appassionato
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of appassionato
Example Sentences
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But Berg had the last word with his Allegro appassionato, seeming to make explicit the pervasive yearning of Schubert and take its Romantic sentiment to a breaking point.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
She maintains her common touch but it takes an appassionato of things Roman like me to nod along when Beard complains, of another interpreter: “He reaches too easily for that over-used term apotropaic.”
From Washington Post
"What are you doing here?" roared the conductor, appassionato.
From Time Magazine Archive
The allegro appassionato of the inter-act is played as usual, with a majestic deliberation which would have made Meyerbeer frantic, and all the majesty of which was appreciated by the Quiquendonian dilettanti.
From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne
There is something very contented-looking about the tilt of his long shoe, thrust out informally amidst the shrubbery—the toe rising and falling in exact rhythm with the music, now legato, now appassionato, our perfect metronome.
From Life's Minor Collisions by Frances Lester Warner
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