Example sentences for: duende

How can you use “duende” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ' One scholar, Allen Josephs of the University of West Florida, surmised that “from duquendio or duquende to duende is a short step, especially in Andalusia, where gypsy mastery would be precisely flamenco mastery.”

  • He quotes an Andalusian artist, Manuel Torres, as having exclaimed of composer Manuel de Falla's Nocturno del Generalife , “Todo lo que tiene sonidos negros tiene duende” (`All that has black sounds has duende ').

  • ' The occasions when duende grips a singer, dancer or torero are punctuated with cries of “Olé!”

  • All the ingredients may be present—the music, the singers, the dancers, the setting, and costumes—but, alas, duende itself fails to show up and the production fizzles.

  • Whatever its derivation, duende as artistic inspiration found its apostle and guru in Andalusian-born Federico García Lorca, lyric poet and dramatist who was murdered in 1936, at age 38, in the early days of the Spanish Civil War.


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