After Underworld, an 800-page tour de force, DeLillo's career turned towards the miniature: The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis (2003), The Falling Man (2007) are much slighter books, a rallentando that suggests a writer moving inexorably into the minor key of old age. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But music critics must either attempt to describe the evanescent and ineffable, which can lead to gushy impressionism, or they must transcribe bars of music notation and start talking about subdominants, rallentando and other arcane compositional matters. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He listened patiently, pursed his lips, then played a rallentando on his computer keyboard. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1982)
Interest from various numbered trusts was still turned, by family banks down in Boston every second or third generation, back into yet another trust, in long rallentando, in infinite series just perceptibly, term by term, dying ... but never quite to the zero .... ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
Not only are singers allowed to walk and gesticulate on the stage without paying any attention to the time, but also no shade of expression, dynamic or motor, of the orchestra -- crescendo, decrescendo, accelerando, rallentando -- finds in their gestures adequate realization. ❋ Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (N/A)
Surely, the composer intended a pronounced _rallentando_ on the latter half of the bar, and a carrying of the voice by a ❋ W. E. Haslam (N/A)
There was a little wailing _rallentando_, and silence. ❋ Ian Hay (1914)
At the third line of the verse the evangelist joined in great massive tones, beating time vigorously in a rallentando. ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)
Aside from a few rallentando places, the etude is to be played strictly in time. ❋ James Huneker (1890)
The last line of the song did not come to an end until she was half-way across the dining-room floor, and so far from being dismayed by her aunt's stare of disapproval, she only laughed, waved her hands, and threw an extra flourish into the rallentando. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
Among other points to be noted is the fact that sudden transition from repose to restless activity calls for an accelerando, while the reverse requires a rallentando. ❋ Aubertine Woodward Moore (1885)
Perhaps it's because I stood in your way [rallentando] or -- I really -- don't know why -- in particular. ❋ August Strindberg (1880)
Give us an _andante maestoso_ movement, or a _diminuendo rallentando_ that reaches the very climax and acme of slowness itself just before the applause comes! ❋ William Frend De Morgan (1878)
After the beautiful harmony through the seven lines, the choral reverently softens under the rallentando of the closing bars, and dwelling on the awe-inspiring syllables, solemnly dies away. ❋ Theron Brown (1873)
The melody has an impressive rallentando of dotted semibreves to the refrain, "Peace, be still," after the more rapid notes of the three-line stanzas. ❋ Theron Brown (1873)
A second gesture from the manager and the great orchestra subsided, more gradually, with _rallentando_ passages and meteoric showers of notes scattered among the foliage; but nothing better could be expected from ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Page view page image: time, with little rallentando or crescendo, a solemn, pathetic movement, full of sweet invitation and calm urging, repeating itself in a dozen keys, approached by new, yet simple modulations: it was like religion, importuning men every day. ❋ Unknown (1867)
Page 114 time, with little rallentando or crescendo, a solemn, pathetic movement, full of sweet invitation and calm urging, repeating itself in a dozen keys, approached by new, yet simple modulations: it was like religion, importuning men every day. ❋ Unknown (1867)
Considered good credit score has been munificently for as linearly as i can perceptivity, and uncarpeted to korea one of the goddamned oenothera in daubentoniidae, unco the imputable has been rallentando bonelike in spirited gadfly. ❋ Unknown (2009)
