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Recent Examples of tonal
Repeatedly rising to the challenge of maneuvering through the film’s myriad plot twists and tonal shifts, McKellen is by turns imperiously hilarious, archly devious, forlornly melancholy and pathetically desperate.
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Joe Leydon, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
This is a theme Chua repeatedly emphasizes throughout his book: Music in its very rhythmic forms and tonal variations reflects the laws of the universe.
—Norman Weinstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2025
Wyle is the best at surfing the show’s tonal waves, reflecting urgency and unflappability while also playing everything with minimal glamour and maximal empathy.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
The pastel eyeshadow, the thick black eyelashes, the tonal, glossy lip and the shimmering highlight on the peaks of her face.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2025
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Joe Leydon, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
This is a theme Chua repeatedly emphasizes throughout his book: Music in its very rhythmic forms and tonal variations reflects the laws of the universe.
—Norman Weinstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2025
Wyle is the best at surfing the show’s tonal waves, reflecting urgency and unflappability while also playing everything with minimal glamour and maximal empathy.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
The pastel eyeshadow, the thick black eyelashes, the tonal, glossy lip and the shimmering highlight on the peaks of her face.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonal
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is, in these darkest days of midwinter, one of the city’s spiritual hot spots, thanks to the harmonic convergence of two outstanding and very different exhibitions, both closing soon.Holland Cotter, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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However, the bass beats didn't produce a harmonic signal, which was surprising since those beats were better synchronized with the actual musical beats than Tepp's jumping motions.Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 Mar. 2024
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In October, Grande premiered several orchestral live performance videos of the album’s song that showcased the singer alongside a 10-piece band.Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2025
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On an orchestral track like the opening scene to John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary, the instruments sound vibrant and full.PCMAG, PCMAG, 11 Dec. 2024
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The soundtrack has very rhythmic sound comments – Chemical Brothers style – and not many melodies.Billboard Italy, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2025
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Sometimes a sketch lives or dies because of some rhythmic alchemy.Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2020
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At its heart is the creation of new vocal datasets, polyphonic AI models capable of blending human and machine voices, pulling audiences into an immersive, participatory experience.Nargess Banks, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Everything [in Georgia] symbolizes wine—like the architecture of the medieval century, like churches, even Georgian polyphonic singing, which reminds me of the curly vines.Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2024
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
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Dancers ages 2 years and up will perform dance routines in tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, contemporary and hip hop while telling the story of Aladdin.Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
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Her voice is strong and lyrical, laden with purpose.Longreads, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Tonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonal. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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