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
Also named Alberto, he is an encyclopedia salesman who lives in a fugue-like state, fretting that he will “fritter away the future” while lost in feelings of apathy.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2019
The script could use more consistency and cadence in its fantasy sequences to achieve the fugue-like effect I presume Ms. Anyanwu is aspiring to.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2018
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
I recall the long waves of nodding grass, that swayed in the June wind and were chasing each other, fugue-like on the broad meadows.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by Codman, John Thomas
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