He leaned back in his chair, put his pipe between his teeth, and in the tones of a noctambulist improvised his tale. |
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While the convoy weaved its way through the narrow streets of a small town, an improvised explosive devise exploded. |
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The Quartet improvised the notes of the raga Revagupti, each instrument showing its tonal texture. |
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For some inexplicable reason, my improvised soundtracks don't go down well. |
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An improvised explosive device, a pipe bomb, went off and yes, it has, I suppose, marred the reputation of the 1996 Olympics. |
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This gliding technique allows him to play alap, the slow improvised invocation of a raga. |
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More conservatively, however, many reductionists reintroduced elements of composition into improvised music. |
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Tiny hands forming tiny people out of cereal, foil wrap or paper clips, illustrate the size of children's personally improvised art. |
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Many men were killed, especially at V Beach, where the improvised landing craft, the transport River Clyde, had been run ashore. |
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The most amazing thing about these performances is that they were all improvised. |
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He is probably the leading light in the field of Australian improvised music. |
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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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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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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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The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw. |
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This series of 11 improvised duets with Toronto saxist Brodie West is a rambunctious pleasure. |
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Discovered in Missouri, Shooby's musical style is imitating a trumpet in a bizarre improvised scat over a variety of music. |
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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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If they locate heat sources on or near a road, the location can be triangulated as a possible site for an improvised explosive device. |
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When this vehicle was blown apart by an improvised explosive device, an IED, debris flew in every direction. |
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I was invited to appear, under my hastily improvised pseudonym, in a London heat in mid-May. |
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This campaign, let it be said, was improvised, inconsistent, and undirected. |
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These works, with their improvised musical accompaniment, breathed excitement into the local scene. |
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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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It won't be quite as absorptive as the commercial variety, but it's a good deal cheaper and can be improvised at need. |
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Loach himself subsequently moved towards a more naturalistic style, often improvised and usually referred to as social realism. |
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Incidentally, the hyphen in Goose-Pimples is a solecism, but we'll never know whether it was written by Leigh or improvised by his cast. |
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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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Concert parties at the time improvised with available talent and material to provide variety revues involving light-hearted music and comedy. |
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They loaded the drawings for George in a backpack, built improvised bicycles from spare parts and fled over the French border into Spain. |
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The vamp becomes a backdrop for an improvised duet between the vibes and cello. |
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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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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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A few of the horses, raised their heads from their improvised stabling on one side of the hall. |
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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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She improvised the notes, the highs and lows but still stuck to the original song. |
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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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Penillion is soaked in the Welsh tradition of improvised vocal descants to the harper's melody. |
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Cassavetes also sometimes includes partially improvised scenes in the finished film. |
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Seemingly improvised banter is shared across a table as Jarmusch urges us to sit back and watch the magic unfold. |
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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 dialogue was improvised entirely by the actors, and the cinematography is entirely static. |
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He improvised the music from the feelings he had and then he reintroduced the text. |
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And thus ends my hastily improvised day, which I couldn't have planned any better. |
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The insurgents who were there have vanished, leaving improvised explosive devices buried everywhere. |
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People improvised large-scale meals out of food that might otherwise have spoiled and fed entire streets. |
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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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There will surely be more of these improvised intra-European coalitions of the willing. |
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Overtaken by the darkness, he had thrown his force into some of the houses and improvised a sort of fort. |
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This was somewhat unexpected so I improvised a torch from my shirt and a tree branch. |
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So many American troops and others have been killed by those improvised explosive devices. |
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At other locations protesters were seen digging up cobbles to throw at police and several tried to pull down fences to make improvised weapons. |
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In most cases, soldiers improvised solutions to keep the offensive rolling. |
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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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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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Once the image has been improvised on-screen, Corey has it printed onto a small canvas in colored inks. |
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In the 1980s Paxton performed less frequently, usually as a soloist and in highly improvised works. |
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The picketline itself, the marching and the improvised singing are very clear in my memory. |
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The role of these attorneys was scripted, whereas the responses of the characters were improvised. |
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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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Students are encouraged to progress to developing their own choreography or improvised dance. |
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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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Shot on the back streets and alleys of Paris, the adventures have a loose, improvised feel. |
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The orchestrated and improvised anarchy builds to a climax and the tune ends shortly thereafter. |
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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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The original barrel was removed and this had been replaced by an improvised barrel. |
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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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She said truckers must also contend with improvised explosive devices on the road. |
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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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A college can't expect students to accept more than one term in improvised, makeshift spaces. |
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Almost always there is time to assume a steadier position or take advantage of an improvised shooting support. |
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He said the improvised bomb was planted near one of the gates of the wharf. |
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They try to use the umbrella as an improvised sail while Catherine steers, but it doesn't work well. |
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The UN has already experience in supervising elections under very improvised conditions. |
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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 welfare state he fashioned in place of classic laissez-faire was largely improvised. |
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The guerrillas overcame the physical defenses by rigging up an improvised multiple rocket launcher. |
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During the tour the commandos also discovered 320 improvised explosive devices. |
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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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The excellent orchestra in the improvised pit was in fine form and added enormously to the show. |
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With a sudden inspiration I improvised, changing the speech to fit the occasion. |
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The odd-numbered tracks are short interludes using music boxes and prepared toy pianos to situate his longer improvised works for prepared piano. |
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A sport match is an improvised drama, each beautiful moment unprecedented and irreproducible. |
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She cut an improvised cross from the head of a cork and dampened the ash by adding water. |
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This fruit salad contains melon, grapefruit and grapes, but can be improvised with whatever is in your own fruit bowl. |
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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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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 spontaneously generates melodic lines and develops them at length, so that one is left incredulous that this is all improvised. |
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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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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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Roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices are inflicting a heavy toll on American troops. |
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The vehicles will provide increased protection against grenades, improvised explosive devices, and small-arms fire. |
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They've been firing into those improvised explosive devices, homemade bombs, with tanks, setting off huge explosions. |
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Winterbottom emphasises that although the dialogue in the film is improvised, every scenario was organised. |
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So we improvised, drawing a grid of squares and quickly writing one letter in each square. |
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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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Terrorists, suitcase bombs, anthrax, radiological dirty bombs, and improvised explosive devices dominate the new strategic lexicon. |
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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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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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In actual fact, beneath our placid exteriors, both of us were frantically trying to dream up an improvised line which could break the deadlock. |
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They create the feel of an improvised session while faultlessly playing complex multi-layered arrangements. |
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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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Well-prepared with umbrellas and caps, spectators waved fans or improvised from whatever was at hand to fight the heat. |
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The results could be quite elegant, but sometimes lacked the feeling of abandon and adventure present in the music's greatest improvised solos. |
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They waded waist-deep in the grass in a compact body bearing an improvised stretcher in their midst. |
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Beaudet's love affair with improvised music, and jazz in particular, took off. |
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If performers desired a keyboard accompaniment to a Bradbury arrangement, one could be improvised using the soprano and bass voices as the basis for appropriate harmonies. |
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How much of the plot and the scenes were improvised by the ensemble? |
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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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Was there a script, or was the plot mostly improvised during shooting? |
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Sometimes improvised music seems like a selfish display of skills. |
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Jumbled emotions, from considered melancholia to improvised celebration, are conveyed by the contrast between the sepia-toned photographs and their jazzily patterned borders. |
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The 27-year-old director also exhibits a great reverence for his actors, whose performances often seem so spontaneous, many viewers mistakenly believe the film was improvised. |
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Learn more about different formations for improvised group dance. |
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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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Their show is a mix of burlesque, cabaret and improvised stand-up. |
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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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The solo sections are composed, but designed to sound improvised, as does the drum section, which may have been workshopped between the composer and the drummer. |
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Within the enclosure, men sit on dirty couches, either improvised out of other materials or actual literal couches. |
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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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In singing along, several were swept up in the lively atmosphere and boldly picked up their dinner utensils and used them as improvised musical instruments. |
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But the Allies rapidly improvised antidotes and embodied the weapon in their own arsenals, making the conduct of the war yet more complex and inhumane. |
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The band's origins stem from Edwards wanting to create a big band to perform improvised or free music, which is still anchored in some way, by a structure. |
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It looked an unpromising situation until the young striker produced an improvised overhead kick which had Bryn Halliwell at full stretch to turn the ball away. |
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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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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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I'm above a reasonable doubt convinced this is a nerve agent that they developed, either improvised, one, or they may have developed actually sarin in some form to use. |
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But soon Courtois erupts into an improvised solo of dark chords punctuating sweeping legato lines, while Poulsen releases harmonics and dissonances behind him. |
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One died this morning, trying to defuse an improvised explosive device. |
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Leaders improvised eloquent orations referring to the usual civic virtues. |
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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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Yelena Fomina provides free psychological help at an improvised office occupying a former McDonalds ron the corner of the Maidan. |
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Burning Man Jay Kirk, GQ On his first tour of duty in Afghanistan, Sam Brown was set on fire by an improvised explosive device. |
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On Tuesday, according to Icasualties.org, an improvised explosive device killed Cpl. William J. Woitowicz in Afghanistan. |
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Made from moose leather with rawhide bindings crisscrossing around the calf they looked like something Shackleton would have improvised adrift on the ice-floes. |
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There was a small boat, an improvised currach-type constructed from hessian stretched over a wooden frame and doused with pitch to make it waterproof. |
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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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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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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 burden must rest, however, upon the partially improvised text. |
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And late yesterday, we also found out that the improvised explosive device that this device was actually holding around his neck was in fact, a pipe bomb. |
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The dialogue was mostly improvised yet feels natural and unforced. |
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Necessity being the mother of invention, he improvised where he had to. |
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Clark says audiences are more open to improvised music than people think. |
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In freely improvised music, its roots are in occasion rather than place. |
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Below, I have categorized various types of improvised weapons. |
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Almost all were killed by improvised explosive devices and land mines. |
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Near Al Hasakah, one airstrike destroyed an ISIL vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, it said. |
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Staff Sergeant Brett Linley, from Birmingham, died in an explosion while clearing improvised explosive devices in Nahr-e-Saraj on Saturday. |
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Hassan Tabbakh, 38, is alleged to have been trying to create improvised explosive devices when he was arrested in December last year. |
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In a brief statement, the 42-nation force said Two US servicemen were killed in an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan. |
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I Remember how Frank, light-on-his-feet balletomane, improvised his version of Balanchine choreography, twirling deftly across his loft. |
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The forces also seized improvised explosive device materials, suicide vests, weapons, ammunition, and a quantity of illicit drugs. |
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But when that waste is an improvised explosive device placed in a public trash can, waste can certainly make haste. |
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The improvised explosive device packed with around 800-1,000 kgs of detonable material was planted in a water tank, said the authorities. |
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Hunting with blowguns, homemade crossbows and other improvised arms is covered, as is practical taxidermy for the trophies collected. |
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Eggplant was one of the easily obtainable, unrationed foods, so cooks improvised to vary their scarce diet. |
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Security forces recovered about 20 improvised explosive devices from Sukma, Danker, Dantewada and Narayanpur areas of the state. |
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He provided for a hot mess and he got the men up off the floor with improvised bunks. |
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They improvised a simple shelter with branches and the rope they were carrying. |
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Some early Led Zeppelin concerts lasted more than four hours, with expanded and improvised live versions of their repertoire. |
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Usually the music was developed first, sometimes with improvised lyrics that might then be rewritten for the final version of the song. |
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He took so long to complete sketches that its corpse began to decompose and some parts had to be improvised. |
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Hundreds of men drowned trying to cross the swollen Sittang on improvised bamboo floats and rafts. |
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Coalition forces were attacked indirectly, through rocket attacks on bases and improvised explosive devices. |
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The EUTC also fund and run acclaimed student improvised comedy troupe The Improverts during term time and fringe. |
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Soon after the commencement of the war, pilots armed themselves with pistols, carbines, grenades, and an assortment of improvised weapons. |
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Located adjacent to it, is the Bimhuis, a concert hall for improvised and Jazz music. |
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He improvised on this observation by creating a sporting event on the difficult terrain of the Western Highway, which was then poorly built. |
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Ad hoc can also mean makeshift solutions, shifting contexts to create new meanings, inadequate planning, or improvised events. |
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Police said an improvised bomb killed one person and injured 32 others in downtown Nairobi last month and they believe ammonium nitrate was used. |
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The Buffalo A2 is a heavily armored truck specifically designed to protect its occupants from mines and improvised explosive devices. |
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Half of it is taken up by the bunk beds and improvised benches. |
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The joint force killed suspected militants attempting to employ improvised explosive devices against the troops during the search in Paktika. |
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The group consisted of 20 boys and girls aged from nine to 13, who played improvised instruments and harmonicas, drums and tin whistles. |
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Sapper James Wilson, known as Jimmer, was dealing with an improvised explosive device on his first tour of duty in Afghanistan when it blew up. |
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The Guru Band offers two improvised pieces on the borders of ethno, alternative and rock, and the Wooden Toys cut is dominated by didjeridoo. |
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After achieving modest success on cable, improvised sitcoms are making their way to network television. |
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At St Donats in March, he had an electric bassist for company, but at Bridgend he was all alone, caressing his guitar as he improvised to telling effect. |
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We had Tom and Ben and Babz and Marya Delver and we rehearsed, and we improvised, and I put all these improvisations on tape, and wrote the script based on what happened. |
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Post-surgery care was administered in an improvised neonatal intensive-care isolette, which Colonel Schank and her team hastily constructed from boxes. |
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In scenes straight out of Oscar-winning movie The Hurt Locker, Warrant Officer Class 2 Iain Martin put his life on the line to dismantle the improvised explosive devices. |
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By the way, I like the way you improvised with the pooper scooper. |
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Wilson, of Exchange Street, Doncaster, is charged with making an improvised explosive device from canisters, accelerant and screws with intent to endanger life. |
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The city held countless numbers of weapons caches, torture chambers, hundreds of improvised explosive devices, traps, and an estimated 5,000 insurgents. |
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It is unclear how the family was going to survive at sea but AP reports that the family was going to make an improvised raft by tying a cooler and life rings together. |
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On the right, French cavalry attempted to support the attack but without howitzers, could not advance in level terrain, dotted with cottages used as improvised strong points. |
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During the Battle of Montcornet Germans hastily improvised a defence while Guderian rushed up the 10th Panzer Division to threaten De Gaulle's flank. |
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The Beauman Division and Norman Force, both improvised formations, left on the evening of 17 June and the rearguard battalion was evacuated in the afternoon of 18 June. |
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Theatre in India melds music, dance, and improvised or written dialogue. |
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Using improvised shields and weapons which they had concealed within the city, the Aduatuci then engaged the Romans in a surprise attack that night. |
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There he would experiment with improvised chemical, electric, and magnetic apparatus, but his chief concerns regarded the properties of polarised light. |
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The second is evident in Pereg's Canicule, 2003-2004, a slow-motion video of people warding off the Parisian heat wave in improvised street showers. |
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Another security source had said that eleven civilians were killed or wounded when several improvised explosive devices hit policemen's houses in Heet suburb. |
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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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Improvised weapons such as shovels, chairs and table legs also can be used to fend off adversaries. |
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The Improvised Music Company's world music season begins with an Azerbaijani singer, Alim Qasimov. |
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When I asked why, he explained that the wire was a typical trigger for an Improvised Explosive Device, better known as a booby trap. |
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Improvised music rarely yields results as immediately inviting as the tropical soundscapes found on this album. |
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Improvised restaurants and tea stalls spring up in the evening. |
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Improvised explosive devices have proven to be more lethal in Iraq than any pitched battle is likely to be. |
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An American soldier's hand held video camera captured the detonation of an Improvised Explosive Device. |
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He patrolled on foot, and Improvised Explosive Devices filled the donkey paths that crisscrossed the wadis and hills. |
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Improvised fibre rope leashes were around their necks and the owner, who was sitting on his haunches, dragging at a beedi with great determination, held the other ends. |
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Saab has been contracted to develop and deliver a new Water Borne Improvised Explosive Device Remotely Operated Vehicle. |
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He said the Improvised Explosive Device the terrorists planted in a water tank was armed with around 800 kilograms of high-grade detonable material. |
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