coda

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Recent Examples of coda The film ends with a coda, set some twenty years after the main action. Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024 To say that the combination of all of these elements leads up to a final act and a fill-in-the-blanks coda that devastates you all the more for its unusual attack on your emotional reserves does not do justice to the actual act of seeing it. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024 The feeling lingers until the film’s plangent coda drops us into a post-COVID near-future, with the actors playing older than their current years, and with minimal alteration. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2024 Deadline has learned the filmmaker quickly assembled a crew to shoot a new interview with the famed Democratic political consultant to include as a coda to the film. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for coda 
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Noun
  • What’s different is the depiction of Lee and Allerton's profound, hallucinogenic experience while on ayahuasca and the movie’s full jump into the surreal with its epilogue.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • His appearance with one eye covered in the final epilogue was truly striking.
    Regina Kim, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The event is led by Bob Lundy and Elizabeth Yahn Williams with preludes and postludes of pianist Andrew Wong and assisted by artist Marion Wong, illustrator of the HAÏKU for an Artist series.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2019
  • The dance now continues and switches gears as sound bites of Ailey and of Mr. Harris present a postlude suggesting them in conversation.
    Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
Noun
  • There’s no plan for previous hosts to make cameos in the finale, but they will be seen in clips.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In the finale, her partner (Jacques d’Amboise) is only there to stop her.
    Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This essay is adapted from the afterword to the forthcoming paperback edition of his latest book, On China (Penguin, 2012).
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
  • Silver Snarling Trumpet features a foreword by John Mayer, an introduction by Dead biographer Dennis McNally, and an afterword by Brigid Meier, a longtime friend of Garcia and the band.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • An appendix of expenditures in Diamond’s report showed Gilzean’s office paid $66,496 to the Winter Park law firm Sasso & Sasso.
    Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The surgery to remove an appendix gets complicated by nurse Linzley (Sarah Sherman), who first fills out a form incorrectly, meaning the patient’s gallbladder is removed instead.
    William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2024

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