How To Use Opening move In A Sentence

  • Once your speakers have recovered, you can move directly to the grimly compelling opening movement of the symphony. Times, Sunday Times
  • Think of it as the opening move in a chess game. Times, Sunday Times
  • The massive attacks work well for the opening movement, with its homage to Bach.
  • He sat there passively, content to wait for his father to make the opening move.
  • Uchida gave an almost classical strictness to the sonata's opening movement, before turning the scherzo into a fleet, almost dreamlike vision, colouring the modulations of the Largo quite magically, and romping exuberantly through the rondo finale. Mitsuko Uchida
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  • Think of it as the opening move in a chess game. Times, Sunday Times
  • The opening movement combines a brass fanfare with a Widorian toccata figure for its music argument.
  • In 1979, taking a different tack, Plain English Campaign publicly destroyed government forms as the opening move in a crusade against officialese and obfuscation.
  • For example, the first movement, ‘Introitus,’ uses the opening movement to the requiem mass with its reference to ‘lux perpetua luceat eis.’
  • Their broad tempo for the opening movement releases a magical variety of texture and colour. Times, Sunday Times
  • From the tramping funeral rhythm of the opening movement to the ominous major - minor chords of the finale, the symphony offers precious little respite from its tragic purpose.
  • He sat there passively, content to wait for his father to make the opening move.
  • On the opening night we had a little extra ‘fun’ when some ribbon on her tutu slowly came unstitched during the opening movement.
  • He sat there passively, content to wait for his father to make the opening move.
  • The note-taking during the reading of the Flusser book enabled me to overcome the travel sickness in the arrhythmic opening movement that is inevitable in an unfamiliar book.
  • Five days before the opening move of Kasparov vs. the World, the chess champion sat in a fashionable Manhattan restaurant fighting off symptoms of a nasty head cold.
  • It brought plenty of vigor to the vivace opening movement, appropriately so, although the acoustics of the drawing room venue for the concerts lent a hard edge to some of the concerted passages.
  • His presumptuousness is reflected in his opening moves and extreme appointments, which pour more salt on racial wounds.
  • Once your speakers have recovered, you can move directly to the grimly compelling opening movement of the symphony. Times, Sunday Times
  • Think of it as the opening move in a chess game. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their broad tempo for the opening movement releases a magical variety of texture and colour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Barber's boundless melodic inspiration takes inspired flight from the surging opening movement through the moving, poignant Andante and rousing bravura finale.
  • On the other hand, I tend to judge on the basis of the opening movement and the slow one, rather than of the scherzo and the choral finale.
  • On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Archive 2006-09-01
  • For his opening move — in which "Oh" would have been a feasible if less canonic alternative (fully licensed by the dictionary) — is a line that negotiates in process between the vocal base line of expressive oralilty, on the near hand, and, at expression's farthest reach, the vocative asymptote of natural communion with inanimate energy. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Been there, done that

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