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
The hypnotic, fugue-like melody has picked up more than 43,000 hits on YouTube since its launch last week.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 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
Now and again the flow of a torrent or the dash of a cataract added fugue-like effects.
From The Frontiersmen by Murfree, Mary Noailles
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