papa Waigo N'Diaye in the ninth minute and, just before the break, an unconventional block with his armpit from a Wayne Thomas header.
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Soloists find them as multifaceted as the album title, a phrase conveying at least four different meanings - delighted, face-painted, improvised, differences settled.
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European emigre classical pianists, from Sergei Rachmaninov to Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein, were among the fans of a virtuoso who could throw off improvised pieces as complex and orchestral in scope as the most advanced classical piano compositions.
Art Tatum stuns his contemporaries in New York
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It has also been used in Iraq in improvised explosive devices.
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He said the improvised bomb was planted near one of the gates of the wharf.
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We hastily improvised a screen out of an old blanket.
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And for those who feel the need to defend their perimeter with fougasse, the Army Chemical Corps expedient recipe for improvised napalm is to mix powdered laundry detergent with gasoline until it has a consistency like applesauce.
A Gunpowder Plot At The History Channel?
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Below, I have categorized various types of improvised weapons.
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The motor mounted a grass verge during a demonstration at an improvised circuit.
The Sun
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Hucheloup, one fine Morning, had seen fit to notify passersby of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this remarkable inscription: -- CARPES HO GRAS.
Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
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Shot on the back streets and alleys of Paris, the adventures have a loose, improvised feel.
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Lack of sanitation is one of the greatest risks in Port-au-Prince, as more than a million people now live in 116 improvised camps without latrines in school yards, soccer stadiums and even the front yard of the presidential palace, said Steve Hollingworth, chief operating officer for CARE.
U.S. military boosts aid to quake-ravaged Haiti
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The insurgents who were there have vanished, leaving improvised explosive devices buried everywhere.
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I looked up. The fire escape was empty. A dish towel fluttered on an improvised clothesline; someone else would live there now, some other couple.
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An American soldier's hand held video camera captured the detonation of an Improvised Explosive Device.
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In saucy improvised couplets the troubadour called upon one and another to join the dancing, until before any one quite knew what was happening, the company in the lower hall was drawn into a winding lengthening line following the leaders in a sort of farandole.
Masters of the Guild
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I had a smashing time in Edinburgh last night, using my beard to its full comic potential in a somewhat improvised opening to my act.
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Some time back I was asked about steps being taken to counter low-tech improvised explosive devices in Iraq.
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Originally improvised (as distinct from military signals), fanfares are used for ceremonial purposes, for example to announce the entrance of a dignitary, and are characterized by reliance on the harmonic series.
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In an attempt to rescue the truck's occupants, several people waded out to a high point of land and improvised a lifeline from barbed wire cut from a nearby fence and a spare tire as a buoy.
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A sport match is an improvised drama, each beautiful moment unprecedented and irreproducible.
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Aircraft factories broke production records, and a brand-new air defence system was improvised by a mixture of eccentric boffins and a bright young staff of mostly female technicians.
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At least 50 improvised explosive device attacks occurred daily.
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He had improvised an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture.
Les Miserables
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Improvised weapons such as shovels, chairs and table legs also can be used to fend off adversaries.
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They were nice boys, brothers, who were drawn too deep into the dark depths of improvised and psychedelic music.
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Army technicians also made safe an improvised explosive device left outside a bank in Donegal.
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He was killed by an improvised explosive device while involved in an operation to search a compound in Helmand Province, the ministry said, adding that his family had been told of his death.
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The work of military and civilian bomb disposal experts also involves the handling of improvised explosive devices planted by terrorist groups.
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Hickman had come up with the idea in 1961 after damaging a pricey Swedish armchair from Heal's while using it as an improvised sawhorse.
In praise of… the Workmate | Editorial
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Attacks involving roadside I.E.D.s (improvised explosive) or suicide bombings are the norm as opposed to armies that once clashed directly—and not infrequently decisively—with each other.
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On her right hand she had what looked like an improvised glove.
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From the outset, when the performers strut, bird-like, onto the stage with wonderful improvised bird-sound pipe instruments attached to their canary yellow costumes, one is drawn into the show's parallel universe.
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A Navy SEAL, a combat cameraman and cryptologic technician were killed in Baghdad on July 6 when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.
Gulf War II
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They improvised the characters' voices — 'but with a much naughtier storyline'.
The Sun
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Dr.W. E. Roth describes crescentic hooks of coco-nut shell and wooden hooks with bone barb, and also barbs improvised from one of the spines of the catfish.
Tropic Days
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Jim Denley is probably the leading light in the field of Australian improvised music.
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And the main difference I think between freely improvised music and the musics you quoted is, that they are idiomatic and freely improvised music isn't.
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And toccata was probably also a improvised form which became a composition form later.
Rolf Lislevand, Improvising with 'Nuove Musiche'
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In freely improvised music, its roots are in occasion rather than place.
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And, amazingly, all the dialogue was improvised.
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The constellation of leg-and-genital wounds are in large part the consequence of stepping on improvised explosive devices - homemade mines - and are known as "dismounted IED injuries.
Report reveals steep increase in war amputations last fall
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And for those who feel the need to defend their perimeter with fougasse, the Army Chemical Corps expedient recipe for improvised napalm is to mix powdered laundry detergent with gasoline until it has a consistency like applesauce.
A Gunpowder Plot At The History Channel?
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In this show, these three stalwarts of the international comedy scene pooled their comic resources with devastating effect with a mix of stand-up, sketches and improvised material.
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A few of the horses, raised their heads from their improvised stabling on one side of the hall.
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She improvised the notes, the highs and lows but still stuck to the original song.
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Country blues groups in the pre-war American south were sometimes described as skiffle acts, but it was Glasgow-born Lonnie Donegan who popularised the idea of making music with improvised instruments such as a washboard and tea-chest bass in the mid-50s.
Lonnie Donegan brings the skiffle craze
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The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw.
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It sounds like kodo mixed with psychedelic rock and dance music, all improvised, but it's unclassifiable.
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These improvised sacred symbols place the trees and the entire local biotic community at the center of the sacral yearning that has brought us here.
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Sailors tore T-shirts to create bandages and tourniquets; they improvised and did whatever was needed.
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The officers realised quickly that they were dealing with a roughly assembled improvised bomb.
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Thus vocalese is distinctly different from scat singing both because it is arranged and composed rather than improvised, and because it relies on language rather than simply sound.
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He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire.
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Coffins were transported in improvised sleighs - usually barn doors taken from their hinges and pulled with ropes.
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This means improvised explosive device.
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The welfare state he fashioned in place of classic laissez-faire was largely improvised.
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This isn't counterintuitive; this is more like nonintuitive," said Andrew Sterman during a recent lesson as he plucked his oud, trying to repeat by ear what Mr. Shaheen improvised on his instrument.
He Plays Arab Music, Makes and Fixes Ouds
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Sahni was most impressed with him regaling the passengers with an uncanny ability to hold them with improvised speeches.
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With musical settings that evoke Rachmaninoff by way of Debussy and sometimes inflected with J. S. Bach, she often moved beyond the realm of jazz into a semiclassical sphere, although the label semiclassical really doesn't suffice, because the music is improvised.
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In places, however, it is clearly improvised and then as a rule it is model doggrel.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Given that Haslam has played and improvised enough characters to populate a small city, is there some quality that unites the less ephemeral ones?
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They clearly enjoyed it so much they've reunited for this improvised comedy.
The Sun
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Not the least to his own amusement, he improvised his fingering accordingly for the rest of the night.
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So he turned in the direction of their wayfare and scenting the breeze which blew from their quarter, chanted these improvised lines,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Norden bombsights were replaced by 20 cent improvised models to prevent the secret devises from falling into enemy hands.
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Much of the comedy is improvised, giving willing punters a chance to join in the fun, and those less willing a chance to simply sit back and watch.
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The orchestrated and improvised anarchy builds to a climax and the tune ends shortly thereafter.
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Was there a script, or was the plot mostly improvised during shooting?
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Ordered by Sennett to come up with a more workable screen image, Chaplin improvised an outfit consisting of a too-small coat, too-large pants, floppy shoes, and a battered derby.
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‘Mood Indigo’ is among the few numbers that can be heard repeatedly, especially when beautifully improvised by creative jazzmen.
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Memory sticks found in Mr. Sarwar's home contained information about detonating improvised explosive devices on aircraft, while in woods nearby police found a partially buried suitcase containing materials necessary to manufacture hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, and several dozen liters of hydrogen peroxide.
Three Guilty in U.K. Jet Bomb Plot
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Spc. Deon L. Taylor, 30, of Bronx, N.Y., died Oct. 22 in Bela Beluk, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device.
When There’s Nothing On The Horizon You’ve Got Nothing Left To Prove | ATTACKERMAN
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Leaders improvised eloquent orations referring to the usual civic virtues.
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You might notice these don't have they regular friand shape - I've run out of cases and the Essential Ingredient doesn't have them in stock either so I've improvised and made them using large muffin cases about 7cm/3inch wide.
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In some ways the piece actually sounds like Sun Ra a little bit, because there's a lot of improvs in it - or rather there's sections where there's improvised bits in it.
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He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire.
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He also learned the trick of using improvised wire strainers - a lever stuck into a stapled bight of wire.
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Their improvised battle groups simply fought to the death where they stood.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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A very rough treatment was written, but most of the film was improvised on the spot.
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The Quartet improvised the notes of the raga Revagupti, each instrument showing its tonal texture.
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I fused them into this fictitious character and improvised things about a second marriage my mother had.
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So we improvised, drawing a grid of squares and quickly writing one letter in each square.
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You get an inkling of what's ahead as you pass shacks illegally linked by improvised wiring to the pylons above.
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Felix Page's _left_ side had been toward the balustrade at the instant Fluette snatched up the candle-stick; on the balustrade was a deep indentation where the base of the improvised weapon had impinged, after glancing; and the fatal blow had struck upon the victim's _right_ temple.
The Paternoster Ruby
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He had twice been riding in an armoured vehicle that struck an improvised explosive device, and was injured once in friendly fire.
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So Bob improvised his meals based off whatever he could find being cooked on the line, or stored in the icebox.
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The vehicles will provide increased protection against grenades, improvised explosive devices, and small-arms fire.
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Abdul Qar and his father stepped on an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), intended to target US soldiers, which killed his father instantly.
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The officers realised quickly that they were dealing with a roughly assembled improvised bomb.
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And thus ends my hastily improvised day, which I couldn't have planned any better.
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A college can't expect students to accept more than one term in improvised, makeshift spaces.
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Local jazzbos might also want to check out Charlie Biddle: An Improvised Life, a doc on the Montreal jazz scene fixture.
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Gotta have a course in improvised weapons: When the Secret Service hold the only nearby guns and you just HAVE to take off your philandering Old Man's head, how to hurl the nearest lamp with devastating accuracy ...
Home on the Range?
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During the tour the commandos also discovered 320 improvised explosive devices.
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More conservatively, however, many reductionists reintroduced elements of composition into improvised music.
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Assembled from various stabilizers, wing sections, nose cones, pipes, fuselage chunks, and other random parts, all held tenuously in place by an improvised web of twisted wire, the piece is a monument of stored energy.
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This is an umbrella term for a group of musicians in Japan whose music is primarily atonal, noisy, improvised and loud.
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Shortly thereafter, the improvised trail which we were following wound to the edge of the river bank.
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The other car bomb detonated at a site where experts were dismantling an improvised explosive devise.
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The belief system behind tarantismo died out decades ago, but the three-day festival of Saints Peter and Paul at the end of June is still the best place to get a contemporary view of the customs once associated with it: especially compelling is the late-night phenomenon known as le ronde, improvised street performances of dance and music.
Puglia's Fiery Pizzica
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The motor mounted a grass verge during a demonstration at an improvised circuit.
The Sun
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We do everything from respond to emergencies involving unsafe munitions on the flightline to disarming improvised explosive devices.
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In his autograph scores the solo part is often only sketched in or partly notated, and it is clear that he improvised throughout a performance, not just in his cadenzas.
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She improvised, created and worked her vocal chords to a frazzle, dashed home and prepared dinner for the intellectuals who came repeatedly to Mrs Berio's table.
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Cassavetes also sometimes includes partially improvised scenes in the finished film.
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He had an uninformed idea on glass and his solution was improvised, as a military sniper would impro out in bad-guy land.
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You just don't go to a house-warming party - however improvised - empty-handed, so we decided to prepare a few nibbles to accompany the bottle of champagne we knew they'd open.
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The excellent orchestra in the improvised pit was in fine form and added enormously to the show.
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I improvised by putting colour into an ice cube tray - thus giving me deep wells and plenty of colour.
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The performances also seem improvised because the dialogue is fragmentary, tangential and chatty rather than goal-oriented.
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Many "frolics" were given and everyone danced where banjoes were available; also, these resourceful people secured much of their music from an improvised fiddle fashioned from a hand saw.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4
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As people in other staff agencies sought to perform differently and better they also improvised, learned, and changed.
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He deconstructs the elements of Thelonious Monk's stately "Crepescule With Nellie," and spins improvised webs from a stride-based Byard tune.
A Piano 'Genius' Finds His Edge
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My father and the other members of his foursome, when they spoke, did so in a telegraphic banter: They teased one another good-naturedly; they improvised nicknames.
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It was ten feet by five; the planks of surturbrand, braced strongly together with cords, presented an even surface, and when launched this improvised vessel floated easily upon the waves of the Liedenbrock Sea.
Journey to the Interior of the Earth
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The style of the improvised fixture sug - gested childhood, somehow.
Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
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How much of the music is improvised?
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I know a great deal of the film was improvised.
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Some had their arms in improvised slings... some were bandaged with towels or strips of shirt.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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Derive, a solo dance piece by Peters, demonstrated that even the static of a radio being tuned to random frequencies was ample reason to dance as her improvised movements filled the space.
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Over the past decade, the Iraqis have improvised and cannibalized their obsolescent aircraft, tanks, armored personnel carriers, and air defense network to keep them going.
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We instantly raised the volume of our improvised dialogue in order to muffle the splattering noises from the wings.
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Improvised from ‘postpone,’ it means to warn of a foreseeable problem, as in, ‘I am out of my station and, as such, I will prepone the updations until today night,’ as one of his students wrote in an e-mail.
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crossed the river on improvised bridges
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The most amazing thing about these performances is that they were all improvised.
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I think he must have been a deserter from a group of dancers, for he was evidently feeling the heat more than his neighbours and had made an improvised parasol out of two sticks of sugar cane and a banana leaf.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos
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Under the empty gaze of Senegalese guards, the men improvised shelters by burrowing into the wet sand.
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
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Rome communicates his internal dialogue through improvised soliloquies which combine Shakespeare's language with street lingo and gesticulations.
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Once the image has been improvised on-screen, Corey has it printed onto a small canvas in colored inks.
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He seemed to thrive "on the improvised and unexpected' and wilt "when trapped into a formal ritual '.
TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World
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Uncle Richard intoned a chapter from the Bible and improvised a prayer.
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So many American troops and others have been killed by those improvised explosive devices.
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There was plenty of food on the improvised tables.
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Her blue eyes swept all in rapid review -- the guns leaning against the tree; the bunch of dead bluebill ducks hanging beyond; the improvised table and bench outside; the enormous mottled rattlesnake skin tacked lengthways on a live-oak.
A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories
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We have also, however, been looking at what I call cutting-edge techniques that terrorists might develop in creating improvised explosive devices.
CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2006
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He improvised the music from the feelings he had and then he reintroduced the text.
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In Kindamba he improvised a splint from palm branches and asked a carpenter to make another, around which tarpaulin would be wrapped.
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Always put a song on the album that's improvised.
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Well, we're in the process now of overreacting to fairly small, possibly in part copycat, improvised and wholly unpersuasive attacks, if we want to dignify them with that name.
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Well-prepared with umbrellas and caps, spectators waved fans or improvised from whatever was at hand to fight the heat.
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Thus vocalese is distinctly different from scat singing both because it is arranged and composed rather than improvised, and because it relies on language rather than simply sound.
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Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.
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An improvised curtain covered the window between the two rooms, so the intercom was the only means of communication.
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With such material as I could find in the vicinity, a little improvised tent was put up over his head, face and neck.
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On March 29, 1896, in a tube factory on Halsted Street the name bears no connection to Halsted the surgeon in Chicago, Grubbe began to bombard Rose Lee, an elderly woman with breast cancer, with radiation using an improvised X-ray tube.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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After performing for nearly 3 hours, he improvised this jam on the old standard "Motherless Child."
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Nearly everything in Gaza is improvised for want of the real thing, thanks to the unavailability of everyday items, banned by Israel.
Global Voices in English » Palestine: Qatayef, A Special Ramadan Dessert
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The plan, whose details elude me at the moment, had a lot to do with the improvised use of a sewing kit by a crack team of ninja assassins.
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You just don't go to a house-warming party - however improvised - empty-handed, so we decided to prepare a few nibbles to accompany the bottle of champagne we knew they'd open.
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Sometimes improvised music seems like a selfish display of skills.
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He had an amplified bullhorn in one hand and a genuine, polished ram's horn in the other as he improvised chants.
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Then the first boy pushed me, and I found myself in the middle of an improvised game of catch!
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Their conversation has the uncertain, improvised aimlessness of real life, and their relationship is not developed and complicated in any traditionally scripted sense.
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The guerrillas overcame the physical defenses by rigging up an improvised multiple rocket launcher.
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For some inexplicable reason, my improvised soundtracks don't go down well.
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How much of the plot and the scenes were improvised by the ensemble?
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With a sudden inspiration I improvised, changing the speech to fit the occasion.
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The dialogue was mostly improvised yet feels natural and unforced.
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At that point, with McNeill paralyzed and helpless on his back, Mireles fighting the effects of his avulsed forearm, Grogan unable to clearly locate his target without his glasses, and Manauzzi still unarmed after losing control of his revolver from the impact of the improvised felony stop, the mortally wounded Michael Platt made his daring bid for freedom.
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With subsidiary characters such as Madame Oglepuss a retired opera singer, Beulah Witch, and Fletcher Rabbit, the improvised puppet show became notorious for its ad-libbing.
George Heymont: Specialty Acts -- From Vaudeville to Blue Man Group
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On top of this was precariously piled a series of characters and subplots that looked and sounded like an improvised drama workshop from a citizenship class.
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Then comes the alap, a long tonal improvised melody during which the singers intone different long notes, in the raag of the song to be played.
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Again the group chose a rather fast tempo, which with the bagpipe-like drone in the bass parts, gave this movement the lilt of an improvised country dance.
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This gliding technique allows him to play alap, the slow improvised invocation of a raga.
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This is an umbrella term for a group of musicians in Japan whose music is primarily atonal, noisy, improvised and loud.
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Peg could have been blown up by an improvised explosive device, shot by snipers or killed in a contact but she survived.
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As Sclavis and Collignon explore the first of several ecstatic improvised conversations, whirling folk dances turn into warp-speed vocal scatting against electronic echoes.
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There will surely be more of these improvised intra-European coalitions of the willing.
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The improviser cannot and does not wait to know the consequences of the improvised production while executing it.
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The Indians improvised breastworks on nearby hillsides and fought back but could only watch helplessly as soldiers burned tepees, blankets, and sacred objects, destroyed tons of dried buffalo meat, and seized 750 ponies and a thousand buffalo robes.
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