“The children will be following the squirrel, that is the key,” Penelope mused, which led her to the intriguing ques-tion: If Penelope were a squirrel, where would she run? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“I guess that wasn’t the best idea,” he mused. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You seem quite intelligent for an American,” my guest mused. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I rest my chin in my hands, still musing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Strong family resemblance,” he muses, as if I were a specimen in a science lab. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. Fancy the effect upon his melodies, laboring with his muse there so much closer both to Hell and the ruddy forge of Vulcan.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“If you froze into place like that, you would be unhappy,” Akira mused. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Commentators mused on the likely implications of the fact that neither Megan’s phone nor her bank cards had been used for more than a week. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, sirs,” mused another, “is love grounded in the body or in the intellect?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’ll get a screen test with Warner Brothers after all,” I mused. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am a mouse in a mammoth’s lair, he mused, though at least the mammoth keeps a good cellar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Such musings didn’t make him resentful of the football players; he liked them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pocock later remembered the moment: “Coming from Al,” he mused, “that was the equivalent of fireworks and a brass band.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was lost in vague musings about how much money I had actually earned last night when I saw Wilem and Simmon approaching. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No wonder Emery is always telling me Francis is her soul’s muse. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Still Theresa mused all night, and the next day too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and muse at how I would kill myself in here if I really needed to—I’d have to crush my head in the toilet seat. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Clara Wieck Schumann was the wife and muse of Robert Schumann, and a talented composer and pianist in her own right. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I wonder, if I keep pulling, if Sasha will just disappear into negative space,” she mused. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” he muses, “there are no tracks because Crystal’s a little pig and Alice is carrying her.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Judith emerged from her own musings long enough to explain. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“No hounds bell like those, save the pack of Gwyn the Hunter. And so,” he mused, “Gwyn, too, rides abroad.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Jojo mused, “Who knew we had so many buckets sitting around here in Bumblebee?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“If only there were just one,” he mused. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to give you some sort of title,” he mused. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing, as though by automatic action. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You know,” Mr. Burke mused after a spell, “Connor’s mother used to do that. Keep a notebook.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But generally, once we got rolling, he enjoyed the musings, and especially, the battles. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What was your purpose in telling me to do those things?” she mused aloud, her voice echoing off of the intricately carved walls. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As they turned a corner, Francie mused, “‘And the tears stood in her eyes.’” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of my musing she turned to look in my direction and caught me staring at her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A shame to kill you now,” Kronos mused, “before the final plan unfolds. I would love to see the terror in your eyes when you realize how I will destroy Olympus.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lee, musing through her talk, thought of the round smooth faces of the Cantonese, his own breed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tag strolled over to the blockhouse, musing over the planks that had been ripped out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need to worry,” the woman mused. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It hurts not to be wanted,” Mr. Pike mused. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lying in the colored ward of die hospital, which was a screened comer of a larger ward, Eva mused over the perfection of the judgment against her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Then maybe we should call the baby Verdi,” Donald muses, just as the opera surges to its closing bars, and the tape ends with a click. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

First it was DDT and other pesticides that killed the great peregrines, he mused. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

IV “Look at that old gal,” Jones mused to his psyche as the bus bounced and threw him against the woman sitting beside him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My beautiful wife became my muse, my star. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Still, Felicia muses, what would he be like in bed? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can tell a lot about a person by their feet,” he mused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Eratosthenes was a scientist, and his musings on these commonplaces changed the world; in a way, they made the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because French doors are nice,” the left face mused “Lots of natural light.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how she got that notch in her right ear?” she mused. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The young lady wants a greater depth of field,” he mused one afternoon. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he answered, musing, “Ah, I have heard of a Revolution, but I have been too busy in my life to attend to it. There was always the land.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The musings of the tlamatinime occurred in intellectual neighborhoods frequented by philosophers from Brussels to Beijing, but the mix was entirely the Mexicans own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he mused and he thought suddenly, “Well, and I shall be the next.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“How like a royal court,” I muse, “where powerful lords and councillors direct the king's course.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Good times,” Mark mused as he got more comfortable. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“The view changes from day to day,” he mused. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Mount Everest is God—for me, for everybody,” Lopsang solemnly mused ten weeks after the expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I mused on the funeral day, the coffin, the hearse, the black train of tenants and servants—few was the number of relatives—the gaping vault, the silent church, the solemn service. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Or perhaps it’s an attempt to convert people,” Twinkle mused. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Looks like insurance will cover about half the cost,” she muses as she navigates the website. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

That it meant that Gram was the muse for the book itself. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“He almost sounds like a spy,” I mused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And then his musings broke off, and he saw that Denethor and Gandalf still looked each other in the eye, as if reading the other’s mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I was just wondering why you’re here,” I mused aloud, remembering the conversation that seemed so long ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m surprised I haven’t noticed,” I mused as I watched her talking to one of the other women in the crowd. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Voldemort’s tone was musing, calm, but Harry’s scar had begun to throb and pulse: Pain was building in his forehead, and he could feel that controlled sense of fury building inside Voldemort. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But I am beginning to sound like the Beards and Parringtons and will soon totally forget Levy Pants, the commercial muse for this particular effort. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Might as well eat it. It’s not big enough to share with the boys,” I mused. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Beautiful and well, Yolanda muses, that's what she had wanted with Clive, all things beautiful and well, instead of their obsessive, consuming passion that left her—each time Clive left her—exhausted and distraught. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The thrill of an unexpected late-night visit was just the thing to knock all those melancholy musings out of her head; it held the promise of adventure. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty sure all the iron mines are off to the west,” Denna mused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it is for the best,” Chiron mused. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The old king watched, remote from the queen, though she shared his bed, and he mused. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was always so careful about her skin,” Dad muses. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Normally, I’d take an eye for such insolence,” the Commandant muses. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I always hoped we’d have a dentist in the family,” Mom muses. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Our lord of cheese is the size of an elephant, but he has a bladder like a peanut, the dwarf mused. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I wonder why it is that females wear such creations,” Quentin mused while the rest of us boys stared, openmouthed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife tells me that I’m doing fourteen-hour days,” Miele mused one afternoon, slicing cold chicken and piling it with fresh tomatoes on toast. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” muses Mr. James Ito looking off into somewhere far away. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Loyal," the dwarf mused, "and far from any Lannis- ters. I can scarce blame you for that. When I was your age, I wanted the same thing." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Cook’s eyes are quiet, as if she’s lost in an inner musing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"I don't see how they could believe that," Reagan mused, "but it's something to think about." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘A healing god would be nice,’ Piper mused. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I wonder what kind of cereal I should get for Becca,” Terry muses as they drape the Irish Wreath quilt on the girl’s bed, across the hall from her grandparents’ suite. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Life is going to seem very straightforward after all this adventure,” she mused. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Looks good enough to swim in,” he mused. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Later, these musings about fire would come to seem like prophecy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Somebody ought to tell him that he’s going to fight War Admiral,” one of them mused after watching Seabiscuit slog by. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, this one doesn’t like me,” die mused. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not for nothing was Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, regarded by the ancients as the “mother of the muses.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Using her as our muse, the students will begin compiling the diaries they’ve been keeping into a collaborative book. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, when he found himself in extremis at the board and called on his chess muse to save him, there was no answer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re not going to get me,” she mused, the amorphous “they” being hospitals, the system, and anything else that “sticks tubes in you and takes your money at the same time.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder where your mother stands on all this,” Grandfather muses. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“One jerk of a finger and a man is dead,” mused Johnny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strokes his short, brush mustache with his fingers, musing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 8:43 a.m. he mused over the radio, “Some of Andy’s gear is still here. I thought he must have gone ahead in the nighttime. Listen, can you account for him or not?” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking that the worldly Cristiana might understand Gertrude’s behavior, I mused aloud to her as we sat stitching, “How could the queen marry the brother of her dead husband?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Dad, musing into his glass of corn bread and milk, said nothing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“To turn around that close to the summit . . . ,” Hall mused with a shake of his head on May 6 as Kropp plodded past Camp Two on his way down the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The world’s greatest biological thinkers, having pored over the problem of heredity, had scarcely advanced the field beyond the cryptic musings of two men who had lived on two Greek islands two thousand years earlier. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I mused in wonder, turning my face from side to side. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A dinging bell dragged Ophie from her musings and back to the icy day. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Next came a proposal for a $2 million “Bobby Fischer Museum,” to be housed in Iceland—or maybe it should be Brooklyn, the promoters mused. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s had more than his share of trouble,” mused Johnny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if it only likes iron because it’s made of iron,” she mused, touching her silver ring to it with no effect. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I mused about what I might do, what skills I might possibly have. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Just because they were interesting people doesn’t mean I care to hear their musings on nighttime.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The only whale sharks in captivity in the world,” he mused. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s sure terrible,” he mused, “to be a parent knowing that there are eagles and goshawks lurking everywhere in these mountains.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Someone mused that when this one was done with racing, no one would remember Man o’ War. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mused, “I guess we should have brought some bees over in our pockets too.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To shake hands,” mused Werfel, holding up his cereal bowl so Skardebek could slurp the extra milk. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I sit in the center of the ring of gods, musing on them, pursuing some thought that I cannot make come clear. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s not a bad sort,” I mused after he left. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“For someone of your tender years, I suppose it is,” he mused, while inspecting the jar. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m wondering if it’s not as bad as it looked,” I mused in a low voice. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The young man is shaking his head, musing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Harry’s musings were ended by Professor Dumbledore, who stood up at the staff table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I walked home, musing over what he had said, and presently it seemed to me there was truth in his words, and I felt a little comforted. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mused—for ten minutes he held counsel with himself: he formed his resolve, and announced it— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But why worry, tomorrow everyone will have cakes and beer. Aye,” he mused, “Great Osiris is ready to loose his flood over the land once more. Seen any hangings lately?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“How like my lord’s own changeable moods these two faces are, one that laughs and one that weeps,” he mused. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mr. D mused, swirling his Diet Coke under his nose like it had a fine bouquet. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if I crawled over there and kissed her feet if she’d pet me on the head?” he mused. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, yes, I will be your muse, darling! What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I meant it to be musing, but it came out bitter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I certainly have,” mused the treacherous old man, smiling again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even the word 'music' comes from the Greek povaiy - mousike, referring to the fruits of the nine muses in literature, science and the arts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But she, after listening, mused and said in her plain and unmoved way, “Wait a few days. There is strange talk about.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“He’d have to be someone with some connections to the world outside of Manifest,” I mused. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Segal concluded his scholarly paper by facetiously musing, “Perhaps Fischer’s ascent to world champion was part of some conspiracy.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever look these musings produced upon his face, Eril-Fane didn’t try to argue him out of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Adam mused aloud, “I wonder who she was—what she was. I was content not to know.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Deception upon deception, the thing in the pit mused aloud. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“We see the same thing and yet find different truths,” Miss Whidaw mused. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ere many days,” I said, as I terminated my musings, “I will know something of him whose voice seemed last night to summon me. Letters have proved of no avail—personal inquiry shall replace them.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“After such a merry, sinful summer,” he mused, “by the just judgement of God, a most mournful autumn followed.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Mack mused, “Doc wouldn’t like this stuff from the winin’ jug.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An impressive pipe bomb, to be sure,” he mused. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe has been musing about moving it forward, into Act 1, and wants to know what they think. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Humans were scarce, and the swamps and woods teemed with wildlife—probably a pretty good time to be a burrowing owl, Roy mused. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mused awhile, fingering her pursed lower lip, and she said at last, “I do not know anyone there. I shall have to find a way. Who is the keeper of this woman?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a little strange though,” my mother muses. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Carlon wanted us to “feel the muse” and “be inspired by the masters.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Must have been born on one,” he mused. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no musings about boys or girls. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“No, I haven’t....Maybe someday...,” she mused as she set a pot of water to boil on the fire. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Those words must have had a meaning to someone at some time or other,” he mused. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Use Speed Gasoline,” Bigger mused, rolling the words slowly from his lips. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He has gentle hands, she mused, as warm fragrant oils ran between her toes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a while Sam sat musing, and tending the fire till the water boiled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Topographical maps show everything,” I say, musing out loud. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Brother Ugo had stopped musing and was now staring at him again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

No man is as cursed as the kinslayer, he mused, but I could learn to like this hell. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Lying in that crevasse, I was thinking, ‘This may be it,’ ” he mused. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Scheisskopf’s wife mused and paused a moment to ponder dubiously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I suppose this is why people have children, isn’t it?” she muses. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m hoping to find a classic board game,” mused Curtis. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Or,” he mused, “is it perhaps the other way around?” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I followed Hanover Street to Dock Square, musing upon stratagems. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“He’s not actually made of tin,” Noah mused thoughtfully. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“It seems like a long time to you, doesn’t it?” he mused. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mother mused absently as she wrapped it in tissue paper, “I wonder if the family name has to go on it.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s such a great muse for the film project.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And he mused and he said to himself again, “This I could do if I wished.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s an inscription in it. ‘For my muse and best friend.’” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He sat musing a little while, and then said, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

"I wonder how many KGB officers lost their jobs," she mused to herself, "when they found no continuous record of what I had done since arriving in Moscow on November 5, 1975." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you suppose,” I asked, as I poled the skiff, the focus of my romantic musings shifting from my own wedding day to Mr. Rice’s, “do you suppose her parents oppose the marriage?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry; in secret chambers withered men compounded strong elixirs, or in high cold towers asked questions of the stars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Mitch,” Morrie muses, adjusting his glasses as he reads, “with work like this, we may have to get you back here for grad school.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment Ladd Devine Senior appeared in the doorway behind his grandson, laid powerful hands gently on the boy’s shoulders, and jovially mused. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said he, “what are you musing about? What does that grave smile signify?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was just as in so many civil rights organizations, he mused: the flamboyant male leaders make the speeches while the workaday women, most of them as plain as bread, make it happen. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And this dog is her muse. She’s working on the animation.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie had once mused about sending us into the wealthier Reform shuls over in Kenwood and South Shore, taking an almost perverse satisfaction in the idea of robbing people in prayer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Between them is the spirit, or muse, of arithmetic. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, they say it takes one to know one, don’t they?” she mused. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s a funny thing about this valve,” Orr mused aloud. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you could go west,” he muses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Would she choose a cliff, a bridge—or, he mused almost longingly, would she pick a beautiful hemlock forest like this? Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“What baffles me,” Winifred mused, “is where young Matthias has got to. It’s not like him to miss the chance of a battle.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His musings were ended by a soft rap on his door. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I mused on the portrayal of Diana the huntress. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Forks must be a difficult place for you to live,” he mused. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was looking at the side of her face, listening to the sweet, throaty cadences of her voice, when I was jolted from my musing by a sharp exclamation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s some wood over on the Alkean continent,” John Henry mused. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And Lotus mused until Wang Lung said hastily to waken her, for he did not like her to think on her old life, “What was his business, then, with all this silver?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“A leaf of the singing tree,” she mused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Magnetic anchors,” mused Kether, wondering how he might appropriate the technology for his own engine designs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Someday,” Mami mused, “you might like to be a stewardess. Then you can travel all over the world for free.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how Reb Saunders will feel when he finds out that Danny is the friend of the son of a Zionist,” I mused. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You don’t look like much,” the sorceress mused. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Is that a fact ?” mused Milo, and was gone, sliding from his chair so swiftly that his striped barber’s apron retained his shape for a second or two after he had gone before it collapsed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You are even more clever than I could have hoped,” Hector says, not bothering to refute or confirm her musings about his colleague’s nomenclature. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“See, when you mess something up,” I muse, “you learn for the next time. It’s when people compliment you that you’re in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were musings, idle thoughts, full sometimes of the old dreaminess, but not the kind of thing she cared to dwell on. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pity, he mused, it might have been some use when the big folk come to eat me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the building’s not going to fall down after all,” Ralph mused. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking a cave in the hills,” Apollo mused. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Nowhere. Nature is beautiful, but she can be cruel. Just like a woman,” Hamlet mused. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You know,” mused Neeley, “Mama found that blouse and sewed a patch over the hole and she never asked me about it.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Trouble,” I mused, bending down to scratch Mr. Whiskers behind the ears. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The figures on the cornice symbolize the mathematical sciences, with Urania, the muse of astronomy, in the centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Maybe things got mixed up. Perhaps the governor had them there to keep peace, and they mixed up their orders,” Grandma mused. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I have written elsewhere, there is a sexist double standard that prohibits women from identifying as artists, and instead minimizes and marginalizes their creativity as autobiography, autobiographical musings and diary doodles. Reading Amy Schumer: The powerful missed message in “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo” 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

Nothing seems to awaken the muse in Ms. Shah like excreta, the ideal delivery system for all kinds of diseases. Review: ‘Pandemic’ Explains How to Host the Perfect Pathogen Party 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Her looks made her an ideal muse for Albee, whose plays dissect the inner lives of upper-class WASPs. Marian Seldes death: Five notable stage performances 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

“I guess even though we were free, we were still slaves ... in our mind,” muses the lead character. Fifty shades of gross – Marlon Wayans on body fungus, weird sex and Donald Trump 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Together they didn’t so much mimic as wholly embody the evening’s muses, whom Mr. Marsalis introduced between numbers with folksy-poetic commentary on their traits and dispositions: “Elephants are empathetic,” “penguins are slick.” Review: Jared Grimes and Lil Buck Embody Their Animal Muses in ‘Spaces’ 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch. Laurie Anderson: music for dogs and Obama 2013-02-13T20:00:01Z

"Old Ideas" is an autumnal album, musing on memories and final reckonings, but it also has a gleam in its eye. Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas' wrestles with death 2012-01-30T22:33:07Z

Leda, squashed between the trope of the young muse whose vitality sustains the aging artist and that of the daughter whose disobedience angers the jealous father, is at risk of losing sight of herself. The Erotic Truths of “Scary Old Sex” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

So run if you’d like to catch this musing on the price of American success and what it costs one family. 5 plays you need to see in Seattle 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

Of course, describing Proust in terms of plot alone does no justice to the reflections, counter-reflections, digressions and musings that form so much of the immersive pleasure he offers. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z

Existential musings aside, a visit to this village of a few hundred people feels much as it has for years. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Offenbach also gives us a saner view, by way of Nicklausse, Hoffmann’s loving, poetic muse, who patiently attends him as he pursues his women and leads him back to his typewriter in the epilogue. Music Review: Is It Traditional or Modern? Both, With Nods to Kafka and Fellini 2010-09-29T22:38:00Z

"Deep fry," I mused to myself as I put together the list for my editor. The absolute best way to make s'mores 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Later that night, turned away from her sleeping husband, Ginger muses, "I thought of the way she said, 'My mare,' like 'mah mare' or 'ma mere' — my mother in French." Mary Gaitskill takes on race, class and motherhood in her new novel 'The Mare' 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

And despite Granduciel’s musings on setting his guitar down and walking away, he said he feels called to the music: “I think I need this life to actually be content.” The War on Drugs Can’t Stop Searching for Answers in the Music 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

The 1928 work, the oldest Balanchine piece in City Ballet’s repertory, imagines Apollo as a youth, still a little raw and vulnerable, experimenting with three muses, discovering music and dance. Review: At City Ballet, Taylor Stanley Is a God for Our Time 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Ms. Magnicaballi, as Terpsichore, led the three muses with excellent directness and simplicity. Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z

Recently she started her own “plantstagram” to document new growth, post tips and share plant musings. Music to My Elephant Ears 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

It does not set out to be a definitive study, more a set of musings. Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z

Mr. Carlson, the chief correspondent for Business Insider, a website that covers technology and finance, doesn’t waste words lingering over details or musing on bigger themes — leadership, technology, the nature of innovation. ‘Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!’ by Nicholas Carlson 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

“L.A. at that time must have been like Paris at the turn of the century,” mused book club member Aida Jones as a three-tiered fountain gurgled from the other end of a spacious patio. Reading 'Brave New World' in Aldous Huxley's former home 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

However, Otowa is also able to muse on how she has contributed to rural life, and how locals may revise their perceptions of "the foreigner", if only a little. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

He says he chose to pursue his theatrical muse in Taiwan because the environment for theater there was more vibrant and welcoming in the 1980s than in the U.S. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z

“She has the smarts to know just what to do with her inspiration and her musings if they are to be accessible to mainstream audiences.” Anne Meara Remembered, Through Reviews and Twitter 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Like Maisie, Fine’s story is a barely restrained, careful musing on female desire, loneliness and hereditary inheritances. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

There is an online store that sells $1,000 worth of T-shirts and mugs a week, he said, and a book — the philosophical musings of Henri — due from a Random House imprint. Internet Cat Video Film Festival, at Walker Art Center 2012-08-31T19:55:50Z

I like to imagine all these years later it’s still circulating, reaching all the places Morris mused about in its pages. World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

“The world needs more poets!” proclaims Matt, who tends to quote the likes of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost in his musings. ‘Poets’ at Book-It: an Everyman’s hilarious downward spiral 2013-06-14T04:08:58Z

There is a lovely passage in “Hotel Savoy” in which Gabriel Dan muses on this architectural paradox: The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z

But when a muse wants rights, as Thurman did when she challenged Tarantino and Weinstein by asking for footage of that crash, it ended in rows. From Tippi Hedren to Uma Thurman, being a muse means being abused 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Starting when her children were toddlers, Glennon Doyle sent daily email musings about recovery, faith, parenting and marriage to a handful of close friends. A Third Glennon Doyle Memoir? Yes, and Here’s Why 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Calling itself the “anti-fair for independent artists,” CLIO, founded in 2014, derives its name from the Greek mythological muse of history, Kleio — the root of which means “to celebrate” or “to make famous.” 3 Browsers’ Delights Among the Art Fairs in NYC 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

“One day,” he muses, with prophetic accuracy, “the black will swallow the red.” On the London Stage: A Pained Artist Inveighs Against Nature 2009-12-16T22:41:00Z

He dug in with feigned relish, musing that it might taste better with some worms. Red Carpet Spy 2010-09-24T19:40:00Z

These academic musings are found in “The Origins of Cool in Postwar America,” by Joel Dinerstein, an English professor at Tulane University. Boldly Saddling Up 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Jane made a reputation out of being a sort of resident literary muse; Tennessee Williams, who visited a number of times, hailed her as “the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters.” The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

But his road to the top was paved with the help of Yams, who is a spirit guide, a muse, a curator of sonic ideas. ASAP Yams, Partner to Hip-Hop’s ASAP Rocky 2013-01-25T13:00:00Z

Ultimately, though, the sisters recovered their momentum by returning to their own muses and inviting the crowd to behold the worlds — of the past, of the future — that live inside their songs. Ibeyi capitvates 9:30 Club with songs that touch both the past and the future 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

He sits down on a bench and starts musing about the husband, the “loneliest man on the planet.” Love is a wound, or something like that, in Haruki Murakami's new collection, 'Men Without Women' 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Later, as his voice plummeted down to a near-monotone bass register, he used the voices of women — as angels, consorts, muses, ghosts — to provide melodies around him. An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

He picked up a jean jacket from the new collection and mused, “This could be the baked beans.” New York Fashion Week: New York Fashion Week: Duckie Brown — Daniel Silver and Steven Cox — for Perry Ellis 2012-09-05T18:53:00Z

“If all this sounds rather overprincipled,” he muses of himself at one point, “then it probably was.” For hire: the former royal hangers-on who are hounding Meghan 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

At Poet’s Bridge, we crossed a concrete span inscribed with the musings of local writers such as Harry Fagel, a lieutenant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Zappos’s CEO is helping revitalize downtown Las Vegas. He took me on a whirlwind tour. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

“What did they wear before?” she mused from the store’s lower level café, days after the unveiling of Mr. Tisci’s Nike sneakers prompted a line that snaked onto the sidewalk. From Humble Sneaker to Luxury Icon 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

A model who’s look was inspired by Mr. Formichetti’s muse for the show Rick Genest, known as Rico, whose body is covered in skeletal tattoos. On the Runway: Rethinking the Mugler Man 2011-01-20T00:29:52Z

She mused about marriage equality and her sense of responsibility to make the relationship work. Review: Ann Hampton Callaway Hits Redial in ‘On My Way to You’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

"Please Give" is Holofcener's fourth film, following "Walking and Talking," "Lovely & Amazing" and "Friends with Money" — all thoughtful ensemble comedies about grown-up women's lives, all of which feature Holofcener's muse and friend, Catherine Keener. New York realities inspire director Nicole Holofcener 2010-06-16T23:41:00Z

A gentle rock album that hints at the work of Nick Drake and Elliott Smith, "Carrie & Lowell" highlights an artist who explores regret and loss, who uses his muse as a tool for mourning. Essential albums of 2015: Bjork, Kendrick and 8 others on the edge of pop 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

In those March days, among the Tuscan hills, I mused much on the question of what it is to be a writer, and why I became one in the first place. John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black 2011-07-22T21:55:11Z

It tells the story of four male friends in Paris and their personal musings. Unbearable lightness 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

I must not be up on my Coppola style points, because I didn’t sense a particular muse glow. On the Runway: The Resort Shows: Artists and Rebels 2011-06-08T20:08:33Z

“I think Pope Francis should tell the vegans to keep their money and accept the challenge if they agree to say a rosary a day throughout Lent,” another cynic mused. Vegan group offers Pope Francis $1 million to go vegan for Lent 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

“I don’t know how much interest I have beyond that. I want to be playing in the J.F.K. world. He’s my muse.” A Little Old, a Little New for the Four Seasons Space 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Pike paged through back copies of Vanity Fair and looked for video of the young woman who was to be her muse but ultimately found Bessette-Kennedy hard to know. Her 'fantasy characters' can obscure the real Rosamund Pike 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

“It’s not just an intellectual musing, and it’s not really about media culture. It’s a personal — and personally political — pursuit for her.” Leslie Hewitt Dives Deep Into the Civil Rights Movement 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Clinton is not the only muse shaping the new fall season of course. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Perhaps writers court catastrophe; maybe mortality is Tom’s true muse. The Woman in the Fifth: L'amour and la mort in Paris 2012-06-14T17:45:32Z

Galeano chronicles events and anniversaries from the history of oppressed nations, adding the odd dash of fictional fun and philosophical musing. Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano – review 2013-05-17T10:46:43Z

Eventually, the violin plays scratchy musings, as consoling strings cushion the soloist with mysterious harmonies. National Youth Orchestra Flexes Its Muscles at Carnegie Hall 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Noxon and the rest of the writers and editors pour a style into it that reflects Plum’s fun-house mirror of an existence, one frequently invaded by daydreams and wild musings. Unpacking the violent desserts of AMC's "Dietland" 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

Pugh, following her muse, improvised a Yorkshire accent for the part. Florence Pugh’s True Hollywood Fairy Tale 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

“The first thing out of his mouth,” she muses, “would have been, ‘What are you going to wear?’ Carmen de Lavallade is 86 and still the best dancer in the room 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

"We've all got a messy, loud, weird part of ourselves hidden away," she muses at the end of the film. The best and absolute worst onscreen first periods, from "Carrie" to "Turning Red" 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Such international recognition was a new experience for Crawford, who had won an Oscar but had trouble being taken seriously as an actress, let alone as an international art-film muse, nonetheless. The Front Row: “Autumn Leaves” 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Lyrically, “Remain in Light” runs to slippery, often nonsensical stream of consciousness style musings that sometimes descend into paranoia or despair. How Angelique Kidjo’s love of a Talking Heads classic turned into one of the year’s most vibrant albums 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

It is more than a research bank; it’s a muse. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

And, like the book Alexander, the movie Alexander doesn’t quite resemble his muse. His namesake had a terrible, horrible day, but Alexander Viorst is doing just fine

Even Quentin Tarantino has publicly mused about “The Hateful Eight” onstage. Plays Coming Soon From a Movie Screen Near You 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

BOLOGNA, Italy — The artist Christian Boltanski sat on a bench in a Bologna museum facing one of the 20 works he had allocated throughout this city and mused on a favorite theme: mortality. Christian Boltanski Project Touches Bologna’s Traumas, and His Own 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

With Marie as muse the only link between the worlds of the ballet and the studio, his story line becomes secondary, with the painter disappearing for significant portions of the show. ‘Little Dancer,’ With Tiler Peck as Degas Muse 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Of course, the Skywalker Saga never called attention to that part, preferring to mesmerize children and the young at heart with philosophical musings about not giving into hate and lifting boulders with focused thought. There's no hiding from it: The politics of "Andor" look a lot like the type troubling our world 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

His adoring parents allowed him to follow his muse, even as two older brothers trod the expected path from Harvard College to law to positions of national leadership. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Her starting point for this restless, pulsating work was Sizewell power station in Suffolk and a line from a poem by Dora Maar Picasso's tearful muse: "the hummingbird motionless as a star". National Youth Orchestra; BBC Proms – review 2012-08-04T23:06:13Z

He is the misanthropic muse whose sole pleasures in life, aside from nicotine consumption, are plaid shirts, sex and a stiff drink. The Legacy of Robert Loughlin, Artist Behind ‘The Brute’ 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

The group is led by Urania, the muse of astronomy, wearing a Zodiac-inspired skirt. Motor City exhibition ‘Dance’ shows how motion has long inspired American art 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

I have mused before that clearing could be the wake-up call some teenagers need, but that doesn't mean I think their poor parents should have to go through it. What's up, you posh boys, can't you take a joke? 2012-08-18T23:06:40Z

There is also a sign-up for a monthly email with class info, along with musings on dance. So I Thought I Couldn’t Dance 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

The show presents Gala as someone willing to play the secondary role of muse and model, but also eager to forge her own path as an artist. Gala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The show left you musing on how far away — and how musically restrained and lyrically well mannered — that supposedly golden era really is. Music Review: Tunes for the Swank Who?d Rather Cha-Cha 2011-05-01T21:16:05Z

Billy Name, who became Warhol’s lover, muse and court photographer, leaving behind a monumental visual record of the 1960s art world in and around the Silver Factory, died in Poughkeepsie on Monday at 76. Billy Name, Who Glazed Warhol’s Factory in Silver, Dies at 76 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

More than usual, ’s show, at the Opéra Comique, was an ode to beautiful women who serve as muses. Fashion Review: Rushes of Excitement, Sometimes Deserved 2010-10-04T23:38:00Z

Before he became a novelist Lawton wrote and produced for British television and counts as a muse Stephen Bochco, the creator of "Hill Street Blues." John Lawton, British mystery writer, talks about 'A Lily of the Field' and Inspector Troy 2010-10-15T20:57:00Z

The judge sided with jurors in dismissing Oduwole's claim he was an aspiring rapper, and that the threatening words were innocent lyrical musings. Ex-SIU student sentenced for campus threat 2011-12-21T16:54:00Z

That would have been the beginning of a decent, possibly instructive memoir, or at least something beyond these sleepy musings. The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The detached tone of his captions reads like the musings of a visitor from another planet. Artist Takuichi Fujii’s depiction of internment camp experience compelling as both art and history 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Eternal muse Marc Chagall’s ‘‘Madonna of the Village.’’ T Magazine: Immaculate Perception 2010-12-05T23:00:00Z

It was, she explained to the audience, about the pact she had made with the poetry muse — the “you” in the poem was poetry itself. Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

As its title indicates, the poem is a kind of journal of the speaker’s nighttime musings: Poetry Podcast: Jennifer Michael Hecht Reads Lucie Brock-Broido 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show and you're in production and an outline is due, a script is due and a reshoot is due. 'Fargo' mastermind Noah Hawley makes stranger-than-fiction real 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Yet this was a performance that highlighted the music’s Romantic musings, poetic lyricism and fanciful flights. Music Review: St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Denis Kozhukhin Perform 2014-02-14T22:30:29Z

There is no reciprocity involved; Mary is his mirror and muse, her own desires irrelevant. In her inventive novel 'The Answers,' Catherine Lacey experiments with the components of love 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

They were the backdrop to her mutable voice, changing from dreamlike musings to moans and shrieks as she plunged into memories and sensations: “I wish that every time you touched me left a mark.” ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Wild Girls in Control 2012-06-08T00:45:55Z

Cher Horowitz mused in the opening montage of “Clueless,” laughing with friends in her Jeep Wrangler and splurging at Tiffany’s on Rodeo Drive. ‘Do Revenge’: Paying Homage to Teen Classics by Way of Hitchcock 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

“I must know,” she muses, “whether America is right or wrong.” Henry Adams’s 1880 Novel, ‘Democracy,’ Resonates Now More Than Ever 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Over time, the landscape of Palma and its surroundings would prove to be among Miró’s most consistent muses. In Spain, Mir??s Majorca 2011-07-15T18:55:00Z

Despite its futuristic musings, the film’s greatest weakness is its approach to the stowaway. ‘Stowaway’ Review: An Outer-Space Drama, Lacking Gravity 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Such windy philosophical musings lend this novel a decidedly lugubrious tone and hobble the story of Fan’s search for Reg. Books of The Times: ‘On Such a Full Sea,’ Chang-rae Lee’s Tale of Dystopia 2014-01-13T20:24:34Z

Songs from “Old Yellow Moon,” like the gentle waltz of the title track and Matraca Berg’s “Back When We Were Beautiful,” muse on the passage of time. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The architectural historian mused on whether it would next pass to "the electricity board, the coal board, a lunatic asylum, a convent, school, a sanatorium or a museum?" Why Alan Bennett is wrong about the National Trust 2012-11-21T19:00:01Z

“I always wonder how you manage to get these straight boys,” Pepe mused. ‘I thought, OK, he goes for drunk guys’: friends and flatmates on the Reynhard Sinaga they knew 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

“There’s something about wood that needs to be exercised, like your muscles, a little bit,” he mused. At Baltimore Symphony, a Cello and a Violin Make More Than Music 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Though the trip to Pondicherry is intended to be inspiring, his interactions with the students sound like the musings of a privileged Westerner. Rajiv Surendra traveled from ‘Mean Girls’ to chalk artist 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

But so are many of the other stories, articles and profiles in this book, from travelogues for big magazines to smaller musings on life in Aspen. New books by dead authors 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

In an extended greeting a soprano and a tenor representing the main characters muse on the planets and moons of the solar system, accompanied by melodic fragments that rotate among 29 instruments. An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

"How strange my make-up is," he once mused. David McKie's top 10 eccentrics in literature 2011-03-02T11:31:07Z

“People probably need it right now,” he mused. Coronavirus lockdown: Photo of son visiting elderly father through window goes viral on Facebook 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Rendered more literarily, the question is, “Who is your writing muse?” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: An ode to my muse 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

What was supposed to be a repository for musings on future films instead became an alternating chronicle of their personal lives. Two Filmmakers Write Their Own Love Story 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

It’s also a successful example of social media literature, due in part to Duchess’s voice, which requires readers to confront the ridiculousness of the entire premise alongside the sincerity of her musings. Duchess Goldblatt Is a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Twitter Account 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

"Some people can't be saved," muses one of the last lines. The Antlers' kiss of death 2010-05-13T21:50:00Z

When the host asked Ms. Fox if she would consider herself Mr. West’s muse, she responded: “Yeah! A little, maybe. I mean, I was Josh Safdie’s muse when he wrote ‘Uncut Gems.’” Julia Fox Will Come for You 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

“We got a lot of things wrong but we got a lot of things right,” Anne muses near the end of the book. ‘The Illuminations,’ by Andrew O’Hagan 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Stone again meets her fertile linen muse in a fine extended meditation on ants, the universe and Albert Einstein – as well as bedsheets. Poem of the week: Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry by Ruth Stone 2011-08-01T09:17:06Z

That show found its muse in producer Karl Pilkington, a laconic sad sack who quickly became the centerpiece of the show. 2010-02-17T07:39:00Z

Explaining that many of his short-term flings have resolved into lifelong friendships, he muses, “What is a dalliance but an alliance that begins with a big D?!” Alan Cumming Took Ecstasy to Quell His Nerves on Tony Night, ‘and It Worked’ 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

His musings on fatherhood, in appropriately short, new-parent appropriate bursts, follow. Motherlode Blog: Meditations from the Dad in the Minivan 2012-08-12T01:27:33Z

A particular highlight is Agnès Varda, whose gentle demeanor and thoughtful musings on the artistic impulse are both pleasing and provocative. 'Great Directors': Lights, camera, action on 10 filmmaker interviews 2010-08-05T20:31:00Z

The clue came in his earlier meandered musings to her about what he might do after these seven years of Olympic and divorce hell. Rewind TV: Bert and Dickie; Amy Winehouse – The Day She Came to Dingle; Absolutely Fabulous; Line of Duty; Twenty Twelve 2012-07-28T23:06:01Z

Allen received the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement and Diane Keaton, his onetime muse, his Annie Hall, was there to accept on his behalf. Compartmentalizing Woody Allen: What America chooses not to see 2014-02-02T17:46:00Z

A week ago I wrapped up my coverage of the New York shows musing about a Gatsby element in some of the hats and crepe de Chine, not really taking it seriously. On the Runway Blog: Gucci's New Deco: Hard Going 2011-09-21T18:05:57Z

"The nag factor is what drives those kind of movies," a studio executive mused, a bit indelicately. Family flicks firing up summer box office 2010-07-13T05:31:00Z

Hanson creates a lengthy pastiche of abstracted video images, documentary dialogue and audiotape, music, poetry, choreographed movement, monologues, musings by Anton Chekhov and W.H. Art ponders violence in new Dayna Hanson piece 2013-12-07T22:19:07Z

His audience absorbed each new musing and meter raptly, approving with a roar. Music Review: Steven Wilson at the Best Buy Theater 2013-04-28T21:00:18Z

To cope with her anxiety, Arnold, now 47, consulted nearly every therapist, muse and wacky alternative medicine provider in Santa Fe, where she lives. Review | How running helped a young mother cope with grief 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

From the outside, the ups and downs of Starlite’s career — including the six years between his first album and his second, “Farewell, Starlite!” — had seemed to fit a familiar script: tortured artist, capricious muse. Francis and the Lights, Pop Star Interrupted 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

"I'll be honest with you, I considered myself a legend before I did this," he mused. Teen's bathrobe-clad senior year photos go viral, though his mom is 'very unhappy' with pics 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

“I guess we’ll see when the reviews come back,” she mused. Can a fraternity guy fight the college rape crisis? One is trying to help. 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

And I think if we ourselves as writers get out of the way and let the flow happen and not get uptight about it, so to speak, the muses will carry us along. ArtsBeat Blog: John Williams Lets His Muses Carry Him Along 2011-08-19T11:00:56Z

A divine and brutal mansion on the Norfolk coast where she lives with her third husband, it is elevated further by Cusk’s musings on property. Fallen out with the neighbours? Time to build a ‘spite house’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

“The statistics may be way off,” she muses. ‘Suffering is nothing to be afraid of’: Jennifer Fox on turning her childhood abuse into devastating drama 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

"It feels rather late in life to be meeting one's brother-in-law," he mused. Evening Standard theatre awards: the red-carpet report 2012-11-26T17:00:11Z

It’s also worth noting that in this interpretation, Him is vain and enjoys being worshipped, even when it means his muse is abused in the process. Explaining the Many References in the Movie 'mother!' 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Back at the Grand Palais, the final rooms of the exhibition turn to darker musings on mortality. Art: Bill Viola: A Journey of Emotions 2014-03-11T12:20:01Z

Thanks to Rutledge's soulful musings, Todd's books walk a fine line between sadness and eternal hope. Start the year in crime with Agatha Christie's children 2011-01-06T00:05:04Z

“Somewhere in my youth or childhood,” the lyrics muse. Review: A Side of Richard Rodgers Not Often Seen 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

In between, she shared musings on life, style and the pursuit of happiness. T Magazine: American Icon Iris Apfel on Individualism, Freedom of Expression and Great Style 2013-12-31T19:51:01Z

“It could have been paradise,” Marcelo’s lover muses, “but for the fact that I was unable to forget that I was embracing a man who was constantly fleeing, a man determined to dismantle himself.” Review | In ‘The Heart and Other Viscera,’ Félix J. Palma turns mundane moments into spellbinding tales 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Until then, the writer and his muse mash fiction and reality into desiccated scenes that fall flatter than the aforementioned song. Movie Review: ‘The Yakuza and the Mermaid,’ by Chris Benker 2012-09-27T22:38:21Z

When she married Panero, after the war, it was in part because she loved the idea of being his muse. The Poet Family Who Were Icons of Spanish Nationalism 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Rather than merely avoiding clichés—about love and intimacy, artist and muse, public and private­—the picture seems to repel them, as an amulet repels evil spirits. The Most Intimate Photograph 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

“I have 12 bottles of ’67 Château d’Yquem,” muses Burrows, surveying a row of honey-colored Sauternes that seem to blush in the fluorescence of the Flavin sculpture. James Burrows 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z

After the recession started, a hard-edged chick was the obvious muse. Bold looks at NY Fashion Week turn up the volume 2012-09-13T20:16:13Z

Chuck, musing in his Shakespearean way, asks when reflecting on the troubled yet inordinately bright life of Leonard: "Is there anything in this world more unexpected than a human being?" 'The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey' shines with humanity 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

“The real issue is: What happens if there’s a next Great Recession, if 2008-2009 revisits us?” he mused. Art Basel Miami Beach: Cracks in the Glittering Facade 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

“Ultimately, perhaps it is good that the people abandoned jazz, replaced it with musical products better suited to capitalism’s designs,” he muses. Best Jazz Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

The plot is desultory; what occurs is talk, plus copious inner musings about family relationships. Home for the Holidays, for Better or Worse 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Lange is both star and muse for AHS, which has used her over and again as a glamorous, tragic villain. REVIEW: Freaks and Shrieks on American Horror Story: Freak Show 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Something to — well — muse on, the morning after. The CFDA Awards: Winners, Surprises, Speeches and Clothes 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

The script hopscotches around freely, dispensing with both chronology and linear logic, as Ms. Bocanegra muses on her youth, her life as an artist and any number of other subjects. Theater Review: ‘Bodycast,’ at BAM, With a Lecturing Frances McDormand 2013-12-04T19:14:04Z

They “literally risked their lives in dizzying, nearly suicidal descents,” Moreau muses. Review | Looking for a summer thriller? Here are 9 picks for your beach bag. 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Keep your rucksack light, your muse close by. My partner didn't want children. I did. Then I got pregnant... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

The woman I discovered was certainly much more than a muse. The surrealist muses who roared 2010-06-18T07:34:00Z

Driving around the city she mused about whether House rules will let her hang sparkly drapes in her office. Cori Bush marched on the streets in Ferguson. Now she’s about to take her seat in Congress. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

If the marriage had worked, she would never have written books, she mused later. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z

An emotional Mr. Treacy spoke of his first contact with the auction house when he went with his muse, the late Isabella Blow, to buy Marilyn Monroe’s false eyelashes. Treacy's Thriller 2012-09-16T20:27:35Z

"As parents, I think it’s important to keep a sense of humor while raising a baby," he mused. Man makes 'beer bong' to help baby daughter drink more formula 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

A third was the muse of Alexander McQueen, the kind of figure whose American equivalent — perhaps Sofia Coppola, Marc Jacobs’ muse? — would likely never touch reality television. Reality TV takes on the royal family — with ludicrous, drunken results 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Marmite was first marketed as a health food, she muses. Theo's Adventure Capitalists, Luther and The Story of Science 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z

Most recently, that work has been One Day I'm Going To Soar, the 2012 album that found Rowland musing on love, his own brilliance, and how hard it is to reconcile the two. This week's new live music 2013-04-13T05:00:13Z

As a guest at Debbie’s Halloween party muses, “Everything in the universe just repeats itself, it just keeps repeating.” ‘The Essential Straight & Narrow’ Plays With Time 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Lizzo and her dancers perform their choreography atop classical columns, positioning themselves as the muses – an allusion, perhaps, to the Black muses in Disney's animated film "Hercules." In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

But as he grows up, Dobson mused, perhaps Atlas won’t think anything of the masks that show up here and there in his baby pictures. Conceived in a pandemic, born in a pandemic: The first quarantine babies are arriving 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

That understanding came partly from the fact that his wife, Carolyn Bailey, was an operatic soprano of considerable talent who served as her husband’s critic, adviser, and muse. The Elegant Musical Vessels of Dominick Argento 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Her musings on the condition of womanhood and the failings of conventional feminism are emphatic, to be sure. ‘Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over’ Review: A Punk Provocateur Endures 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

The guitarist died at age 70 on Wednesday in Zurich, Switzerland, during a European tour, a passing that confirms a musician dedicated to exploring his muse until the end. Johnny Winter, longtime ambassador of Texas blues, dies at 70 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Unlike books that look at muses or author's friendships, it doesn't simply consider a pair of creative figures. Joshua Wolf Shenk argues for the dynamism of duos in 'Powers of Two' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Since then, the district and its muse appear to have outgrown each other. Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’ 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

When Mr. Yang grabbed Mikey Day’s crotch in a skit with J-Lo, the deadpan Mr. Michaels mused to himself, “Oh, we just did that on television. And it was really funny.” Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

The father-daughter trip soon becomes a springboard for musings on the brutalities of colonialism, including crimes committed under the guise of botany, exploration and religion. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

EVB’s portraits of his wife, in which she’s the muse and radiant queen, often wearing a crown, her eyes drifting up as if to another world, are projected in one room. Rescuing Artists of Vision 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

“Sometimes I think I was at my best when the world seemed to be at its worst,” Emily muses. Review: ‘Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands,’ by Chris Bohjalian

He identifies with her as a muse and a “sister.” About That Ouija Board: How Langdon Hammer Summoned a Poet’s Spirit 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Noting that he was performing this repertory for the first time without Montserrat Figueras, his wife, musical partner and muse, who died last November, he said, “She is still with us.” Music Review: Jordi Savall’s ‘Orient-Occident’ at Metropolitan Museum 2012-06-14T21:18:32Z

As he muses, Gutfeld leans back in a lounge chair wearing sweatpants with his back to the soaring glass walls that frame a breathtaking, wooded view. Greg Gutfeld has risen to the top at Fox News — and that’s no joke 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

The muse Melpomene was represented many times in Roman art and Sotheby’s specimen suffered extensive damage. Auctions: Roman History Leaves a Trail, and Fascination Follows 2011-06-17T11:30:06Z

“Old Ideas” is an autumnal album, musing on memories and final reckonings, but it also has a gleam in its eye. Arts & Leisure: Leonard Cohen Reckons With God in ?Old Ideas? 2012-01-27T16:00:00Z

A client asked for a reproduction, with some modifications: He wanted a round version of the original square, and rather than two muses asked for three — representing the faces of his daughters. These Custom Designs Are Anything but Customary 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Sokolow, who died in 2000, was a former Martha Graham dancer known for dark musings on the Holocaust and alienation in urban society. A timely view of Mexican art and identity in vintage works by Anna Sokolow 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Lady Campbell, an aristocratic Irishwoman, was also a muse of George Bernard Shaw, and in “Sixteen Self-Sketches” he quotes a newspaper gossip item that is still strangely satisfying 125 years later. | A History of Gossip 2010-12-07T16:00:00Z

When the waiter brought us our bottle of wine we filled our glasses to the brim, mused about the end of an era, and raised a toast: “To divorce!” My gay green card marriage 2013-04-17T00:00:00Z

Yet rather than documenting works-in-progress, or literary musings, the diaries dwell on William's most intimate worries and encounters, with a raw emphasis on the sexual, flagged by the term "the nightingales sang". The strange allure of Tennessee Williams's Notebooks 2011-03-25T11:20:11Z

“I don’t understand why we plan so . . . wonderfully and elaborately for birth,” the character Abe muses, “and yet, so appallingly and haphazardly for death.” Jake Gyllenhaal hopes hearing ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ is like ‘a phone call with a friend’ 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

"It's quite a lonely job, DJing," he muses. Blake's progress 2011-01-22T00:05:04Z

At the centre is Godard’s then wife and 1960s muse, the utterly beguiling Anna Karina, who takes up with two criminals who plan to rob her rich employer. Jean-Luc Godard: a beginner's guide 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

This was followed by Room Temperature, in which Baker muses about the quirks of physics while feeding a bottle of evaporated milk to his infant daughter. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z

On Sunday, Donald Trump Jr. then took to Twitter to muse, “I wonder how much of this ‘art’ is funded by taxpayers? Delta and Bank of America take brave stand against free Shakespeare 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s easier to face up to a father’s death if you diminish him first,” he muses. ‘All the Dead Yale Men’: a family’s legacy of troubles 2013-07-05T16:43:42Z

“Why does this guy want to come and direct this play about women having children?” he mused. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z

"This café of yours has been going for about two years now, God help us," the Community Cop interrupted my musings. The Birthday Party and the Airman by ?ukasz D?bski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 2011-04-08T10:22:00Z

Stewart then mused that if Woolsey had not given the club ruff and they had lost the event, someone might have asked why he did not physically hit Woolsey over the head! Bridge: The Spring Nationals in Memphis Are Decided 2012-03-30T22:15:28Z

“He was totally a muse to her,” said Mr. Seville, who said that he accompanied the couple on one of their first dates. Rocking on His Own, Lady Gaga?s Ex 2012-03-07T20:50:25Z

They were, in fact, the muses who roared. The surrealist muses who roared 2010-06-18T07:34:00Z

Friends from other disciplines — a blacksmith, a potter, a painter, a cabinetmaker — join the musicians onstage and perform the tasks of their trades, acting as both muses and collaborators. Critic’s Notebook: So Percussion’s ‘Where (we) Live’ Has Echoes of John Cage 2012-12-18T23:05:51Z

On the surface, the segue may have seemed odd: "Space Oddity" is slower and brooding, the melancholy musings of an astronaut hopelessly lost in space, not an upbeat celebration. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

If you see a female muse, you immediately assume the director and the muse will be lovers. In ‘Losing Alice,’ Ayelet Zurer Burns It All Down 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

His own Oscar ceremony was a whirlwind experience — “I can’t believe it’s been two years already,” Bong mused — but he declined to offer advice to Hamaguchi on how to navigate the night. Bong Joon Ho and Ryusuke Hamaguchi on Oscar Surprise ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Rebecca Mead’s “Precarious Beauty” details the outré style and sartorial flamboyance of the fashion muse Daphne Guinness. Style Files 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Apollo dances his second solo after each muse has shown him what she knows. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

For three days the attendees wander the exhibit halls, mingling, promoting books, listening to speakers and collectively musing over the state of the industry over the past year. E-Business Is the Buzz at Book Fair 2011-05-25T22:52:19Z

“A routine creates a landing place for the muse.” Arianna Huffington on a Book About Working Less, Resting More 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Jones cheered for Team USA and expressed her musings at some of the sports as she watched the games play out on TV and computer screens from home. If You're Not Watching the Olympics With Leslie Jones, You're Doing It Wrong 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

Iribe, a French illustrator and designer, is known for his Art Nouveau aesthetic and his relationship with Coco Chanel, whom he considered his muse. A Paul Iribe Commode Is on the Block 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

What Mr. Cave fears most, he muses to the doctor, is losing his memory. In ‘20,000 Days on Earth,’ Nick Cave Is on the Move 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

She brimmed with humor and intelligence, and I could imagine her, in another era, as a muse for the likes of Noël Coward. How Helen McCrory Shone, Even in a Haze of Mystery 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

“People are now going to Meghan as a style muse...She crashes sites.” "Style muse": Meghan's rise to a royal fashionista 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

She might swerve into detailed exposition of past events, but she quickly slingshots back to her more whimsical, inspired musings. World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

She’s taken care to include women of diverse shapes and backgrounds among her “muses”—to the extent that that’s possible while also pleasing corporate clients. The Female Gaze of Petra Collins 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

She and I often discuss the remarks we hear — from musings about how Asian or white she appears, to well-meaning but misguided comments praising her “blended” features. Motherlode Blog: ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ 2013-08-19T17:26:39Z

Clearly, my breakfast musing tapped into a universal human experience. Internet addiction: a trend piece 2011-03-28T12:28:00Z

With Elsa Schiaparelli as his muse, the designer crafted a collection that mixed a surreal chevron-striped animal fur print with the real thing. Special Report: Fashion: Taking It Out West 2011-02-28T18:43:44Z

Things get vastly more obscure from there, with Stein musing on identity — or lack thereof — through continual comparisons between man and dog. Review: Interpreting Gertrude Stein in ‘Composition ... Master-Pieces ... Identity’ 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

“Who wrote the book of love?,” the Monotones once mused. ‘Book of Love’ Review: Lust (Eventually) in Translation 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

David Winkler evoked the Romantic era with the big chords and rhapsodic musings of his appealing “Venti,” which received its premiere here. Music Review: Bargemusic, With the Pianists Olga Vinokur and David Kalhous 2012-02-21T22:52:30Z

The schoolgirl would be replaced a decade later by “Sarah II”: Sarah Brightman, who became his “Phantom” muse and star. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber sings a happy tune in his memoir, ‘Unmasked’ 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

In the dedication, he wrote that he related the fairy to Tchaikovsky’s muse, “for the Muse similarly marked him with her fatal kiss.” Revisiting ‘The Fairy’s Kiss,’ a Ballet About an Artist’s Destiny 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

The sonatas were, in her reading at the time, intimate, private musings that were made public but didn’t seem as if they needed to be. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Her essay stimulated my own musings about gender identification. All Twisted Up by Gender Bending 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

“Why not mark the asphalt with street games?” she mused. Building Public Places for a Covid World 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

There, snuggly positioned between various musings on queer culture and biographies of Harvey Milk, I spotted a very plain, very thin grey book: Gay Semiotics by Hal Fischer. Queer art pushes boundaries: why I made my explicit gay porn music video | Brendan Maclean 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Above all, there were the marvels of Italian masque scenery: Apollo in his chariot, dancers evoking the waves upon the oceans, the muse of Music herself descending from Parnassus on a trick cloud. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Her work on Clotho, fearful anthem to ruthless Fate, exhausts her mental state completely”; “In his work of sacrifice, the sculptor wins the eternal life of an artist, bound with his muse for eternity.” Dance Review: Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg at City Center 2012-03-11T21:20:48Z

The long break that again followed, he said, was the result of an intensive creative process, which is dependent on “living a life” — romantic relationships remain Maxwell’s muse — and escaping expectations. Maxwell Is on His Own Timetable 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Titled “Projector,” it’s packed with spiny guitar riffs, angsty, psychedelic musings and plenty of indulgent instrumental breaks. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

He mused on crispness — “the water in the lettuce” as a necessary element in a good salad, and frites whose perfection arises from “nothing but potatoes, oil and salt.” Daniel Rose, an American in Paris, Comes Home to Cook 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Her musings are interrupted by Leukippos, a shepherd, Daphne’s childhood friend, who used to delight her with his flute playing. Review: In ‘Daphne,’ the Cleveland Orchestra Takes on a Difficult Strauss Opera 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Wearing a Jack Daniel's cap backwards, he soon homed in on "the poorest part of town" and cruised and mused on the lives of "drunk and armed folk" on crumbling porches. Fries with Matt Dillon 2013-05-18T22:30:00Z

Well, given baseball’s role as national muse, it’s not hard to uncover them, especially among the many classical musicians who are also baseball nuts. Music: Ballplayers Who Hit the Right Note 2011-06-24T19:50:28Z

A novelist and his muse meet once every year, leaving her to question whether his motives are for love or commercial success. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

“Floating through the East Village, she was a muse waiting to happen.” Review: In ‘Dear Mr. You,’ Mary-Louise Parker Writes to Men, With Lust and Rue 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Feiffer mused on Friday that “A Hot Property” was not autobiographical. Judy Feiffer, Who Helped Develop Two Top Memoirs, Dies at 87 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The result is a salmagundi of boilerplate #MeToo musings, wannabe bad girl confessions and elliptical woo-speak dressed up as deep thoughts, at which Woolf is exceptionally adept. It’s the End of Marriage as They Know It and They Feel Fine 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

Then Stella McCartney put 50 shades of nature on the runway and made mushrooms her muse. Stella McCartney Does Mushrooms in Paris 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Yet his karmic musings on samsara – the Buddhist concept of "continuous flow" – become an excuse for some extremely loose and self-indulgent writing. Dirt by David Vann - review 2012-06-22T21:55:03Z

I’m lost in these musings, shuffling uphill and staring at the ground, when I almost run into Dav. In the Colorado Rockies, going to extremes with legendary skier Chris Davenport 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Two colorful produce items that looked especially fresh and bountiful at my market recently, golden beets and plump red raspberries, constituted the perfect muse for this one. Warm cheese toast with my lunchtime salad, please. And make it healthful. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

While likening a legitimate "everything" bagel to all-encompassing nihilism is a conversation for another day, Jobu's musings got me thinking about the everything bagel, the seasoning itself and its "lore," if you will. 12 unique uses for Trader Joe's cult-favorite everything bagel seasoning 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

But to Mr Brownlow, his piano teacher and a would-be composer living alone with his Austrian refugee mother, the boy is a mixture of muse, playmate and object of desire. Review 2010-06-01T23:29:00Z

The second panel is a long frieze of muses surrounding a full-length depiction of the entombed, who is flanked by Hermes and Athena. Inside Art: A Marble Persephone From the Marquess 2011-05-26T22:25:26Z

It is more like a diverting reverie than a primal nightmare, something to be mused over rather than analyzed, something you may forget as soon as it’s over. | 'Inception': Decoding the Mind in Christopher Nolan?s Thriller 2010-07-15T15:57:00Z

His lyrics often describe events that defy physics and echo the cosmic musings of ’60s psychedelic rock, which leads people “to label Vile a spaced-out stoner,” as Pitchfork wrote. Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

He played with rich colorings and flair, and brought tenderness to the lyrical musings and vigor to the bursts of chords and dizzying passagework. Music Review: Hungarian Tradition, African Lilt 2011-05-27T23:00:24Z

As Frances labors on Nils’s project, she ponders her own paintings and pursues muses that might deepen her disengaged work. ‘The Sunlit Night’ Review: A Trip to the Arctic to Find Her Muse 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

He is the visionary artist recalling his life; she is the muse who becomes his angel of death: performances of superlative eloquence, marvelously economical but often imbued with sculptural power. Review: ‘Death and the Damsel,’ a Paul Taylor Premiere on Sex Trafficking 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

He then of course naturally mused, "Shouldn't contestants all appear in burkas?" Miss America’s #MeToo reboot: Can a former beauty pageant really evolve? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

She joined the Ailey company in 1965 and became the choreographer's muse, her dramatic power as a dancer epitomized in the unforgettable 1971 solo piece "Cry." Michelle Obama hosts first White House dance event 2010-09-07T18:05:00Z

He had only his ambition, his muse, his creative angels, and his abundant demons to keep him on track – and that was enough. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

When things like this happen, he muses, “the world lights up for you.” Ranjana and Naeem Khan's Miami Penthouse Is the Height of Style 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

And two years before that, Talitha Pol, the beautiful Dutch actress and muse of fashion designers who was married to John Paul Jr., had perished of a heroin overdose at 30. ‘Growing Up Getty’ Shakes the Dust Off a Family’s Aristocratic Name 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

Life can’t be easy as a former child star and muse of Michael Jackson. Macaulay Culkin spoofs Goop with ‘lifestyle’ site Bunny Ears 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Hollenbeck, a woodworker and restorer, spends each episode explaining historical millwork, joinery and other projects while also offering gravel-voiced musings on the family, ecosystems, bankruptcy and purpose. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

He kept a running tally of the hogs killed in a given year, mused about crop rotations, and noted the diet of the enslaved people there. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

He even mused that Bloomberg News would stop covering politics if he ran for president. Bloomberg, the news company, begins to ponder how to cover Bloomberg, the would-be candidate 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

“The real question is. Does this taste good?” one mused. What is 'donut cereal,' the latest Instagram recipe craze? 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Buzzing around her quiet musings, though, like a fly in the meditation room, is the largely unanswered question of what brought her to this point. An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Clarke also muses, "What was her first date like? Did he kill many of the dates she brought home?" 'Terminator: Genisys' has prejudgment day 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Then “Star Wars” happened — and though Lucas often mused about it, he never committed himself to the uncommercial world until now. George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z

The characters’ musings about regrets — life is imperfect, you see — seem superfluous, the byproducts of an overwritten screenplay. Review: Diamonds Are a Mighty Tease in ‘Imperfections,’ a Noir Set in Chicago 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

"The night is our muse … our canvas … our clay!" booms not-Grace, importantly. The new Smirnoff advert 2012-11-17T00:05:22Z

“She’s a diarist and novelist in her own right. Maybe she was a muse to Henry Miller when they were in Paris, but now she’s committed to her own work.” My mentor, Anaïs Nin 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

They are prime numbers, he muses, divisible only by the number one and by themselves, and the author elaborates the thought in a fashion that is both elegant abstraction and profound human portrayal. Books of The Times: Paolo Giordano?s ?Solitude of Prime Numbers?: Scarred Souls 2010-03-11T22:53:00Z

O’Reilly, the most popular figure in cable news, has publicly mused about retiring at the end of his contract next year. $20 million settlement and a host’s abrupt exit add to Fox’s summer of discontent 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

But he mused that sometimes the system “works too well”: “I think capitalism has its claws in our democratic societies in ways that has allowed it to overly optimize for its benefit.” Dara Khosrowshahi, Dad of Silicon Valley 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

O'Brien does not see herself as being in control of her muse. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z

And he mused rhetorically about what had changed the most for him since 2016. The long love affair between Fox News and Trump may be over. Here’s how it all soured last week. 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Over the phone from his home in Detroit, Mr. Brown, 35, was frank about relating to Mr. Curtis’s morose themes, though he punctuated some darker musings with his trademark giggle. Danny Brown Shows Respect for His Elders With ‘Atrocity Exhibition’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

“You think you know everything when you really know someone,” he mused. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Pop icon Lady Gaga's account ranks as Twitter's most followed, with her musings and inspirational messages reaching 32 million followers. A look at prolific Twitter accounts 2012-12-12T20:01:06Z

But Oliver's musing is so over-the-top with compelling images of babbling, devastated kids grieving his loss that it tells us, paradoxically, a lot about his powerful imagination and the thriving life force behind it. 'Submarine': Getting below the surface of a teen's life 2011-06-09T20:11:05Z

The dust of everyday life, as it were, simply provided him with a distant but generous muse. Music Review: Reggie Quinerly at Smoke 2012-12-07T21:17:04Z

She's doing such incredible things: not selling out, just following her muse. Schoolteachers of rock 2010-04-25T20:30:00Z

The incident may help explain why FDR later mused that MacArthur was the most dangerous man in America. Even Headstrong Generals Must Answer to Someone 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The film’s supposed musings and meanderings are channelled and narrow yet unfocussed, lacking both a true sense of complexity and freedom and the pointed precision of dialogue in classic Hollywood’s eccentric offshoots. “Destination Wedding,” Reviewed: Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves Suffer Through One of the Worst Sex Scenes in Recent Memory 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

In “B61,” named after a Brooklyn bus route, she recalls the beginnings of a romance but then muses, “How will I know if I’m the last one alive?” Aoife O’Donovan’s Songs Poured Out When Touring Shut Down 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

I became George’s muse when they needed someone sitting on something. | Q&A: Sitting Pretty on a Cult Classic 2012-11-07T23:51:47Z

She parses the semiotics of the sculpture’s wax, relating the material to death masks and embalmment, and muses on how “Little Dancer” reflects — and defies — our awareness of mortality. Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

“A watch thief, who with great stealth and cunning, disdaining silverware, jewelry, cameras, fine art, money, had made his way to the bedside and stolen my Timex wristwatch,” he muses. Review: ‘Nice Fish,’ Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins’s Quirky Ice Fishing Tale 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

“It could be hungry,” muses Sheila Hamilton Andrews, a cat behaviour expert. Claws out! Why cats are causing chaos and controversy across Britain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

The goodbye that Bryant envisaged in Dear Basketball was a natural progression to other things, and he mused on what his post-basketball career was going to bring him. Kobe Bryant's Dear Basketball: a love letter to a sport that is now a poignant epitaph 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Between bouts of assaulting his lovers, Nick muses about the efficacy of Alcoholics Anonymous, imagines he’s talking to Heraclitus, and stews about the rest of humanity. ‘Me Before You,’ by Jojo Moyes, and More 2012-12-26T20:50:12Z

He is a poet of puzzles and an auteur of ideas, and in his removed existential musings, he describes his characters’ pains and griefs dispassionately, as a means toward their intellectual awakening. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

Even with the most knowing interpreter, his hyperclever, verbose musings remain cryptic. Review: Karen Oberlin’s ‘His Aim Is True,’ a Tribute to Elvis Costello 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

Alicia becomes taken with his rustic, earthy aesthetic and decides she wants him for her muse. 'Chic!' takes on Paris' fashion world with heart, humor and style 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

“The question is, can I generate empathy for a character we don’t really want to empathize with?” muses dramatist Samuel D. Hunter. ‘A Great Wilderness’ has world premiere at Seattle Rep 2014-01-15T21:32:35Z

People don’t hang the muse label on the male actors who keep going back to the Allen trough. Emma Stone on Woody Allen, whitewashing and why Hollywood pairs her with older men 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

"They'd have to ban Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Oscar Wilde's poetry, half the Bible," he muses, an unhurried 67-year-old with an air of permanent amusement. 'Prison isn't high on my list of tragedies' 2013-05-27T17:30:00Z

Not only am I tutor, muse and model, but client, too. The great Grayson Perry frock competition 2013-07-08T04:59:02Z

We now know the content to be the musings of Bachelorette loser Nick Viall, who sported a face more sullen than guest star Grumpy Cat during Monday night’s three-hour season finale. The Bachelorette: Read the Letter Nick Wrote Andi to Win Her Back 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

“There’s something beautiful about this crisis that we’re all faced with,” she muses, “and that’s people’s desire all over the world to connect through cinema.” ‘Women's stories are seen as niche’: Eliza Hittman on her new film 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

“I know I’m not the person I was in high school,” she muses. Tavi Gevinson: A Power Teen's New Direction 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

“He’s really the muse of the whole thing. It’s almost like being at a party at Earl’s house: You don’t who you’re going to meet.” Earl McGrath Was a Character. His Closet Was Filled With Rare Recordings. 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

“Mixing of cultures to create new hybrids does entail loss. Grave loss,” Stern muses, citing a white nationalist who warns that “‘white European culture’ could indeed be eclipsed due to immigration and cultural mixing.” In ‘My War Criminal,’ the Bad Guy Controls the Conversation 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Perhaps, she mused, the reputation she got for being moody during the Spice era stuck. T Magazine: Victoria Beckham, Working Girl 2013-08-22T13:00:43Z

"It's strange that none of my kids are musically talented," he mused when asked about the family photographs. Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

And on the internet, hooks can seem to share the double-edged canonization of one of her childhood muses, Emily Dickinson, another radical woman writer whose words lend themselves to decontextualized poster-ready #inspo. The Wide-Angle Vision, and Legacy, of bell hooks 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

“Certainly he was an enemy of good taste, good manners, and good tailoring” Bertie muses. Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

"You'd never know it, but buddy I'm a kind of poet," Frank Sinatra tells his bartender as he muses on a failed romance. Readers recommend songs about pubs and bars: the results 2010-05-20T22:15:00Z

The idea of a muse as firing creativity is a romantic one, echoing through the arts. From Tippi Hedren to Uma Thurman, being a muse means being abused 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

“In my view, they took advantage of my drunken state, tampered with my food, and publically humiliated me. In their view, it was just a prank,” Veganthrowaway192847 mused. Vegan Reddit user calls police on friends who fed her chicken as a prank 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Sunderson, contemplating the recession, muses that someone should install a guillotine on Wall Street “and execute these bankers and brokers, grind up their bodies and make them into elite sausage.” Book review: In ‘The Big Seven’ by Jim Harrison, a detective behaving badly 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

While Nigeria serves as a muse, many of these new authors must live abroad or tap into Western networks to earn a living from their writing. Nigerian authors look West to gain their fame 2012-01-26T11:21:09Z

“He wasn’t just my cat, he was my muse, too. He was so inspirationally hilarious,” she said. ‘She was becoming a star’: what happens when your Instagram-famous pet dies? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

An haute couture legend who has lost her creative mojo finds inspiration in a rude Breton gardener, but he needs some convincing to stick around as her new muse. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

For many figure skaters, artistry remains that elusive muse. Critic’s Notebook: In Olympic Figure Skating, ‘Compete’ Has Replaced ‘Perform’ 2014-02-18T22:52:26Z

In a tweet after Mr. Park’s death, Smith called him “my cinematic muse.” Michael Parks, character actor for Tarantino, dies at 77 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Williams himself still muses about the mystery of its timelessness. National Recording Registry adds its first frog (Kermit) and its first podcast 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Maybe relief will morph to happiness in a few weeks, Lennox mused. Beautiful songs about “dark, grotesque stuff”: The world according to Panda Bear 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Appropriately, his most consistent muse has been Madonna, who shares his love of overkill and immodesty. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Nor is there really a plot to follow, not even a chronology that points the way through a series of essays veering from haunting survivors’ tales to poetic musings on science. Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

“You wouldn't think wing walking is exhausting, but it is,” the birthday girl mused of her feat. United flight attendant walks onto biplane wing mid-air in birthday stunt 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

Or was their behavior, as Fremont muses, “simply the result of living in the contorted reality of a history that was hidden from us?” Their Parents Were Holocaust Survivors. That Wasn’t Their Only Secret. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

He mused on what would happen if Sheen suddenly started to self-harm. Charlie Sheen, a star on the verge of a nervous breakdown, grips and revulses America 2011-03-06T00:15:46Z

The principal ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq was both muse and wife to the legendary Russian choreographer George Balanchine when, at 27, she contracted polio. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z

Taffy Brodesser-Akner muses on Taylor Swift’s famously dishy lyrics and the sweet, sweet thrill of a public dig at an ex — and how her own discovery of being not so nice was pretty powerful. ‘Here She Comes Now’ review: How Miley and Sinead changed our lives 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

He goes home and muses on the power of names. Annabel by Kathleen Winter ? review 2011-04-12T16:15:00Z

She offered supportive words as I mused aloud about how much money I was losing per minute. My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me) 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Given the long-term nature of the venture, Mr. Wheatley can’t help but muse what the future will bring — not just for the whiskey, but for the people who, years from now, might buy it. A Gamble That Bourbon Can Grow Old Gracefully 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

The band builds anthems around theological musings, even as it rejects religious dogma. Critics? Choice: Brooding Now Laced With Hope 2011-05-30T21:33:36Z

He muses on a Heidegger essay on boredom: "It is only when one is bored, that one's consciousness settles, reluctantly or even fearfully, on oneself and the nature of one's own existence." Cannes film festival review ? Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow 2010-05-16T17:14:00Z

None of these pastimes lend themselves particularly well to quiet contemplation, or to crafting long written musings. A History of American Jewish Women Shows How the Country Influenced Them, and Vice Versa 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Sheng Wang has a droll and relaxed delivery, which makes the focus and inventiveness of his material land even better — the happy chill of stoner musings contrasting with the rigor of precise observational comedy. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

He continued to muse that he remains unsure exactly why this particular tree was able to grow such a large avocado. Hawaii farmer's 6-pound, 11-ounce avocado may break world record – if its lasts long enough for authentication 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Some of the music unfolds in twisting, long-lined themes, some in softly exhaled solo-sax reveries; there are skittish dancing melodies and speculative group conversations that suggest Wayne Shorter's musings. Tim Whitehead: Colour Beginnings ? review 2010-12-02T22:40:00Z

That his fellow musicians looked to be half his age -- at the most -- says something about Veloso’s approach and his muse.  Caetano Veloso gigs the Hollywood Bowl; Bird and Banhart offer support 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Before you nip down the jobcentre with your CV, to apply for some freelance musing, perhaps think about some further complications of the job. From Tippi Hedren to Uma Thurman, being a muse means being abused 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

In Ms. Maricich’s hands, Ms. Lohan — who was never named specifically, but who was clearly the inspiration — is a fruitful muse, a better subject than actress. Music Review: The Blow, Channeling a Tabloid Star at Joe?s Pub 2010-07-11T22:15:00Z

Her musings are about why different kinds of people — optimists, pessimists; dumb people, smart people — react to life differently. Dance Review: Aki Sasamoto’s ‘Sunny in the Furnace,’ at the Kitchen 2014-03-07T23:16:54Z

This aim sets him on a journey from miners in Minnesota to farmers in Colombia, musing about the benefits of gratitude along the way. New & Noteworthy 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

“In a way,” he mused during a visit to the building, “closing it off is hiding the past.” In a country that stresses assimilation, this Paris museum highlights the contributions of immigrants 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The female nude, sometimes adolescent, became a common pictorial muse, representing the hoped-for birth of a secular spirituality and a more open, less straight-laced society. LACMA's 'Expressionism in Germany and France' an edifying mix 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

“I dumped the blunt guts in the organic trash can,” he said, musing on whether they would be composted. ‘Desus & Mero’: No Suits. And No Canned Sketches. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

“It would make so much f**king money,” she mused. L7 frontwoman says feminist pop stars like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift should reboot Rock for Choice 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Sister Maria Benedicta muses that she is not sure how they all fit. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z

A designer’s mood board is a bit like a psychological road map — a patchwork of musings and emotions that somehow lead to a collection of clothes. ‘To show them in a kind of glory’: How a high-end designer celebrates working-men chic 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

As Bloom, Mr. Fitzgerald resembles Joyce, though more muscular, while Ms. Seymour is a fair visual approximation of Nora, Joyce’s uneducated wife, indispensable muse and model for Molly. Theater Review: ‘Gibraltar,’ Adapted From ‘Ulysses,’ Plays at Irish Rep 2013-06-25T22:02:32Z

She muses that some other movie star pairs seem to know how to make their “coupledom” part of their brand. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Even in 1986, Vonnegut mused that his path was about as relevant “as how to repair a Model T.” How Kurt Vonnegut Found His Voice and His Themes 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

As he looked out into the room full of entertainment reporters covering his press conference and the film festival, Bandera mused that it seemed that life was imitating art. Banderas skewers his own craft in ‘Official Competition’ 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

Hicks has sometimes mused to colleagues that her current tour in the White House isn’t as fun as the early days, when she bonded with a team of top advisers who have since moved on. Hope Hicks returned to the White House to pull Trump across the finish line. Then coronavirus hit. 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

But the muse most persistent is definitely Clio, the muse of history, whose spirit is woven through the better part of Nauman’s vast body of work. Review | In New York, a blowout, blockbuster retrospective of Bruce Nauman 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

His 1843 work "Either/Or" - which muses on existence and aesthetic and ethical questions about love - runs into hundreds of pages and is considered even by many academics to be convoluted and longwinded. Danish philosopher's tough ideas adapted for kids 2013-05-04T06:36:08Z

This 45-minute song — the first seven minutes are instrumental — merges a memoir of a life spent in indie-rock with philosophical musings. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

The muse smiles and brings him a snack, hoping that will help. Review: Mother!, Ambitious and Dorky, Is Sure to Be Divisive 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

“Thanks to technology, the world is a smaller place,” mused Mr. Davies when I ran into him at the screening. In Sydney, Lively Culture Amid Natural Beauty 2014-04-11T18:04:18Z

Over the next 200 or so pages, Porter unspools a partial fable about Lanny, one grounded in reality and domestic life but also threaded with fantasy and the musings and manipulations of the ever-watchful Toothwort. Review | Max Porter’s ‘Lanny’ is a lyrical look at the tribulations of parenting 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

“What does Webster’s say about soul?” he mused archly. Gucci’s Diversity Drag 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

Take the title track, for example, which benefits from greater instrumental separation, rendering Harrison's timeless musings about life's transitory nature even more heartrending. "All Things Must Pass" is peak George Harrison: 50th anniversary edition serves a feast for the ears 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

We wouldn’t last long as trees, he muses. Trees can’t escape the extreme heat. But they do have some impressive coping mechanisms. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

Here there are symbolic stars, symbolic books, symbolic women, intercut with loads of uselessly deep musings about the firmament. Review | ‘The Red-Haired Woman’: The worst translation Orhan Pamuk has ever suffered 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

“Women were considered to be muses. The idea of them as artists in their own right was quite unusual.” The Broadway Producer Aiming to ‘Sharpie Women Into History’ 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

In one scene, for instance, Mr. Jimenez muses, “To be black and Latino in America and be loved truly, loved for being you, I haven’t seen it,” all the while putting on whiteface makeup. Review: Hopscotching Between Worlds in ‘My Dear Brooklyn’ 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

I think what may be missing here is a muse. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

The muse for this collection was Ava Gardner, who back in the 1950s shopped at Loewe while staying in Madrid to recover from her relationship with Frank Sinatra. Special Report: Breaking Free at the Seams 2010-03-07T18:43:00Z

Women are their muses, their objects and their burdens. Review: Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’: A Euro Buddy Film 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The muse, now on her own, dances around to keep from freezing up. Dance Review: Rob List’s ‘Play by Ear’ at the Chocolate Factory 2012-10-05T21:16:01Z

“The movie taps into a kind of nostalgia for when everything — even racism — seemed simpler, and ready to be legislated out of existence,” Vulture critic David Edelstein famously and regrettably mused. Hollywood still loves a white savior: "Green Book" and the lazy, feel-good take on race 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Instead, she’s almost invariably relegated to footnote status, as a muse to Max Ernst and the Surrealists, a marginal figure in the grand narratives of other geniuses. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

In both interviews, Pattinson mused on the troubles of fame and the necessity of publicity. Robert Pattinson's press gigs include ice cream, cereal and not much else 2012-08-15T17:59:48Z

People tend to toss them out, O’Neill muses. D.C. parking tickets are a scourge. This artist wants to turn them into something beautiful. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

“Even when he’s musing on mortality and old age at the end of the piece, there’s still these images that come in the video of that quest for contact,” Kelly said. Dramatizing the Story of a Gay Mid-Century Tattoo Artist Who Was So Much More 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

“Not enough votes to get a majority?” he mused. WATCH: Stephen Colbert throws Trumpcare into the “cabinet of broken Republican dreams” 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

Last week, on Christmas Eve, BBC Radio 3 featured “Winter Wanderer”—a delightful, amusing three hours of the travel writer Horatio Clare walking through the Black Forest, stamping briskly and musing about Pliny and conifers. “Slow Radio,” The Podcast That Promotes Monks, Moose, and Inner Peace 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

This biography reminds readers of her artistic achievements in her own right — she may have been Man Ray’s muse, but that’s not all — and delves deeper into their relationship. 13 New Books Coming in August 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

“I am definitely going to wear them,” said the house muse, Charlotte Gainsbourg, as she looked down at her current platform soles. Special Report: Fashion: Down and Dirty: Balenciaga and Balmain 2010-09-30T18:09:00Z

Moving seamlessly between multiple muses is something de la Renta nailed long ago. De la Renta takes bow with models on his arm 2013-02-13T03:11:10Z

And though no dogs were harmed in the making of this show, there are canine casualties and somber existential musings from the four-legged friends. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

It’s been exhilarating and very freeing to be able to just follow the muse in whatever direction we like. Robert Kirkman: In 'Fear the Walking Dead,' Dreamers Face the Apocalypse 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

One afternoon in late February, the owners of the new Lower East Side vintage boutique Desert Vintage were musing about their customers. Where Fashion Stylists Shop for Vintage 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

"It takes some time to stamp your own identity," mused the designer, who's been at the helm of the shows since 2008. Covered-up chic in day 2 of Paris fashion shows 2012-03-01T00:47:12Z

After the premiere, he mused on the experience: “It was weird at first but then I just sort of forgot it was me because I was caught up in the film.” Northwest films make a splash at Sundance 2013 2013-01-30T23:39:52Z

Hmmm, she muses: A change in careers would allow her to enjoy those calorie-laden daiquiris her husband seems to enjoy on their beach vacations. Model Wiedemann opens her 'best-dressed' closet 2012-09-06T16:58:08Z

“How close we hold our enemies!” he muses. Hilary Mantel Continues Her Bloody Brilliant Tudor Saga With Bring Up the Bodies 2012-05-09T10:45:37Z

"I feel like I'm the loudest muse that the world has ever seen." How female actors are rewriting Hollywood's script 2013-07-11T17:00:01Z

So this, I mused, was La Petite Marrakesh, as Moroccans have nicknamed Taroudant, mostly for the history it shares with its gaudier, more famous cousin to the north. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

The old-timey camera, the porkpie hat, the jazz music and philosophical musings: These elements could easily coalesce into pretension, a gimmick to sell photos to tourists. Who Says Old-Fashioned Street Photography Is Dead? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

“I just tell stories,” he tells me over the phone from Baltimore, his home town and geographic muse. John Waters: why the auteur of outrage won't joke about the Manson murders 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

The Diving Girl surfaces again and again in the history of swimming, as an international cultural symbol and muse; she even makes a cameo in my own family’s history. Following the Lead of the Diving Girl 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

“Listen Up Philip” is itself exhilarating because, for all its brutal comedy, it’s a serious work about the struggle to follow your muse and be fully alive in a world shared with other people. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Those musings are now embodied in a museum of sorts that showcases Frank Capra's Christmas movie classic. Upstate NY town paying tribute to `Wonderful Life' 2010-12-10T12:37:00Z

In 2020, he wrote a best-selling memoir, “Greenlights,” a walkabout in his mind made up of a lifetime’s worth of musings. Matthew McConaughey Distills His ‘From the Hip’ Philosophy for Kids 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z

Does this kind of fashion statement belong on the runway, he mused? Valentino Wants Everyone to Get Vaxxed — and Cloned 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Two months after playing their first ever gig, at a house party in Raymond, Cobain left Aberdeen and moved to Olympia, a comparatively bohemian oasis where he found his creative muse. Footsteps : Chasing Kurt Cobain in Washington State 2014-03-25T21:43:53Z

He’s as good an emblem as any for Ms. Rao’s muse, her beloved Bombay. Movie Review : ?Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)' 2011-01-20T22:18:39Z

“What if I strike it/rich as I want to be?” he muses over a loping, six-beat guitar lick. Dave Matthews Band’s Grown-Up View of Love and Dread 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

There are not many companies that inspire their singers to muse on the ties that bind their work and the Smiths. Critic?s Notebook: Where Opera Is Stretched Yet Unbroken 2011-07-05T21:30:26Z

Mr. Amis’s musings about this era tend to be overly familiar, or dubious and reductive. Books of The Times: Martin Amis Dissects the Sexual Revolution in ?The Pregnant Widow? 2010-05-10T21:51:00Z

She muses out loud that some people seem to be born bad. Movie Review: Defending the Underclass, in ‘Gideon’s Army’ 2013-06-28T01:49:48Z

Perhaps, as Stephen Walsh muses in his new biographical study, “Debussy: A Painter in Sound,” he was merely resorting to his skills as “an adept borrower.” John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Then he turned his head to look back at the young muse whose finger was touching his — “and I had that rare experience — that I was the student,” he said. Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Maybe, they mused in an interview, less is more, and they don’t need to do runway shows with every collection. Proenza designers reflect on getting off the ‘hamster wheel’ 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

New York has its own pair of May-December stunners in eligible finance heir Chase Lydon and famed model/muse Eden Clyde,” she has a gossip columnist exclaim about the supposedly red-hot couple her book describes. Beach Books: New Books by Tommy James, Dave Barry and John Grisham 2010-05-27T22:12:00Z

In a monologue taped before a studio audience, the low-key Buress mused about topics including Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Greece's financial woes and the women's World Cup. Hannibal Buress takes shot at Bill Cosby in debut of Comedy Central series 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Equally heartening were the improvements in Sterling Hyltin’s Terpsichore, the muse who becomes Apollo’s chief partner. Dance Review: ‘Apollo,’ ‘Orpheus’ and ‘Agon’ at City Ballet 2012-09-19T21:19:09Z

"I think I'm going to make a pan-fried fillet with some clam sauce," she mused gaily. MasterChef; Heading Out – TV review 2013-03-12T20:00:03Z

Recipes and musings from an English gourmand in Turkey and France. Internet picks of the week 2011-07-08T23:08:17Z

As Geoff Dyer stresses in his penetrating introduction, Lawrence ignores genre straitjackets as he blends travel writing, memoir, philosophical musings, storytelling and a novelist’s flair for portraiture and description. Review | We blog, we tweet, we post to Facebook: Let’s instead savor the art of the essay 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

He does this on several occasions, totally ignoring poor Alan, who is left to nod foolishly and laugh deferentially at His Royal Highness's musings. TV review: Highgrove: Alan Meets Prince Charles 2010-09-24T05:45:00Z

If you crave an all-American burger and craft beer, with a side of female muse, the Baroness names all of its patties after women. Amazon chose two locations for its new headquarters. Now, we go explore them. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Henry James called her “the muse of the newspaper.” A Star Is Born? Try Manufactured, a New Book Argues 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Carr is often characterized as muse to the Beats, but he was more than that. Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z

Dylan Farrow is both the muse and moral center of “Catch and Kill” as Farrow, as an investigative reporter for NBC News in early 2017, sets about investigating vague allegations against Weinstein. Ronan Farrow overcame spies and intimidation to break some of the biggest stories of the #MeToo era 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

It is rare to find a mention of Rampling that does not refer to her credentials as a muse. Charlotte Rampling: ‘I’ve got a very restless character. It’s a beast’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

The action involves three muses — a chain-smoking temptress, an overheated diva and a fanciful kook — who each capture the attention of our hero. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Perhaps, she muses, the problem is something to do with the “diverse mix of people onboard our ships” and is “being magnified by our core values to respect, protect and connect the world”. Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth? 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

"It's kinda like just being really nice and fair," Moore's character muses. The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

In “The Inner Conflict,” Warren mused about the path forward. A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.” A Provocative New Novel Reimagines the Anne Frank Story 2013-08-30T22:06:01Z

Clearly the moon has an enviable dramatic range, hence its continuing role as a muse and major player in children’s stories. ‘Goodnight Moon,’ but Not Just Yet 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Cultural history is full of moments when writers and artists resolved intellectual problems by musing on the rails. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t even muse on his unexpected fate or the trials of white collar confinement in a maximum security facility. My aging parents smuggle medical marijuana 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

He is her muse and a form of beloved. Solmaz Sharif and the poetics of a new American generation 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

J. Robert Oppenheimer excitedly muses to his Berkeley colleague Haakon Chevalier at a cocktail party. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

The stories are full of the musings of these scientist-philosophers as they navigate relationships, grief and the space-time continuum — fitting, as Singh herself is a physicist. Review | Best new science fiction and fantasy this month 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Through the early 1990s, with Ryan and Hanks as her amorous muses, she enjoyed her biggest box office successes with "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail." 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z

In Nuremberg, where Hitler led rallies that featured Wagner’s music, he sits and muses, “deeply uncomfortable,” carefully forming his thoughts aloud. ‘Wagner & Me’: Love of German composer’s music, tainted by history 2013-01-24T21:59:01Z

Henry Carlisle, whose broad literary career included supporting oppressed writers, editing Camus, helping translate and publish Solzhenitsyn, and writing a novel that mused about cannibalism, died on Monday in San Francisco. Henry Carlisle, Aided Oppressed Writers, Dies at 84 2011-07-15T03:31:57Z

The artifice is not so subtle in “Twisted Melodies”: Roston’s Hathaway hears us react, looks startled, then figures we are his muses, or “angels.” Review | Solo actors capture dark and light in ‘Twisted Melodies’ and ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

"If I kill you, I am bound for hell," Kane muses before adding that it's a price he "shall gladly pay," as he guts several attackers. What to watch instead of "Conan" 2011-09-17T15:01:00Z

The collection includes 140 oil paintings by the innovative artist, who often used the landscapes and desert skies of northern New Mexico as her muse. Santa Fe inspires with art, history and natural beauty 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Such psychedelic musings informed “The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys,” a ritualistic series of performances by the Theater of Eternal Music. The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

A Pair of Ideal Landscapes,” a collaboration between Ms. Robertson and the choreographer Esmé Boyce, musing about time, was simply baffling. Review: Satellite Collective Mixes Media and Messages at BAM Fisher 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson’s musings on death were sometimes comforting. George Clayton Johnson, Science Fiction Writer Known for ‘Logan’s Run,’ Dies at 86 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

"Two black runners against the strongest of the white race," muses Olympia's commentator as he surveys the field for the men's 800m. The shameful legacy of the Olympic Games 2012-06-14T19:00:08Z

She visits the show’s set twice a year, where she is welcomed as a muse and presiding eminence. S. E. Hinton, “The Outsiders,” and the Birth of Y.A. 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Festival director Clare Stewart said she was happy to be "bracketing the festival with one of London's great love affairs" - the ghoul-loving filmmaker and his gothic muse. Burton's 'Frankenweenie' opens London Film Fest 2012-10-10T12:40:09Z

With marble muses and winged angels on the baroque facade, the grande dame of Havana’s colonial-era theatres dominates this part of the old town. 10 of the best places to enjoy the dances and music of Cuba 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

“Son of Monarchs” is ambitious and meditative, thick with philosophical musings from its characters about the environment, life cycles and identity. ‘Son of Monarchs’ Review: Of Butterflies and Belonging 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

There are more movies to be inspired by, muses to court and corsets to sew. From cones to couture, 35 years of Gaultier 2011-01-26T20:07:08Z

The American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was on the Today programme on Tuesday, musing on whether a black politician could have spoken about women the way Trump did and got away with it. Why did no one speak out about Harvey Weinstein? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

The music itself was Mr. Berry’s greatest subject, and greatest muse. 15 Essential Chuck Berry Songs 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Though Icke’s protracted production occasionally falls into that trap, ultimately the creative team’s visual and technical prowess — along with its provocative young lead — make this a tale of musing, mania and murder for our age. Review: In a Powerful ‘Hamlet,’ a Fragile Prince Faces His Foes 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Now, fully in command of his muse, with a new producer, Bob Johnston, at the helm – the Titanic sails at dawn. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

There's a universal law that states that poets can't share muses; there's also another one that says they often have to. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

“Imagine how many shady deals were negotiated here with businessmen and lobbyists,” he muses. A thriller writer’s challenge: Make U.S. policy in Africa into a page turner

He says: "I believe in inspiration and the old-fashioned notion of the muse." A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley 2011-03-20T00:02:02Z

Clearly Jett is the result of a considerate, respectful collaboration between the writer and his muse. How Cinemax's "Jett" does nudity — and plenty of it — right 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

"Very often I've known people," he muses, "who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way." Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z

The German manager was camp but mostly bland, except when musing on how to address U2's The Edge in a letter: "You can't write Dear Mr The Edge." Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z

Banderas was an early muse of the acclaimed filmmaker, but it's been 22 years since the two luminaries of Spanish cinema worked together. Almodovar, Banderas reunite in 'The Skin' 2011-05-19T11:22:11Z

“With every burden there’s a gift, and with every gift, a burden, as Jennifer’s career proves,” she muses. Natalie Dormer: ‘Female empowerment shouldn’t be only about sexuality' 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

We know where Strauss directed his muse late in life, and thanks to his uninterrupted industry right up to his death, we have the full picture. Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z

New Delhi natives, the men subsequently bonded, musing about opening a restaurant together. In decor and spice, this new Indian restaurant refuses to hold back 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

“Weed is my sunglasses. Weed is my shoes,” he muses. Review | Seth Rogen’s hilarious memoir ‘Yearbook’ earns its superlatives 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Possibly the best spot from which to muse on the historic event that was about to unfold in the late spring of 1755 is Café Mark in downtown Cumberland. On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

But there were tensions from the start, and Faithfull wasn’t sure she was cut out for the wifely muse role that, even in such bohemian circles, she was expected to play. She’s Marianne Faithfull, Damn It. And She’s (Thankfully) Still Here. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

And yet, it is often in that low down place that the hand of the muse reaches, to hoist you blazingly out. In praise of idle hands: Underemployed and unashamed in America 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

I look at Warhol and I just say, `The joke is on us,'" Herminath mused, when trying to define what art means to her, "because he just used everyday objects. Kinkade: Home decorator, kitsch-master, or artist? 2012-04-14T16:50:10Z

“And what happened to the piece you never wrote down?” he muses. Perspective | 81 and going strong, Philip Glass prepares for his Kennedy Center debut 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Murphy's musings often monopolise the attention that his music deserves just as acutely. LCD Soundsystem: This is Happening 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z

Now, looking back over years of artists who used Winehouse as their muse, it becomes clear there are as many ways to view the singer as there are people to do the viewing. Amy Winehouse: A tribute in art 2011-07-28T12:01:00Z

In Edinburgh to introduce his book Is That a Fish in Your Ear, he joins Charlotte Higgins along with James Geary to muse on the particular challenges posed by metaphor. Guardian Edinburgh Books Festival podcast: Translation and Metaphor 2012-08-18T09:25:43Z

As Sachar chatted from his office, he mused on how the Wayside School books fit into his life’s work. Louis Sachar returns to wacky Wayside School more than 40 years after ‘Sideways Stories’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

In recounting his fortuitous apprenticeship, Mr. Feiffer also muses at length upon his craft. Books of The Times: ?Backing Into Forward?: Jules Feiffer?s Ink-Stained Memoir 2010-03-17T22:47:00Z

My second son would hover around the computer in frustration, musing about how he hated my job, the word enunciated with undeniable disdain, like it was leaving a bitter taste in his mouth. On being a part-time working mom 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

In the final scene, based on Hopper’s “Automat,” Thelma, an usher from the Broadway musical, sits alone over coffee, musing that her dead-end job could be worse. Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z

It is, as Phoenix’s Joker-to-be Arthur Fleck muses in the film’s opening minutes, getting crazier out there. Why so stupid: how Joker is too juvenile to be provocative 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Now he spends most days holed up in his Museum Square apartment, filling notebooks with scrawled musings on China’s culture, learned Americanisms and why his home should be saved. D.C.’s Chinatown has only 300 Chinese Americans left — and fighting to stay 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Those initial hues were developed with Irish artists and craftsmen across a range of disciplines who often cited the history and landscape of the country as their muse. Paint companies have a new idea for overwhelmed consumers: Fewer options 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

His aim, he wrote to his muse, Katy Katsoyanis, in 1947, was “to surpass the material, to annihilate it, reduce it to nothing, so that the spiritual achievement becomes an absolute morality.” A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Pop is about bright, bold, minimalist, somewhat cheeky voices and muses like Andy Warhol and Ellsworth Kelly and is an opportunity to be witty and artistic. Designer Jonathan Adler on how to find your decorating style 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

“You know what I get asked every day? ‘Is rock-and-roll dead?’ ” he mused, as he turned the bridge of “The Pretender” into a Chuck Berry riff. Review | At the Anthem’s opening night, a rock-and-roll clinic from Foo Fighters 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

My muse is the modern woman of now. | Emerson Bethany Fry 2011-08-08T17:30:27Z

In the remaining pages, Yaffe examines Mitchell’s music along with those who inspired and helped shape it: the men who were both muse and nemesis. The many layers — and lovers — of Joni Mitchell 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

Those criticisms further distanced Potter from her muses. Beatrix Potter died 73 years ago. Now she has a new book. What to make of it? 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Accordingly, she interweaves her candid, straight-to-camera musings and medical updates with scenes of her directing actors in a fictional film based on events as they unfold. Review: ‘A Woman Like Me,’ About Grappling With Terminal Illness 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The piece is organized in nine sections, one of which muses on the epistemological implications of nine, to evoke the nine seconds it took Levi Presley to fall to his death. Fact-Check of a ‘Lifespan’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Three of his four pictures are gray-blue portraits of impassive subjects; their emotionless faces contrast full-color vignettes, representing memories or musings, that seem to burst from their hearts. In the galleries: From destruction, a call for transformation 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Back in Taiwan, Lady Gaga is musing on her success in balancing pop with performance art. From Yoko Ono to Lady Gaga: how pop embraced performance art 2011-07-07T21:00:03Z

On Wednesday, the male vocal group Chanticleer performs a program ranging historically from ancient to modern and focusing on women, as composers and muses. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

“I turned into a kind of a muse,” Mrs. Grey said. Don?t Call Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey a Trophy Wife 2012-04-06T22:18:06Z

Once in the blood, how do you retreat to realms of the imagination, close study, private work, communing with the muses? Polly Toynbee: What I am thinking about ... envy 2012-08-25T08:08:56Z

"He was the perfect storm of present, past, and future," Harry reflects about his muse, "wanting more, wanting to have what someone else has, wanting to have it all." 'May We Be Forgiven': tough times and atonement in suburbia 2012-10-03T21:59:04Z

Is there a muse of fire in the house? Review: Does Power Corrupt in ‘Henry V’? Absolutely 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

He photographs many of his muses himself, usually in black and white, asking his subjects to stare longingly into the lens. What Is Lost in Hedi Slimane’s Celine 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

In a trajectory not unlike the blogger-turned-author-turned-TV creator Lindy West, O’Connell’s viral musings quickly landed him a book deal and now, a TV show. A Dark Comedy About Being Disabled? He’s in on the Joke 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

She runs a musical collective, Odbod, in Manchester, and she makes odbod pronouncements about the effect that ethereal forces have on her muse – The Magic, as she puts it. New band of the day ? No 773: Kirsty Almeida 2010-04-26T14:43:00Z

The narrators in these songs muse about aging, corrupted hopes, last stands. Album review: Bob Mould, 'Silver Age' 2012-08-31T17:46:00Z

She is still spoken of as his muse. From Tippi Hedren to Uma Thurman, being a muse means being abused 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Happiness May Be Here, but Desperation Is Often Close Existential musings waft up from guitar figures in the songs of Ben Howard, the English musician who performed at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday night. Music Review: Ben Howard at the Bowery Ballroom 2012-04-03T21:27:26Z

However inspiring Mr. Saillard’s visual experiments, he is also a man of words: a lot of them, printed on cards like short poems and recited with his collaborator Violetta Sanchez, a former model and muse. The Magician of the Galliera 2013-05-30T06:37:03Z

She was, famously, his great muse and this was their third film together, having already made Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Why I'd like to be ... Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The lyrics mused over the tension and fusion of opposites, the shifting equilibrium of ideologues and warriors, of human and divine, and especially of lovers. Music Review: Oceanic Passions in a Chamber Setting 2011-01-28T23:52:56Z

Speaking of perceived perception, one young man muses that the term “thug,” which Mr. Dunn used, has become a code word for an offensive racial epithet. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Explores Social Justice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

“Every day is a waiting game, praying for the best,” Stephen muses. With pancreatic cancer, what Stephen needs is legalised cannabis 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

“There was no clear course of study for entering another’s consciousness, historical or not,” the narrator muses. In This Novel, Art Is the Key to Another’s Consciousness 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

After a dinner with the “Gossip Girl” star Chace Crawford, Phillips began musing over the idea of capturing that star power on canvas. | Richard Phillips's 'Most Wanted' 2011-01-19T17:25:32Z

Is it any wonder that after a while one roots for an idle musing to become fact when Mr. Bakula’s beer-swilling Californian lets slip that he sometimes wishes he were gay? Theater Review: Welcoming Back Synge, and Stomping Along With 'Rock of Ages' 2011-10-04T10:11:45Z

"Who knows? Maybe Sue would have wore him down," Price mused. Would “F Is for Family” patriarch Frank Murphy vote for Trump? Bill Burr says yes 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Like a restless ghost, Vogler’s camera glides along its route, haunting characters for several minutes before moving onto a new set of muses. All Together Now for Tribeca Festival’s 20th Anniversary Edition 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

We called in a paint distributor, who mused about the lack of full sun on the affected areas. Why does this exterior paint keep blistering? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

I drank up the couple’s words like those of a muse. Ever wanted to spend the night inside a giant wooden beagle? You can. 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Creative groupings are often boys’ clubs, with women serving as muses, models and mothers, and American film, independent or not, has traditionally been a macho undertaking. | 'Blank City': That ?80s Moment When Nothing and (Almost) Everything Mattered 2011-04-05T22:33:40Z

In her new novel “A Piece of the World,” Christina Baker Kline explores the real-life saga of the New England woman who served as the famed painter’s unlikely muse for 30 years. The American masterpiece that’s a “feminist painting” 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Ms. Mays finds that photographs often serve as her muse. On a Once-Hidden Estate, a Sculpture Show With Deep Emotional Resonance 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Norris was there recently, musing on her unusual career. Mary Norris Muses on a Lifetime of Literary Vigilance in ‘Between You & Me’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

A labyrinthine journey through shadowy corridors and meticulously decorated rooms, it exposes the sinister undertones of these childhood tales, while grappling with the more adult complexities of Carroll’s attraction to his prepubescent muse, Alice Liddell. ‘Then She Fell’ Is Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Life and Work 2013-08-09T18:49:22Z

Hence Take Shelter's slow pace and existential musings, tailored for the art-film market. Mud director Jeff Nichols: 'Mark twain bottled what it felt to be a child' 2013-05-02T17:37:37Z

My desire is defined by the need to connect with and celebrate black women, not only as models, muses and mentors. Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The music of Orpheus could charm the trees and persuade the gods, but not save a lost life — nor a great musician's creative muse. Seattle Opera's 'Orpheus' is a love story for all time 2012-02-15T23:05:03Z

She had to kid herself she was a muse, until, of course, Page replaced her with an actual kid. Liking young girls is not a preference, it's a perversion 2012-10-03T17:15:01Z

Ms. Martin is also aware that her book, even with science undergirding the racy personal musings, will be subject to intense scrutiny and skepticism — if it’s taken seriously at all. Wednesday Martin Dares to Call Her New Book ‘Untrue’ 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jhaveri quotes the philosopher Judith Butler and muses on “the ordinary ways that we think about humanization and dehumanization.” A Sci-Fi Showdown at the Met Museum’s Rooftop Garden 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

“I wonder if the key word is ‘project,’ ” mused David LeMaire, who buys self-help titles for Borders Books. On Top of the Happiness Racket 2010-02-26T23:31:00Z

It will include a street style piece on hijab-wearing modest fashion muses, a profile on the emerging actress Amira Khalil and a feature on members of Middle Eastern royalty creating fine jewelry collections. Bella Hadid, a Covered-Up Cover Star for Vogue Arabia 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

When he confesses this to her, she says: “I’ve always wanted to be someone’s muse.” Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Plus, Alasdair Gray considers his own predicament in verse, and muses about the vote for Scottish independence. Guardian Books podcast: Ned Beauman and Alasdair Gray at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2012-08-15T07:35:10Z

It looks terrific — wrought-iron-style pillars, checkerboard floor — and resonates thematically, seeming to sum up the play’s musings about private life used for public power and show. Review | Tickets are limited and temperatures are taken, but indoor theater in D.C. is back 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Taking a sip of wine, Ms. Dumas mused, “My time is up, and I still haven’t painted a Venus. Well, I have indeed, but she’s pregnant, and she looks like my daughter.” A Radical Artist Takes a Startling Turn Toward Love 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

In the play, both Auden and Britten discuss the habit of art – the need to sit down and work every day, even when the muse has gone walkabout. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z

Then, in summer 2002, two friends whom he refers to as muses both died. Desi Santiago Is an Artist in the Moment 2012-03-28T21:01:45Z

In the school, I got to choreograph, and she was kind of my muse. School of American Ballet’s Gutsy Kids: ‘They Just Have to Dance’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

With wind-swept shorelines and muted hues, the landscapes of the Outer Cape serve as both magnet and muse for artists. 36 Hours on Outer Cape Cod 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

"This is just a little bit of ear candy, really, in the great cut and thrust of things," he muses. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

He muses: “I mean, a mob boss calls people ‘a rat’. Robert De Niro: ‘Trump is a real racist, a white supremacist’ 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

They continued their Gonzo musings and psychedelic meandering on two albums this year: “Motivational Jumpsuit” and the newer, more uneven “Cool Planet.” Pop & Rock Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

And when the super babe muses what would happen if she sent her kissy duckface out into the world, chaos ensues. 2010-02-08T13:08:00Z

Losing her mother and her marriage had been hard, Strayed mused. 'Wild': blisters and redemption on the Pacific Crest Trail 2012-03-14T19:57:04Z

This was the actor Timothy Olyphant in New York last month, musing on the trajectory of his career from a TriBeCa sidewalk. Timothy Olyphant Is Back for a New Chapter of ‘Justified’ 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

Why is the Prince of Wales, musing on his mother's government, like a rainbow? 30 delightful puns from the Victorian Era 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

The group remains beloved for its historical musings, acoustic arrangements and earnest charm. Pop Music Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The intricately crafted melodies and lyrics of Sondheim improbably felt like ideal vehicles for the most disparate and individual interior musings. Review: For Sondheim’s 90th Birthday, a Collage of Aching Voices 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

What follows is a series of essays — sometimes more like memories or musings — that don’t subscribe to a particular classification. Writing, and Cooking, Across Borders 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Final” is given over to lyrics about distant muses, beneficent ghosts, the nature of beauty, how we encapsulate a person’s life and how we anticipate its end. New Music: Albums From Sohn, Oran Etkin and Pedro Luis Ferrer 2014-04-07T21:31:47Z

Mr. Vargas mused in his essay in “Trap Door.” Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

He left the notebook to his friend Robin Gandy, who inscribed his own musings between the pages of Turing's notes. Nazi code breaker Alan Turing's notebook to be sold at auction 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

It is full of inspiration that I grew up listening to and some newfound muses that I’ve discovered along the way. Justin Timberlake Releases New Single: “Suit & Tie (featuring Jay-Z)” 2013-01-14T16:56:08Z

As they reflect on life and more, Christopher Robin muses that what he likes doing best is nothing. The Moral Clarity of “Christopher Robin” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Les would often muse over its fate, asking friends and family if they thought the author had gotten it. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

That is why, as Hubert’s peers became known for their symbols — the pearls and camellias of Chanel; the New Look and Bar jacket of Dior — he was forever known for his muse. Givenchy and Hepburn: The Original Brand Ambassadors 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Welker is an animator’s muse, Musker said, not just because he’s a “man of a thousand voices” or such a talented zoological mimic. You don’t know his face. But voice actor Frank Welker likely ruled your childhood. 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

He is muse and villain, a source of inspiration and exasperation, a secret sharer and a vengeful ghost. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

In that way, Laffer’s economic musings are causing a steady flow of money to trickle into his pockets. Tax-cut guru still says he’s right about Trump, Truss and trickle-down 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

If only the muses had turned up the heat on this often listless Seattle Shakes production. Theater review: 'Henry V' asks, 'Ain't war grand?' 2010-04-20T20:25:00Z

What obligation, if any, does an artist have to their muse? ‘Malcolm & Marie’ Review: Fight Flub 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

“I always have some kind of plan,” he muses. This synagogue needed two arks for the High Holidays. So it turned to a Quaker. 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

When he’s weighing whether to murder Duncan, Macbeth muses, “ ’Twere well/It were done quickly.” Review: ‘Macbeth,’ Accelerated, at Public Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, she muses: “How do you make yourself visible and legible to yourself in a world that often does not see you or only sees race? How do you take up space?” New & Noteworthy Poetry, From ‘White Blood’ to the Book of Job 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

It also marks Scorsese's fourth collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio who seems to have replaced De Niro as the director's favourite muse. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z

This celestial vision was Baby Jane Holzer, a model and art collector who dazzled Andy Warhol, becoming his first great muse and appearing in his earliest experimental movies. The Norton Museum of Art Showcases the Glamour of Andy Warhol Muse Baby Jane Holzer 2014-02-13T05:00:00Z

In addition to musing on dispossessed Palestinians and the relationship between the United States and the Arab world, the painter invokes the Tao Te Ching’s teachings about the universe’s natural order. Review | In the galleries: Artist explores the dissonance between humanity and the world 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Patience seems to be his muse, what he trusts most. ‘Creative Domain’: Film takes us into mystery of Paul Taylor’s dances 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Kilmer muses on the way acting crosses and blurs the boundary between reality and illusion, concluding that he’s spent most of his life “inside the illusion.” ‘Val’ Review: The Iceman Cometh 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Across its seven songs, Jenkins grieves, wanders and wrings meaning from interactions with strangers, her musings set to billowy horns, spry guitars and field recordings. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

He also seems reluctant to elaborate on his strained relationship with his father, and only spends a few pages musing on his health struggles and ongoing recovery. Review | Val Kilmer’s ‘I’m Your Huckleberry’ offers a scatterbrained journey into his idiosyncratic head space 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

Viewers muse that this is a big deal for Kate Middleton. What Twitter Said When Beyonce and Jay Z Met Will and Kate 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Jonathan extols the primacy of print, even down to the choice of fonts: “Garamond. Cambria. Baskerville,” he muses, as if referring to lost civilizations. Review: In ‘Reverberation,’ Singles Adrift in the Big City 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Acutely self-aware and enjoying an unlikely career resurgence, he sat for an interview at his home here, patently disinclined to put a stopper on his often unfiltered musings. At 90, Jerry Lewis’s Mouth Runneth Over 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

“Why are we prevented from seeing certain information?” she mused. Perspective | Melania Trump’s convention speech was a moment of calm amid the Trump family rant 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

It’s certainly Ms. Rao’s muse: she seems mesmerized by its hurly-burly and has tried to find a narrative that can contain its multitudes. Movie Review : ?Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)' 2011-01-20T22:18:39Z

"Something about her said, 'Love me, protect me,' and a lot of people took that on and felt a kind of devotion to her," mused Williams. Michelle Williams channels Marilyn Monroe in new film 2011-11-18T13:20:11Z

She muses on her gift for nurturing young talent: "Well, maybe not directly nurture, but, you know, I can see it, and then I delegate the nurturing." Sarah Michelle Gellar is back and means business in "Do Revenge" 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

She seems unhinged, rattled, and is soon conveniently gone from the scene, though only after leaving a bag and a notebook filled with cryptic musings. Review: ‘Suspiria’ Is a Gaudy Freakout of Female Violence 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Clarissa goes to the florist, visits her dying friend, and muses on what her life would have been like had she not, years ago, broken off a budding romance with him. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Aguilera went so far as to muse about how much Davis’ young kids must like to hear him sing lullabies. 'The Voice' recap: Teams Adam and Christina take their turn 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

I need to really muse over things, because I’m very sensitive and I don’t want any of this to be self-serving. Forty Years of the 4077th: Elliott Gould on the Anniversary of 'MASH' 2010-09-03T14:00:00Z

A blond rebel who performed alongside David Bowie, she was the star of the Montreal company La La La Human Steps and the principal muse of its choreographer, Edouard Lock. Dance This Week: ‘Available Light’ and Louise Lecavalier 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Classic libations, like absinthe and the Bloody Mary, serve as muse for Ms. Zehr’s colorful frocks and Ms. Klaus’s bubbly dance numbers. Dance Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

He isn't the only artist to regard the 24-hour diner chain as a kind of creative muse. The artistic allure of Waffle House, America’s most surprising culinary muse 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z

And one unexpected subject recurred with a tenacious intensity: What would happen, the crew liked to muse, during the apocalypse? Food, faith and farming in the apocalypse: The coronavirus pandemic and the rural-urban divide 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

He teaches her to sing, making her an unwilling muse for his genius, and later kidnaps her to his lair. ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ Broadway’s longest-running show, to end after 35 years 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

The show is gentle but powerful, thanks in large part to Rose’s fantastic and natural performance, and Amber’s episodic musings — How many people am I supposed to love? How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

But in an interview with The Washington Post last year as the depth of the museum’s financial woes were deepening, Neuharth mused aloud about myriad possibilities, including a home in some digital “cloud.” The Newseum was a grand tribute to the power of journalism. Here’s how it failed. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

“Mayday Mayday” isn’t particularly remarkable when Mr. Sturrock winds down the show by musing on the insights he drew from his rough experience. Theater Review: Tristan Sturrock in Solo Show, ‘Mayday Mayday’ 2013-04-23T02:00:01Z

“For me, it will be his ability to articulate the human experience and remind us of the commonalities between us all that define his legacy,” they mused. Anthony Bourdain's pals Jose Andres, Eric Ripert celebrate 'Bourdain Day' in honor of late chef 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

Her most frequent drawing muse is Rocket Racoon from Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy." Can "stanning” be a form of recovery? Healing and trauma in fandom communities 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

It gave the spring musing a harder, urban edge. Naomi Campbell steals Lanvin show at Paris Fashion Week 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

In later years Wogan wrote a regular column for the Sunday Telegraph which contained his whimsical musings on some of the absurdities of life. Obituary: Sir Terry Wogan 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Inside a flea market a man spun stories about his foster father, who had died, by randomly picking up the man’s belongings and musing on them. | 'Our Lot': When What?s Left of a Man Is Found in His Collections 2011-06-14T22:30:35Z

But this largely monogamous partnership between mentor and muse abruptly fell apart with the breakthrough success of Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down. Antonio Banderas: Almod?var and me 2011-07-29T21:59:00Z

Last month, she was back on stage as the muse of four contemporary choreographers in the work “Restless Creature.” Dance Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“So the city’s laid low. Everything’s crummy. And then the artists find their muse in the wreckage,” he continued. Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Finally, the novel’s ambiguous ending leaves the reader to muse — or to fume — over what really happened here. ‘Temple Grove’: war over Olympic Peninsula’s old trees 2013-05-22T23:10:19Z

“What shocked me was the fact that Republicans seemed shocked,” Bee mused. Republicans are feigning surprise at Trump’s fealty to Putin, and Samantha Bee is not having it 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Valda Setterfield, a leading figure in the New York dance world for 60 years and the wife and muse of the renowned choreographer David Gordon, died on April 9 in Manhattan. Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

He writes: “You, my darling, are the perfect muse, a ceaseless spur; I truly love how little you like any of my books — including this one?” Review | ‘The Trouble With Men’ offers an intimate look at its subject 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

As Louis drew one complex pattern after another on the edge of her Post Magazine, her teammate Eve Pogoriler, a four-time Post Hunt participant, mused aloud, “I really think that maybe it’s just ‘me.’ Veteran Post Hunt champions take the prize once again

“One day less of her 26th year,” the kindergarten teacher muses as the bell rings, “one precious day of her students’ only childhoods, never to be repeated.” High Praise for a Novel About an Awful Children’s Musical 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

In this case, the muse is both the city and the history on display in “Straight Outta Compton.” Review: ‘Compton,’ Dr. Dre’s First Album in 16 Years 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

That physical muse, in turn, took three forms: the Milnes’ 16th-century farmhouse and garden; a nearby 6,000-acre preserved heathland named Ashdown Forest; and an adjoining private woodland, the Five Hundred Acre Wood. The real forest that inspired the stories of Winnie-the-Pooh 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

As a few giant galleries absorb ever more market share, thank the muses of art and commerce for Ramiken. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

When artists are in your social and business circles, often so are their muses. A Collector Juxtaposes the Erotic and the Familiar 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Will this turn into the story of a troubled artist finding a new muse, or perhaps a #MeToo parable of male entitlement run amok? ‘Ahed’s Knee’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Agony in the Desert 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

In almost every gallery of the exhibition, robust gestural canvases of the New York School variety mingle with diaristic musings and diagrammatic drawings. At Bard, Amy Sillman’s Work Comments on the Art World 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

By all accounts, the experience on that original production was so extraordinary that the principals long ago started musing about a reprise. How They Learned to Drive. And Why They’re Driving Again. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

What initially appeared to be a charming muse on the lives of two eccentric metal-detecting hobbyists soon revealed itself to be something more profound. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

As Avery, an unorthodox marriage counselor, muses to herself in a session with Marissa and Matthew, the titular couple, “Every single person here is concealing something.” ‘By the Time You Read This, I’ll Have Killed One of Your Husbands’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

She told him that artists have to follow their muses in each moment. Alone With Their Muses, Artists in Retreat Wonder if It’s Too Much 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse for Liza Minnelli, “Liza With a ‘Z,’ ” the film of that concert, was a profound meeting of artist and muse. One Night. One Chance. One Liza (With a ‘Z’). 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

“I keep asking God why this has been done,” the orchestra’s founder, Jini Dinshaw, who conceived of the project, muses in the film. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z

Such flights of poetry would seem pretentious and implausible in the hands of a less skilled writer, but Jiles grounds her characters’ metaphysical musings in a starkly realistic portrait of the lawless Texas landscape. Can a 10-year-old girl ever recover from years in captivity? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

There was something about being in Australia that added weight to my idle musings about eating. Australia is a land of firsts: First life, first burger with beetroot and pineapple 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

Kristy Edmunds, the artistic director of CAP UCLA, muses that hopefully audience members will revisit the museum at a later date and see the dances as a ghost image in the space. Who are those dancers spinning through the Broad (and LACMA and the Getty)? 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

“Every generation captures views of itself in different ways,” Zvulun muses. ‘La Bohème’: Puccini’s bohemians live on, in opera and in life 2013-02-14T23:41:36Z

These musings are prompted by the publication of a thought-provoking book entitled Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic American Cinema, by Christopher Shannon, who teaches history at a college in Virginia. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z

Your hardworking guide needs the energy and may want to use the quiet time to plan his next move or muse over that historical question somebody asked earlier. How to be the kind of tourist that tour guides love 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, the few Pearl Jam songs in the set enjoy the most fevered response tonight, in particular Elderly Woman … , one of Vedder's more acutely affecting musings on loneliness. Eddie Vedder – review 2012-08-01T17:53:52Z

“It’s like we’re just tourists,” mused Dols, a PhD student at American University, after gazing at a shower roughly the size of a freshman dorm room, accessorized for some reason with its own aquarium. The $2.5 million condo has arrived in Washington — and it has a fabulous view of a Chick-fil-A 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Michelle Boulé, Dancer-Artist at Work THE idea of the passive female muse inspiring the brilliant male maker conjures all sorts of musty historical images. Snapshot : Michelle Boulé, Dancer-Artist at Work 2012-11-25T00:20:06Z

Working the 5,000-year-old site, an archaeologist muses, “We don’t live long, do we?” Review | In ‘Surfacing,’ Kathleen Jamie ponders the natural world and our place in it 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

The 73-minute-long film, in Greek, Arabic and English with English subtitles, is an idiosyncratic piece — a visually rich set of scenes and anecdotes musing on the moral, political and logistical challenges posed by immigration. ‘Evaporating Borders’ details the challenges of immigration in Cyprus 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

In Ms. Cyrus, he has found an eager muse. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z

Ms. La Cruise injects first-person musings into the film that sit awkwardly, but she also finds side stories that elevate her movie above mere hagiography. | 'Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock': Daisy Bates of N.A.A.C.P. Recalled on PBS - Review 2012-02-01T23:11:16Z

In addition to writers, Highgate includes muses and a few people who inspired fictional characters. The week in books 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Among them is Eve Fairfax, a muse of Rodin, who was abandoned by her fiancé and never married. Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z

By this point, Candy had supplanted Molly Ringwald as Hughes’s muse and had made Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck with him. Catherine O'Hara on the joy of Schitt's Creek: 'Eugene Levy is the sweetest man!' 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

One minute he’s musing about Nan as God, the next he’s talking about her as if she’s the submissive half of a quasi-romantic relationship in which he’s dominant. Review: ‘Downward Dog’ Talks but Sure Is Hard on the Ears 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

As every English major knows, Yeats was infatuated with Gonne — his muse, his tormentor, the dark-haired beauty who rejected his many proposals of marriage. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Many scholars expected the letters would contain only literary gossip and Eliot’s musings on writing and poetry. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

Life and music are deeply intertwined in Bernstein's philosophical musings; craft is a requirement for greatness, fame is not. 'Seymour' is Ethan Hawke's moving look at pianist Bernstein 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

“Santiago receives me with indifference,” muses the filmmaker, whose voice is heard throughout but who is never seen except in archival footage. ‘The Cordillera of Dreams’ Review: From the Heights to the Depths 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Near the end, one of Rothstein’s many fans muses, “I was going to say his work changed my life, but that’s not right. . . . I guess what I mean is his work changed my heart.” Book World: ‘Finders Keepers’ by Stephen King 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

“A person’s life should be like a fabulous mansion — all windows, portraits, mirrors,” Diva Donna muses as though winging it from a pulpit. With 'Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,' heaven knows the Queen of Disco deserved better than this 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

She now teaches in Barnard’s dance department, along with Mr. La Fosse and Allegra Kent, the former New York City Ballet principal who was one of George Balanchine’s most important muses. A Ballet Teacher Changes the Rules 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The couplets are difficult to translate, particularly the more philosophical musings. A Diary From Inside the Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Then she encountered a darker muse: the Nauru files. In Stone and Fabric, Two Artists Explore the Quest to Find Home 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

The narrative deftly explored brief episodes from Cavafy’s life as well as musings on queerness, ethnic identity, migration and the tangled history of the Mediterranean region. Reanimating Cavafy, a Poet of ‘Future Generations’ Whose Time Is Now 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

He documented blooms from magazines, popular literature, and classical texts, scribbling his musings about the meanings of their presence. Check Out Jean-Michel Othoniel’s Site-Specific Sculptures at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

I imagined wandering the grounds in dappled sunlight, musing on Mr. Miyazaki’s cinematic oeuvre as our boys paused to collect acorns — just as the two sisters who star in “Totoro” do. Our Favorite Magical Creatures Live at Ghibli Park, So We Had to Go 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

A chant begins, an eerie invocation: “O, for a muse of fire” — the first words of this Shakespeare play. | 'Henry V': A Kingdom for a Stage, Princes to Act ...and Maybe a Better Hall? 2011-08-17T21:51:54Z

"I don't know if women go to male revues for sexual stimulation," he mused. Channing Tatum buffs his body of work in 'Magic Mike XXL' 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

E! network, long a home to Joan Rivers and her red carpet musings, as well as style talk show "Fashion Police," is paying tribute to the comedic spitfire who died Thursday at age 81. Joan Rivers: E! network to pay tribute to the comedian 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

“You do not have a soul; you are a soul, but you have a body for now,” Sibel muses. From Blood and Phlegm to Alcohol and Defenestration, Novels of Heartache 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

But, he mused, perhaps there was a “hidden feminist message” here. Ice and fire: what Game of Thrones can teach us about power politics 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

That has made him ripe for satire — his gnomic musings in car ads practically begged for it. Review | Matthew McConaughey is ‘alright, alright, alright’ — and thinks you will be too 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

The musical is adapted from his play of the same name, which starred his diminutive muse, Marylouise Burke, in its 2001 premiere. How the Star of ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Found Beauty in Her Voice Again 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

“I like the idea of D.C. being on one big contact high,” mused Adam Goodheart, a D.C.-based writer. It’s summer, and Washington smells like weed. Everywhere, all the time. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

Coffee was to Larsson what alcohol was to Charles Bukowski: a muse, a fuel, an intrinsic part of his authorial landscape. ArtsBeat: Stieg Larsson's Coffee Mania, Revisited 2011-06-21T18:33:46Z

Gratton lingers on a tear in a man’s cloak so that Hotspur can muse on what that suggests about his character. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The exotic depths of Allen’s philosophical musings seemingly arise effortlessly and even despite himself. The Existential Genius of Late Woody Allen 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

From that platform, each Sunday past and present, personal anecdotes and musings mix with an in-depth examination of Scripture, forming a sermon that echoes long after congregants have gone home. How Literature by Black Authors Shaped One Scholar’s Life 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

Despite plots that offer little more than a catalogue of bizarre events and random musings, there are enough flashes of brilliance to keep the reader interested. On to the beginning 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The lumbersexual has been the subject of much Internet musing in the last several weeks. Confessions of a Lumbersexual 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

“How do most people resist the urge to flatten you with a meat hammer?” she muses, of the boyfriend. In ‘The Next to Die,’ a Serial Killer Targets Pairs of Best Friends 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

“Perfume,” he muses, “is fooling you into smelling stuff that is not there. It’s very much sleight of hand.” Does this train station smell like ... grapefruit? How the air around us suddenly became so fragrant. 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Like Ginsberg, Willner’s effortless charm and philosophical musings are hypnotic, and transcend the music producer/conductor hat that he has worn for years. Allen Ginsberg celebrated by rock stars at the Ace Hotel in L.A. 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Sheenspeak could be considered a demented combination of William S. Burroughs' beat musings and those Chuck Norris jokes in which the '80s action star is inflated to mythic proportions. Some see poetry in Charlie Sheen's `Adonis DNA' 2011-03-03T22:50:11Z

"A strong woman with a disciplined silhouette," the muse as per the program notes, saw the idea of severity evoked in leather straps around waists and some stiff paneling. Givenchy, Kenzo, Chloe get tough, Celine delights 2013-03-04T02:31:05Z

His films double as a record of the face of his muse, Lee Kang-sheng, captured closely in all its gradations over time. ‘Face’ Review: Close Encounters 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

It turns out that frustrated writers who pine for a muse or help from above are adhering to a 5,000-year-old tradition. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

The writing is full of metaphors and soulful musings, but with the exception of a little repetition, it’s not indulgent. | 'White Woman Street': Sebastian Barry?s Play at Irish Repertory Theater 2010-05-31T22:33:00Z

Because he creates the music in the moment, at the mercy of his muse, Mr. Jarrett maintains a notoriously low threshold for disruption. Review: Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall, Precise and Aglow 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

“The film is an alternative look at the artist and muse, and how a specific moment in their lives inspired Orlando,” says Button. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

His songs were rooted in country, soul and gospel, and they strove to stay plain-spoken and succinct, whether he was singing wryly about everyday life or musing on philosophy and faith. Jesse Winchester, Writer and Singer of Thoughtful Songs, Dies at 69 2014-04-11T23:53:26Z

The tension between life and art, perhaps, musing and memory, which is the tension embodied by this book. Ghosts emerge in Vivian Gornick's memoir 'The Odd Woman and the City' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

"Cuisine," whether it be vegan or vegetarian, she mused, "really connects us not only to our traditions, but to our families." I’m Jewish and vegan — here’s how I celebrate Rosh Hashanah 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

“You don’t see much of it,” Mr. Brown said, musing that sports stars should be patrons of the arts. Artist Sews Together Sports and Geopolitics 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

“They’re not particularly expensive, and it’s another way to have something to look after,” she muses. Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

I remember one particular time I had selected a rather bold check for a sports jacket and mused that cuffs on the sleeves might be a nice touch. | A Tale of Two Tailors 2013-01-07T16:48:56Z

“I was never financially educated. I think most of us are not,” she mused last week after arriving in Washington from her new home base in L.A. Their family ties were defined by money. Suddenly, the money was gone. 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

“I can still see in my dreams,” she muses. Review: In ‘Blind,’ Perception and Fantasy Converge in a Writer’s Mind 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

“Rico is my muse,” Mr. Formichetti, who styles Lady Gaga, wrote in an e-mail. Critic?s Notebook: Pushing Fashion Boundaries in an Era Without Any 2011-01-12T22:45:41Z

Shot in the late ’80s mainly for French Vogue, the photos show the famous muses with their backs to the camera, drawing the viewer’s eye to the detail of their ensembles. | Tools and Tips for Surviving London Fashion Week 2013-09-13T20:35:23Z

“It’s partly their marvelous color, but, they are beautifully proportioned too,” she muses. Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

“I always meant to take a picture of it,” Hopps muses, “but somehow didn’t or couldn’t.” Gonzo museum director Walter Hopps paints his colorful life in art 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

My muse is dying, is going to die. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

“How hard it is to contemplate your own death,” Mr. Fischl mused in an interview. Decision Time for Aging Artists 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Another agent, discussing their line of work and musing that “it’s a messed up world,” wonders why they’re not rescuing the children peddled by traffickers. ‘Sound of Freedom’ Review: In the Land of Child Traffickers 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

There were Russian women who lived as muses and as eccentric women who were adored by society. "It's very complicated": Salvador Dalí biopic delves into odd and kinky relationship with wife Gala 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

“Infinite, the book of secrets,” Jack continues, lost in his musings on the troublesome past in the play’s opening monologue. | 'Haunted': A Longtime Marriage, Threatened Inside and Out 2010-12-09T04:30:00Z

The installation’s structure is inspired by yet another muse: Homer’s purported grave on the Greek island of Ios, which consists of piles of rocks placed by visitors. In Stone and Fabric, Two Artists Explore the Quest to Find Home 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

For good measure, the book is a love story, a requited one between fan and muse, delivering a hero from Texas with architecturally stupendous hair: Lyle Lovett. Review | In ‘Becoming Duchess Goldblatt,’ a Twitter celebrity is ready for her close-up — but her creator remains a mystery 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

“It’s our fate to be bound up with one another, isn’t it, he muses. “We are all born insufficient, and must look to others to supplement our strength. Theater Review: ‘The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence’ 2013-12-10T03:00:01Z

How strange it is to consider the second episode of Marvel's "What If...?" in the context of what we know instead of losing ourselves entirely in its musings about infinite possibility. Chadwick Boseman's posthumous Marvel performance packs an emotional wallop befitting his legacy 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Assange, who muses on his “god complex” and his capacity for martyrdom, likes to surround himself with disciples. Review: Revisiting the Mystery of Julian Assange, in ‘Risk’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Any of his musings about the past are playful ruminations. Thomas Haden Church on his offbeat new "Acidman" role: "There is clearly something wrong with Lloyd" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

My mom mused on the cancer's cause for years: Maybe the tumor was because of paint fumes in the poorly ventilated studios where she worked as an art student. You can't resolve your way through New Year's grief 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Thrill to Dylan, a troubadour with a white-smeared face and a peacock feather in his wide-brimmed hat, as he electrifies and sometimes confuses audiences with his melodious musings. ‘Rolling Thunder’ Review: A New Ballad of Bob, Sung by Marty 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

But for a show that debuted off-Broadway in 1995, its musings on the human experience remain universal. Review | Monumental Theatre’s ‘Songs for a New World’ vividly imagines a better tomorrow 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

In "Soul with Me," the album's finest track, Gore muses that "I'm heading for the ever after / Leaving my problems and the world's disasters." Depeche Mode embraces life and death with new album "Memento Mori" 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z

“Does he believe I have nothing else to do with my time than sit around being his muse? His. When did poets forget that they serve the muses, and not the other way around?” Review | Natalie Haynes’s ‘A Thousand Ships’ brilliantly reframes the Trojan War 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

Orfeo was written in the raw year of his bereavement of Claudia, the beautiful court singer who was his muse and his Eurydice. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Beginning by invoking the figure of Miss Havisham – a sort of muse of heartbreak – Raine ensures that his characters are well-drilled in the canon, citing Ezra Pound or Schopenhauer as the occasion requires. Heartbreak by Craig Raine 2010-07-04T11:43:00Z

“Is it a self-conscious and ludicrous performance of guilt?” he muses. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

It is the essence of what the critic Greil Marcus, musing on Bob Dylan and the Band’s “Basement Tapes,” called the “old, weird America.” | 'John Mellencamp: It?s About You': ?John Mellencamp: It?s About You,? by Kurt and Ian Markus - Review 2012-01-03T23:26:44Z

Other white plaques will be affixed to buildings associated with deaths linked to drug abuse, such as Bramwell Brontë, the novelists' errant brother, the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein and the pre-Raphaelite muse Elizabeth Siddal. White plaque for West End star to launch anti-drug campaign 2012-11-24T16:55:17Z

You can, as I did on a Saturday morning, stroll along the commute that helped dislodge the man’s subconscious musings. Footsteps: For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse 2012-02-23T17:40:00Z

And, Mansbach says, he is not overly concerned what she might think of being the muse for such an odd book when she is old enough to read it. Expletive-laced kids book parody is unlikely hit 2011-06-14T13:11:41Z

A digital guest book invites visitors to jot down their musings or leave messages for wayward companions. At Schiphol, an Unlikely Sanctuary of Books 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z

"You're aware that Paris is near him, but he's so in his own box I don't even think Paris is a part of the movie," he muses. Hawke: 'Hollywood films don't last' 2012-02-17T08:27:28Z

Elsewhere, a patent attorney becomes profoundly disabled and seeks solace in novels, even while he muses on the limitations of the form. The Heroes of This Novel Are Centuries Old and 300 Feet Tall 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

It’s worth remembering that city folks were the chief audience for Rousseau’s rural landscape musings. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

“Sword ferns seemed like a perfect muse for this project,” she said. Renovating an Ode to the Pacific Northwest 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

The original “Pillow Book” was written by a lady of the Japanese court named Sei Shonagon around the turn of the 11th century, and was an assortment of fragmentary observations, musings and philosophical asides. The Best Poetry of 2016 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Chevalier’s resulting novel, the 1999 best seller “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” follows Griet, a 16-year-old Vermeer family servant who sits for the artist as a model and becomes his muse. The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

That symphony has not been widely revived even for this anniversary year, and Franck’s most often heard piece is probably his lush, musing Violin Sonata. Review: For Franck’s 200th, an Organist Pays Grand Tribute 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

“It was an impossible task,” the omniscient amnesiac narrator muses, “but the gesture touched me somehow.” Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Khakpour talked about how editors simply wanted the same novel from her over again; Nicholson happily mused on the delicious melancholy involved in knowing if a book is finished. Festival of Books: Bring on the anxiety for Khakpour, Doten and Nicholson 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

On Twitter, such philosophical musings were mainlined directly to fans as Mr. West indicated he was writing a book “in real time” through the missives. Kanye West Says He Is Returning With Two New Albums 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

"Don't we all feel like orphans here at times," Oliver muses as he walks the autumnal New York streets alone. "Only Murders in the Building" makes me long to reconnect with our elders 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

Celebrity hairstylist and colorist Jonathan Colombini, of L’Oréal Paris, echoed similar sentiments, musing that silver strands mark a “rite of passage” for many people. Celebs embrace gray hair in 2020: 'Silver locks is always a rite of passage' 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

And her dream role in the life of such men was that of selfless muse. Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z

Soon, the muse was striking left and right: "We all came out with whacked out parts." E Street Band's Nils Lofgren: 'Life is grand' 2012-01-11T10:16:05Z

Employing a businesslike tone and unfussy photography, Ms. Reuveny muses on the way catastrophic events — and fractured family stories — can change who we are. ‘Farewell Herr Schwarz’ Excavates the Director’s Past 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

“Imagine a great catastrophe. And all this mowed down,” he mused then, looking at photographs of buildings, envisioning rust and dust. New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’ 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. Morgan’s literary sins, if sins they are, derive from her muse, which appears to be almost too big to carry. Review: In C.E. Morgan’s ‘The Sport of Kings,’ Racing Against the Tide 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

“It was the childlike expression of her face, combined with the slim beauty of her figure,” he muses. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Back in the 1960s, when female musicians were mostly confined to the roles of teacher, interpreter or muse, the Colombian composer Jacqueline Nova was charting new pathways in Latin America. She Brought New Sounds to Colombia. The World’s Catching Up. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

"It's a strange smell, isn't it," he muses, as we enter the malodorous confines of his culture research room, where a host of assorted maggots feast on rotting liver and dog food. Lords of the flies: the insect detectives 2010-09-23T07:00:00Z

Not here, alas, is Roy Lichtenstein’s painting of a military officer musing in a speech bubble: “I am supposed to report to a Mr. Bellamy. I wonder what he’s like.” When Dealers, Too, Were Romantics 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Weird vignette follows bravura passage follows profound musing, in what amounts not so much to a novel as a sheer outpouring of writing, an overflow of history, fantasy and fiction. Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian – review 2013-01-31T08:01:01Z

In this case, the invocation quotes the C major Prelude from the “Well-Tempered Clavier,” and the muse is Johann Sebastian Bach himself. CD reviews: ‘Considering Matthew Shepard,’ 18 years later 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

"You think the future's, like, hovercrafts and all that," she mused, "but we're actually in the future." Radio review: We Were Here 2010-08-06T05:45:00Z

"Waste of money," I mused, as I realized abruptly that I was already awakening in my morning pillow-puddle of drool. Can I spend my way out of my anxiety? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

“When you got down to the heart of things,” the doctor muses after the encounter, “you found desolation. Even in the midst of joy, you would find it. But you would find joy everywhere too.” Lives intertwine in Charles Baxter’s ‘There’s Something I Want You to Do’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Alice muses, “As soon as you are born the sand starts falling and only by demanding to be remembered do you stand a chance of it being upturned again and again.” Review | A former lover of Philip Roth has published a novel about a writer like Philip Roth 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

The company was led by Ms. Farrell, an important muse of the great choreographer George Balanchine when she danced for him at New York City Ballet. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Plans to Close After 2017-18 Season 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Midway through this film, he muses about "selling his old self and career" which is often a low point for many performers. "Val" captures the bittersweet paradox of Kilmer's life and art, both hamstrung by his own intensity 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

She was, at once, Bennett’s original muse and her highest-profile client. Life After Prison for Women Who Are Convicted of Murder 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

"A couple of seasons at the Old Vic and a stint or two at Oxford and I could swing one fairly easily with Labour in power," he muses. The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams – review 2012-11-29T08:00:03Z

That was something eerily replicated in 1971 when he learned of the suicide of his next great love and muse, George Dyer, at the opening of his big show at the Grand Palais in Paris. Portrait of Francis Bacon's violent lover to be auctioned at Sotheby's 2013-04-08T03:00:01Z

I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions 2010-06-01T20:30:00Z

The chords keep going, as if they might offer solace; a full minute later, he muses, “Me and my mother, me and my father” and then “Me and my …” They’re gone. The Playlist: Lil Peep’s Sweet Gloom, and 8 More New Songs 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

“You can’t take everything too heavy in life,” Holly said at the time, musing aloud about how she would attend memorial services for Mr. Reed when she hardly had bus fare. Remembering Holly Woodlawn, a Transgender Star of the Warhol Era 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

As one of the characters muses at one point, "the streets of London are full of strangeness". Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z

These musings, of course, were largely shaped by the fact that I live in a very different culture than my parents and teachers did. Bill, Hillary and the women: Should millennials care about Bill Clinton’s sex scandals? 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Music versioning might also allow artists to respond to fan feedback on new releases—though Kanye seems to be driven mainly by his own perfectionist muse. Kanye West Is Patching His Music Like Software 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

“There’s no free lunch,” he said, musing on the trade-offs we make with technology. Steve Reich at 80: Still Plugged In, Still Plugging Away 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

I suggest that her mother is perhaps her muse. Elizabeth Crane finds a new place and her voice in Newburgh, N.Y. 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Trump, his new muse, says aloud what political operatives have always understood: Winning is the important thing. What happens when you tie your career to Donald Trump? Ask Sean Spicer in a few months. 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

The songs ground philosophical musings and high-flown imagery in concrete reminiscences and events. With ‘Songs of Innocence,’ U2 Recasts Its Youth 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

“This is France, it’s simple things,” he mused, but added, “The girls are pretty, one must admit; we’re also here for that.” Segr? Journal: A Pageant Icon Turns Her Back on Miss France 2010-11-18T09:00:00Z

"Maybe we will do some heart cakes with that iconic Biden face on them," she mused. Wisconsin bakery celebrates COVID-19 vaccine with injectable doughnut kits 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

He struggles creatively — in crafting his script, he muses on variants of the Rimbaud pronouncement, “I is another,” and wrestles with his own ego’s place in a process that demands more empathy. ‘Tommaso’ Review: A Sober, but Not Serene, Life 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

“A falcon could mount to the stars and still count the hairs on a goat’s head,” Kylee muses. Young Adult Fantasy Novels That Sweep Readers Away 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

“This, to me, is my life’s work,” Cain said, and she’s in no rush to finish, musing that it may take her well into her 30s. The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

He muses: “I think there’s something to be had about testing your fear capacity, something that keeps you alive.” Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba! Actor Opines on Sex, Race, Bond 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Q: And how do you find your muse? Getting inside the head of film director Tim Burton 2010-11-24T20:39:00Z

The ballet's famous final pose — which, in Randall G. Chiarelli's elegant design, looked like it was creating its own light — seems to stop time, as Apollo and his muses achieve a sublime moment of perfection. Dance review: PNB's 'Apollo & Carmina' 2012-04-16T20:05:08Z

When they started talking about memorabilia, Mark looked over, studied my face to see if they were boring me with the minutiae of their Allman musings. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

With her dusty scrolls, Clio is not just the muse of history, but an emblem of the cumulated wisdom of the ages. In praise of ? the long(er) view 2010-09-21T23:01:00Z

This is no collection of cliche musings about the bond between horse and human. Review | What does it mean to be a ‘horse girl’? It’s more than a silly kid who wants a pony. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

A black soldier muses about not feeling fully accepted by his brothers in arms because of his race. In ‘Korengal,’ U.S. Soldiers Recall Their Time in Afghanistan 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

In her latest work My Funeral Song, for instance, her friends listen to their funeral track of choice and muse silently on their inevitable demise. Artist of the week 102: Breda Beban 2010-08-25T16:16:00Z

“Sign of the times,” Brown, 45, mused, a sentiment that applies to baked goods as much as the continually changing face of a block he helped revitalize. CakeLove is closing. Can its creator capture the next big baking trend in a jar? 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The historic musing spawned classical mirror embroidery - with LV engraved discs - on flight jackets. Vuitton VIPs boil, Miyake make attire from bananas 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

“Somebody had a sense of humor,” she mused, and got a few laughs. The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

He dated Viva, Andy Warhol’s girlfriend and muse. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Jacques d’Amboise, the former City Ballet star, once described the role, in which the young god is guided to adulthood by three muses, as having “more in it than any dancer is capable of doing.” A Ballet Hamlet Becomes a God (Apollo, That Is) 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

In “Notes on the Cinematograph,” Bresson’s scattered, collected musings on filmmaking, the director writes of striving to remove any signs of mental activity from his performers; he wanted to capture the “automatism of real life.” Want to Try a Robert Bresson Film? Look to Clint Eastwood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Nielsen is getting more detailed in the way it measures social media musings about television shows. Nielsen fleshes out Twitter TV ratings with demographic data 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Though Rise was a hit, it still felt torn between its philosophical musings and its obligations as a wham-bam action movie. The Godfather – but with chimpanzees: on set with War for the Planet of the Apes 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

"I feel the system has shown us a pat on the back, yes . . . but it took hell to get there," mused Faith Rodgers, who testified at Kelly's New York trial. "It took hell to get there": The legacy of "Surviving R. Kelly" bringing down a predator 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

The imposter has produced nearly 1,900 acerbic musings in all – painting the Suede singer as a monstrously egotistical dandy grumbling his way through middle age. Suede: 'Who says you can only do great stuff if you're damaged?' 2013-03-05T19:00:02Z

Later, Frankie muses about their frenemy Dallas, who misgenders them: “She gets it wrong on purpose just to make a big deal about correcting it.” Pride, Illustrated: 6 Comics and Graphic Novels to Read This June 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

“I think Miles would have messed with a lot of different artists,” Mr. Glasper mused. What Would Miles Davis Do? Robert Glasper Has an Idea 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

By 1803 he was musing to the governor of Pennsylvania that “a few prosecutions” of journalism’s “most eminent offenders” would “place the whole band more on their guard.” ‘Seek and Hide’ Grapples With the Complexity of the Right to Privacy 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Everything else — from the exuberant solos of Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker to the intimate musings of Billie Holiday and Chet Baker — grows from the rhythmic embrace of the bass and drums. Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

But — as she proposes on the new album’s ode to an artist’s muse, “Bright Star” — sometimes longing and distance can bear unexpected fruit. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

This film strikes me as a free soul musing about what freedom means in a Hollywood context, where the constraints are material, technological, and monetary, rather than tradition or even culture. Warren Beatty Wants Six Hours of Your Time. Or More. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The White Period of Ted Danson most resembles that of Bill Murray, who, since his resurrection as an upper-middle-aged curmudgeon amid pubescent scoundrels in "Rushmore," has become an unlikely muse for indie writers and directors. Ted Danson gambles comeback on "CSI" 2011-09-21T16:22:00Z

Now nearly every image of Mr. Sabbat, his most telegraphic online musing, generates a level of follower engagement that is catnip to the corporate world. Luka Sabbat, the 18-Year-Old Fashion Influencer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Fashion is his muse, not the manufactured glamour and celebrity fetishism that often pollutes it. Film: The New Directors/New Films Series Begins 2010-03-23T22:03:00Z

This open-ended approach can be frustrating at times, like a brew of metaphysical musings, Dollar Store Antonioni and barren “Slackers,” but the film does have an unsettling vibe under its sunny exterior. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s positioned right next to a basement window. That’s probably where the furnace was,” he muses. ‘History right under our feet’: Decorative manhole covers are a window on Washington’s past 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

“Whenever somebody says the word ‘muse,’ you do conjure up images of white marble statues of subservient women kneeling at the feet of a god holding a musical instrument,” Mr. Wheeldon said after a rehearsal. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z

For years he has held the juicy 19th-century novel of action above the bloodless musings of the modernists. Mario Vargas Llosa’s delicious melodrama of sex, love and revenge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Then again, mania and nervousness have served as prime muses for the band’s sound since its members started playing together as high school freshmen. New York Has a New Band of Buzzy Post-Punk Teens: Geese 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Among the collection highlights is a Pablo Picasso portrait of his muse, Dora Maar. Financier's art collection coming to NYC auction 2012-03-20T10:42:08Z

Ona, the most idealistic of the set, meanwhile muses over the metaphysics of forgiveness: "Is forgiveness that's forced upon us true forgiveness?" After abuse,"Women Talking" challenges the misuse and metamorphosis of forgiveness 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

“I feel differently about this guy,” he muses at one point. Review | Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s son recalls the death of a literary giant 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

The muse for the 1930s series was Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was a teenager when she met the middle-aged Picasso in Paris. Art: Picasso Sale ? Another Auction, Another Trophy 2010-05-05T20:21:00Z

She once mused that her work would make her “famous,” and she was right. Nellie Mae Rowe Breaks Down the Wall Between Insider and Outsider Art 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

Are you grateful these days that your comedic muse didn’t lead you down a more political path? Jerry Seinfeld on Louis C.K., Roseanne and Tense Times in Comedy 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Constandin, an inexhaustible talker, overflowing with corny wisdom, snippets of poetry and philosophical musings, resembles one of Mr. Tarantino’s garrulous bounty hunters. Review: ‘Aferim!’ Traverses an Unforgiving Romania in the 1800s 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

A few tracks suggest Hamblett's melodic muse visits only irregularly at this early stage of his career, but since his sidemen are so good, the group sounds full of promise. Dave Hamblett Group: Light At Night – review 2013-02-21T22:59:01Z

When I mused about possibly getting rid of a chair, he grabbed it, bent it over his knee and snapped it in half. How Do You Know When It’s Time to Break Up? 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

"After the Fall" is a rambling book, less a coherent argument than an assemblage of current events, history, keen insights, crotchety opinions and musings on where to find the best Turkish food in Berlin. 'After the Fall': Europe's economy falls from grace 2012-02-08T22:16:03Z

"He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only," Blake mused. William Blake's picture of God 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z

“He loved these women, not as muses but as beings who answered to the longings and anguish of his inner life,” O’Brien said. In ‘Joyce’s Women,’ 2 Great Irish Writers Square Up 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kidman, named best actress in a limited series for “Big Little Lies,” chose to underscore her stature as a worldly fashion muse. Old Hollywood Vavoom Dominated on the Emmys Red Carpet 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

In so doing, as a well-educated man at the heart of a revolution, he mused that he should feel part of history. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z

Marie, his girlfriend who is in recovery from drug addiction, was the muse he forgot to thank in his premiere screening speech. From badass Peter Dinklage to the thriller "Behind Her Eyes," here's what new on Netflix in February 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

He’s the most likely to deliver the opening or closing speech, which tends to muse philosophically on a theme, like the nature of man, with coherence and wit if not explosive punch lines. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Apocalypse isn’t what it used to be, as a character muses halfway through the British novelist Sarah Moss’s “The Fell.” Keep Calm and Go Quietly Mad 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Kate, who once dreamed of being a concert violinist but more recently lost the tip of a finger in a cooking class accident, muses, “What a tragedy if my dream had come true.” ‘Intelligent Life’ Review: Cecily Strong’s ‘Awerobics’ Workout 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Bellow’s own biographer mused, after the publication of “Ravelstein,” “Who are the other great writers who have done anything like this in their eighties?” What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

In that same letter, Mr. Obama mused on being an outsider in Indonesia, where he was visiting his mother and sister. Obama Letters From 1980s Are Obtained by Emory University 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Only Lovers Left Alive is an indulgent, eccentric midnight movie with a great deal of muso musing about vinyl and guitars and cool retro stuff. Cannes 2013: Only Lovers Left Alive – first look review 2013-05-24T21:49:58Z

Kemper’s musings run the gamut, from her devotion to SoulCycle, to her failed “Saturday Night Live” audition, to what the “vomit mixture” comprised in an infamous “Bridesmaids” scene. Review | Phoebe Robinson, Ellie Kemper and Busy Philipps are here to brighten your days 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Artificial wombs — measurable, controllable — may be deemed vastly preferable to the flawed, unpredictable and morally ambiguous bodies and behaviors of flesh-and-blood women,” Hazard muses in response. The Womb Is a Miracle, and a Mystery 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

A live collection of spoken word musings to a brass-band backing, it continued Byrne's puckish wit and deep understanding of postmodern America, but in a completely different mode to Talking Heads' global funk. Peter Gordon, New York's king of disco 2010-04-23T14:19:00Z

Creating FX's "Atlanta," one of the best shows on TV, cemented his reputation as an innovator, which is why the musings he tweeted last Monday hit like a needle scratch. "The Nevers" is proof that cancel culture isn't really canceling the right people 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z

Detroit became his home, but Memphis and Stax Records were Mr. Rice’s muse. Mack Rice, Who Wrote ‘Mustang Sally,’ Dies at 82 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Sprinkled throughout are Raichlen’s literate musings and his illuminating interviews with cool “Food Dudes” from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Keller. A manly cooking primer from Steven Raichlen 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

In touting the potential for this new business to extend its customers’ lives, he muses, “Would I take an extra year with my dad?” and says he absolutely would. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 6: Cool New Rule 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

Hooper’s muse appeared at a wild time in modern U.S. history. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre": A metaphor for Nixon-era mayhem 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

For Mr. Cohen, mortality was always a muse and an ever-present reality. Mourning the Greats: Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell and Mose Allison 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

In fact, that the musings here feel remarkably long for the internet just go to show us how much has changed — and how little space, on the internet, we give to “thinking about what matters.” Michelle Dean loves Ursula K. Le Guin's cat stories. Which is a good start. 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

“This is cinema, and that’s just television!” he tells his muse. That auteur do it: can big name directors continue to thrive on the small screen? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Imagine if Einstein or Edison had mused on Twitter? Tesla owners love their cars. Elon Musk? Not as much. 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

Which is to say, “A Burglar’s Guide to the City” isn’t just an entertaining and unusual book but also kind of trippy and at times metaphysical in its musings. How to be a better burglar: Creeping around in buildings with Geoff Manaugh and Jeff VanderMeer 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

“She’s not only my muse, but my creative mirror,” he said. Robin Thicke, a Romantic, Has a Naughty Hit 2013-07-21T16:14:52Z

“I don’t think he would agree with the muse idea,” she says. Emma Stone on Woody Allen, whitewashing and why Hollywood pairs her with older men 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

But those people are lucky: These musings are purely academic for them, intellectual, really. Motherlode Blog: The Dog Days of I.V.F. Doubt 2013-12-17T20:03:59Z

In gentler music, though, his muse is a fussy, temperamental creature, not content to leave well enough alone. Vladimir Feltsman, formidable pianist in program of Schumann, Mussorgsky 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

"I'm a friend and a confidante," muses will.i.am about his role as a coach on The Voice. The Voice 'is building careers' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

He is condemned, he muses, to live life as a perpetual drifter, never at home anywhere, the perfect chronicler of a vagabond modernity. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

"We're like children," she muses, "who cling to the skirts of a beautiful, preoccupied mother." 'The Betrayal': Bearing bad news ? a Leningrad doctor's dilemma 2011-08-31T21:28:03Z

Mr. Bernstein mused, “I’m not sure that a major career is a healthy thing,” lamenting that the days of virtuosos who were also composers seemed a thing of the past. Ethan Hawke Films ‘Seymour: An Introduction’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Are mortgage lenders who turn down minority applicants really being racist, he muses, or are those lenders simply calculating default rates “from different neighborhoods that just happen to correlate with race?” In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Chain reaction, maybe?” muses Nasir Mazhar, whose often otherworldly and sometimes downright gritty designs have made him London’s latest golden boy of millinery. Hat Makers With Attitude 2011-10-03T18:23:15Z

Morgan’s private library is kitted out with three tiers of Circassian walnut bookshelves, under a vaulted ceiling painted with muses and zodiac signs. 3 Choice Museums and a Treat for Kids, No Subway Trips in Between 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

Then again, he mused, getting in trouble all those years ago, as painful as it was, was probably the best thing that ever happened to him. A Penitent Reflects on the Wilderness 2010-09-16T04:00:00Z

And he’s a little bit pizza Yoda: “All deeps are pans but not all pans are deeps,” he muses. Sorry, New York, new pizza tour and book proclaims Chicago Pizza City, USA 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

In any case, he’s not the only one musing along such lines. Christian Siriano and Tom Ford Have an Unexpected Mind-Meld 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Hawkins muses on a failed relationship, but still manages a Darknessesque squeal at the end. Review: The Darkness return, offering 'Hot Cakes' 2012-08-20T16:59:11Z

"Any good band is kind of a miracle, right?" he muses. Review: The Rascals find a fountain of youth 2013-04-17T00:31:13Z

Baker plays Alwina, a shepherdess who is taken up as a muse by a writer seeking inspiration. Where is the love?: Seeking intimacy in Josephine Baker's films 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

His musings arrive with punch lines, not pretensions. Music of Heartache, Mortality and Success 2011-12-17T02:43:15Z

His memories of his wife and his musings about the divergence of their once-shared lives become serrated and profound, as if a breeze has aired out the entire project. “Fleishman Is in Trouble” Turns the Marriage Novel Inside-Out 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

It sees both of Scorsese’s muses – De Niro and DiCaprio – teaming up. 'It's mind-blowing': Emma Tillinger Koskoff on producing The Irishman and Joker 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

And in the book’s powerful final essay, Kathryn Miles muses about the meaning of farewell kisses after a man she loves leaves her, taking his two boys, demolishing their makeshift family. Writers Pay Lip Service to a Universal Gesture of Love 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Meander through at any time of year and muse on what life was like for the valley’s pioneers. Hiking into Stehekin has sweet rewards (such as a bakery) 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

New York City Ballet’s rehearsal studios are the natural place for her, where she can groom dancers in the roles she knew best as the company’s prima ballerina and Balanchine’s muse. Perspective | Bringing Suzanne Farrell back into the New York City Ballet studios is a step in the right direction 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

“Can I get my same booth? I can’t believe it,” he mused with a big smile. Florida Chick-fil-A throws surprise 100th birthday party for loyal customer 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

It's just like a play: we've got to get these people on stage, and they have to drive the plot with their dialogue – we're not exactly reinventing the muse. DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus: 'A film-maker needs to watch like a cat' 2013-03-06T00:39:54Z

He mused about bringing clients together on a regional basis or reaching several around the country at once. Small wineries pivot — and expand — with Zoom tastings and company team-building events 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

“Sometimes I think I would have preferred that I did get married,” he muses. Al Pacino was nearly fired from ‘The Godfather.’ The rest is history. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Like Ms. Holofcener’s other movies, “Please Give” stars her friend and muse, Catherine Keener, the anti-diva known for her incisive, casual performances and great hair. Nicole Holofcener and Her Latest Film, ?Please Give? 2010-04-24T02:35:00Z

In a wide-ranging series of musing, memoiristic essays, the Guadeloupean novelist writes about the links between her culinary and literary passions. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Its songs strum and muse, with Mr. Cox’s instruments and voices often doubled and slightly staggered, to dizzying stereo effect. Playlist : New Releases: Atlas Sound, Lila Downs and Michael Jackson 2011-11-27T05:03:07Z

I wasn't the only one to have such speculative musings. Deciphering cosmic cornrows in "Obi-Wan Kenobi": Why natural hairstyles belong in the future-past 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

I find myself musing and pondering these things with my friends and family and folks I meet. How do you explain death to a kid? Mark Webber on fantasy and reality in "The Place of No Words" 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

Plant turned to look at me and mused, “I wonder what he’s up to now?” Plagiarists or innovators? The Led Zeppelin paradox endures 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

“Maybe I earned a fun one,” Clark, who records under the name St. Vincent, mused. St. Vincent Is Trying to Understand People 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

There she meets Man 1, who has the sound and appearance of male and female genders synthesized, and behaves like a muse spun from her mind. Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

“You think differently when there are walls around you,” Mr. ag Leche mused. Tinariwen?s ?Tassili?: Desert Blues, Recorded On-Site 2011-08-31T16:18:25Z

Five years later, he ended a conversation with the critic Georges Sadoul by musing, “I wonder if my films are worth the effort they require.” Review: Bresson and the Elliptical Economies of a Master Filmmaker 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

It has, however, made me muse on the ways we choose to write about the environmental emergency. Can We Patch Up the Natural World We’ve Hurt? 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

“I’m queen of the parade, the honorary muse – Cinderella time!” Patricia Clarkson: ‘I’m a free spirit… this is the life I want’ 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

You emerge from the other side of it glad not just that Stevens continued to make music, but that he chose to follow his muse to such a radical, potentially divisive place. Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz - review 2010-10-07T14:30:00Z

Jared Leto, who is a Michele muse, and also in “House of Gucci,” walked the runway in white denim, aviators and a double-breasted blazer. Gucci Makes a Hollywood Entrance 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

But she had known them — and their friends, their muses and photographers — long before she was even a glint in Vogue’s eye. Review: In Joan Juliet Buck’s Memoir, a Parade of Stars and Styles 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Their writing muses include Upton Sinclair, who wrote “The Jungle,” and Cormac McCarthy, author of “Blood Meridian.” Television Review: ?Hell on Wheels? on AMC ? Review 2011-11-03T22:25:01Z

Now, Ms. Borda, the Philharmonic executive, muses about the prospect of holding concerts in the Broad. Eli Broad Hopes His Museum Helps an Arts District Grow 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

And of course, Edinburgh's legions of standups are ready to use Trump as a muse. Donald Trump Takes Center Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

"I don't think it's going to really sink in until it comes out," he muses. Teenage kicks 2010-03-27T00:10:00Z

Most of the songs vamp through a handful of chords as Keys gives her voice room to leap, to curl, to muse, to syncopate; she has rarely sounded so jazzy and improvisatory. Alicia Keys, on and Off the Digital Grid 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

"It said the Captain will be played by an unknown British Shakespearean actor," mused Stewart, 74. Patrick Stewart's new roles more down to Earth than sci-fi work 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Though Apollo becomes a god during the ballet and takes these women through their paces, they’re meant to be muses from their first entry, bringing inspiration by their very being. New York City Ballet Dances Stravinsky, by Balanchine 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Sauntering through events, scattering nihilistic musings as if they were breadcrumbs made of poison, the actor finds the wit in negation, the common sense in the curmudgeon. Review: In Shakespeare, When to Underact? 2010-06-29T14:30:00Z

Which leads me back to my initial musing — and the additional conclusion, that an old theatrical adage has to be amended. Perspective | Who needs a director, anyway? A classical theater in Staunton, Va., lets the actors run the show, and it’s a hit. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Marnie has become her best friend, her muse, her source of income, and the celebrity sleeping on her bed. The Most Famous Dog in the World on Instagram 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

As for the police, they said the quirky incident just marked another day on the job: "As a law enforcement officer, you just never know what your next call may be . . . " they mused on Facebook. 25 animals that have been imprisoned or arrested 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

Now Delhomme has transformed his most memorable Internet musings into a book, "The Unknown Hipster Diaries," which was released earlier this month by August Editions. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z

Four decades later, the spirit of Mayberry lives on in the town that claims to be its muse. Andy Griffith evoked, stylized small-town America 2012-07-04T10:01:04Z

His first words “look up here, I’m in heaven/I’ve got scars that can’t be seen” are now obviously an admission of his ill health, rather than just a fantastical musing on mortality. How David Bowie Told Us He Was Dying in the 'Lazarus' Video 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

“Everyone started clapping,” recalls Kapadia, before musing, tongue in cheek: “I wonder if that happens a lot in England? We’ll see.” The city where Diego Maradona rose from the dead 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

These mistakes became the backdrop for his musings on communication — whether in business or in romance, you can’t always assume the other person knows what you’re trying to say. David Henry Hwang, the Man Who Can Make Bruce Lee Talk 2012-11-10T14:39:45Z

Trump lamented that removing the shells made a $200 lobster look like a $2 lobster and mused that he should tell his staff to serve them in their shells to better impress diners. Chris Ruddy and Newsmax went all-in on Trump. Now they might pay a price for it. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

“It looks like Costco — long lines, full carts,” one mother muses from the sidelines. The kids’ review of the new Cayton Children’s Museum: Sticky thumbs up 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z

Bernstein also mused about whether he would end a section of the symphony by vaguely waving his arms and stopping when the orchestra ceased playing. Michael Tilson Thomas Looks Back on Bernstein and Mahler 2010-07-09T20:29:00Z

Ross’s growing interest in “creating immersive experiences with moving images,” as he puts it, eventually led him back to his great muse, the sea. Photographer Clifford Ross Gets The Spotlight This Summer 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Like a suspect invoking his right to remain silent, Dylan declined through his spokesman Larry Jenkins to talk about his role as legal muse. Bob Dylan, 70 on Tuesday, oft-quoted in court 2011-05-24T04:42:05Z

Suzanne Farrell, who danced from the 1960s to the 1980s, was that choreographer’s most celebrated muse. Dance Review: Suzanne Farrell Ballet Stages Balanchine in Washington 2012-11-12T23:09:41Z

“My future self is always afraid when I look back,” Paltrow muses. Gwyneth Paltrow 'Had No Idea' About the Birth of the Term 'Conscious Uncoupling' 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

David, the mission commander, brainstorms: “If we could somehow redirect the pressure from one of the back up generators into a J-cell unit with enough force,” he muses. ‘The Great Filter’ Review: Earth Men, Home Alone 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

Other essayists muse on the allure of poetry to children or examine the idea of family in children's books. New guide to children's books for parents 2010-10-16T01:40:00Z

The Nobel Laureate's musings on the country also known as Burma, and its turbulent history, are part of the narrative. US documentary pries lid off isolated Myanmar 2012-03-16T01:06:11Z

The largely documentary nature of the proceedings is further subverted by a short, episodic, musing video in which Ms. Esquivias, pausing twice to sing a cappella, recounts parts of her process of discovery. Patricia Esquivias: ‘111-119 Generalísimo/Castellana’ 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

When she muses that their child-to-be is genetically predisposed to becoming “a rapper”, he counters: “I hate to burst your bubble...” The Asperger's comedy troupe: 'We want people to like us because we’re funny' 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Deterministic musings aside, one might well assume that humans are too smart for such idiotic circling. The Dread and Bewilderment of Walking in Circles 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The muse whispers into the ear of Caeneus, once an argonaut questing for the golden fleece, now second mate on a 1940s Danish merchant vessel schlepping paper pulp to Turkey. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z

“I keep saying that this piece is about identification and about processing ‘black’ and ‘white,’ but it’s more about me processing what ‘other’ means,” she muses. Biracial composer searches for her ‘true name’ through piece for Northwest Corner Chamber Orchestra 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

In a conversation with Bernard, Dr. Ford muses that “consciousness” might not be the difference between robots and humans; the difference, he suggests, might not even exist. How “Westworld” Failed the Western 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Such historical speculations concerning forgotten turning points provide cerebral thrills and wistful musings on children unborn, deeds undone, cities unbuilt. Review | ‘Lost Transmissions’ tracks down some of the best art you didn’t know existed 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

“Everyone joked about it being the worst food in the country,” muses Erik Holzherr, a New Yorker who opened Washington’s first cocktail bar eight years ago. Michelin strong: with coveted food guide, did DC finally reach cultural relevance? 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

The musing is oblique: There are no shots of bleary-eyed e-mail addicts slumped over keyboards, for instance. Artists contemplate the isolation of the Internet era through photographs 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

“I have destroyed him with the weapons I abhorred, and they are his,” Smiley muses. 'Homeland' Recap: In the Finale, Carrie's Suburban Fantasy Is Dashed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

“But, yeah, she was my muse,” he said. Free to Be... Isaac Mizrahi 2013-08-28T22:35:16Z

Naipaul ignored cold-war machinations in the Congo just as he would later scant the brutal rule of Iran's shah in exchange for broad musings on the innate defects of Islam. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z

Much that Critchley muses on about soccer could be equally applicable to other team sports, and he doesn’t shy away from soccer’s long history of hooliganism, corruption and sexism. From Politics to Scandals, Sports Seem to Speak to Our Times 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

But he remains more famous as a kind of connoisseur, muse and talent scout of disposable art, a rogue conscience at the ground level of West Coast pop culture. Kim Fowley, Rock Producer and Svengali, Dies at 75 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

She had a tumultuous relationship with Fitzgerald, but was his greatest muse. Jennifer Lawrence to play jazz age icon Zelda Fitzgerald in new biopic 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

She writes with incredible speed, in curious flashes of intense concentration, as a stenographer taking sudden, urgent dictation from a personal, omnipotent muse. Fran Landesman obituary 2011-08-10T15:37:01Z

I heard in “Karawane” — its music more than its words — a sly musing on today’s religious tensions and so-called clashes of civilizations. Review: Philharmonic Goes Dada With Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘Karawane’ 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

But actually making private thoughts and musings coherent on a screen is never a simple task. 'Inside Out,' 'The Matrix' and more: Ranking cinema's notable head trips 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

And in voice-overs he muses on big ideas: creativity, memory, inspiration. Nowhere Man: Nick Cave, 20,000 Days on Earth and the Nature of the Unknowable Man 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

But it wasn't until one hot summer when I fell under the sway of the ribald, disreputable, restless prose of Chester Himes that I found my truest muse. Literary Idol: Nelson George on Chester Himes 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

The show, which closes this weekend, explores his creative process — it includes animation cels, sketches, wire sculptures and a video — and how New York often became his muse. Spare Times for Children Listings for Sept. 23-29 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Dancers and musicians, choreographed by Satterwhite, silently follow their muses under billboard-size photos of performers from the past in a constantly moving digital landscape. The new hall sparkles with new art by Nina Chanel Abney and Jacolby Satterwhite. 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

The active bidders for the Brancusi pushed the 1913 egg-shaped sculpture, “La muse endormie,” to a new high for the artist at auction. After Heavy Bidding, a Brancusi Head Sells for $57.4 Million at Christie’s 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

It’s all framed with autobiographical musings about growing up as a gay child of straight parents, and ultimately becoming a parent myself. My Stories Become Someone Else’s: Adapting a Book to Film 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

There’s not a lot of family here,” mused Joseph Paire, 33, the executive chef at Todd Gray’s Watershed restaurant in Northeast. At D.C.’s own Christmas-themed bar, the holiday spirits are flowing 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

“I may have to put them on and record them again,” she mused. Loretta Lynn Mines a Legacy of Heartaches and High Notes 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The show was based on car crashes and was the first runway appearance of his diminutive muse, the soon-to-be-supermodel Devon Aoki. Jeremy Scott, Fashion?s Last Rebel 2011-11-30T21:52:06Z

“I really wish I’d thought of pockets when I got married. Such a little thing yet so important,” another mused. Bridal party’s 'power pose' showing off pockets goes viral 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Let’s examine reality television,” Weiner mused in a recent phone interview, in support of Showtime’s four-part series “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI.” The walls are closing in on Trump, says “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI” author We... 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jobs was not the typical muse of fashion cliché. Why Steve Jobs Chose This Designer’s Turtlenecks 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

But the book succeeds in probing nuanced issues of guilt and innocence through an intricate collage of memories and musings, with excerpts from Octavia's novels and passages from Milo's lyrics. 'The Nobodies Album': Trying to set right the stories of her life 2010-07-08T20:34:00Z

Rich’s essay is the latest offering in a long line of authors using their bylines to muse through what they see as the country’s “hillbilly problem.” Liberal shaming of Appalachia: Inside the media elite’s obsession with the “hillbilly problem” 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Bozo is not only Mr. Arquette’s muse these days, but also his business. David Arquette Spray Paints Bozo in Brooklyn 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

When Paul says, “I used to want to start a museum of the water fountain,” or muses about what happened to NPR’s Bob Edwards, you think: this has gotten pretty dire. Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z

With links to videos of his past musings on the former Alaskan governor. Stephen Colbert hopes to grab Sarah Palin fans with his own site 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

"It's a sort of Alexander McQueen word," says Hensher, referring to the late fashion designer whose main muse was the stylist Isabella Blow. My Muse and me 2012-05-27T17:01:01Z

The surrealists’ female muse was “sometimes literally depicted like an inanimate object or dehumanized to be acted upon,” she notes in her statement. Review | In the galleries: A satire on images of women and the objects they advertise 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Their forum asks if this website provides clues to Battle: Los Angeles, or is just the musings of a UFO enthusiast. Viral marketing: how film fans have caught the bug 2010-12-17T14:39:29Z

As a colleague recently mused, isn't that like a musician deliberately breaking his hands? The fascinating story of Nicole Kidman's forehead 2010-12-15T16:30:00Z

"I hope my black skin don't tear this white tuxedo," muses a Caribbean-sounding Ocean, as a boat docks in the Ivory Coast. Jay-Z: Magna Carta Holy Grail – review 2013-07-06T23:06:33Z

“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl,” she muses. How the scathing "Gone Girl" rant about being the "cool girl" defined the decade 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

In a 49-second tour de force, Ms. Cooper illustrates his musings on light and disinfectant using a lamp and household cleaning products, playing the president’s puzzled aide in cutaways. Trump Said, ‘I Have the Best Words.’ Now They’re Hers. 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Women were often boxed into the role of the muse in Surrealist circles, worshipped as an erotic embodiment of the irrational. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

It brought me close, in my musings, to my mother, and to our sojourns to the library, and I decided to write a book on the subject. Growing Up in the Library 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

If Justin Tanner’s muse answers his wishes, Gibson will indeed be remembered. Diana Gibson, mercurial mentor on L.A.'s stage scene, dies at 69 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Most of the portraits describe an author’s encounters with the creatures depicted, encounters that spark real-world musings on race and diaspora, framing the often contradictory ways in which we represent, consume or reject monstrosity. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

The two fragile handwritten sheets, brimming with original musings and even a new character, were discovered two months ago in France in private hands. 'Little Prince' discovery offers new insight 2012-05-03T12:27:09Z

On “M for Empathy,” a set of short but sweeping tracks released in March, her musings on the inner workings of intimacy, depression and existential uncertainty are marked by consideration and compassion. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

They went, he muses, because it made them feel important, because diners believed that some of the power that seems to concentrate in its butter-yellow dining room might rub off on them. Style over sustenance: How Cafe Milano survived to the ripe old age of 25 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

It is about what happens when a model becomes that old-fashioned-sounding thing, “a muse.” Review | John Singer Sargent didn’t just paint the 1 percent. There was another, less-known side to his art. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

The early musing on boredom is soon displaced by a sometimes sweet, but generally sour love story. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z

But the muse is in a far from wintry mood. Poem of the week: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine 2010-12-06T10:27:00Z

Williams viewed his own wife as "his Beatrice, muse and model of perfection," none of which prevented him from developing passionate, if mostly platonic, relationships with younger women. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and 'The Fellowship' of fantasy writers 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Eliot’s last great poem, which touches on death and disease, as well as on dance, but from a philosophical distance, musically musing about time. 8 Things to Do This Halloween Weekend 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Come winter, Bologna and Piedmont will be its muses as the menu shifts to more game meat, with dishes such as venison ragu. Double-down on dining in Walla Walla 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

For all the groupies who pressed their attentions on the rock star, heroin was often his true muse. Keith Richards' 'Life': Somehow He Still Has One 2010-10-26T14:50:00Z

“The muse comes in, and it’s not yours, and that’s huge. So our differ­ences can go aside. As time goes on, it’s easier.” The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Not that he didn’t muse about other possible titles. 'The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore' Premieres Jan. 19 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Nalley said he wasn’t sure what would be next for his career — perhaps another television show or a movie, maybe even one with the filmmaker and actor Kevin Smith, he mused. TikToker Lands the Role of a Lifetime: Playing Dead on TV 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

But Lightman’s aim in this insightful and provocative musing is to remind us of the centrality of subjectivity in all human endeavors, including those of science. Must Science Conflict With Spirituality? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

"I still love it, but I don't crave it as I used to," he muses. The restorative power of pozole 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

These erratic musings of a “misanthropic and chronically unhappy” man are interrupted one day by a mysterious encounter. Book World Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’

He prized the “freedom” — his word — of being left in his own world, with his atelier and his muses and his books and his Birman and his imagination and his ideas. The Last Designer 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

“Birds are my muses, and I strive to be a true watcher,” he says, referring to people who seek a transcendent connection between human and bird souls. Movie Review: ‘A Birder’s Guide to Everything,’ Starring Ben Kingsley 2014-03-20T23:15:52Z

The result is a piece infused with musings on the speed of change, the switch from a tactile analogue world to a digital one, rising sea levels, increases in rainfall, and general end-of-the-world anxieties. Da Vinci v dreamthinkspeak at Somerset House 2013-01-29T07:00:03Z

In a 1998 interview that she likely didn’t read, Crow had mused that rock was rebellion for the youth, a quintessential Us vs. The Sheryl Crow You Never Knew 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

So muses narrator Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel’s thrilling new historical novel Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to her Booker Prize-winning hit, Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel Continues Her Bloody Brilliant Tudor Saga With Bring Up the Bodies 2012-05-09T10:45:37Z

The muses of art and history are at their best when working in harmony. David Bowie's exceptional late style 2013-01-14T13:21:22Z

The animation is often slow-moving — figures shuffle stiffly across the screen as they muse about art and philosophy, a choice that may challenge viewers accustomed to more fluid gestures. ‘No. 7 Cherry Lane’ Review: A Heady Daydream in 1967 Hong Kong 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

The filmmaker said that she has come to think of her grandmother-in-law as a kind of muse. Up Close: Mapping a Path to Vreelandia 2012-09-12T22:58:09Z

The designer quoted Brigitte Bardot as his muse, but there was something of “Carmen” in the bravura of big skirts, peasant tops, loose hair, smoky eyes and ebony crosses at the throat. Special Report: Fashion: At Jil Sander, Raf Simons Plays With Modernism 2011-09-25T16:45:15Z

Both tonally and visually, the whole thing is an eye-popping, stomach-churning – and very funny – assault on the senses; one that also somehow finds time to muse on the nature of existence. How Rick and Morty became TV’s most unlikely hit 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

Much of the musing was connected to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, which drew tremendous support from Seventh Avenue, including a fundraising fashion show and a formal endorsement from Vogue magazine. How women reclaimed their place in fashion’s spotlight in 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

The situation of a choreographer and muse is murkier. Verdon and Fosse: ‘She Gave Him Stuff. He Gave Her Stuff.’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Then they began musing about a place near Lake Tahoe, which is roughly four hours northeast of their primary residence, a house in San Jose, Calif., that was designed by Joseph Eichler. Beach House, Meet Ocean View 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

But there were many muses instead of one It Girl. Bold looks at NY Fashion Week turn up the volume 2012-09-13T20:16:13Z

In a well-known essay from “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” Didion mused on the value of keeping a notebook. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

It is evidently a muse that can keep a playwright vital and engaged, even during a packed half-century of productivity. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Not that it was that difficult to follow the action, or more accurately, the philosophical musing and, in the case of Lucifer’s big aria, the corrosive malevolence of the Devil’s metaphysical plotting. Music Review: Louis Andriessen?s ?Commedia? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-16T22:59:00Z

"Now the person is on life support and at death's door. It's just not funny anymore," Cregger mused. The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

“Somebody said to me in an interview recently ‘I bet you don’t like being called a muse,’” she said. Róisín Murphy, a Disco Queen Ruling Her Own Galaxy 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Titled “Cobalt,” the episode was an anxious, nervy hour that resisted overwrought obviousness — the Achilles’ heel of “The Walking Dead” — in favor of shaded musings on the moral relativism of the survival instinct. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: I Saw the Devil's Face 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

After his elder daughters’ rejection, he seems truly stunned out of his wits, and he always appears to be musing, “It wasn’t supposed to happen like this.” Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z

That evening, inching home in my car through snarled traffic, I mused that while ferrying in the rain might be inconvenient, driving in it is worse. No Subway. No Buses. No Uber. No Problem. 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

“A muse spends her life enabling men’s creativity instead of her own.” My mentor, Anaïs Nin 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

The title song, which muses on the international intrigues and inner desires of the 19th-century courtesan Lola Montez, runs 11 minutes. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z

For 40 years Ms. Seymour was a muse to multiple choreographers. Lynn Seymour, Acclaimed Ballerina and a Dramatic Force, Dies at 83 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

But I can't imagine standing in that crowd, listening to the obvious being stated more slowly than rust develops, without musing that this must be how political assassins get their motivation. There's a right way to deal with hecklers. Then there's Michelle Obama's… 2013-06-08T23:05:27Z

Keep any negative musings on jellied eels to yourself at this celebration of Ely's slippery namesake. Maldon Mud Race, Ely Eel Day: new events this week 2013-05-04T05:00:21Z

Holly Fulton ’s inspiration was California drifting down Mexico way — with the 1960s skateboarder Patti McGee as muse for a show rich in color and pattern. Prints That Tell a Story 2012-09-16T18:24:24Z

His best friend and muse is the stylish socialite Vanessa Traina. Possessed: Altuzarra?s Inspiration: a Statue of Mary 2011-11-25T22:07:58Z

“Tonight at midnight I’ll be releasing my entire brand new album of songs I’ve poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into. I wrote and recorded this music in isolation.” Taylor Swift will release surprise album ‘Folklore’ Friday 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

I work directly with the designers to understand who their muse is, and contemplate not only what color she might wear, but how long, short or rounded her nail might be. | Nonie Creme 2011-06-06T16:44:39Z

Akiho lived in Italy in 2014 and ’15 as a winner of the Rome Prize, and he mused that there may be some subconscious connection between the Pantheon’s pillars and his musical ones. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

“As artists, you never stop growing, you never stop learning, you never stop experimenting, you never stop doing,” she mused. The World Catches Up With Dindga McCannon 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

The Parson muses on the girl who betrayed him long ago. The Cunning Little Vixen - synopsis, cast and creatives 2012-05-31T13:42:15Z

He doesn't take a prescriptive or polemical position, but the thrust of his musings is towards the vision of a kind of ideal tension between wanting and getting; fantasising and actualising. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review 2012-06-13T07:00:01Z

Technology is a recent fixation and muse for Badu, one that she playfully examines throughout her latest release, “But You Caint Use My Phone.” Erykah Badu Delivers 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

“I didn’t know what it was about and I hadn’t read and I haven’t since read any of George RR Martin’s books,” he muses in an interview at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Charles Dance: 'Thank God the BBC didn't make Game of Thrones' 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

“Look, a lot of these kids wouldn’t have tried heroin because of the name,” he muses. Teen heroin use on the rise 2012-08-31T15:24:00Z

“Many people told me, ‘Why don’t you sing in English?’” she mused between songs. An Afrofuturism Festival Brings an Energy Shift to Carnegie Hall 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

A relatively quiet and reserved individual, Moore was known for his dedication to his muse. Obituary 2011-02-07T11:41:27Z

Gregory acknowledges that his father’s money allowed him to pursue his muse while his wife Chiquita and two young children led a comfortable life he intermittently shared. Review | André Gregory’s ‘This Is Not My Memoir’ is a free-form monologue about his quest for meaning in life and art 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

The line made its formal debut in mid-June at the Shanghai Film Festival, where the actress Diane Kruger served as its face and muse. New Watch Market: Women Who Choose 2012-11-22T16:34:41Z

"With involved sentences, musings over moods and manners, and whatnot, the book is significant only for those anointed few who find Proust the genius of the age," our reviewer scoffed. Happy birthday Marcel Proust! 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

A meditation on the northern lights detours into musings on Proust and Pascal. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

The “muse” came to represent artistic inspiration in the abstract, and was then popularly incarnated as the female model or lust object of a male artist. Anna Karina, Catherine Deneuve: movies malign women by calling them muses 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Twenty years ago, McDonald was poised to be the muse for a new, sophisticated Broadway. Audra McDonald captivates a Bowl audience, but she's meant for more 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Nisa muses, at first just above a whisper, about a deteriorating relationship; her voice is cushioned by synthesizer chords while guitar lines poke at her like unwanted realizations. Paramore Steps Into a New Era, and 8 More New Songs 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

In fact, as played with idiomatic humor and charm by Mr. Maloney, he’s frisky, funny company as he muses with relish on the dark future. Theater Review: ‘Outside Mullingar,’ by John Patrick Shanley, Opens 2014-01-24T03:00:03Z

His works often muse on American themes as well, though his starting points and frameworks can be deeply personal. The Week Ahead: Aug. 5 — Aug. 11 2012-08-03T18:25:27Z

That got the attention of one of the president’s sons, Donald Trump Jr., who mused on Twitter: “I wonder how much of this ‘art’ is funded by taxpayers? Trump Supporters Drive an Effort to Bury the Public Theater 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Maybe men, a contemporary journalist muses, are finally copying women, now that women wield real power in the world. Lay off Kim and Kanye! Why millennials actually aren’t “Generation Me” 2014-04-06T15:00:00Z

As with the muses, so with the mansions: Leighton’s Holland Park house became a shrine to exoticism and Rossetti created fantastical decoration for the Tudor House in London’s Chelsea. Exhibition Review: At the Victoria & Albert, Muses Let Their Hair Down 2011-04-11T14:37:06Z

Nate Nash was his stand-in, but Matthews would call Putin his muse, and joke that every day he would wake up and think, “Thank heavens for Vladimir Putin.” Jason Matthews, author of ‘Red Sparrow’ thrillers, dies 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Before flying to Austin, Mr. King was at the latest session of Creative Minds in Dublin last month to hear Mr. Webb’s music and musings. Ambassador Spurs an Irish-American Cultural Exchange 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Lying in bed that night, hating my husband for his deep sleep, I started to muse over possible dishes. What to make when you're having Michael Pollan over for dinner: white lasagna with roasted vegetable 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Sillman muses in her introductory wall text that shape may be “too personal, too subjective, to be considered rigorously modern.” Reframing Modernism at the New MOMA 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

He's the one who calls his mom his muse, the one who likes to do red carpets, the one who gabs it up with customers at trunk shows. Kors _ with two lifetime awards _ ready for more 2010-06-15T19:30:00Z

The ‌‌newspapers amplified the legend of the “Divine Sarah,” as did the sundry artists and writers who counted her as their muse. Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

“I think all the activity scared them away,” Mr. Aitken mused when he was back on land, sounding exhilarated anyway as he recalled the play of the reflections off the mirrors. Move Over, Neptune. Doug Aitken Has Another Big Idea. 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

On Wednesday he called Mr. Parks “my cinematic muse” and “the best actor I’ve ever known.” Michael Parks, Character Actor on TV and in Movies, Dies at 77 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Early’s recent shows at the Bell House were tours de force of musings, music and mirth. 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Once he was no longer able to speak, he turned his blog into an outpouring of musings on every topic imaginable, from alcoholism to atheism. AP critic remembers colleague, friend Roger Ebert 2013-04-04T22:42:09Z

She was his muse and he was her great love. Grace Jones has been a star for 40 years, and there’s still no one quite like her 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

But this ribald comic strip version is as tender as it is witty, and is a complex portrait of the model and muse. Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller ? review 2011-03-19T00:06:15Z

“Lives to be rebuilt are always less interesting than lives destroyed,” she muses. Paid to Seduce Another Man’s Wife, He Fell Violently in Love With Her 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

As "Obvious Child" stumbles its way to the final punch line, it echoes Donna's onstage musings — funny but rough around the edges. 'Obvious Child' teases the comedy out of the human condition 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

"I find it weird that we live in a society where it's totally normal and run of the mill to go into Tesco's and see a woman in a thong," muses Garai. Romola Garai: Legacy and lads' mags 2013-11-27T08:03:31Z

Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that when faced with writer's block, sometimes it seems that the muse has "gone out back for a smoke." The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

So it's five minutes in before the show offers a clue to what it's about: A blind vigilante with mad ninja skills who serves only that equally sightless muse, Justice. Bare-knuckle, old-school tack in 'Daredevil' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

At about three and a half hours, performed with two intermissions, “Passion Play” is a bit sprawling, occasionally spending too much time on unprofitable tangents, like the rambling mystic-girlish musings of Ms. Noonan’s characters. | 'Passion Play': Sarah Ruhl?s Play Within a Play at Irondale Center 2010-05-13T03:53:00Z

The Muses have since evolved into one overarching "muse" that serves as a source of inspiration. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

At first, Kiki fulfilled the traditional role of artist’s companion, acting as muse, cheerleader, secretary and housekeeper; she entertained with a spirit of abundance that belied their lack of money. More Than a Muse 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z

Bond wears so many suits, he muses, because he likes power, and that's what men so often feel in a made-to-measure trouser and jacket. James Bond's closet hits a lot of timeless looks 2012-11-08T21:01:05Z

As fans of his FX show well know, the man is great at exploring dark topics in unexpected ways, and his musings on aging continue to layer absurd gags around a profound kernel of truth. Louis C.K.’s new stand-up special: From kids to death, the comedian covers familiar, very funny ground 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

It’s a close-harmony song of thankfulness to a soul, a muse, perhaps an audience. No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

As the piano begins, the women start to dance, and a man joins them, much as in George Balanchine’s “Apollo” when the young god sports with his muses. Ephrat Asherie, Frederick Ashton and a Solemn Memorial 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Smart, wordy and sweetly sympathetic to lives lived online, “Sidewalls” coasts on Martín and Mariana’s twin voice-overs, alternate musings on themselves and their city. | 'Sidewalls': Gustavo Taretto?s ?Sidewalls? - Review 2011-10-25T23:21:16Z

I usually have meetings with my assistants I design with, I will start just musing. What 'Game of Thrones'' Costumes Tell You About the Show 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Tiler Peck, with typical poise and creamy musicality, held the ballet together as the muse Terpsichore. Review: City Ballet’s New Gods and Duos 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

The title "Nine Muses" derives from its overarching structural conceit, a series of chapter headings dedicated to each of the ancient Greek muses. 'The Nine Muses': Strange take on migrants' icy reception 2012-02-02T21:10:04Z

While some might opt to pursue their muse in bucolic seclusion, most artists recognize the significance of interaction for their careers. ‘Ask Me What I’m Painting’: The Changing Role of the Artist in Residence 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

But, as in the case of his muse for the season, Miss Havisham of Dickens fame, the knights don't always show up. Feminine twist on classic menswear at Fashion Week 2011-02-14T20:56:25Z

It’s hard to watch this film and not muse about what Facebook might have been like if Mark Zuckerberg had had different motivations at Harvard. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

It is hardly likely that an executive mused, “American culture isn’t quite degraded enough; might be a good idea to give it another whack.” Review: ‘Clown’ — At Least Bozo Never Ate the Kids 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Now, the industry looks significantly different from the days of clone-like waifs, golden-haired muses and magazine mastheads that read like the Social Register. Perspective | Fashion is finally figuring out diversity — in ways that actually matter 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Around that time Mr. Winter also discovered the music of blues heroes like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, and their sound became his lifelong muse. Johnny Winter, Virtuosic Blues Guitarist, Dies at 70 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

“I think people are looking for muses, for more than a face and a body,” Ms. Brokaw said. Fashion Week Preview: The Faces 2010-09-02T23:59:00Z

Muhammad Ali’s death in June was a reminder of what a brilliant muse he was, especially to photographers. Muhammad Ali: Drawn, Painted and Photographed 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Unlike McGinley, who travelled with a group of muses whom he photographed, Kurland’s expeditions were solitary, and her photographs, too, channel an independence of spirit rather than a group mentality. The Lovely, Menacing Girls of Justine Kurland 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

If Dmitry Krymov, the celebrated Russian director and playwright, were directing a play about his life, the third act would begin, he mused, in a cramped, art-filled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Amid Exile and Fire, a Revered Russian Theater Director Is Reborn 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Mostly, his stand-up involves personal observations and absurdist banter — such as musing on the invention of ventriloquism in 13th century England. In Carvey’s D.C. show with Miller, politics won’t be a centerpiece

She is also playful, musing "it feels good to be bad," to a backing track of rock guitar. Who was Catherine de’ Medici? "The Serpent Queen" gives us a clever, powerful and dangerous woman 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

In addition to uploading his old reviews to the platform, he uses the site as a kind of diary for more off-the-cuff musings. Is Letterboxd Becoming a Blockbuster? 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

“The work the genealogists do is incredible and for years they have worked so hard and it is thanks to them they are solving cases like mine,” he mused. Baby abandoned at Gatwick Airport finds birth parents 33 years later 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

The latter's irascible, deathbed patter reveals no deeper desire than to escape her son's boyish musings even as she holds onto life to give him an anchor. 'Glowworm': Funny, haunting and affirming 2011-04-18T21:59:04Z

Instead, it was this fishing-village-turned-Victorian-resort where he began work on the supernatural tale, and he honored his muse by setting key portions of the narrative within its charming streets. Where Dracula Was Born, and It’s Not Transylvania 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

“Is the thing seen or the thing heard the thing that makes most of its impression upon you at the theater,” Stein muses in “Plays.” 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z

Hard to believe as he muses on his empty birthday parties, afternoons that won't come back. Readers recommend: songs about forgiveness – results 2012-11-15T14:00:00Z

Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community. Mandela inspired music, movies, poems 2013-12-05T22:39:37Z

For a few years his love and his muse was a male-to-female striver named Rachel. Rock ’n’ Roll, Between the Covers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Most normal human beings wished the cute couple well for the short time they last, before Swift moves on to her next male muse. GOP dudes are big mad at Taylor Swift for reminding them that the ladies don't like them 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z

Wouldn’t happen; popular culture is a fickle muse. Fraud at the Polls: The Best Film of All Time Is NOT Citizen Kane!? 2012-08-06T12:00:19Z

Writing about space tends to either glorify the taciturn daring of a few or muse on humanity's insignificance in the context of the vast universe. 'Leaving Orbit' cheers spaceflight's feats, mourns its fading 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Standing on the Spanish Steps, Diana Cavicchia, a tourist from Sydney, Australia, mused about what she said were pros and cons. When in Rome don’t sit, dip, eat, drink in fountains 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

“Actually,” he mused, “I’m more interested in the material and the process than talking about the issues.” Special Report: Asian Art: A Filipino Artist's Fantastical Vision, Finely Crafted 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

His longtime muse Carolyn Brown speaks of his “quiet center” and “animal authority”; we see all that and more. ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

“I’m not a muse,” she said with a laugh. | Inès de la Fressange on Dressing for Yourself and Why Bad Fashion Is a Good Thing 2014-03-27T20:20:05Z

Gradually, over the course of a year, David assembles a picture of his muse, Imogen, an actress whose presence in films consoles him even while her true nature and that of their relationship elude definition. Remembering a Lover Who Never Revealed Her True Nature 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The title “Nine Muses” derives from its overarching structural conceit, a series of chapter headings dedicated to each of the ancient Greek muses. | 'The Nine Muses': ?The Nine Muses,? by John Akomfrah - Review 2011-10-05T22:07:26Z

These kind of problems, I muse – as Mr Stewart almost does an aerial ballet out of his chair at the thought of reenacting World War II – really seem to suit his temperament well. Rod Stewart: 'I've been a golden boy for too long' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-10-09T14:59:37Z

As the extemporaneous song grows, others join in with musings of their own, call-and-response style. Tech Elites Recreate Burning Man Inside Their Living Rooms 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

It follows the release last month of Frank Ocean’s “Endless,” a 45-minute “visual album” and musing on the artistic process that was also exclusive to Apple. Beyoncé Raised the Bar With ‘Lemonade.’ Now Others Are Leaping, Too. 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

She mused that perhaps the problem of domestic violence amongst NFL players comes from not being able to separate the violence inherent in their profession from their day-to-day lives. Rosie O'Donnell returns to The View and finds a show without a voice 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Then it was back to Mr. Culkin’s musings, which turned to his own move to the East Village. | Kieran Culkin: Kieran Culkin: Savoring the Live Action 2010-07-30T20:22:00Z

Natalie Bevan was a painter and collector but also a muse to many of the leading British painters of the 20th century, not least because of her good looks and gregarious company. Camden Town Group of painters welcomes a woman ? a century later 2010-12-01T19:31:00Z

There’s a strong flavor of Nietzsche in your teenage musings. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z

A narrator — here the actor Simon Callow — stands in for the composer, musing on the power of art as medicine for the soul. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

We mused about how nice it would be if we lived in the same city. The Secret to Sibling Success 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

As a supermodel, pop star, Bond girl, artistic muse and artwork in herself, Jones is a one-off. 'I'm scary. I'm scaring myself' 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z

“If ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats,” Melville mused, “then the eternal whale will still survive, and … spout his frothed defiance to the skies.” Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

“Maybe people are tired of dystopia,” she muses. Don’t despair: Beverly Glenn-Copeland actually has hope to offer us in 2020 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Whatever it is, the idea seems to be to sell herself as a muse. Selling Melania Trump, One NFT at a Time 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

And in the too-much-information department, well: “James was my muse, my Orpheus, my sleeping darling, my ‘good night, sweet prince,’ my something-in-the-way-he-moves.” Review: In Carly Simon’s Memoir, Few Secrets Left Untold 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Louisa May Alcott was one of my first muses. ‘Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be’: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Winter Journalby Paul Auster The new book is a rambling, informal collection of memories, musings, and minutiae, presented in the second person and loosely connected by the themes of ageing and the body. Winter Journal by Paul Auster – review 2012-08-15T10:00:02Z

She was even chagrined when Shostakovich claimed her as a kind of muse: “It is not you who are under my influence,” he once wrote to her. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Still musing on this transmogrification, I set out for some supper with Luther. T Magazine: Room With a Purview 2011-11-25T17:30:45Z

Ms. Hunt, 39, and Ms. Berry, 41, are not normally muses; they are a D.J. and a child welfare worker. Finding Common Ground and Love in Harlem 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

But if we're to take our psychological musings further, maybe announcing she's off meat feels like an admission of guilt . . . and cannibalism. Chicken wings with a side of human flesh: A look at the meaty food cravings on “Yellowjackets” 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

Those truths could encompass everything from chastising the President of the United States to musing about how difficult it sometimes is for a man to tell his child, “I love you.” Greg Kot: Gil Scott-Heron, the essential recordings 2011-05-29T16:14:00Z

Her account of this was published in a Paris newspaper, which got her into some legal trouble with her "muse." The Henry's 'The Talent Show' winks at the camera 2011-07-07T19:29:04Z

Perhaps in his last hours Sargent stumbled upon this musing from that compendium: “People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.” Who are the real women behind John Singer Sargent’s portraits? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The Caribbean city of Cartagena, particularly, served as muse and inspiration. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ashes to leave Mexico for Colombia 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Seems like every time something creepy happens you are alone,” Claire muses guilelessly. The Innkeepers: More Clerks Than Spooks 2012-02-03T14:00:39Z

Of course, the fashion industry's model-of-the-moment Anna Cleveland was included in the fashion musing, and deservingly given one of the most archetypal looks. Paris couture week reaches creative climax in Margiela, Saab 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

“One day, I’ll be rich enough and cool enough to live in Brooklyn,” she muses. Martha is back on ‘The Americans,’ and Alison Wright has finally arrived 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

When all the news podcasts clog up your feed and make you feel overwhelmed at the state of the world, why not listen to the musings of a contented cat? Podcasts About Impeachment, Mr. Rogers and a Purring Cat: What’s New 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Hardly any of his on-screen time featured humdrum musings on what was for dinner or who was going to do the washing-up. David Gest: from impresario to star of British reality TV 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

But Anya Reiss’s heartbroken, funny drama at the Royal Court Theater does remind you that unhappiness can be a fertile muse. London Theater Journal: 12 and Miserable 2010-07-29T15:47:00Z

It seems like a private ritual, a gathering of forces or, maybe, a summoning of the muse. Theater Review: In ‘Bronx Gothic,’ Lessons About Growing Up Female 2014-01-15T22:27:44Z

The dark, brooding track sounds of a piece with “Dance Fever,” the group’s 2022 album that often found Welch threading her personal recollections and musings into a more mythical tapestry. Foo Fighters Begin a New Chapter, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

As the ship and narrative drift in tandem, readers can only pray that Marco will not redirect his musings to more mundane matters, such as the odds of enjoying a pigeon repast. Masters of Illustration Bring Breathtaking Art to These Seafaring Stories 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

With these muses, Thomas says, she sets out to capture “the exact moment when I sense her satisfaction of taking on a role and representing some aspect of her character through that role.” Mother, Muse, Mirror 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

He, too, was left to fester and muse while others were teleported through time, although in Marvin’s case this meant staying in a parking lot for five hundred million years. The Year in Movies 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Giddy about the chaotic state of the Republican field and her campaign’s recent spat with her rival Bernie Sanders, McKinnon’s Clinton mused how well she would sleep that night. Saturday Night Live brings together Hillary Clintons past and present 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Calling the mood "attitudy," she used aggression on London night buses as the muse for a show that featured rings in ears and big metallic zippers. Givenchy, Kenzo, Chloe get tough, Celine delights 2013-03-04T02:31:05Z

She was her sculptor husband's muse, and now he's left her for a younger model, and she's wallowing in her unhappiness. Nathalie Baye: 'Happiness is doing a job you love' 2011-08-04T21:20:01Z

Jazz, blues, art and especially dance are woven into a matrix of great joy and ineffable sadness, of derelict lofts and quiet living rooms where people talk, muse and look out windows. 5 Great Art Exhibitions to See in New York Before They Close 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

In her first museum retrospective, the artist and fashion muse Rachel Feinstein presents fanciful works with a core of steel — a balance of the whimsical and the grotesque. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This February 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

And this leads him, in two follow-up posts, to muse on a wider question: the degree to which the script should be respected as sacrosanct in the rehearsal process. Noises off 2010-03-25T17:09:00Z

Mr. Barsotti had several recurring themes, including rapacious businessmen, self-doubting kings, the psychiatrist’s couch and humanized dogs musing on the mysteries of life. Charles Barsotti, New Yorker cartoonist known for his simplicity, dies at 80

Using diverse images, letters, quotes and musings, Marker continued to extend the limits of the documentary, making use of new video technology and image-processing by Hayao Yamaneko, credited with special effects. Chris Marker obituary 2012-07-30T11:57:53Z

Neither foretold "Zombie Wars"; while peppered with musings of death, Spinoza and war, it is definitely lighter. Aleksandar Hemon's 'Zombie Wars' springs to humorous life unexpectedly 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Other than the gospel-shouting muses, drawn as five black women and given self-consciously sassy dialogue, everyone in this story was white. Review: Public Works Finds the Heroism in ‘Hercules’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

Reviews in the Dutch press were mixed, and in some ways the production disappointed its New York muses. Reverend Billy?s Revelation: A Role for Money 2010-10-08T22:42:00Z

There's grief for his mother, who was his first muse as a toddler. The Genius in My Basement by Alexander Masters - review 2011-08-24T13:30:01Z

Throughout the performance her changing expressions and gestures were as important as her vocalizing, the more wistful moments bringing to mind Federico Fellini’s muse, Giulietta Masina, though Ms. Stritch is much tougher. Music Review: Elaine Stritch at Caf? Carlyle - Review 2011-09-14T21:45:11Z

Or Claire Messud’s heroine muses about the pathetic lives of women whose days hit their peak when the Garnet Hill catalog arrives. | Jennifer Weiner: An Avid Reader Scribbles a Wardrobe 2013-08-02T22:51:50Z

In Plato’s “Apology,” Socrates muses, “The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.” Out of darkness, light: Post-election positive energy on social media? Yes, it’s possible 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

And one of those is Ms. Guinness, muse, animator and fashion original. Special Report: Fashion: Gone Global: Fashion as Art? 2011-07-04T18:13:03Z

How does she feel about being a muse? Chloe Sevigny 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z

What Robbins loved most was New York, the city that was his muse and his helpmeet — and that has been transformed beyond recognition from the days of Jets and Sharks. 13 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Others may be guided by the words of playwrights and poets; your muse is Bugs Bunny, and there ain’t nothing you can do about it, doc. DVD: On DVD, ?Essential Bugs Bunny Collection? 2010-10-08T22:10:00Z

“Another one scammed,” another mused of the style sizing fail. Woman dresses her dog in tiny party outfit to highlight fashion sizing discrepancies 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

I do also like novelists like Tolstoy who combine strong plots with philosophical or political musings. Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z

Janice Stone served as her husband’s muse, first reader, typist, cook and caretaker, accountant, travel agent and life coach. Review | An unvarnished look at the troubled life of novelist Robert Stone 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

But these sons and daughters of farmers continue to ward against Yeats’s prophesy of ruin for his stone muse. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The poem seems to be wistful musings of a lonely dweeb who talks of romantic excursions but never actually leaves his room. Music Review: ‘I Went to the House but Did Not Enter’ by Heiner Goebbels 2012-11-15T00:09:06Z

Once we stopped musing – we really must stop musing – we realised Beat Connection had more going for them than that. New band of the day ? No 941: Beat Connection 2011-01-07T17:18:06Z

Mint tea and a tray of chocolates soon arrived and Mr. Ruffalo, who wore a gray sports jacket, a bit rumpled to match his hair, began to muse about “The Kids Are All Right.” An Afternoon With Mark Ruffalo: An Afternoon With Mark Ruffalo: Resisting a Hollywood Brand 2010-07-02T18:37:00Z

Ms. Taylor mused as we took in the fairy-tale beauty of the valley, carpeted with colored wildflowers and exploding with clouds of butterflies. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

In summoning the prophetic Thoreau, “Expect Great Things” often reads like the musings of a semi-convincing fortuneteller. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

She was 15 when she caught the eye of the 65-year-old Cugat, who was fresh off his fourth divorce, seeking a new muse and impressed by the girl singing “La Bamba.” The Brilliance of Charo 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

Fierce doesn't launch until next month, but there are tickets available and the website is well worth checking out for its musings on the purpose of festivals. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-03-26T17:25:00Z

In the final scene, as muse and artist approach each other from either end of a human avenue, Mr. Taylor’s drama rises to its elegiac summit. Dance Review | Paul Taylor Dance Company: A Poet of the Body, Bending All the Rules 2010-02-25T22:44:00Z

Ms. Lafont, a muse of New Wave auteurs, died in 2013, a year after this comedy became a sensation in France. What’s on TV Thursday 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

"I wanted to be a good wife to him," she muses in the film. "Tabloid": The beauty queen who "raped" a Mormon 2011-07-15T00:30:00Z

The minute you put them in the muse position, they go: what? Carla Bruni: Sarkozy and me 2013-06-01T08:00:00Z

And before he delves into the central story of “The Encounter,” Mr. McBurney muses on the nature of storytelling, memory, time and consciousness, as it exists both as part of, and independent of, the brain. Review: You See ‘The Encounter’ With Your Ears 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Sure enough, Apollo goes onto both knees soon after the three muses — Terpsichore, Calliope and Polyhymnia — have joined him. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

“The musing of one writer on the life of another,” as Ann Philbin, the director of the museum, put it in the foreword to the exhibition catalog. Joan Didion and the Western Spirit 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Nodding to “Ulysses” in the first few minutes, “Himself and Nora” is most interested in Joyce’s career, telling us repeatedly that Nora — the inspiration for his Molly Bloom — was more source than muse. Review: ‘Himself and Nora’ Revels in a Complicated Joyce 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

As Robert muses in his opening monologue, “To ‘know someone well’ — I mean, that’s a phrase from another time.” Review: ‘Evening at the Talk House’ Is Just the Dystopia Next Door 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

He mused that the media doesn’t do enough to hold Trump to account, but “we also don’t give him credit for what things he does do.” A history of the Trump War on Media — the obsession not even coronavirus could stop 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

“Would these American friends of mine even eat any of this?” he muses. Review | In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

In addition to their comical musings, the display includes a comment on each cartoon by a mathematician, scientist or other expert. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

“Been in this game one hundred years,” the mighty Casey mused, “but I see new ways to lose ‘em I never knew existed before.” Who's No. 1: Clint? Jake? Jennifer? Guess. 2012-09-23T21:00:29Z

Heard through earphones, preferably on a rainy midnight, the songs are whispery private musings. Music Review: Xx at Paradise Theater 2012-10-28T17:23:15Z

From intimiste Paris portraits, Ms. Abbott’s muse shifted back to her homeland in the 1930s, more specifically to New York City. In Transit Blog: Photographer Who Captured America at the Jeu de Paume 2012-02-27T15:45:26Z

They include portraits of his children, his final wife Jacqueline and sculpture and drawing featuring "Sylvette", his legendary young muse, Lydia Corbett. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

At other times, he seems to muse on how to survive in a totalitarian system, and he ponders the existential terrors of freedom. ‘The Václav Havel Project’ heads to Prague Fringe Festival

But it’s crazier than that, Mr. Tripoli mused. A Tomato Grows in the East River 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

A few of these are open to show what’s inside — drawings, sketches, random musings and journal entries. Review | George Condo is not as complicated as he thinks he is 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Michelangelo muses on the nature of art in his verses: he uses sculpture as a metaphor. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z

It’s a backhanded proposal with an understated, ambivalent buildup musing on independence, uncertainty and “fairy tales of fake happiness.” Christina Aguilera Exults in Her Voice on ‘Liberation’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

If James Bond spent his time musing about all the people who died in his shootouts, he wouldn’t be as much fun, would he? Kevin Hart Is a Comedian Built for the Big Stage (and Screen) 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

It began with suicidal musings from the ledge of a tall building, then moved on to a rant of alienation and a questioning of art's value — with the audience in for a grilling. Reviews: Mischief and attitude in dance, theater pieces at OtB's Northwest New Works showcase 2010-06-07T18:52:00Z

“At times pop, or modern, music — not that it’s rigid, but it has very predetermined structures,” mused Lafourcade, pausing as she did many times in our conversation to find the precise thought. Allow Natalia Lafourcade to Reintroduce Herself 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

They could be curtains parting at the start of a drawing-room , or the opening scene in some blustery drama about the artist and his muse. Noah Baumbach on Frances Ha: 'I wanted it to feel like a first film' 2013-07-18T18:00:00Z

And there's a precedent for Lynch falling out of love with his muse. Has David Lynch retired, or is it just a bad dream? 2011-08-19T11:40:48Z

“Nigeria is my muse,” said Ms. Okorafor, who lives in a suburb of Chicago. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Here, the Projectionist muses on the morning’s most startling surprises and omissions. 2022 Oscars Nominations: Snubs and Surprises for Lady Gaga and Jared Leto 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

She and Demy holidayed with the legendary director and his first wife/muse Anna Karina, but it sounds like a cold friendship. Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Jaunty rhythms are layered into a feisty canvas in “Bold and Defiant,” and slow, murky musings lend a desolate air to “Suppressed.” Classical Recordings: Sebastian Currier: Piano Sonata, Other Works ? CD Review 2011-12-22T15:26:52Z

The drummer has taken his time developing what has become a distinctively independent and personal muse, but it's been worth the wait. Jeff Williams – review 2013-06-06T16:36:00Z

In the past year, Hagan juggled daily blog posts with more timeless musings for her book of the same name. Writer behind Suri's Burn Book blog publishes book 2012-09-28T16:58:07Z

The chief usher at this ceremony might, Wagner mused, be his 'poor Lohengrin', just premiered in Italy. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

“It’s got to be disappointing, being called all those things,” Nancy’s campaign manager muses when their opponent, the one supported by the investment banker, calls Nancy a “communist” and a “hypocrite.” ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Despite semi-literacy, she recorded theological musings she said were dictated by God. 'Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen': a remote nun's story 2010-11-19T01:01:00Z

His début album, “Goodbye & Good Riddance,” from 2018, and “Death Race for Love,” his sophomore effort, released in March, are the musings of a lovesick person battling his vices. The Beautiful Vulnerability of Juice WRLD 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

“You have to wonder if these older Capitol Hill denizens have been smoking this whole time,” Sears muses. It’s summer, and Washington smells like weed. Everywhere, all the time. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

He is also among the latest celebrity artists to team up with a luxury label, such partnerships affirming art’s rising stature as fashion’s most compelling new muse. Taking the ‘Lady’ Out of the Lady Bag 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Neither think the term "muse" is quite right. My Muse and me 2012-05-27T17:01:01Z

"This is so telling of this generation. Move the date because it's not convenient for me. Me me me me me me. Ridiculous," one critic mused. Petition to change Halloween’s date garners 40,000 signatures 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

There are parallels to his own life: Apollo is a young god finding his way with the help of three muses. A Career Rising, in Leaps and Bounds 2011-06-02T17:37:57Z

She’s an appealing, lightly comic figure whose main job is to be Paterson’s helpmate — his chef, cheerleader and, of course, muse. Review: In Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Paterson,’ a Meditative Flow of Words Into Poetry 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

The scenario for this ballet depicts the birth of Apollo to Zeus and Leto, and shows this all-purpose god of light, truth, medicine, the arts and more in a series of dances with three muses. Music Review: A Stravinksy Program With Ancient Inspiration 2011-05-04T18:58:03Z

But for a brief period in the late 1960s, his muse helped shape the imagery of rock music. Martin Sharp, 71, Pop Artist Who Tested Boundaries, Dies 2013-12-06T03:39:14Z

It was a curious book, full of high-toned musings about “the Framers’ wisdom” and “the Madisonian-designed political apparatus.” Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

Anton Chekhov once mused that if the playwright presents a gun in the first act, it absolutely must go off by the end of the play. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Paying the Price 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

There followed some odd musings on mortality, as well as the story of Mr. Shatner’s father’s death. Theater Review: ?Shatner?s World,? One-Man Show at the Music Box Theater 2012-02-17T03:00:01Z

She’s faced hurdles presented by an industry that has long looked to men as oracles and to women as mere muses. Perspective | Dior was part of the patriarchy. Then she changed everything. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

“About Alice,” Mr. Trillin’s adaptation of his 2007 memoir about the death of his wife and muse, is scheduled to run Jan. 8 through Feb. 3, with Ms. Hecht in the title role. Jessica Hecht to Star in a New Play by Calvin Trillin 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

The Picasso masterpiece is one of several renderings of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter and considered by art experts to be one of his most important works. Picasso, Warhol works expected to sell for $35 million each 2012-10-05T19:33:02Z

Former muse Sue Tilley, who sat for the nude Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, said she had "fantastic experiences" while posing for the portrait. Painter Lucian Freud dies aged 88 2011-07-22T09:09:42Z

From the moment Lennon and Ono moved in together, in June of 1968, Ono displaced McCartney as Lennon’s collaborator, muse, and sounding board. When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

After a few drinks he mused merrily about what would happen if the elderly woman sitting at a nearby table pulled out a firearm and started shooting. Is He Mellower? Ask the Guy Missing a Hand 2010-03-03T00:02:00Z

“The places we walk through are an excavation of memory — forbidden remembrances of a lost world,” muses the unseen occasional narrator of Pietro Marcello’s impressionistic, extravagantly poetic documentary “The Mouth of the Wolf.” | 'The Mouth of the Wolf': A Study of Time, Love and Decay in Genoa 2011-08-03T22:03:03Z

In doing so, each challenged the flakiest fans to commit to the creators' muses despite the angularities. Foxygen knocks out a brave, raucous rock 'n' roll set at the Roxy 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

“These days, nobody seemed to want my help,” Biden, who narrates the novel, muses, sitting alone at night in his lake house. The Absurd Biden-and-Obama Crime-Fighting Novel That Can’t Escape the Present 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Is “IRM” merely the latest record in which her primary function is to play muse for a male Svengali? 2010-01-23T15:48:00Z

The pairing leaves me musing about what, in the 21st century, opera is striving to be. Urban Arias’ ‘Bastianello’ and ‘Lucrezia’ are at once timeless and anachronistic

The sense of the composer, then recovering from a heart attack, confronting his own mortality was palpable in the musings of the first two movements and the anger in the finale. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2011-01-19T18:19:11Z

But Lennon continued to make visual art during and after his time with the Beatles, and in Yoko Ono he had a bona fide artist as wife, soul mate and muse. Weekend Miser: John Lennon’s Sideline, Up for View 2012-10-04T22:30:06Z

“We thought it was amazing. There’s a lot of negativity going about all over social media, but then you get little things like that,”’ the mom mused “It’s brilliant.” Grocery store employee praised for helping fund girl's order: 'Brilliant' 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

In the book, she tells a story about making some staging suggestions for her 1980 Grammys performance with Neil Diamond and muses, “This kind of incident may be why I’m called ‘difficult.’” Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat. 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

At one point, Mr. Terry and Mr. Kauflin muse on what separates the amateurs, of whom there is never a shortage, from the masters, a vastly smaller company. ‘Keep On Keepin’ On,’ a Film on the Jazz Great Clark Terry 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

“If I thought my life was at risk,” she mused in a recent on-site interview, “do you think I would be sitting here like this?” Pipeline protests: The fight goes on against project that could jeopardize Native lands in the Midwest 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

When she's musing on the art of the memoir, for example, she states: "Perhaps all memory is a chance at storytelling and every story brings us closer to revealing ourselves to ourselves." Sandra Cisneros opens up about her life in 'A House of My Own' 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

My muse likes to throw her bolts in various forms. Novelists Sara Gruen and Sarah McCoy in conversation: “I study history through a kind of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ looking-glass” 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Journalists and pundits mused about whether Mr. Ryan’s neatly cropped stubble, which suggested vintage George Michael as much as urban woodsman, signaled a significant political statement. Paul Ryan’s Beard Triggers a Style Debate 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

"I'm not there yet. It's not what I think about, and I'm not educated there," she muses, staring into her phone all the while. Alexandra Pelosi's unfiltered "American Selfie" gives a complex picture of how we look to each other 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

It’s part of a glimpse of creative excess matched by cutaways and clips of Mr. Foulkes’s songs, and his hopefully cathartic stream of musings, regrets and complaints. Movie Review: ‘Llyn Foulkes One Man Band,’ a Documentary 2014-05-06T20:27:51Z

And the other stars who participated in the tribute also noted their musings on favorites and futures of their characters. The Best Revelations From the 'Friends' Reunion TV Tribute 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

The musicians also used their wide palette of tone and timbre to illuminate the intricacies of Janacek’s String Quartet, “Intimate Letters,” a homage to that composer’s young muse. Amphion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Clothing and arms speckled with white paint, he studied his muse a few feet away. A Nigerian Artist Who Uses the Skin as His Canvas 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Trampling through moorland, fens and heaths, Hayden reflects on the meaning of life and the excesses of materialism and muses extensively on music, consulting Plato, Epicurus, Hegel and Kierkegaard along the way. Into the Wild: Three books celebrate the joys of life in nature 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Much of Babitz’s 1990s output consisted of further musings for Esquire, as in “I Was a Naked Pawn for Art.” Hear Them Roar 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

I was to be the 1960s school girl muse. The mothering class 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

Suppose the world saw how many we are, and how beautiful, I mused. Working to Disarm Women’s Anti-Aging Demon 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

This past spring, an executive at ABC noticed fans on Twitter were musing about how well a revival of a celebrity version of the show would do, Davies said in a recent interview. Celebrities Are Just the Start of the Expanding ‘Jeopardy!’-verse 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

The New York Times mused in 1993: “No one, perhaps, is better suited to being an actor and less suited to being a personality.” Robert De Niro: ‘Trump is a real racist, a white supremacist’ 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

When they take a break from their hike, Hemingway pulls out a book—Tolstoy’s “Sevastopol”—and then muses about Tolstoy’s depiction of war and the importance of war as a subject of fiction overall. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Writing fiction “truly is just another part of how I think about the world and how I get to kind of muse about what I want to see happen,” she says. And in her spare time, Stacey Abrams wrote a thriller 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

As the play muses on the allure of Hollywood and the mythic idea of the West, James Whalen contributes a valuable supporting turn as the unscrupulous movie producer Saul. Two plays deal with betrayal with mixed results 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Watching her interlude, it hit me: Electra, a pop singer, model and muse, was a Kardashian trial balloon. In ‘The Last Dance,’ Michael Jordan and the Bulls Still Dominate 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

That evening’s sale will include about 25 to 30 works, including works by artists such as Giacometti, Picasso and Warhol — “artists for whom,” Mr. Pylkkanen said, “the muse was so important.” Another Single Week of Sales for Christie's This Fall, With Modigliani as Its Star 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

But beneath the pantomime and theater, serious ideas were at work, including musings on self-expression, hedonism and the right to freedom. The Best Things We Saw and Heard During London Fashion Week Men’s 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

When Le Clercq, known as Tanny, became the latest in a string of Balanchine’s muses, she established what became the prototypical Balanchine prima ballerina: phenomenally long-legged, gracefully athletic, passionately committed. | 'Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq': The Unusual Story of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Artist and Muse 2014-02-04T22:33:11Z

“The two never met,” Immanuel said, “but the Nicaraguan muses kissed them both.” The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

They muse over certain passages and share echoes with their daily lives: the enduring memory of a late husband’s smile, or a hospital visit where madeleines were on the menu. ‘Le Temps Perdu’ Review: Proust Club 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

Adds Osborne: “We just make our product, using New York as our muse.” Fast-rising design duo uses the big city as a muse 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

As a would-be writer, occasionally visited by a group of celestial muses in glittery outfits, she's conscious of her position in human history and even the cosmos. How do we shape memories of those we've lost? A friend's death triggers 'Good Grief' 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

“C’est du Chinois” may inspire musings on our tendency to perceive the world through language alone, which becomes a one-way street when we encounter someone who doesn’t happen to speak our native tongue. Theater Review: ‘C’est du Chinois,’ at Under the Radar Festival 2013-01-11T23:42:25Z

There are only so many notes for a biographer to hit: his intense friendships with Wagner and Lou Salome, the intellectual it-girl of her time, muse to Rilke and Freud. A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Reflecting on its genesis during a short film that precedes the gig, Cave muses that, "while we were making it, it seemed to become a very beautiful and melodic record". Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – review 2013-02-11T12:19:50Z

“She was the muse of two of the 20th century’s greatest choreographers, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins,” Baranski said. Kennedy Center rocks the honors roll to salute Sting, Green, Hanks, Tomlin, McBride

Taylor was one of Warhol's muses but Christie's said Tuesday that "Silver Liz" was one of only two Warhol portraits to show the actress with her famous violet eyes. Warhol portrait of Liz Taylor offered at auction 2010-06-08T16:27:00Z

The film was 8½, the tale of a fecklessly promiscuous director abandoned by his muse. Ninety and out to shock: meet the first Oscar nominated female director 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

And Adrian Grenier, the star of “Entourage,” scooted all over the club, recording his musings on a PDA. Gimlet Eye: A City Gets Its Groove Back 2010-09-16T17:59:00Z

This may be her final reinvention, Swift muses to the camera. Isn't she delicate? "Miss Americana" spotlights Taylor Swift's eating disorder & loneliness 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

What Cave fears most, he muses to the doctor, is losing his memory. ‘20,000 Days on Earth’: Rocker Nick Cave marks his time here 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

His memories and musings begin with a lengthy discourse on the fate of Sir Thomas Browne's skull. Ian Sansom: the secrets of literary Norfolk 2013-07-26T15:15:00Z

Whatever Bish Bosch is about, Hieronymus Bosch seems a suitable muse – for this is a vision of hell on Earth, with tiny pockets of hope and humour. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

That summary isn’t in order, by the way, but disorder is Becky’s method and her muse. ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

He’s posted a snap of a Powerball ticket, musing it could “buy a lot of beer,” and one of a near-empty bottle of Crown Royal with the caption “cold medicine.” GOP official’s Facebook status: She’s “hot enough to almost make me register Democrat” 2013-04-25T16:44:00Z

"I'm OK with the term muse as long as you acknowledge the muse wrote the script, too," she told a recent interviewer. How female actors are rewriting Hollywood's script 2013-07-11T17:00:01Z

The film’s only luminary from the art-world establishment is Richard Armstrong, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, who muses enigmatically about art as an investment opportunity but takes no position about its aesthetic worth. Review: ‘Art Bastard’ Depicts Robert Cenedella, a Rebel Artist 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

“I’m not going to say it’s not worth trying,” muses Theodoridis. Hi Democrat, I’m a Republican, let’s not hate each other: The quixotic movement to get opposing voters to talk 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Recluse, genius, rebel, muse — a multitude of Emily Brontës crowd the cultural imagination. ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

The scene in which Tamara first paints Rafaela has an incandescent song, “Stillness,” about the symbiotically sensual needs of a painter and her muse. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

“This is our last dance,” we hear Mercury and Bowie sing in Queen’s recording of “Under Pressure” — the two muses of the evening, eerily joined. With ‘Bowie & Queen’ Washington Ballet brings solace to goodbye 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Anna’s frailties are exposed through internal musings that chip away at her seemingly unflappable persona. Does ‘His & Hers’ Mean Cozy Domestic Bliss? Not in This Book 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

One notable difference between a luxury fashion brand and Apparatus, however, is that Mr. Hendifar and Mr. Anderson don’t anticipate or follow trends, but rather pursue their own muse, however specific or personal. This Design Studio Knows How to Party 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

His tweets reflect the musings of someone ill at ease with his place in the world. Our disgruntled dictator 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

Crawford makes a mischievous Red Riding Hood's munching and musing such fun. The trip 'Into the Woods' is spooky, thoughtful, delightful 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

The fashion muse is capricious and inscrutable sometimes, but it always tells us something about ourselves. He’s designed hats for Dior. Now, he’s created one inspired by the African American Museum. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Between sets, Mr. Mansoor’s sweet and salty musings offer heartfelt warmth and comedic relief, but he likes to keep the performance moving. Meet Axel Mansoor, the Clubhouse Whisperer 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Shorn of the philosophical musings of "Hamlet" or the comic business of "King Lear," Shakespeare's story of the Moor and the envious villain who destroys him moves as swiftly as poison through the blood. 'Iago: A Novel' ? the morning after a bloody mess 2012-01-04T22:57:03Z

His Collected Poems is dedicated to all three of his muses. Jack Gilbert obituary 2012-11-20T14:17:57Z

“How can I be moved when everything is moving,” Amelia Meath calmly muses in the opening track, “Moving,” over a hissing, scurrying beat, octave-swooping blips and stereo-panning whooshes that keep things spinning. Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

He is preparing to go into the recording studio, but his muse has deserted him. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In “Dream Dream Away,” it takes nearly three minutes of contemplative, slowly strummed guitar and abstract reverberation before Mr. McNew muses, in choirlike vocal harmonies, “Why cry? Why try? It’s all the same.” Music Is a Sanctuary From Chaos on Yo La Tengo’s ‘There’s a Riot Going On’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

That question of time, of course, is essential to the memoir, which as a form unfolds in the amorphous middle ground between musing and memory. Ghosts emerge in Vivian Gornick's memoir 'The Odd Woman and the City' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Bibi is given to such musings as “There was the known world and the supernatural world that shadowed it, and the veil that had been deteriorating between them now began to dissolve entirely.” Dean Koontz’s ‘Ashley Bell’: A colorful tale that veers toward the otherworldly 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

That’s W. H. Auden, from “The Dyer’s Hand,” the first dozen pages of which — a series of epigrammatic musings on “Reading” — may be all the theory any critic needs. film: Sometimes A Vegetable Is Just a Vegetable 2011-06-17T15:55:10Z

“What haunts me is the last panel, with the planet in ruins, charred and blackened skies,” DiCaprio muses. After Revenant … Leonardo DiCaprio stars as eco-warrior in climate battle 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Waters had called to cast Hunter in Polyester, opposite drag queen and Waters muse Divine. Tab Hunter: how Hollywood's boy next door became a gay icon 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

“Nothing like a health scare to awaken the songwriting muse,” the Toronto Sun wrote. The Songwriters' Songwriter 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

Staving off loneliness, Lui would send a daily email of her musings on celebrity to two of her former colleagues. Gossip explains our culture. And nobody explains it like Lainey Gossip. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

"The problem for a democracy is how to get rid of the pitiful vanities of partisan talk and voting and the corruption of party machines without silencing opposition criticism," he muses. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z

Onstage, with thousands of spectators, Mr. Springsteen would bow at his feet or hold him in a close hug, presenting him as a muse, not an employee. An Appraisal: The Big Man, Much More Than Springsteen?s Sideman 2011-06-19T21:17:51Z

I thought I was pretty well represented by the muse, and I was just fooling myself. John Goodman Was a Man Without a Series. Now He’s Everywhere. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

His begins by musing about the tension in his household brought on by his tendency to be on time while his wife is chronically late. Review: In ‘Thank God for Jokes,’ Mike Birbiglia Tells His Side of the Story 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The program said, “… muses and artists … travelers and settlers … always pushing the boundaries with strength and panache.” On the Runway: DVF Goes West 2011-02-13T22:33:17Z

Morrison himself described Astral Weeks as an opera of sorts, a story with definite characters, a song-cycle of "poetry and mythical musings channelled from my imagination". My favourite album: Astral Weeks by Van Morrison 2011-08-03T15:14:47Z

Many muses inspired Stanislava Pinchuk to dream up “The Wine Dark Sea,” her installation of engraved marbles that form a testament to the migrant experience. In Stone and Fabric, Two Artists Explore the Quest to Find Home 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

Rather, the Katerina of Jay’s memory is a shell of a muse: a paper doll with “thick pouty lips like cherry pie” whose history is summed up in a mere paragraph or two. James Frey Has Written His First Adult Novel in a Decade 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

The first is a top student, the others a high school dropout, a political activist, a bohemian artist’s muse. What if You Could Live in All Your Parallel Universes at Once? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Meat Loaf was more than a muse, but the art made flesh. Meat Loaf taught me it's OK to have big dreams 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

The only post-coronavirus change, he mused, might simply be a mass desire to look at artwork without having to sit in front of a screen. In Seoul, the Art World Gets Back to Business 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

When Eurydice dies the second time, vanishing without a trace, it’s as though she’s a figment of Orpheus’s imagination, more an archetype than anything else — the ill-fated lover, the tragic dead wife, another muse. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

The founder of Berkeley’s famed Chez Panisse isn’t a great cook — and hasn’t cooked in its kitchen in almost 35 years, she serves more as muse — nor is her cuisine particularly Gallic. Alice Waters got us to eat healthy. What more can she teach us in her new book? 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

He muses on the question for a moment. Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z

Later, as a broken bottle is being waved threateningly in his face, he muses on beauty and its loss. Annabel by Kathleen Winter ? review 2011-04-12T16:15:00Z

Across the way was Robert Sherman, a sometime muse of Robert Mapplethorpe and also known as the drag queen Constance Cooper. Scene City: Carrying a Torch for Bar d’O 2012-12-26T20:13:38Z

The Institute for Integrative Health plans to host the exhibition next year, and then the paintings will be given to their young muses. The art of working with chronically ill kids, creating ‘emotional portraits’ to help them heal 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

“It was such a strange moment of language, time and reality converging,” Mr. Lethem mused. Blue Hill, a Literary Enclave, Grows in Downeast Maine 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

But, to his credit, Chesney follows his muse and offers up an album that exposes his weathered soul. Review: Chesney surprises with 'Life on a Rock' 2013-04-29T15:30:14Z

These meta-theatrical tangles and the self-conscious musing about the blurred boundaries between art and life are the least interesting parts of this frequently involving play. Review: ‘The Twentieth-Century Way’ Explores a Moment in Gay History 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

New York City’s landscape became his muse, which he rendered in an impressionistic style. A Family of Painters Is Having Its Moment 2011-06-07T03:00:06Z

“I look the moon in its face/me and the moon relate” is as psychedelic as any Jim Morrison musing. Lil Uzi Vert, a Hip-Hop Star Beyond Gatekeepers 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Frederick needs to stop being Mr. Jaglom’s muse for a while. Readers react: Is 'The Great American Novel' debate finally resolved? 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

Unlike Walser’s novel, which is a hodgepodge of gossip, quotidian musings and exuberant satire, the film’s actions are solemn and languid with a grimness that almost borders on self-parody. My streaming gem: why you should watch Institute Benjamenta 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

A bed and surroundings to which I have yet to become accustomed usually guarantee that I’ll be visited by nightmares, and coming off opium seemed to push my nocturnal musings to disturbing levels of intensity. Puking myself clean 2012-09-26T16:55:00Z

Less predictable, and more broadly trenchant, are Flynn’s musings on rock’s cultural evolution. The Day the Music Died 2010-02-27T05:51:00Z

Those musings turned into Halal Travel Guide, an online platform offering tips, recommendations and curated itineraries for Muslim travelers. The Rise of Halal Tourism 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

"I imagine lots of people will say they liked it better before I did anything," he muses, "and I am first to say: me too." T Magazine: The Makeunder 2012-10-05T12:00:05Z

In his quest to build an exhibition around the idea, his first step was to identify a muse, an exemplar of the style he envisioned—a Frenchwoman known for impetuous accessorizing and indestructible self-confidence. AD Reflects on the Style of Jacqueline de Ribes 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Dismissing her mother’s withering remark, Colette continues with a certain self-satisfied musing instead. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Artists have ideas sometimes and you think, ‘Do people care?’ ” she said by phone this month, musing over the positive response to the work’s world premiere in London in January. Perspective | Can a festival make the Kennedy Center a destination for political art? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

"I think all of us who photograph celebrities, we all find a muse," said photographer Timothy White, a partner in the gallery. Hollywood on parade in two new exhibits 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

So it’s quite exhilarating when, toward the book’s end, the poet finds her truest muse in the unlikeliest of places, on a chiropractor’s table: Facing ‘the Can’t-See of the Future,’ in Verse and at the Chiropractor’s 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

These talks are his writing process, his mistress, his muse. ‘Deception’ Review: Verbal Fetishism 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

He had just been reading through a pile of detective novels, and began musing about the kind of mysteries that might confront a hard-boiled escalator inspector. Interview: Colson Whitehead 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Apollo is departing to join his father on Olympus; but the muses do not want to let him go. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

“Worth It” starts out like it might be restful and languid: a little guitar picking, some wordless sustained singing, and Haley Heynderickx — a songwriter from Portland, Ore. — eventually musing, “Finally I’m ready for the silence.” The Playlist: John Prine Comes Home, and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Those relationships were never like that of an artist feeding a mannequin or “muse.” Swept Up in the Whirlwind Known as Michel Legrand 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

“Perhaps Jasper created this bowl,” the panel muses. Gehry’s Quiet Interventions Reshape the Philadelphia Museum 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

“I glimpsed that the upside-down woman and houses represented contradictions,” Lisette muses. Review: ‘Lisette’s List,’ by Susan Vreeland

Do the muses visit you with the same frequency and intensity they did 20 years ago? The Creative Mid-Life: Tori Amos Still Wrestles With Her Muses 2012-12-04T21:51:24Z

His musings on the subject also appear on the new album. The end of the Streets 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z

But stripping Strindberg down to his writing, I found that his frequent muse — in addition to his three wives — was his hometown, Stockholm. Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

“Weatherbeaten” is a vivid survey of his work from those years when the Maine coast served as Homer’s muse. Paper Gallery: Art Books on Winslow Homer, Mati Klarwein and Gustav Klimt 2013-01-17T22:01:35Z

You can see why Conner looked to her as a muse. Jay DeFeo and Bruce Conner Were BFF’s (Bohemian Friends Forever) 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

That said, there doesn't seem to be one specific muse. Word of advice for spring wardrobe: caution 2011-09-14T22:41:16Z

As Holly Gibney muses at one point: “‘Anything is possible,’ she said to the empty room. Stephen King’s Reign of Terror Continues in a New Novel 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

The filmmaker who helped popularize plot-lite musings in film said he loves a good three-act thriller and, as a child, at least, he would grow restless watching slow-burn directors like Hitchcock. 'Boyhood' director Richard Linklater versus time: the big stare-down 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

As in 1966 with the Beatles, McCartney performed "Day Tripper," "Yesterday" and "Paperback Writer," each birthed as the artist's muse was hitting the richest of his many creative peaks. Paul McCartney at Dodger Stadium: Fit, giddy and in vintage form 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Gazing up at the stars, he muses, “Such harmony is in immortal souls,/But whilst this muddy vesture of decay/Doth grossly enclose it, we cannot hear it.” | 'The Merchant of Venice': What Price a Pound of Flesh? 2011-03-04T23:52:29Z

“Must mean he’s an adult baby,” Waters mused, speaking of a sexual fetish in which adults get aroused by dressing and acting like babies. WATCH: Legendary filmmaker John Waters: Mike Pence must be an “adult baby” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

La Ganga, an Austinite like the director, holds the camera’s gaze like an eagle fixating on prey, puncturing Taylor’s musings on another sponsor’s stories of alien communion. ‘There There’ Review: Only Connect 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

He merely needs some kind of muse, something bigger than himself to believe in. Review: ‘Compton,’ Dr. Dre’s First Album in 16 Years 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

“But what is being polite really about?” he mused. Scene City: ?Damsels in Distress? Screening and After-Party 2012-04-04T19:28:22Z

"It's sort of career suicide to follow him," Jackman mused, noting he sought Harris' blessing before accepting the gig. As Tony Awards host, Hugh Jackman follows yonder star 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

Things get trickier once you start musing on what might come next. What if Star Wars had never existed? 2011-03-18T14:19:16Z

The locale fittingly echoes the script’s central image: a courageous woman musing in a field outside her home. Review | The park setting of ‘In the Middle of the Fields’ is compelling but can’t make up for the sliver of a plot 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

“I wanted ideas, propositions, musings. It’s purely speculative; no one really has any idea what we’ll be wearing in the future.” Fashion Honors Zaha Hadid With ‘Extraordinary Process’ Exhibition 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s hard during all the monologues and musing to figure out if Mr. Simons is talking about Warhol or himself. Warhol & I 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

"In a way, for me, he's never been more attractive," Keaton mused. Diane Keaton on acting, aging, Michael Douglas, Woody Allen and more 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

French newspapers even mused Friday that the stunt could cost him the Oscar. Racy ads for French movie about infidelity pulled 2012-02-03T14:05:13Z

Along with drugs, fashion and taste, excess is another of Rocky’s muses, sometimes awkwardly. Review: ASAP Rocky Returns to a Haze in ‘At.Long.Last.ASAP’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Billy Cotton described a down-on-her-luck heiress he used as a muse. Nick Olsen and the Kips Bay Decorator Show House: Oh, the drama of it all 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

Maybe it’s a result of therapy, he mused, which he attends once a week. Damien Hirst’s Post-Venice, Post-Truth World 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Norman says the Mason & Hamlin instrument "is kind of like my muse." Composer Andrew Norman tries to evoke Gehry home in 'Frank's House' 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Finally, in the short story “Midnight in Dostoevsky,” Don DeLillo tells the tale of two students who muse on a series of strange encounters during one winter at their small liberal-arts college. Sunday Reading: School Drama 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

“A good back and a nice set of teeth,” she muses. Good, clean fun with Mrs Hinch – podcasts of the week 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Twitter, too, is praised for democratizing media, allowing a moment-by-moment global transmission of events and random musings. What was truly historic about the congressional sit-in? The way we watched it. 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

I appreciated the crisp visuals and the stylistic homage to the midcentury thriller; at one point I mused that this is what "Saw" would look like with Stanley Kubrick or Robert Aldrich directing it. Scare goes the neighborhood in Amazon's "Them," where trauma porn collides with our visceral reality 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kendall’s synthesis of varied materials is brisk and lively, infused with musings on gender, the mysteries of individual artists and the larger relationship of ballet to shifting political structures. Books of The Times: ‘Balanchine & the Lost Muse,’ a History by Elizabeth Kendall 2013-07-29T21:09:20Z

She stated this preference during a phone conversation in which the two women mused about the role of the first lady and its association with a “healing, mourning, empathetic presence,” Blair wrote. From press paranoia to affairs: A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

As the album’s Arabic-language title — which can be translated as “Where Is She?” — might suggest, the songs on the release muse about love, star-crossed and otherwise. ‘Noli Me Tangere’ Filipino opera will tell moving tale at Kennedy Center

“What was it Donald Trump said in his first debate?” the evangelist Franklin Graham mused at the beginning of the campaign. What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Saturday evening’s program comprises dances from Mr. Battle, Mr. Brown, the Ailey muse Judith Jamison and, again, “Revelations.” Dance Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Typically made with pork — thinly sliced, then stacked onto a vertical skewer — al pastor was the muse for Rick's turkey. The Thanksgiving menu of our wildest dreams 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Daphne Guinness, performance artist and muse Once in a generation, something like Colette happens. Saying Farewell to a Store That Changed Shopping 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

He manages, in books like “Cloud Atlas,” to muse on the nature of storytelling itself without lapsing into arid academic theorizing. David Mitchell: “I think the right way to do a female character is not to overdo it” 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

And like “Game of Thrones,” there’s an abundance of swords, blood, nudity, shouting and occasional musings on the nature of power. What You Should Watch This Week if You’re Missing a Favorite Show 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

As the characters muse about what it all means, the sound of the seminar room creeps into the theater. Theater Review: ?All Hands,? by Hoi Polloi, at Incubator Arts Project 2012-03-13T23:05:45Z

An American scholar visits classic sites of the ancient world in a book that’s part travelogue, part memoir and part musing on our contested cultural heritage. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

The metaphors don't suit a reserved, pensive woman who is fond of Pushkin's pronouncement that "the muse's art prefers quietness and inner peace". Marina Poplavskaya: 'I am a person of extraordinary ability' 2011-04-09T23:05:35Z

It can be hard enough waiting for our own muse to visit. Now showing: 'Suffering for their art' films like 'Birdman' and 'Whiplash' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

But for all its importance, Mr. Menasse mused in 2010, he didn’t really know much about how the European Union functioned, or for that matter, about the functionaries who ran it. Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

Tate admires DeLillo, but, in the essay, he muses playfully on the vast literary terrain available to the alienated white male writer. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Celebrities, especially the ones we choose to like, “are the us we want to be,” Klam muses. Why are we so celebrity crazy? 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

What happens when a choreographer loses her muse? Her Longtime Dancer Died. Instead of Moving On, She Embraced Loss. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Then again, perhaps these are merely the musings of someone who sees the world in terms of what it eats. Global leftovers: what Airbnb guests bring to your fridge 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Maybe the public is too busy trying to pin down one meaning, he mused. Damien Hirst’s Post-Venice, Post-Truth World 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Together they inspired the composite figure of the exquisite, elegantly remote Duchesse de Guermantes, the muse of Proust’s dreams of chivalric French history, romance and la vie Parisienne. French High Society During the Belle Époque 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Yes, some of these “covers” are a little too unexpected: When Diamond’s intensely interior musings are turned into duets and awkwardly refitted as plot numbers, it’s hard not to roll your ears. How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

But his primary inspirations were birds, his Roman Catholic faith and the pianist Yvonne Loriod, his wife, muse and former student, who died in May at 86. CD Review: OLIVIER MESSIAEN: ?Visions de l?Amen? 2010-07-16T15:02:00Z

Ullmann, the leading lady of Scandi cinema, former muse and partner to Ingmar Bergman, pinup to a generation, is having a cappuccino in the basement of a private members club in Toronto. Liv Ullmann on Miss Julie, Donald Trump and why she hates the modern age 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

No word on whether his current muse, French actor Charlotte Gainsbourg, star of Antichrist and Melancholia, is being lined up for the role. The Nymphomaniac may be next Lars von Trier film 2011-03-25T13:46:51Z

The idea is admirable, even honorable, in the way it unsettles our fantasy that aging artists never lose touch with the all-important muse. Creative disruption from Blige to Swift upends music world in 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

As early reviews and the trailer above have indicated, the movie includes meta-flourishes depicting Malkovich himself musing on the nature of his craft. John Malkovich goes eccentric in 'Casanova Variations,' photo exhibit 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

The nine muses, each with their identifying attribute in hand, appear on either side as if to accompany the Roman man to his last abode. Auctions: Roman History Leaves a Trail, and Fascination Follows 2011-06-17T11:30:06Z

Never didactic, it nevertheless suggested, through tense, delicate music, musings on language, storytelling, social media and artistic ethics. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

But it helps that the exploration of his teleological musings are peppered with jokes like Eleanor’s dismissive, “Who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?” to which the exasperated Chidi replies, “Plato!” The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

“Someone in the cast must be working on that,” mused Mr. Suchet, who is appearing in a production here of “The Last Confession.” David Suchet Reflects on 25 Years as Poirot 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Stritch’s raspy voice and boozy defiance — “another vodka stinger!” — was the perfect match for Sondheim’s urbane cynicism, and she became one of his greatest muses and interpreters. Elaine Stritch: How to Be a Broadway Diva 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

But Fogel is also clear-eyed about the potential dangers associated with distributing “The Dissident,” musing about the possibility of Saudi hacking or a Middle East boycott of a distributor. Khashoggi doc, too explosive for streaming, debuts on-demand 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

While the witty wordplay and aphoristic metaphysical musings that dominate the dialogue can be often amusing, sometimes profound, the play’s self-conscious navel-gazing starts to feel glib, even predictable, partway into the two-hour piece. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z

Our news is delivered as it happens, our musings “liked” before our eyes. Lens Blog: A Modernist’s Challenge to Instant Gratification 2013-07-29T09:01:10Z

“Nowadays history is made of time; but once it was made of something else,” Pierce muses. John Crowley's new epic 'Ka' is a late masterpiece in a stellar fantasy career 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

A tweak here, a nip there, and Goude catapults his muses into the realm of almost alien perfection. Paris retrospective celebrates ad man Goude 2011-11-11T12:46:03Z

His journals are now available in English, along with his memoirs, including “Crazy for Vincent,” an account of his obsession with a young skateboarder, mostly straight, who served as his reluctant muse. A French Writer Who Blurred the Line Between Candor and Provocation 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

“Isn’t good thinking at least in part a return to early wonder?” she muses in “The Delusions of Certainty,” a 200-page exploration of the mind-body problem, or the very nature of consciousness. Siri Hustvedt wonders why we revere the intellect and distrust the body 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

"Cody goes everywhere with them, and they just adore him. It's the ultimate Cinderella story," she mused. Neglected dog gets adopted after 'Cinderella' makeover 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

But the reason I love this performance so much comes back to the invisible dialogue between artist and muse. One Night. One Chance. One Liza (With a ‘Z’). 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

In one prayer she muses that “perhaps the idea would be that good can show through even something that is cheap,” and in another she calmly notes that everything has a spiritual price. Flannery O’Connor Prayer Journal Published 2013-11-13T19:04:02Z

In voice-overs he muses on his future dreams and prophecies in the Book of Revelation, while with his brothers he chatters on about everything from Michael Jackson to the predatory habits of bears. Movie Review: ‘Tchoupitoulas,’ a Documentary Set in New Orleans 2012-12-07T01:15:08Z

"Texting is apocalyptic on some level," he muses, when the title of Push The Sky Away's first single, We No Who U R is mentioned. Nick Cave: 'The greatest feat of artistic honesty would be to retire' 2013-02-15T05:39:45Z

He doesn't narrow the description of his muse or even his target consumer to cool types such as his friends Sofia Coppola, Victoria Beckham or Kim Gordon; that would be too limiting. Fashion industry prepares lovefest for Marc Jacobs 2011-06-02T20:24:10Z

“I always wanted to write for theater, but I didn’t know anyone in that world,” he mused. Rupert Holmes brings ‘Secondhand Lions’ to 5th Ave 2013-09-04T22:05:44Z

He was introspective, thoughtful, and his musings lulled us into a sympathetic state. You'd Follow Them Anywhere 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Certainly, at the time when I was first becoming smitten with film, Malick was a near-mythical figure – missing, presumed lost – caught up in musing on how to follow Days of Heaven and its predecessor, Badlands. Jonathan Caouette moves beyond the vanishing point 2010-10-01T11:18:00Z

A treasure trove of theories, fan fiction, and other ephemera exists at the Internet ready, and Rowling regularly contributes post-series musings to the conversation. Watch a Stunning Fan-Made Harry Potter Prequel 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ripstein’s hallucinatory, deliberate style is engrossing, and “Bleak Street” is full of strange, vivid images and scenes, especially when the twins are together, practicing wrestling moves or musing on the demands of their craft. Review: Arturo Ripstein’s ‘Bleak Street,’ the Story of a Mexican Murder Case 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

“Perhaps a song was going through your head,” he continued, musing about Mr. Klein’s slowness to the altar. Love Rocks — And So Does a Walk Down the Aisle With Debbie Harry 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

As the model and muse became Cézanne’s wife and the mother of their son, Cézanne painted Fiquet more than any other subject, aside from himself. Twenty-four portraits of Paul Cézanne’s wife and muse, Hortense Fiquet, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

He muses in the special how Lululemon has taken the place of police stations as a marker of safety in the area. Wyatt Cenac takes his ‘Live in Brooklyn,’ and life in Brooklyn, on the road

“As much as I was a muse, they were also muses for me,” she said. The Power of Grace Jones 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

He mused on the losses and change that age brings. ‘Listen Now Again’ Is a Tasting Menu of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Then there's the more amped-up "Beast," which is all forward momentum as the lyrics briefly turn inward while musing over a missed opportunity. Teen angst still afflicts Mary Timony in adulthood 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

For "Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files," Perelman once again offers the kind of real world, real family cooking that makes her such a trusted muse to millions of fellow home cooks. Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman on curing culinary FOMO 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

Normani is the closest Mr. Bankhead comes to having a muse. Signature Moves With Sean Bankhead 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

"I play him as he's just starting it out," Kreis muses. On Broadway: Village co-stars catch 'Million Dollar' ride to Broadway 2010-06-10T00:00:00Z

So in this world of grand illusion, great female actors are put on pedestals as muses by great directors, and then what? From Tippi Hedren to Uma Thurman, being a muse means being abused 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

It is not possible to muse on garden writing at The Washington Post without mentioning the wry, wise Henry Mitchell. It’s never easy to say goodbye, but it’s time for me to plant some trees 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

On the Michael Moore side is Michael Moore, of course, musing on the role of the non-American sniper: “American Sniper” will definitely win the Oscar for Best Twitter-Bait 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

If only, mused another, "we could find a way to stupefy creatures" so that they wouldn't have to endure this torture – but anaesthetics were some three centuries away. Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review 2012-06-06T09:50:01Z

For true fans, it’s a major blast of memories: Stipe’s crazy curls and tortured musings; Buck’s caustic humor; Mills’s transformation from altar boy to glam rocker; Berry’s unibrow. R.E.M.'s New Business Plan: Cashing In on ’90s Nostalgia 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

“Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it’s really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn’t fit into a box,” he mused. The Artistry Is Apparent, So Where?s the Audience? 2011-02-06T22:52:21Z

Another muses on her chaotic existence: "Everything for poor people is so badly organised", showing us that order is precisely what she and her ilk are providing for their overclass employers, at their own expense. London scores as Brazil's Fernando Meirelles heads for the capital 2010-06-25T10:21:00Z

“The Christmas Pig” sprang from my musings on what it means to be a replacement toy. J.K. Rowling on the Magic of ‘Things’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

On the comedian Marc Maron’s podcast, Mr. Moran mused that there were two comedic approaches: the kind that digs into the “stuff of life” and the kind that dances away from it. Critic’s Notebook: Proven in Britain, Two Comics Try to Take New York 2013-06-17T21:44:00Z

Ms. Shakur was a muse for her son, and her past clearly influenced his music. Afeni Shakur, Activist and Mother of Tupac Shakur, Dies at 69 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The scrutiny has been building since the 20th anniversary of the princess’s death in 2017, when Virgil Abloh declared Diana his Off-White muse and Kensington Palace held an exhibition devoted to her outfits. Why Do We Care So Much About Diana’s Dresses? 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Barnett muses on the contradiction of how, in one performance, she might be “vivid and alive” and in the next “distant,” even though she’s going through the same motions with each show. ‘Anonymous Club’ Review: The Joy of Creation 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

"I'm super-appreciative that she let herself be so free and relaxed," Goldsmith says of her muse. | Ayemeline Valade 2012-10-05T18:00:04Z

“Our occupation links us to other people and gives us an identity and a sense of meaning,” Sasse muses, before waxing lyrical about a bedbug exterminator. In Two New Books, Unhappy Conservatives Ask: What Now? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

"Why would you want to learn another language?" he muses. Political Mother 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z

The “New World” Symphony moved one of Dvorak’s black students, Will Marion Cook, to muse on whether black composers might become the voice of the nation. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

“There I go from a man to a memory,” he muses. Album review: The Roots, 'Undun' 2011-12-02T16:25:00Z

Though he often speculated about sex with girls from other countries, all these musings about Thai or German girls invariably led back to Zoe. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z

Lloyd nicknamed her Mnemosyne, the Greek personification of memory and mother of the nine muses. Petina Gappah's 'The Book of Memory' is a vivid and powerful debut novel 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

They continue right up to the present-day musings of a 66-year-old man wondering how the world keeps getting more crowded when he doesn’t see any more cemeteries being built. Jerry Seinfeld digs into 45 years of his jokes for new book 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Ben Nelson, Nebraska’s former Democratic governor and senator, mused recently. As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Each film is a map of her thinking, a record of her musings and insights as she explores parts of the modern world — especially but not exclusively France — that less attentive voyagers might overlook. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Also featured on “The Ooz,” speaking a poem in Spanish, is a woman from Barcelona whom Mr. Marshall called a muse. King Krule, a Cult Singer in the Making, Is Setting the Terms Himself 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

"No producer can have four flops and have there be no repercussions," one Disney insider mused. Jerry Bruckheimer strikes out again with Cage flop 2010-07-20T07:16:00Z

The book’s dreamy musings and vague scenes are laden with metaphors so mixed it can require several reads just to take in their true awfulness. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

There is a lot of explaining in “World on a Wire,” and also quite a bit of philosophical musing, as befits both the movie’s genre and its country of origin. | 'World on a Wire': Fassbinder?s Vibrating Sci-Fi Questions About Reality 2010-04-13T22:38:00Z

It requires a language all its own, and learning it isn't just musing about glass after glass. Netflix's sweet "Uncorked" is a father-son drama with earthy notes 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

But it’s pretty obvious that the real muse for this hoax must be Mike Darnell, the former Fox reality czar who was responsible for, among other things, “Temptation Island” and “The Swan.” ‘I Wanna Marry “Harry,” ’ a Reality Series on Fox 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Casablancas sings in “Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus,” simultaneously acknowledging influences and musing on the half-lives of pop careers. On ‘The New Abnormal,’ the Strokes Flip Nostalgia Toward the Future 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

His gun talk sounds like the musings of a wide-eyed outsider. Lil Yachty and 21 Savage: Atlanta Shows a Range of Hip-Hop 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Shay muses to the flaxen-haired novelty sitting beside him, in a recording of his Philadelphia radio show “Folklore” included in the collection. Remarkable Records of Joni Mitchell’s Changes 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

"I guess that I've loved you far too long," he muses, making the declaration sound like a threat. Grinderman 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

“Accessible is a funny word, isn’t it?” he muses. Fat people can be fit too: meet the personal trainers who challenge every stereotype 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

Such musings might be annoyingly abstract had Shepard not grounded them in minutely observed descriptions of the world his hero inhabits. Review: ‘The One Inside’ Presents Sam Shepard in a Minor Key 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

Kate Moss, the model whose personal style and penchant for dissolute musicians is chronicled with obsessive attention by the British news media, is often described as the heir to Marianne Faithfull, another Stones paramour/muse. Anita Pallenberg Changed How We All Dress, Not Just Keith Richards 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Andrew Lloyd Webber's former wife and Phantom of the Opera muse Sarah Brightman is preparing to journey into space. Seven days on stage: When acting proves too believable 2012-08-24T10:39:15Z

Ms. Castle, who is celebrating her 40th anniversary as a performer this season, was a muse for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mr. Bolcom, who writes that she is “one of our time’s most incandescent acting singers.” Music Review: Surrendering to Muses, Poetry and Song Unite 2010-10-22T21:18:00Z

Mr. Demme’s self-proclaimed favorite band since 1978, Talking Heads were also his muse for what would become one of the most acclaimed concert films of all time. Jonathan Demme’s Finest Musical Moments 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

She made a memorable appearance in 2001 on the hit British comedy series “Absolutely Fabulous,” playing the Devil in a fantasy sequence, alongside Marianne Faithfull, her old friend and fellow rock muse, who played God. Anita Pallenberg, Actress and Muse of Rolling Stones, Dies at 73 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

“I must have started thinking about things like that because I wouldn’t have made this picture otherwise,” she mused. Tina Barney: The Photographer’s Origin Story 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

As the actor finishes a story about his father’s enduring friendship with a black resident,Sorkin starts to muse about his past, too. Aaron Sorkin and Jeff Daniels made ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ their mission 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

She overflowed with bravery, channeling the learnings of years of tangling with her muse. Sharon Van Etten delivers a stately performance at the 9:30 Club

So it’s five minutes in before the show offers a clue to what it’s about: a blind vigilante with mad ninja skills who serves only that equally sightless muse, Justice. Netflix’s ‘Daredevil’ is first show built for binge-watching 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Strauss wrote the role for Pauline de Ahna, who became his wife shortly after “Guntram’s” 1894 premiere, and who remained his muse, despite her flinty personality, for the rest of his life. Washington Concert Opera exhumes Strauss rarity — once 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

From the jump, I recognized the deep sincerity that lay beneath the eagerly sick scenes Waters created for Divine, his ultimate muse. My streaming gem: why you should watch I Am Divine 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Ghostly black-and-white images of stars and planets, culled by the artist Rosa Barba, appeared while recorded voices emerged from loudspeakers, some of them musing on astronomy, some discussing philosophy. Empac Shrugs Popularity to Promote Creative Liberty in Troy, N.Y. 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

He also cruises the Internet, seeking clues to his missing father’s identity while musing that his dad wouldn’t approve of the “celeb lifestyle” he and his mother are leading. Books of The Times: ‘The Love Song of Jonny Valentine,’ by Teddy Wayne 2013-01-28T20:14:16Z

“Every movie is a dream,” the husband in “Vortex” muses, and his elaborations on the idea might serve as a running commentary on the movie he’s in. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

If "Wild Mountain Thyme" isn't really about anything deeper than its own forced sense of romance, the film comes dangerously close to self-awareness whenever its characters start musing about the double-edged nature of their dreams. "Wild Mountain Thyme" review: John Patrick Shanley delivers the year’s most demented rom-com 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

There was seamless give-and-take between the players with a matched tone and a relaxed style among all of them, no matter what the tone of the music: musing, urgent, lighthearted, incandescent. Jerusalem Quartet brings out Bartok’s best 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

I was musing on it afterwards: does he not recognise me, or does he recognise me and not care? The World's End: meet Edgar Wright 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z

Most of my friends were in the midst of happily continuing their busy, productive lives; they weren’t necessarily interested in listening to me muse on my new cultural perspectives. Prince’s genius changed my life: How I quit my network job — and found religion — to his funky beat 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sherman had already completed her now-classic “Film Stills,” dressing up in actressy guises and musing on the malleability of female identity. Recalling Sarah Charlesworth’s Photographs 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Perhaps he was seeking what he found a year later, his poetic muse? Our pursuit of spring continues, 100 years after Edward Thomas's 2013-03-28T13:57:39Z

This movie might clarify many things about that night in September 2012 that seem mysterious, Basic Cable Man mused aloud; it might finally focus public attention on the underlying issues. Michael Bay’s “apolitical” Benghazi movie: Every kind of American delusion and stupidity in one package! 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

There was still plenty of existential musing, though: in “Boy in the Bubble,” in “The Obvious Child,” in “Slip Slidin’ Away.” | Paul Simon: Many Roads to Salvation in Paul Simon?s Latest Show 2011-05-11T07:54:29Z

The eccentric ambience, inside and out, was perfect for a Surrealist hanging out with his creative playmate and muse. House calls: Inside the homes of Europe’s top artists 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Perhaps some of them suffered a little after their spell as artist's muse ended. Lucian Freud's feathered friend 2010-06-16T21:01:00Z

When he isn’t trying to piece together Trudy and Claude’s nefarious plans, the narrator spends a lot of time musing about the state of the world outside “the bouncy castle” that is his temporary home. Review: ‘Nutshell,’ a Tale Told by a Baby-to-Be (or Not-to-Be) 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

How was that his muse?” the New York dealer Henry Zimet said. With $170.4 Million Sale at Auction, Modigliani Work Joins Rarefied Nine-Figure Club 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

"I didn't realize Indian pizza was regional until very recently," muses Bromfield, who's the creator of the ascendant Regional American Foods Twitter account. From Altoona to mountain pie, hyper-regional pizza styles are a source of deep pride 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

Amid the gorgeous Capri scenery, Mr. Godard muses on storytelling’s evolution from the Homeric epic to the modern myth making of the movies, and on iconography’s progression from bronze statues to Ms. Bardot. Movie Listings for April 1-7 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

In the case of Daily Beast columnist Jon Favreau’s recent musing on the Republican primary, it’s a window into the pathos of the American left on the eve of the 2016 elections. They’re not eviscerating Trump: John Oliver and Stephen Colbert will never save us from fascism 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

As a friend mused Friday, “What am I going to get deep fried at state fairs now?” Requiem for the Twinkie 2012-11-16T19:57:00Z

When he insisted that his audience look in the mirror and believe him when he mused “everyone is special,” it was easy to take him seriously. A joyous night with D.R.A.M. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

His novel takes the reader through the Mumbai drug world's smoky alleys and features the musings of opium addicts in the late 1980s - a situation that Thayil, a former opium addict himself, knows well. Book Talk: Booker nominee Thayil offers bleak Bombay portrait 2012-10-11T09:01:42Z

Had the desert heat or some substance-fueled vision colored her musings? Fall Fashion’s Artful Mash-up, Subtle and Worldly 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

President George W. Bush, takes truth as his muse at the Toronto International Film Festival with a drama about a woman enslaved in the London of today. "Death of a President" director takes on slavery 2010-09-17T17:37:00Z

It is bling and bruises and weed-whacker mullets like the one sported by Yo-Landi Vi$$er, the tiny blonde who orbits Ninja like a foulmouthed muse. The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord 2012-01-29T07:13:50Z

"I didn't just go to parties," Jep muses, "I had to have the power to make them a failure." Cannes 2013 round-up, week 2: Gosling for breakfast, skinflicks for lunch 2013-05-25T10:59:01Z

He mused about his first taste of the product. Ken Cuccinelli’s post-politics endeavor: oyster farming 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

“I hope to one day be her muse,” Thompson said, and she laughed delightedly. Artistically in Sync, and Reunited for ‘The Merchant of Venice’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

“People of his class were both too rich and too poor to divorce,” he muses after she pushes him away in bed. Review | Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Our Country Friends’ is the darkly brilliant comedy we need right now 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

For this is not a poem about a woman who mistreated a man, but rather about a muse who, let us say, becomes entangled with an artist to produce something larger than them both. Perspective | The perfect poem for Valentine’s Day 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

An article in The Pittsburgh Courier praised a “mighty mélange of music, mirth and mellow musing”; another noted the many employment opportunities for Black performers. Shakespeare, Swing and Louis Armstrong. So What Went Wrong? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Ms Gilbert explores mortality, religion, plenitude and denial, children’s Utopias and dining as spectacle, with food as the constant muse. Filling up 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Why, this mother muses, do people tell her such stories? Review | Reading Nicole Krauss’s ‘To Be a Man’ feels like talking all night with a brilliant friend 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

As they perform Mozart's titular composition or muse on qualities of music, the present is weighed against the intractable burden of cultural memory. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-12T00:05:41Z

His muse and co-writer, Amy Davis, plays a blowzy Santa Fe dimwit who gets a brain boost when she consumes a piece of contaminated pork. ‘Pig Death Machine’ cooks up unwatchable underground hash 2014-01-09T21:22:45Z

A Venice Beach doofus and his Greek muse team up to open a roller disco. How Broadway Keeps Trying to Get the Disco Beat 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

The young Italian socialite became a muse for the writer after they met at a duck-shooting outing in Italy. Hemingway shows soft side in newly public letters 2012-03-28T22:47:09Z

The movie opens with Moore musing that maybe President George W. Bush’s win in 2000 over Al Gore was a dream. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

The program featured two Taylor masterpieces: “Company B,” a warm, nostalgic view of American perseverance, with songs recorded by the Andrews Sisters, and “Esplanade,” Taylor’s deeply personal musings on family and community, accompanied by Bach. Perspective | Best of dance 2021: Paul Taylor live at the Kennedy Center, Ashwini Ramaswamy and Jacob Jonas’s short films 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

She and the others muse about their current fears and confusions. Gob Squad skewers and pays tribute to Warhol's Factory 2012-09-28T22:12:05Z

Tomlin, who mused often about false female standards of beauty, dusted off the deliciously grotesque Madame Lupe, the "world's oldest beauty expert." Review: Lily Tomlin plays off a packed house of happy fans at the 5th Avenue 2011-01-31T00:31:02Z

“So I guess the joke’s on them,” he muses. Men going their own way: the toxic male separatist movement that is now mainstream 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

For Mr. O’Connor, like Khalid, the uncertainty of youth is a potent muse. On Khalid’s ‘American Teen,’ Songs of Young Love and Technology 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

After a week of these photographic musings, I returned to Ben Ness, giddy, and spotted the same man behind the counter. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Kennedy's real talent is in following her muse into the depths and reporting back from there with absolute honesty. The Blue Book by AL Kennedy ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:06Z

Equally, offering compensation on the basis that I delete personal social media musings shifted the discussion from an apology into an attempt at an exchange. What happened when my flight was invaded by ants 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

“Here we are at the Quitters Club and we’re all encouraging each other to keep going,” Kelly mused. The Quitters Club: “Let’s Give Up on Our Dreams . . . Together!” 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

This isn't a new thought, but Anderson renders it affectingly personal, not least when she muses on the death of her mother last year, and recalls how "her last words were scattered". Delusion 2010-04-15T21:40:00Z

Pamuk’s usual themes are on display: the East-West dialectic, the tensions between modernity and tradition, the relationship between secular and sacred, with Istanbul as both a backdrop and muse. New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

And while Ms. Swift did appear on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar this year, in the accompanying article, she is the interviewer, asking questions of the rock muse Pattie Boyd. R.I.P., the Celebrity Profile 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, this random boy just walked into your room and you want to give him a kiss?” the playwright muses. ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’ adapter takes science on an awfully big adventure 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

I certainly know many, many musicians who all they do is eat, sleep, and make music, and that’s pretty much all they do in their desire to pursue their muse. Shirley Manson has outlived the haters: “The business got very fat and lazy and was full of people who didn’t even care about music” 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

“On Saturday,” the unnamed narrator muses, “I will be a woman in a dress stepping over a threshold into married life. A bride. I will finally leave my family behind.” Life Advice From a Dead Grandmother Who’s Returned as a Bird 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Though if his heartfelt musings could sometimes seem a bit lofty, we must remember that this was the ’90s, a high-water mark for both apathy and irony, so the scales were off from the get-go. It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z

A particular highlight is Agnès Varda, whose gentle demeanor and thoughtful musings on the artistic impulse are both pleasing and provocative. | 'Great Directors': Filmmakers Get Personal 2010-07-01T22:38:00Z

As he muses on method acting and on-set politicking, one senses McCarthy’s comfort in the director’s chair — and wonders why the book doesn’t expand on that evolution. Review | In ‘Brat,’ Andrew McCarthy looks back at his younger self — a sheepish outsider, torn between ambition and art 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Initially, Hay’s accompanying musings sound reasonable, even wise: “The body is always talking to us, if we will only take the time to listen.” Review: A Fierce Clarity of Vision in ‘J’ai Pleuré Avec les Chiens’ 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Freud would speak enviously of how Rodin had convinced his lover Camille Claudel to give herself over to becoming a muse, and how hurt Rodin was when he no longer had complete control over her. ‘I Am My Own Subject’: Celia Paul on Lucian Freud, Motherhood and a Life in Art 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z