gracioso

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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. 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Her face was still painted, but her jester’s cap was replaced by two massive, blonde pigtails.
    Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Some commentators expressed outrage at the counterculture antics of Cheech & Chong filling theaters, but their complaints had zero impact.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Entitled Housewife’s antics have racked up millions of views across social media and have led to dozens of private bookings at country clubs and golf courses nationwide, also helping Robinson break out as one of the casino circuit’s rising stars.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 Dec. 2024.

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