(adv. / a.) Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse.
(n.) Something made or done offhand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or remark.
(n.) A piece composed or played at first thought; a composition in the style of an extempore piece.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were arrested on the eve of Russia's presidential vote last weekend, days after an impromptu performance of an anti-Putin song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
(2) 8.25am BST Remiss of me not to have an entry from Tony Abbott for our impromptu Politics Live Tumblr - leaders looking at things.
(3) Nick Clegg, 24 October 2010 Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by Idil Biret Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash The Cross by Prince Petit Pays by Cesária Évora Street Spirit by Radiohead Life on Mars by David Bowie Waka Waka 2010 World Cup theme, by Shakira Schubert's Impromptu No.3 in G Flat Major played by Alfred Brendel Book The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Luxury A stash of cigarettes David Cameron, 28 May 2006 Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan Ernie by Benny Hill Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song performed by Kiri Te Kanawa and Utah Symphony Orchestra Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead This Charming Man by The Smiths Perfect Circle by R.E.M.
(4) An impromptu party was held in the luxury show flat of the housing association that was evicting them.
(5) The journey up through the Atlas had taken us past impromptu festivals, weekly markets, flocks of goats and a millennium of history.
(6) It's one of the show's periodic "dark weeks", so the open-plan offices are almost empty, except for Oliver and his boss, Jon Stewart , who emerges briefly to perform an impromptu monologue about his plans to order falafel for lunch.
(7) For many, the greatest proof of the pope's commitment to inclusivity and his desire to appeal to those who have long felt ignored or criticised by the church came during an impromptu press conference on a flight back from Brazil in July.
(8) The other high-profile beneficiaries of the amnesty are Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of the punk group Pussy Riot, who are serving two-year sentences for staging an impromptu punk performance in Moscow's main cathedral early last year.
(9) I'll do anything: peel spuds, look after the veg, make an impromptu pud.
(10) The maelstrom began only a few minutes into the televised debate at Hofstra University, on Long Island, on Wednesday night, when McCain seized on an impromptu encounter between Obama and a resident in Holland, Ohio, last weekend.
(11) A fter everything else – after Flynn, after the failure to replace him, after the Ice raids and the impromptu strategy session at Mar-a-Lago, and after yesterday’s bizarre press conference – who does Trump have left on his side?
(12) Whether you're a sculptor, painter, photographer, or simply want to show off some impromptu acts of creative genius, the Alley wants to hear from you.
(13) After a nauseating impromptu public love-in with historian Niall Ferguson , who undermined what had been a persuasive argument on the reorganisation of the history syllabus by suggesting we adopt the US model – was there ever a nation who understood less of the world?
(14) One man was arrested in Sydney after students staged an impromptu sit-in on a busy city street, while marches also brought traffic to a halt in Melbourne, Newcastle, Hobart, Brisbane and Perth.
(15) Turner fondly recalled an impromptu pre-election rally near Houston with Cruz and his wife giving speeches from the back of a pick-up truck: "They spoke our values then he went to Washington and followed them."
(16) When about 20,000 people turned up for an impromptu opposition funeral rally in Mazzeh in February this year, for example, it was the shabiha who, according to demonstrators interviewed by the Guardian in Damascus, fired on the protesters.
(17) 3.25pm ET: The crowd is moving off the Mall into what looks like an impromptu parade up Pennsylvania, heading for the White House...
(18) The impromptu performance came at the end of a nationwide minute’s silence to honour the 22 people killed in Monday’s bombing at Manchester Arena.
(19) Another 6 Music DJ, Tom Robinson, also spoke to the crowd, which broke into an impromptu rendition of The Beatles' Hey Jude, with the lyrics changed to "Save 6" .
(20) Apart from one December, when a travelling Oxford college choir thought we would enjoy an impromptu carol concert.
Rehearsal
Definition:
(n.) The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results indicated that participants discriminated the target behavior on video but effects did not generalize to the work setting for 2 participants until they rehearsed the behavior.
(2) Many of the plays we produced needed time for research and development in workshop mode – this investment, the provision of time for the development and rehearsal of plays for which I have campaigned throughout my career, was a cornerstone of our work, and could not be stripped away without imperilling the creation of plays themselves.
(3) rotary-pursuit tracking and rehearsal of tracking or rotary-pursuit tracking and object-slide naming (nonrehearsal).
(4) Results for the backward-counting condition duplicate, for the retention intervals used, the shape of the classic Peterson and Peterson forgetting curve but indicate little loss of memory in either the rehearsal or alpha conditions.
(5) Ear asymmetry during monaural stimulation appeared to be related to competition between incoming and rehearsed stimuli during central memory processing.
(6) Instead, the situation has deteriorated: rehearsals for the piece began on the day the Russian authorities finally produced confirmation that Tolokonnikova had been admitted to the medical wing of a Siberian penal colony , following a three-week transit period during which her family and legal representatives were denied any information of her whereabouts.
(7) "There's this moment when they're all around me singing 'I love you' at me and I was sitting there in rehearsal thinking, 'I hope this doesn't come across as some giant ego trip.'"
(8) During treatment sessions 2, 3 and 4, one group (MRBD) mentally rehearsed the task before drinking and the other group (MRAD) mentally rehearsed the task after drinking.
(9) Rehearsals were held without me, and I only managed to attend two - one of which was attended by only four people.
(10) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
(11) Behavioral rehearsal (homework compliance) was not consistently related to outcome, calling into question the value of the widespread use of homework assignments in behavioral treatments.
(12) Subjects were provided scripts for each of the six experimental RPs and rehearsed them prior to the CV assessment.
(13) The results showed no significant differences between the groups in alpha amplitude, but there was a significant task effect with the vigilance condition, story comprehension, and rehearsal showing decreasing alpha amplitudes in both groups of subjects.
(14) The prosecutor and Assange's lawyers have rehearsed their arguments in documents lodged with court.
(15) Taking a break from rehearsal, police baton in hand, the 34-year-old said: "It doesn't point to anybody, but it brings to the fore the pain the tragic event cost.
(16) No siginificant difference was found between the alpha production and rehearsal conditions.
(17) A within-subjects design was used in which trained subjects were told on a given trial either to produce alpha rhythm, mentally rehearse, or count backward following presentation of a CCC trigram.
(18) The results were interpreted as suggesting that a longer off-time duration is necessary for abstract shapes so that stimulus differentiation, verbal encoding, visual analogizing, and rehearsing may be utilized in processing.
(19) The play began life in 2003, was heavily revised the following year, and then frantically rewritten even as it went into rehearsal in 2009.
(20) North Korea typically protests against the drills, which it says are a rehearsal for invasion.