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crescendo
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  • She holds the wrong note in her mind, and even as she continues playing, that note reverberates within her, growing to a crescendo, stealing her focus until she slips again, into a second wrong note, and then, two minutes later, blows an entire chord.†   (source)
  • A crescendo of ugly hate rose from the men as the second car approached.†   (source)
  • He had been raised to appreciate music of sentiment and nuance, music that rewarded patience and attention with crescendos and diminuendos, allegros and adagios artfully arranged over four whole movements—not a fistful of notes crammed higgledy-piggledy into thirty measures.†   (source)
  • The noise built to a deafening crescendo before ceasing abruptly.†   (source)
  • It got to be that after a few times the boys sang along with me, a crescendo that climaxed, after a quick intake of air while I underlined the proper note, with such a rousing rendition of my new name that it would have been the delight of any choirmaster.†   (source)
  • The circle of participants seemed almost to be singing now, the noise rising in crescendo to a frenzy.†   (source)
  • He walked out through the entrance of the tent, the panic rising into a crescendo inside him.†   (source)
  • The time has come (ominous musical crescendo) for some missions!†   (source)
  • As the song crescendoed, a row of daisies poked up from the dirt and unfurled toward her hands.†   (source)
  • "Ah yes, Vogonity—sorry—of the poet's compassionate soul"—Arthur felt he was on the homestretch now—"which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other"—he was reaching a triumphant crescendo—"and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into … into … er …"†   (source)
  • But not thirty seconds later a murmur of worry crept in, worry which rose to a shrieking crescendo in moments.†   (source)
  • No one comes out of any of the houses, even as the girl's voice crescendos to a high-pitched scream, like a siren going off.†   (source)
  • There's a crescendo in the ticking, and a flash.†   (source)
  • All through the day, the heavy thump of the locomotives' steam pistons thundered down our narrow valleys, the town shaking to the crescendo of grinding steel as the great trains accelerated.†   (source)
  • As the trees' ear-splitting chorus reached its crescendo, I anchored my mind with the catchiest tune I could imagine.†   (source)
  • Somewhere, a chain saw buzzed to life, the crescendo of its whine at violent odds with the stillness of the woods.†   (source)
  • That harmony built into a crescendo of colors as yellow and then pink added their voices to the chorus.†   (source)
  • The shouts and cries from the cockpit seemed to be reaching a crescendo, but they sounded far away.†   (source)
  • (carrie let me GO) (Momma Momma Momma 00000000000000 0000000000) The mental scream reached a flaring, unbelievable crescendo and then suddenly faded.†   (source)
  • And the night behind them was filled with the crescendoing sound of pursuit….†   (source)
  • Rolling from rooftop to rooftop, building to a crescendo, engulfing the populace in a hypnotic frenzy, the crushing, debilitating, horrifying chant knifed into my soul.†   (source)
  • Now Alejandra's notes cascaded like silver water, followed by a bright crescendo, climbing, hanging suspended for an instant in the sunlight.†   (source)
  • And with that final crescendo, they halted under ribbed stalactites that branched over a great catacomb lined with alcoves.†   (source)
  • This question represents a crescendo of decades' worth of research.†   (source)
  • The rain had begun in mid-afternoon, had shortly reached a crescendo, the clouds like broken dams, and then abated.†   (source)
  • He hears the crescendoing last chords of the national anthem and sees the great open horseshoe of the grandstand and that unfolding vision of the grass that always seems to mean he has stepped outside his life—the rubbed shine that sweeps and bends from the raked dirt of the infield out to the high green fences.†   (source)
  • In her speech in the Bronx, Jordana exuded maturity and empathy as she exhorted the students to support the Girls Learn chapter, noting that girls the same age as those in the audience are being trafficked or killed for "honor," and she ended with a ringing crescendo: "Girls' rights are human rights!"†   (source)
  • After a loud crescendo the song ended.†   (source)
  • A sprinkling of applause greeted the illusion, gathering adherents from all parts of the auditorium until it reached its short crescendo and died away.†   (source)
  • As dusk settled over the Ohio River Valley, the boys were frightened to hear crescendo-pitched screams from outside their windows.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes as I heard the deep moaning sound that issued from him, and the rising crescendo of the student body joining in.†   (source)
  • Sunday night the firing resumed and again the British responded with full crescendo.†   (source)
  • "Cactus!" he shouted again, hearing his voice lost in the rapid, rhythmic crescendos of the siren-alarm.†   (source)
  • As the drums reached a crescendo, three of the girls leapt above the flames, spinning in the air.†   (source)
  • There is a change of rhythm, it rises to a crescendo and then, suddenly, it is cut off.†   (source)
  • Blinded, he waited for the next bolt to release him from the reeling darkness, for the logic of the lightning and its approach over the sea was like the logic of a swelling crescendo in music.†   (source)
  • And then, just as we're getting to our big crescendo, Shari elbows me, hard—which is not actually part of our choreography.†   (source)
  • Here the warriors sang at crescendo pitch, for the challenge of the song was to determine whose call to the God of Battle was most clearly heard by Tempos.†   (source)
  • The words spilled out in a crescendo.†   (source)
  • Finally the film reached its crescendo, the camera lifting skyward to reveal the whole of the King Abdullah Economic City at night, glittering, fireworks blooming over it all.†   (source)
  • Ralph's heart rumbled like a Peking Opera drum; it was the crescendo before — crash of the cymbals!†   (source)
  • Then the sound came, a long, deep, powerful rumble increasing in crescendo until the windows rattled, cups danced in their saucers, and the bar glasses rubbed rims and tinkled in terror.†   (source)
  • She awoke at last to find herself getting laid; she'd come in on a sexual crescendo in progress, like a cut to a scene where the camera's already moving.†   (source)
  • Time, in the form of a slow tune of distant belfry chimes which approaches in a crescendo and then fades, passes; the light comes up again on a day five years later, on three kneeling children and an old dog outside around the pump.†   (source)
  • At other times, when some strange song with low guttural notes and dragging movement, dramatically working up to a crescendo, was heard later still through that same open window, we freshmen told one another that was Miss Pohl, the spectacular gym teacher with the flying gray hair, who was, we had heard and believed, a Russian by birth, who'd been crossed, long years ago, in love.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the whole class would help Mary out, and seventeen voices would rise slowly in an unintelligible gibberish, grow louder as each voice tried to be heard, and finally reach a deafening crescendo a la Babel.†   (source)
  • A sea of turbulent light appeared overhead, and three times spilled streams that rode crazy crescendo down to splash upon the stone fang curving blackly into the wind, about a quarter mile up the slope.†   (source)
  • Democratic Majority Leader in the Senate (and later Vice President) Alben Barkely of Kentucky told a campaign audience that Taft "never experienced a crescendo of heart about the soup kitchens of 1932, but his heart bled anguishedly for the criminals at Nuremberg."†   (source)
  • As the music built to a crescendo, Anorak stretched out his right hand.†   (source)
  • May I be of assistance, Holy One? asked the cabaret's manager through the sustained crescendos.†   (source)
  • The war gods' voices rose to a crescendo in his head: Kill him!†   (source)
  • The shouts and calls from outside grew to a crescendo.†   (source)
  • The tempo increased, the volume moved toward a powerful crescendo.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the distance the sirens reached a crescendo, and then they stopped.†   (source)
  • His body twisted to the crescendo of the fearful drum beat.†   (source)
  • ALL (Crescendo, each answer mightier than the one before) Yes!†   (source)
  • The Muzak was now building to a crescendo over us, the speaker popping, as if close to short-circuiting.†   (source)
  • Light romantic music floated out of the dark ceiling, quiet crescendos abstractly punctuated by the beams of the miniature spotlights.†   (source)
  • And, again, suddenly, there was another crescendo of gunfire from the west exterior of the terminal building, again accompanied by the shattering of glass.†   (source)
  • Her screams reached a crescendo.†   (source)
  • When his voice rose in a crescendo, flames leapt from his fingers with a sudden whoosh and made the crowd gasp.†   (source)
  • Martial music, drums and trumpets predominating, swelling to crescendos that Bourne could only imagine were deafening within the echoing confines of the huge structure.†   (source)
  • The noises accumulated; they became a series of constant crescendos demanding acceptance and a sale or at least a negotiation.†   (source)
  • It stood the crystal shard upright on the grass and stepped back, bellowing forth the obscure words of an ancient spell, rising to a crescendo as the sky began to brighten with the sun's imminent appearance.†   (source)
  • Suddenly again, with no warning whatsoever, a cacophony of Oriental music swelled, the cymbals and primitive wood instruments reaching abrupt crescendos with each stride of the ragtag band that marched down the street, its followers carrying placards mounted with flowers.†   (source)
  • "There've been times when I've dreamed a certain person may have had more to do with it!" the man from Connemara cried in crescendo.†   (source)
  • The lights half dim on the homestead, where VINEY and HELEN going about their business soon find their way of Meanwhile, the railroad sounds off left have mounted in a crescendo to a climax typical of a depot at arrival time, the lights come on stage left, and we see a suggestion of a station.†   (source)
  • Metzger hit the deck and cowered with Oedipa as the can continued its high-speed caroming; from the other room came a slow, deep crescendo of naval bombardment, machine-gun, howitzer and small-arms fire, screams and chopped-off prayers of dying infantry.†   (source)
  • He straightened, scaling crescendo with a roar.†   (source)
  • (David thought the fierce crescendo of his voice would never end) "Sit down.†   (source)
  • Then came a new and louder droning roar and three more Heinkel one-elevens showed coming steeply, stiffly, lower yet, crossing in rigid formation, their pounding roar approaching in crescendo to an absolute of noise and then receding as they passed the clearing.†   (source)
  • The noises grew to a crescendo of excitement as the blood-thirsty thunder of the alaunts pealed through the lesser notes.†   (source)
  • The Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana had risen to a sobbing crescendo; and suddenly the verbena gave place, in the scent-circulating system, to an intense patchouli.†   (source)
  • Again from the town, deadened a little by the walls, the scream of the siren mounted toward its unbelievable crescendo, passing out of the realm of hearing.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Trenor brought this out in a CRESCENDO of indignation.†   (source)
  • The din became crescendo, like the roar of an oncoming train.†   (source)
  • A breath of wind dispersed them; the stone grew dark again, but, like tamed creatures, they returned; they began, imperceptibly, to grow lighter, and by one of those continuous crescendos, such as, in music, at the end of an overture, carry a single note to the extreme fortissimo, making it pass rapidly through all the intermediate stages, I saw it attain to that fixed, unalterable gold of fine days, on which the sharply cut shadows of the wrought iron of the balustrade were outlined…†   (source)
  • For Anne the real excitement began with the dismissal of school and increased therefrom in crescendo until it reached to a crash of positive ecstasy in the concert itself.†   (source)
  • CRESCENDO!†   (source)
  • A moment by an inn of lamps and shades, a yellow inn under a yellow moon—then silence, where crescendo laughter fades…. the car swung out again to the winds of June, mellowed the shadows where the distance grew, then crushed the yellow shadows into blue….†   (source)
  • Tim, thinking slightly of David's vocalization, was impelled to supersede that feeble buzz by a spirited commencement of "Three Merry Mowers," but David was not to be put down so easily, and showed himself capable of a copious crescendo, which was rendering it doubtful whether the rose would not predominate over the mowers, when old Kester, with an entirely unmoved and immovable aspect, suddenly set up a quavering treble—as if he had been an alarum, and the time was come for him to go…†   (source)
  • Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thenardier himself could add nothing to this blackness of this night.†   (source)
  • A hubbub broke out, rose in crescendo with bursts of shrill voices (they yelled, barked, stamped, repeated "Charbovari!†   (source)
  • Her presence proved somehow less irreducible to soft particles than Ralph had expected in the natural perturbation of his sense of the perfect solubility of that of his cousin; for the correspondent of the Interviewer prompted mirth in him, and he had long since decided that the crescendo of mirth should be the flower of his declining days.†   (source)
  • "Master," stammered he; "monseigneur—sire—how ought I to address you?" he said at length, having reached the culminating point of his crescendo, and knowing neither how to mount higher, nor to descend again.†   (source)
  • In the orchard the bees sounded like a wind gettingup, a sound caughtby a spell justunder crescendo and sustained.†   (source)
  • It broke and he cast it away and with Ben's voice mounting toward its unbelievable crescendo Luster caughtup the end of the reins and leaned forward asJason camejumpingacross the square and onto the step.†   (source)
  • But a day of reckoning, he stated crescendo with no uncertain voice, thoroughly monopolising all the conversation, was in store for mighty England, despite her power of pelf on account of her crimes.†   (source)
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