Example sentences for: fugue

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

  • But this exposes his underlying bias, which casts doubt on the critiques of government in both Losing Ground and The Bell Curve . The three Murrays play a kind of fugue throughout this book.

  • Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.

  • Great blasts of brass; a fugue built on a long, solid cable of a theme; climaxes that follow each other with the deafening regularity of an artillery barrage; horns that blare from the balconies: Nearly every moment seems calculated to matter.

  • The result is not a fugue but an impertinence.

  • Maybe turning 45 the other day has put me in some kind of permanent nostalgic fugue state.


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