Example Sentences

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At the time, however, “Grand Pianola Music” seemed a strange follow-up to the sensuous “Harmonium,” and not exactly a natural predecessor of the straight-faced and symphonically cosmic “Harmonielehre.”

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

It’s all of these factors melting and merging symphonically, methodically helping to reclaiming the individual identities of Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Antron McCray, and Korey Wise.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2019

Nicholas Britell’s score for “If Beale Street Could Talk” will win for its nearly classic, golden-age, symphonically inspired movie-music romanticism.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2019

It is much performed and recorded, and the trend has become increasingly to make this all symphonically acceptable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2018

The admittedly inferior musician is the one who, like Auber and Offenbach, not to mention our purveyors of drawing-room ballads, can produce an unlimited quantity of symmetrical tunes, but cannot weave themes symphonically.

From The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring by Shaw, Bernard