improvisation
Americannoun
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the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation.
Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
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something improvised.
The actor's improvisation in Act II was both unexpected and amazing.
Other Word Forms
- improvisational adjective
Etymology
Origin of improvisation
Example Sentences
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His work, like his life, seemed like a running improvisation, and the prose work that became “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” offers a nod to the author’s off-the-cuff sensibility.
His blends of tenderness and ferocity, and of notated music and improvisation, inspired goals to which musicians still strive.
He didn’t write down his own part; he needed room for freedom and improvisation.
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The improvisation petered out after more than an hour with no sense of arrival, just an agreeable sensation of being OK in wherever ambient world you had just landed.
From Los Angeles Times
That’s part of the life of a quarterback, the expectations of toughness and stoicism, and the reliance on improvisation, even when a hand is swaddled in a cast or heavy brace.
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