Menuet

ARLEN SPECTER (R), JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN: It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle menuet. ❋ Unknown (2006)

JOSEPH BIDEN (D), DELAWARE: I really hope that this doesn't turn out to be a menuet; I hope it turns out to be a conversation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And this pas de menuet has two demi-coupés and two pas marchés en pointe. ❋ Sandra Gulland (2001)

Two things are worthy of notice in many pages choked with notes: there is a menuet, the only essay I recall of Chopin's in this graceful, artificial form; and the Larghetto is in 5/4 time -- also a novel rhythm, and not very grateful. ❋ James Huneker (1890)

Unfortunately Quebec had then no Court Journal, so that following generations will have but faint ideas of all the witchery, the stunning head-dresses, the _décolletées_, high-waisted robes of their stately grandmothers, whirled round in the giddy waltz by whiskered, épauletted cavaliers, or else courtesying in the demure _menuet de la cour_. ❋ Unknown (1868)

Do not forget to bring the variations on Ekart's menuet d'exaude, and also those on Fischer's minuet. ❋ Mozart, Wolfgang A (1864)

Prince's dame de compagnie was very kind, I seemed to belong to no one in that great room, where the ladies were sitting in long rows, and the gentlemen parading before them, paying their court to one after another, while the space in the middle was left free for some distinguished pair to dance the menuet de la cour. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

In the air 'Non, le plus grand empire' one hardly notices this is a menuet. ❋ Kibitaki (2009)

The Valse enjoys a limpid, caressing verve, a Romantic's answer to a Classical menuet. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[mokouna] no mukou wa hikari afureru though there will be times of pain and sadness the other side of the door is filed with light yagate subete wa hitotsu ni naru sono toki made tsuzuku [yoku] no michidzureni tenshi no menuet until all become one on the long trip, will be your companion with the angel's menuet ❋ Mayoineko (2009)

Some Democrats raising questions saying, you know, they're somewhat skeptical about the timing of all of this saying -- one senior Democratic aide in fact said to me, they're going to be involved in a delicate menuet, because they're not going to be able to ask the kind of tough heated questions that they might have been able to ask before, because now they've been briefed in on this intelligence, and they're going to be restricted as to what they can say in public -- Wolf. ❋ Unknown (2006)

i love you itsudemo itsumademo namida hohoemi ni kawarumade for ever and ever until the tear becomes a smile sarigenaku tsutaetakoe wa hirameki no naka ni kokoro tsumaseba kikoeru tenshi no MENUETT listen to your heart to that innocent voice and you will hear the angel's menuet ❋ Mayoineko (2009)

- J.S. Bach - Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006 - IV Menuet I-menuet II-menuet I ❋ Unknown (2009)

J'ai donc fait chercher tout de suite la partition de ce menuet, et celles du Ch [oe] ur du même Opéra de Glück "_Chantons, célébrons notre Reine! ❋ Queen Of Great Britain Victoria (1860)