All 8 Uses of
compose
in
Man And Superman
- Hence it is that the world's books get written, its pictures painted, its statues modelled, its symphonies composed, by people who are free of the otherwise universal dominion of the tyranny of sex.†
Chpt Ded. (definition 2)
- And so with your Doctors of Music, who, with their collections of discords duly prepared and resolved or retarded or anticipated in the manner of the great composers, think they can learn the art of Palestrina from Cherubim's treatise.†
Chpt Ded. (definition 1)
- Her voice might be the voice of a schoolmistress addressing a class of girls who had disgraced themselves, as she proceeds with complete composure and some disgust to say what she has come to say.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2) *
- [He turns his back on them and composes himself to sleep].†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- [He lies down and composes himself to sleep].†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- [He composes himself to sleep, murmuring] Louisa, I love thee; I love thee, Louisa; Louisa, Louisa, Louisa, I— Straker snores; rolls over on his side; and relapses into sleep.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- There they have great racecourses, and also concert rooms where they play the classical compositions of his Excellency's friend Mozart.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *
- [He looks at her; but by this time she has recovered herself, and meets his spectacles with perfect composure.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (compose as in: compose a poem) to write or create something with care -- especially music or a literary work, but could be other things as diverse as a plan or a letter
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(2) (compose as in: compose myself) to calm someone or settle something