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Improvisation   /ˌɪmprɑvɪzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Improvisation

noun
1.
A creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation).
2.
An unplanned expedient.  Synonym: temporary expedient.
3.
A performance given extempore without planning or preparation.  Synonyms: extemporisation, extemporization.





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"Improvisation" Quotes from Famous Books



... kiss on his frowning forehead, Patty ran to the piano, and began to play "Silver Threads Among the Gold," to a rag-time improvisation of her own. ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells
... narrowly watching the clock. I was astride the bulwarks again when the Windhover was free of her moorings. There was a lack of deliberation and dignity in this departure which gave it the appearance of improvisation, of not being the real thing. I could not believe it mattered whether I went or not. My first voyage had, that is, those common circumstances which always make our crises incredible when they face us, as if they had met us by accident, in mistake ...
— London River • H. M. Tomlinson
... has thus proved a great Imperial asset, and in weighing the value of India's contribution to the War it should be remembered that India's forces were no hasty improvisation, but were an army in being, fully equipped and supplied, which had previously cost India annually a large sum ...
— The Case For India • Annie Besant
... phrase returns; and, free from the disturbing contradiction of a naive, simple, and inglorious happiness, we may again sympathize with the noble and imposing woe of a high, yet fatal struggle. This improvisation terminates like a dream, without other conclusion than a convulsive shudder; leaving the soul under the strangest, the wildest, ...
— Life of Chopin • Franz Liszt
... of action—this whole exploit must depend upon improvisation. And, as a Free Trader, spur-of-the-moment action was a necessary way of life. On the frontier Rim of the Galaxy, where the independent spacers traced the star trails, fast thinking and the ability to change plans on an instant were as important as ...
— Plague Ship • Andre Norton


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