villanelle

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Recent Examples of villanelle Elongated and paved with bricks, the path is a closed form, a kind of physical villanelle that thwarts the experience of continuity or the feeling of finitude. Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023 Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope. Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020 Her own verse often drew on classical forms such as the villanelle, sestina, tritina and sonnet, and sometimes incorporated references to ancient mythology and medieval legend. Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 July 2019 But then, rarely does an individual strip contain a complete and proper villanelle about food. Wired Blogs, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2006
Recent Examples of Synonyms for villanelle
Noun
  • Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.
    Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
  • And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?
    Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In an interview with Parents magazine in 2020, Duff revealed that Luca wrote a poem about their family and read it aloud at her and Koma's wedding.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • English Pen, a human rights organization, translated one of her poems to raise awareness.
    Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Eater line is a partnership between Heritage and the food site that launched last year, but six new pieces were added this year, including a mini sauté pan ($120) and a roomy six-quart rondeau pan ($180) that’s perfect for searing, pan roasting, and simmering.
    BYChris Morris, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The set includes a saucepan, saucier, frying pan, and 5.2-quart rondeau.
    Molly Allen, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.
    Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
Noun
  • On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
  • No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.
    E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
Noun
  • Streams of information flow into and over each other in an elegy about who was who, and when, and why.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valeria Golino round out the cast of this visually and emotionally rich biopic styled as an operatic elegy.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.
    Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The great organ's 8,000 pipes, which were covered in toxic dust after the fire and have been disassembled, cleaned and retuned, will also play a psalm as the doors re-open.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • That latter category includes my No. 1 title, an ode to the glories of cinema that ends, in an utterly magical sequence, with all its major characters entering a movie theatre.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The film is an ode to Cincinnati and the Janson brothers Despite their lack of acting experience, the Jansons' on-screen performance was anything but amateur.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024

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“Villanelle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villanelle. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.

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