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The second movement is "waywardly constructed despite its relative brevity".

Her hands had returned waywardly to the skirts, and were already kneading new creases into them before she caught herself.

Pension and welfare funds dwindled, apparently looted or waywardly invested.

More than a few of the instrumental ensembles were waywardly tuned, and phrasing could be equally vague.

Ireland's harmonic language, like that of his peers, is essentially tonal and waywardly chromatic.

Franck seems under the spell of Wagner, and his chromatic harmonies wander waywardly.

Post-steerage magic realism spinning waywardly into history.

There are modernistic aspects to the music, like the waywardly chromatic harmonic writing, and especially the unorthodox structure.

As Mr. Thimister said after his waywardly thoughtful collection, "It is still clothes we are talking about."

He saw the star traced, could not help but see the beads of blood that struggled waywardly down a nose that had been broken at least once.

Three albums after the breakup of Pavement, his definitive 1990's indie-rock band, Stephen Malkmus remains waywardly alternative.

When she nodded, Clive saw that she wasn't aware of the stray locks of fluffy brown hair that drooped waywardly upon her forehead.

("Some hilding fellow, that had stolen the horse he rode on," with hilding meaning "bent downward, twisted waywardly aside.")

But atonal is too simplistic a way to describe Berg's waywardly chromatic post-Romantic language and searching explorations of harmony and color.

Though his waywardly chromatic harmonic language anticipates Schoenberg's atonality, it's hard to imagine that Reger would have gone that route had he lived longer.

One goes to the festival at the Museum of Modern Art anticipating the best, cushioned for the worst and, most of the time, accepting something waywardly in between.

He was also broke; a man who had rather waywardly enjoyed a much-acclaimed television career with little material reward, so far resisting offers to climb the executive greasy pole.

Perhaps the most attractive was "Tikhaya kolibel'naya" ("Gentle Lullaby"), with its gauzy perfumed chords and waywardly expressive vocal lines.

It's a surprisingly clumsy, waywardly surreal sendup of white Anglo-Saxon American Protestants, the kind who were celebrated in 1950's sitcoms that are now funnier than most sendups.

The opener, Marianne Nowottny, is a New Jersey high school student who plays an electric keyboard and sings waywardly ethereal songs, full of dreamlike journeys and mysterious rendezvous.

His band dresses like a circus troupe, Mr. Barnes shimmies like Prince, and the introversion of his lyrics disappears into an outpouring of waywardly catchy tunes.

With her electric keyboard set to sound like bells or violins or a music box, she sings waywardly ethereal songs, full of dreamlike journeys and mysterious rendezvous, opening up a private sphere.

But Ms. Nowottny is more waywardly ethereal than either of them, and her gusty, amorphous structures and the disembodied tones of her Concertmate keyboard add up to something all her own.

Ian Woosnam came to Augusta National playing, in his own words, like a 24-handicapper, though those of us in that category just wish we could spray the ball similarly around the practice ground or putt it so waywardly.

The most hard-fought provisions of the treaty, those legislating for monetary union by either 1997 or 1999, are fast becoming dead letters as European economies waywardly diverge from the strict requirements on inflation rates and government budget deficits defined by the treaty.