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Recent Examples of gracioso
With Edusei’s fastidious beat, the orchestra played with hair-trigger precision, and a huge dynamic range, in Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso.
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Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso and Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2.
—Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2022
The same praise could be heaped upon Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, which opened the evening.
—Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017
Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso and Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2.
—Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2022
The same praise could be heaped upon Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, which opened the evening.
—Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gracioso
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And Dana Carvey debuted a new Elon Musk impression, the court jester to Trump’s mighty king.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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And then there’s 10 percent that are a mixture of people who see you as a jester or cartoon character who should get up and dance for them, and people who, in their head, have a full-on relationship with you and need to protect the fragile little boy from everybody else.Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Harbaugh’s antics can seem cliche and even corny at times.Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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The show followed Allen’s Tim Taylor’s antics on both his home improvement show Tool Time and at home with his family, consisting of wife Jill (Patricia Richardson) and sons Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan), Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) and Mark (Taran Noah Smith).John Russell, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Kaan kaan wu, with its motley of melds, is where these two tiles from different suits can be used in a clean-sweeping hand.Rudy Lee, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
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This made us—with all our human, mortal limitations—rather like the God of all those past centuries of belief, or should that be credulity: the God who retained and stored away everything in his motley, moveless time, in which nothing was new or old, remote or recent.Margaret Jull Costa, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
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Instead of the buffo landlord Benoit coming for the rent, the four Bohemians impersonate him themselves in a skit that was a little beyond the L.A. cast’s comic skills.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2019
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Alessandro Corbelli brought seasoned basso-buffo authority to the manipulative Alfonso.John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2018
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“Gracioso.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gracioso. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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