character piece

noun

Music.

1. a short, simple piece, usually for piano, of a type developed chiefly during the 19th century, often of a descriptive or seemingly improvisatory character.

Example Sentences

With her hair carefully braided to her backing dancers, she delivered a meticulously-choreographed performance of Boiled Peanuts and Denial Is a River - a cartoonish character piece, in which she confides to her therapist that her boyfriend's been cheating on her with another man.

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And now, filmmaker Gia Coppola has constructed a dreamy character piece around Anderson and her dizzy megawatt grin.

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Chinese director Zhang Lu’s contemporary drama “The Shadowless Tower” is a gently enigmatic character piece that resists telling you too much about its characters.

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Less lore-building expansion than character piece, it could stand on its own without the prequel ties and still be one of the more compelling supernatural-psychological horror films of late.

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This is not a deep character piece but rather a group project, one in which we barely know the other members of the team.

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