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as in melodic
having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music
the musical sounds of the babbling brook
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as in symphonic
having a pleasing mixture of notes
the song of the skylark has been celebrated for being especially musical
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as in comedy
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Recent Examples of musical
Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
The musical directed by Jon M. Chu took in $114 million in its opening domestic weekend and has so far earned $320 million, with an additional $135 million internationally, for a worldwide gross of $455 million.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2024
Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Dec. 2024
The blockbuster musical received a boost in the awards race on Wednesday after the National Board of Review named it the best movie of 2024.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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Both Martin and Short were nominated for best performance by an actor in a television series – musical or comedy.
—Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
The musical directed by Jon M. Chu took in $114 million in its opening domestic weekend and has so far earned $320 million, with an additional $135 million internationally, for a worldwide gross of $455 million.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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The big-budget musical added $26 million from 79 international markets, including openings in France with $2 million and Netherlands with $1.9 million.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Dec. 2024
The blockbuster musical received a boost in the awards race on Wednesday after the National Board of Review named it the best movie of 2024.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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The Symphony aspires to perform live symphonic music of excellence, beauty, and vitality at a consistently high level.Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024
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Dudamel led children into the depths of a symphony in which Shostakovich sought a symphonic road map for surviving Joseph Stalin’s political oppression.Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
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The beloved comedy, also starring Zooey Deschanel, Bob Newhart and James Caan, tells the story of a human, raised by elves, who eventually outgrows the North Pole.Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Sight gags baked into the production design (the books the Gromit reads or the signs that populate the sets) and gnome puns aplenty make for a ride in which every frame packs a dense layer of comedy, at times conspicuous, others not so much.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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Now his Pulitzer winner, Nickel Boys, has been turned into an equally uncompromising yet at times surprisingly lyrical film directed by RaMell Ross.Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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But man, One Hundred Years of Solitude is breathlessly beautiful at times, lyrical and alive and brimming with visual and intellectual ideas.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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Simplistic binaries might make for powerful melodrama, where the world is divided into good and evil.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Like Water for Chocolate is a melodrama in the best possible sense of the word—a larger-than-life historical epic of love and lust, birth and death, duty and destiny.Judy Berman, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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Dance sections lacked charm; lyric passages were spiritless; the klezmer episodes in the third movement were strictly goyish.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Kelce’s first reaction to the lyric switch-up was caught in a video posted by a fan on TikTok.Escher Walcott, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
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The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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More recently, Delano appeared in two films this year - the adventure Road to Dreamland and the bluegrass musical comedy Paradise: A Town of Sinners and Saints.Marc Berman, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Delano's last role was in the bluegrass musical comedy Paradise: A Town of Sinners and Saints, which was released in May.Esther Kang, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Barney, as is often the case, reveals unexpected refinement, directing a black-and-white psychodrama about his alcoholism, but Homer, who’s on the judging panel, prefers the one with the football in the groin.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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Performing an intense psychodrama about your wife’s family, night after night, must be gruelling.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Musical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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