danse macabre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of danse macabre
From French
Example Sentences
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The three friends try to find their rhythm in the steps of the danse macabre she creates, even as old dance patterns of desire and friendship bring them closer to the encroaching flames.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025
The Philharmonic played well, with an almost choked grotesquerie in the march in the first movement, an eerie danse macabre of the second and bristling unsentimentality in the third.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2022
The director, Jan Lauwers, choreographed an endless danse macabre of bodies rushing around the stage, and Ingo Metzmacher conducted with nearly miraculous delicacy and precision.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021
His body of work is a long danse macabre between fiction and reality.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2021
And then he lay there as the danse macabre of the demons of fear that lived in his body began in earnest.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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