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a composition in verse in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something
This poem is titled, "An Ode to My Mother."
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Recent Examples of ode
Larger Than Life is also very much an ode to the fans, featuring insights from the boy band devotees themselves.
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2024
The crisp Sun Block possesses precise stripes of florals, and Busy Bee is an ode to the namesake fuzzy insects flitting between ripening blueberries.
—Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024
Launching at London's Heathrow Airport in Terminal 2 this October, the latest venture will be an ode to Louis Vuitton's intimate relationship with travel.
—Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2024
The event — which was an ode to the artistry of Bowen Smith, who previously worked as photographer and director Herb Ritts’ former assistant — was also attended by Paris Jackson, Josh Brolin, Kim Basinger and singer Brandon Boyd, among other celebrities.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2024
The crisp Sun Block possesses precise stripes of florals, and Busy Bee is an ode to the namesake fuzzy insects flitting between ripening blueberries.
—Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024
Launching at London's Heathrow Airport in Terminal 2 this October, the latest venture will be an ode to Louis Vuitton's intimate relationship with travel.
—Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2024
The event — which was an ode to the artistry of Bowen Smith, who previously worked as photographer and director Herb Ritts’ former assistant — was also attended by Paris Jackson, Josh Brolin, Kim Basinger and singer Brandon Boyd, among other celebrities.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ode
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As the Cure’s front man and primary songwriter, Smith’s never been shy about drawing blatant lyrical inspiration from his favorite books and poems.Chris Stanton, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Co-written with The Office executive producer Ben Silverman, The Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflin is described as a comedic retelling of the classic poem, featuring a visit from Steve Carell’s Michael Scott as Santa and narrated by Baumgartner’s Kevin Malone.Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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People who spend the day after a date writing sonnets in their Notes app.Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
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According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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Her lyrics tap into frustrations in relationships without narrative hand-holding.Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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In addition to his wife, who wrote the album’s lyrics, Gilmour enlisted his 22-year-old daughter, Romany, to sing and play harp on the LP; there’s also a track constructed around an old recording of Wright from 2007.Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Gloria obliged, balancing out Jay’s heady rhymes with spoken reminiscences, making the track feel like a mini oral history.Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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For Still Praying, the Buffalo soldier links with DJ Drama, who serves as the host amid rampant rhyme spills on the part of Westside and his Griselda cohorts.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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Murphy, in one notable section, laments, Tourism is intrinsically incompatible with travelling.Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
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But where Knight of Cups often drifts along in a generalized fog of melancholy, Blanchett actually makes the film’s lament for shattered relationships and thwarted potential actually hurt.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 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, 1 Nov. 2024
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Others in the cast of the action-heavy historical epic include Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Connie Nielsen and Denzel Washington, to name just a few.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
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According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
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A little less than half these psalms are attributed to King David, about a third are anonymous, and the rest are attributed to a variety of authors.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
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Speaking to Billboard earlier this year, frontman Grian Chatten discussed the creative leap the band took on Romance, which expands its sound to include elements of nu-metal, pop and string-laden ballads.Thomas Smith, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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The day the cast sang the ballad in episode two was really powerful.Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Ode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ode. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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