extemporizing

With the high command incapable of extemporizing an amphibious-air assault on the Home Isles, Hitler's invasion failed before it could begin.

Hell's Ethos Jonathan W. Jordan 2011

Where Clinton -- whatever else you think of her -- is obviously competent, prepared, and capable of extemporizing a complete unmemorized English sentence, she's demonized as unfeminine and a harpy.

a cemetery where I married the sea matociquala 2008

While my daughter met with 200 girls, and, shy as she is, extemporizing as best as possible on why we were there, I was talking with 50 fathers, many of them living in the slums, encouraging them to allow their daughters to go to school.

Pedro C. Moreno: Fathers: Bring Your Daughters to School 2009

Now, I can't stop extemporizing verses to a blues song called "His Lead is Gone" in my head.

CNN Poll Of Polls: Obama's Lead Is Gone 2009

Steve Jobs or Michael Dell he isn't (yet), but "Revolution in a Bottle" is a fun read that captures the restless, extemporizing life of the start-up entrepreneur.

From Dorm Room to Wal-Mart 2009

While my daughter met with 200 girls, and, shy as she is, extemporizing as best as possible on why we were there, I was talking with 50 fathers, many of them living in the slums, encouraging them to allow their daughters to go to school.

Pedro C. Moreno: Fathers: Bring Your Daughters to School 2009

When extemporizing Obama again is a dreadful public speaker.

"You know, I am a believer in … in knowing what you’re doing when you apply for a job. Uh, and I think that..." Ann Althouse 2008

With light classics, jazz and pop, you name it he did it, whether fusing or switching genre's, extemporizing or variations on a theme, he did it all, and he did it better than anybody.

Michael Douglas Starring as Liberace for Steven Soderbergh « FirstShowing.net 2008

What advantage is it to be a man, over it is to be a boy at school, if we have only escaped the ferula to come under the fescue of an Imprimatur; if serious and elaborate writings, as if they were no more than the theme of a grammar-lad under his pedagogue, must not be uttered without the cursory eyes of a temporizing and extemporizing licenser?

Areopagitica 2007

“What trick can we play that cove?” said the third clerk, whose name was Godeschal, in a low voice, pausing in the middle of a discourse he was extemporizing in an appeal engrossed by the fourth clerk, of which copies were being made by two neophytes from the provinces.

Le Colonel Chabert 2007