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
But it was another song, the gentle, fugue-like “Walk Don’t Run,” which he wrote in 1954, that became Mr. Smith’s biggest hit.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2013
Now and again the flow of a torrent or the dash of a cataract added fugue-like effects.
From The Frontiersmen by Mary Noailles Murfree
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