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  • This was how Jimmy first encountered Shakespeare — through Anna K.'s rendition of Macbeth.†   (source)
  • And so I did: Had I youth's blood and hopeful mood and heart of fire once more,
    For all the gold the world might hold I'd never quit your shore,
    I'd live content whate'er God sent with neighbours old and gray,
    And lay my bones 'neath churchyard stones, beside you, Galway Bay.
    Once I looked up from a halting and botched rendition to see two lines of tears rivuleting Mam's cheeks.†   (source)
  • Donald's rendition of a spool of thread, a wedding present to Gogol and Moushumi, hangs in their bedroom.†   (source)
  • "The correct answer is that we are all feeling like we will be happier after an a cappella rendition of 'Blister in the Sun."†   (source)
  • That's when the mockingjays begin their rendition of "The Hanging Tree.†   (source)
  • The results were shaky yet recognizable renditions of what she once had done perfectly.†   (source)
  • There would be no Jubilee March, no landing by Columbus, no address by Harlow Higinbotham, George Davis, or Bertha Palmer; no presentation of awards, no praise for Burnham and Olmsted; no "Hail Columbia"; no mass rendition of "Auld Lang Syne."†   (source)
  • The slow songs he favored were heart-tugging: Dean Martin's "Return to Me," Billy Ward's rendition of "Stardust," "Chances Are" by Johnny Mathis, "It's All in the Game" by Tommy Edwards, and anything by the Platters.†   (source)
  • On this long strip of paper, Hiro glimpses multiple renditions of the important Crip, the guy with the goatee whom Raven was dealing with earlier.†   (source)
  • 00 P.M. Ought to've had a special rendition of 'Annie, Won't You Come by Here', sung by the Mormon Tabersnackle Choir, Paul thought, and did the Donkey some more.†   (source)
  • Steam was practically blowing out of Mom's ears by the time the service ended with a rousing rendition of Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings."†   (source)
  • Ellerby slides to a stop in the packed snow in front of my house in the Christian Cruiser and blasts the horn, which plays a sort of sick tuba rendition of "The Old Rugged Cross," then jumps out and starts up our ice-covered sidewalk.†   (source)
  • Inside the shell of a soulless merchant was hidden a genial lunatic, as willing to bring forth a spring of lemonade in the Guajira Desert as to flood a solemn funeral with weeping at his heartbreaking rendition of "In Questa Tomba Oscura."†   (source)
  • From the time of Jean Louise's earliest ecclesiastical recollection, Maycomb had sung the Doxology in one way and in one way only: Praise—God—from—whom—all—blessings—flow, a rendition as much a tradition of Southern Methodism as Pounding the Preacher.†   (source)
  • About five minutes later she came back, just in time to cut short Jack's rendition of "Hands to Myself."†   (source)
  • My mom's Sinatra rendition drops off.†   (source)
  • They wore broad-striped black-and-white uniforms and looked like they might launch into a rendition of "Jailhouse Rock" until a club-wielding guard joined them and announced, "These men you see here will never be released from prison.†   (source)
  • His Arkansas Bubble Theory, its roots in an eighth-grade history class, would lead back to football and the best high school team in Arkansas, the Lake Hamilton Wolves, then to the best college football team in the country, the University of Arkansas Razorbacks—which always included a rousing rendition of the university's hog call: "Woooo, pig!†   (source)
  • He can do a perfect rendition of the munchkin who greets Dorothy right after she lands on the witch in the Wizard of Oz, the one who with two others sings that silly song about being the Lollipop Guild.†   (source)
  • Prof Nolan announced that Kaci had placed fifty-second in the competition with her rendition of Beatrice's monologue from Much Ado About Nothing.†   (source)
  • He already knows every word of that file-every arrest record, court filing, psychological assessment, and rendition of his troubled family history.†   (source)
  • The picture shifted to capture Jeremy's rendition of an anguished guest, his face contorted.†   (source)
  • And I--soon realized something else: Reb Saunders was far happier when he lost to Danny than when he won: His face glowed with fierce pride and his head nodded wildly—the nod beginning from the waist and including the entire upper portion of his body, with the beard moving back and forth against his chest—each time he was forced to acquiesce to Danny's rendition of a passage or to Danny's incisive counter-questioning.†   (source)
  • I shivered in warped plywood boxes and plugged my ears as fat boys with tubas wedged around the middle labored through a rendition of, well, something.†   (source)
  • Maclay's rendition of Adams was devastating.†   (source)
  • As abbreviated as his rendition was, both Mine and Helen were gaping by the end of it.†   (source)
  • A military surgeon would have admired the clinical fidelity of the artist's rendition of all Christ's wounds-the spear wound, the thorn wounds, the holes that were made by the iron spikes.†   (source)
  • The orchestra's waltz rendition is not of the highest musical standard.†   (source)
  • Miss Smith highlighted the event with a rendition of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas."†   (source)
  • I myself heard him give a profane and disgusting rendition of the cadet prayer while R Company was forming up to march to chapel.†   (source)
  • I broke into an off-key rendition of "Fame."†   (source)
  • Three equal triangles, abstract renditions of chalet roofs in a valley of snow so deep the lower stories were obscured.†   (source)
  • The Confederates asked for their rendition under the terms of the Fugitive Slave Law, but they were informed by General Butler that "under the peculiar circumstances, he considered the fugitives 'contraband' of war."†   (source)
  • He nodded to the pianist, who pivoted hastily toward the piano and started on a rendition of "Brother James's Air."†   (source)
  • When he reached the center of the stage with Sally Poker just behind him guiding his elbow, the orchestra burst out in a loud rendition of the Battle Hymn and the old man, with real stage presence, gave a vigorous trembling salute and stood at attention until the last blast had died away.†   (source)
  • If Rudy wasn't talking about Deutscher's intense ways, he was playing his usual broken record, providing renditions and re-creations of the last goal he scored in the Himmel Street soccer stadium.   (source)
    renditions = his descriptions
  • her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving
  • they heard a live rendition of three pieces by Schubert
  • In 1957, an employee of the fire department won with his rendition of a spaceship passenger.†   (source)
  • A signature can be practiced to the point where a single rendition is acceptable.†   (source)
  • Everything else about her is an accurate rendition of this complex young woman.†   (source)
  • What !" said the Duke [according to Adams's later rendition of the scene].†   (source)
  • ""A profane rendition of the cadet prayer?" the General said with a gasp.†   (source)
  • Cindy Lou broke off into an impromptu rendition of "Over the Rainbow."†   (source)
  • He's reviewed all the documents at his disposal — the accounts of the trial, the opinions of the newspapers, the Confessions, even Mrs. Moodie's overblown rendition.†   (source)
  • There is something new: A globe about the size of a grapefruit, a perfectly detailed rendition of Planet Earth, hanging in space at arm's length in front of his eyes.†   (source)
  • With a sly eye in my direction, he gave us a solo rendition of the Everly Brothers' "All I Have to Do Is Dream," with modified lyrics: "Dream, dream, dream, all Sonny does is dream, dream, dream.†   (source)
  • He got up, excused himself past his seat companion and walked up the aisle to where a group of Americans, a few standing, the rest sitting, were huddled around their seats, singing an obviously rehearsed rendition of 'Mr Sandman'.†   (source)
  • The Smeaths in our rendition of them are charmless, miserly, heavy as dough, boring as white margarine, which we claim they eat for dessert.†   (source)
  • The Muzak overhead was growing louder, as if someone was fiddling with the volume, so that now I was getting blasted with a rendition of some Barbra Streisand song.†   (source)
  • He'd finished twenty-second with his rendition of Romeo's "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks ….†   (source)
  • "Great campus," he was saying as the mariachi band, aLa Brea staple, started up yet another rendition of "Happy Birthday" across the restaurant.†   (source)
  • If there was anyone who ought to see the colossal new rendition, measuring twelve by eighteen feet, it was surely Adams.†   (source)
  • "Oh, my God," I said, as the band-a guitar player, someone on keyboards, and in the back, the red-haired Ringo I'd met the day before-burst into a rousing rendition of "Get Ready."†   (source)
  • As the choir finishes up a haunting rendition of "I'm Gonna Make It," Long scans the transfixed crowd-close to five hundred today— and muses that he already has "made it."†   (source)
  • "Oh, he will, don't worry," says Barbara sheepishly, before she's drowned out by the Ballou chorus as it launches into a soulful rendition of the old spiritual "Amazing Grace," changes course midway into the Afrocentrically sensible theme from Disney's Lion King, and finishes raucously on "got no worries, for the rest of your days, it's my trouble free philosophy, Hacuna Matata."†   (source)
  • To a considerable extent the book was an expanded, more erudite rendition of the case for checks and balances in government that he had championed in his Thoughts on Government, and later put into operation in his draft of the Massachusetts constitution.†   (source)
  • The reigning artists were the rivals Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds and the American Ben-jamin West, who did elegant portraits and historical scenes, rather than graphic renditions of the dark side of London life.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Lincoln had not skipped a note and was finishing up his mauled rendition of "The Birds and the Bees."†   (source)
  • Pleased by her reception, she delivered her rendition of the witches' scene from Macbeth with such macabre passion and blood-chilling authenticity that the children without exception grew restless, wide-eyed, and frightened.†   (source)
  • The last thought made him think better of himself, for it had a certain poetic ring to it, and so he favored the girls with a loud and slightly off-key rendition of "The Wearin' o' the Green."†   (source)
  • But "One Small Voice" was subtitled "Songs and Things" today, and was devoted to proving the superiority of folk songs over any other forms of musical art, and of choral singing over any other manner of musical rendition.†   (source)
  • [A faraway, scratchy rendition of "Dardanella" softens the air and gives her strength to move through it.†   (source)
  • But the most extraordinary and profoundly moving of the traits of Viracocha, this nobly conceived Peruvian rendition of the universal god, is the detail that is peculiarly his own, namely that of the tears.†   (source)
  • In fact, the Circle's rendition of The Bohemian Girl was said by many to be far superior to professional performances heard in New York and New Orleans.†   (source)
  • Yours in the bowel, of Christ, Once we have broken free of the prejudices of our own provincially limited ecclesiastical, tribal, or national rendition of the world archetypes, it becomes possible to understand that the supreme initiation is not that of the local motherly fathers, who then project aggression onto the neighbors for their own defense.†   (source)
  • The sophistication of the humor of the infantile imagery, when inflected in a skillful mythological rendition of metaphysical doctrine, emerges magnificently in one of the best known of the great myths of the Oriental world: the Hindu account of the primordial battle between the titans and the gods for the liquor of immortality.†   (source)
  • Then the fiddles, bull fiddles, accordions, banjos and knuckle-bones broke into a slow rendition of "Lorena"—too slow for dancing, the dancing would come later when the booths were emptied of their wares.†   (source)
  • But enough of the song and this rendition of it.†   (source)
  • "He's delightful, delightful," he went on giving the commonplace rendition of approval which such men know.†   (source)
  • Carrie saw no more of Mrs. Vance for several weeks, but she heard her play through the thin walls which divided the front rooms of the flats, and was pleased by the merry selection of pieces and the brilliance of their rendition.†   (source)
  • Each looked like the other, each was filled to the center, or almost to the center, with a dense pattern of concentric circles; and yet this delicate tracery contained more sound than one could imagine, exquisite renditions of the happiest inspirations from every domain of the art of music.†   (source)
  • The rendition ran on in this wise until it came to where Carrie, as Laura, comes into the room to explain to Ray, who, after hearing Pearl's statement about her birth, had written the letter repudiating her, which, however, he did not deliver.†   (source)
  • She took place by his chair, letting her right arm fall lightly across his shoulder, so, when he spoke, the account seemed to have rendition from both of them jointly.†   (source)
  • So gradually the tone of the army chiefs changed; Congress forbade the rendition of fugitives, and Butler's "contrabands" were welcomed as military laborers.†   (source)
  • Most trenchant rendition of that ballad, upon my soul and honour It is.†   (source)
  • Masterly rendition.†   (source)
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