fugue-like
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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He notices the fugue-like structure of “The Open Boat” and the bigger themes that defined his later work as tuberculosis began to lay him low.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
Those words are from the fugue-like “Variations on a Summer Day,” by Wallace Stevens.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2020
Worked over in a mournful, reflective, nearly fugue-like largo in the first movement, the motif becomes hysterically repeated in the second movement, as if the composer were relentlessly interrogating himself.
From The New Yorker ● May 26, 2016
A 100-minute, fugue-like riff on a short story by the avant-garde Soviet writer Daniil Kharms, adapted here by Darryl Pinckney, “The Old Woman” strips comedy down to its sharp, jutting bones.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2014
The entire first movement is developed out of this subject in a very strong and almost fugue-like manner.
From The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
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