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Example sentences for: riff

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There's the slightly tired riff about deadbeat dads: Lily's ex-husband promises to show up at their daughter's soccer game, but forgets about it until Lily angrily reminds him.
The musical descriptions in Miller's book strike me as flat and formulaic, as in: "An up-tempo rocker built around a boogie riff and a dramatically unconventional modulation between major and minor keys, 'Hold Me Tight' was written in one style alone--that of John Lennon and Paul McCartney."
In one particularly strong riff, Bradley talked about the need to turn globalization and rising prosperity into a more inclusive "narrative" in which ordinary people can locate themselves.
There's despair in this notion, and frivolity--it's a good 20 minute riff at a cocktail party but not the stuff of a book.
Still, I think Miller's somewhat overheated "Dionysian" riff does make an important point: that even a music with the crassest commercial aims can have liberating, transformative effects in the world.