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Recent Examples of caesura
With National Socialism from 1933, however, a caesura occurred that is still unparalleled today.
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Uwe Westphal, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
During the concert Friday night, the important silences between movements — caesuras central to the impact of the music — were consistently broken by applause.
—Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
Nearly every line is interrupted with a caesura (a period, em dash, comma or question mark), mirroring a zigzagging mind.
—Mark Wunderlich Victoria Chang, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
However, with a likely yearslong caesura between Muti’s tenure and, well, whoever’s, why get ahead of ourselves?
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
Details like these are scattered throughout the first half of the novella, partly so Wallace can establish a generational caesura between Fogle and his father, the Reagan-campaign contributor.
—Jon Baskin, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022
For Rapsody’s verse, medial caesura fashions a rhythmic back and forth — a left-foot, right-foot two-step.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
There's a caesura, and then all the hands in the congregation go up.
—Michael Paterniti, GQ, 26 June 2018
Mr. Korstvedt, the Bruckner Society president, pointed to the Fifth as an important caesura, concluding Bruckner’s earlier period with its daring fugal finale.
—David Allen, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
Uwe Westphal, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
During the concert Friday night, the important silences between movements — caesuras central to the impact of the music — were consistently broken by applause.
—Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
Nearly every line is interrupted with a caesura (a period, em dash, comma or question mark), mirroring a zigzagging mind.
—Mark Wunderlich Victoria Chang, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
However, with a likely yearslong caesura between Muti’s tenure and, well, whoever’s, why get ahead of ourselves?
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
Details like these are scattered throughout the first half of the novella, partly so Wallace can establish a generational caesura between Fogle and his father, the Reagan-campaign contributor.
—Jon Baskin, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022
For Rapsody’s verse, medial caesura fashions a rhythmic back and forth — a left-foot, right-foot two-step.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
There's a caesura, and then all the hands in the congregation go up.
—Michael Paterniti, GQ, 26 June 2018
Mr. Korstvedt, the Bruckner Society president, pointed to the Fifth as an important caesura, concluding Bruckner’s earlier period with its daring fugal finale.
—David Allen, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caesura
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Define each line as a piece of integral logic, mostly where the commas occur.Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Even removing a comma from a high sticker price like $1,200 and displaying it as $1200 can entice someone to pull the trigger, according to PIRG.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2024
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In finance, the very essence of responsibility, accountability and conscious choice stems from the pause that friction provides.Alex Kreger, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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After Lee placed executions on pause, The Tennessean reported in late May 2022 that the state had failed to follow its lethal injection procedures since resuming executions in 2018 after a nine-year hiatus.Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 27 Dec. 2024
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Last Voyage turns the chilling interlude into a slow-moving slasher, neither acknowledging the book’s metaphor of a ship bringing plague nor indulging in the inherent paranoia of its claustrophobic surroundings.Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
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And there’s simply the album structure itself, drawing on that live presentation, and the adding of the interludes.Steve Hochman, SPIN, 21 Oct. 2024
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The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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These songs mess with interspace.Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2021
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And Fox is a great broadcast partner that uses programming like football to promote the shows’ second window on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.Josef Adalian, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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These include ocean-view rooms with windows, verandah rooms with walk-out patios, concierge-level suites, inside cabins, and unbelievable two- and one-story suites.Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
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This border or discontinuity is an average of 3–6 miles beneath the ocean floor and 10–60 miles beneath the continents.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 Nov. 2024
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If our civilization suffers some kind of severe discontinuity, future archaeologists may need to dig this place up to get a hint as to how things went so wrong.Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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The hosts talk about the slight lag between the expansion to 12 teams and full TV money; the benefits of 11 high profile, consequential bowl games; and how the structure may change in the future.Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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However, interest rate cuts usually influence the economy after a lag of several months, meaning the recent lowering of rates likely had little impact on holiday spending.Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Dec. 2024
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Top 10 With records through Monday and previous rankings in parentheses.Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Dec. 2024
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Hartford Courant Top 10 State Football Coaches’ Poll First place points in parentheses, record through Saturday, points tabulated on a 30-28-26-24-22-20-18-16-14-12-11-10-9-8-7 basis, last week’s ranking and CIAC classification: 1.Ned Griffen, Hartford Courant, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Caesura.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caesura. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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