It's hard to disentwine the singer from the song: though Chicago was 30 years old when Sinatra recorded it, his is the version everyone knows, and it endowed the city with an indelible rakishness. |
The wartime environment makes one set of motivations difficult to disentwine from the other. |
The composer Anton Reicha, when turning pages for Beethoven during a Mozart piano concerto in the late 1790s, had to disentwine the instrument's hammers and strings, which became entangled during the tumultuous performance. |
Norman gathered the boy up, and as soon as he could disentwine his little arms from about his neck, turned him toward Keith. |