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Example sentences for: clef

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A letter I collected from the poste restante contained a dossier about a précis of a roman à clef she had written, showing she was au fait with my manoeuvres in Iran which, if published, would ruin me.
Brazil director Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's junkie roman à clef is declared "a pointless mess" (Leah Rozen, People ). Besides the lack of a plot, critics say, there's a senselessly spinning camera meant to depict drug trips in scenes reminiscent of Andy Warhol's very worst movies.
Conversely, who remembers the bass clef lines and spaces (with, respectively, the insipid “ G reat B ig D ogs F ight A nimals” and “ A ll C ars E at G as” )? The treble clef lines are only a bit more memorable (“ E very G ood B oy D oes F ine” or “ E very G rizzly B ear D igs F igs” ); its spaces' notes, at least, crisply spell face . Who knows how many musical aspirations have been dashed against the bass clef, for want of adequate mnemonics?