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Recent Examples of caesura
With National Socialism from 1933, however, a caesura occurred that is still unparalleled today.
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Uwe Westphal, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
During the concert Friday night, the important silences between movements — caesuras central to the impact of the music — were consistently broken by applause.
—Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
Nearly every line is interrupted with a caesura (a period, em dash, comma or question mark), mirroring a zigzagging mind.
—Mark Wunderlich Victoria Chang, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
However, with a likely yearslong caesura between Muti’s tenure and, well, whoever’s, why get ahead of ourselves?
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
Details like these are scattered throughout the first half of the novella, partly so Wallace can establish a generational caesura between Fogle and his father, the Reagan-campaign contributor.
—Jon Baskin, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022
For Rapsody’s verse, medial caesura fashions a rhythmic back and forth — a left-foot, right-foot two-step.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
There's a caesura, and then all the hands in the congregation go up.
—Michael Paterniti, GQ, 26 June 2018
Mr. Korstvedt, the Bruckner Society president, pointed to the Fifth as an important caesura, concluding Bruckner’s earlier period with its daring fugal finale.
—David Allen, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
Uwe Westphal, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
During the concert Friday night, the important silences between movements — caesuras central to the impact of the music — were consistently broken by applause.
—Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
Nearly every line is interrupted with a caesura (a period, em dash, comma or question mark), mirroring a zigzagging mind.
—Mark Wunderlich Victoria Chang, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
However, with a likely yearslong caesura between Muti’s tenure and, well, whoever’s, why get ahead of ourselves?
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
Details like these are scattered throughout the first half of the novella, partly so Wallace can establish a generational caesura between Fogle and his father, the Reagan-campaign contributor.
—Jon Baskin, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022
For Rapsody’s verse, medial caesura fashions a rhythmic back and forth — a left-foot, right-foot two-step.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
There's a caesura, and then all the hands in the congregation go up.
—Michael Paterniti, GQ, 26 June 2018
Mr. Korstvedt, the Bruckner Society president, pointed to the Fifth as an important caesura, concluding Bruckner’s earlier period with its daring fugal finale.
—David Allen, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caesura
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Define each line as a piece of integral logic, mostly where the commas occur.Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Even removing a comma from a high sticker price like $1,200 and displaying it as $1200 can entice someone to pull the trigger, according to PIRG.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2024
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This time of year offers a natural pause to evaluate the past and consider the future.Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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Drone activity over the weekend forced a pause on air traffic in at least two states.Emma Bowman, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
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The anthology recounts the story of the 1986 album, tunes that will be played during the upcoming tour's mid-show interlude.Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 10 Dec. 2024
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After the long Colby interlude, the episode returns to Kayce, who packs a bag for a night and sets out to confront Grant Horton.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024
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The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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These songs mess with interspace.Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2021
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Building collisions, and particularly collisions with windows, are a major threat to birds, with one billion birds killed annually just in the United States.Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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And Fox is a great broadcast partner that uses programming like football to promote the shows’ second window on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.Josef Adalian, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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This border or discontinuity is an average of 3–6 miles beneath the ocean floor and 10–60 miles beneath the continents.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 Nov. 2024
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If our civilization suffers some kind of severe discontinuity, future archaeologists may need to dig this place up to get a hint as to how things went so wrong.Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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However, any creative whose work involves audio knows that the lag in Bluetooth headphones can make for a frustrating editing experience.Ewan Spence, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Gallup polling shows Biden lags behind other outgoing presidents based on November approval ratings in their final years.Ray Lewis, Baltimore Sun, 15 Dec. 2024
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Top 10 With records through Monday and previous rankings in parentheses.Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Dec. 2024
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Hartford Courant Top 10 State Football Coaches’ Poll First place points in parentheses, record through Saturday, points tabulated on a 30-28-26-24-22-20-18-16-14-12-11-10-9-8-7 basis, last week’s ranking and CIAC classification: 1.Ned Griffen, Hartford Courant, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Caesura.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caesura. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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