caesura
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If the pandemic had a musical score, that trick ending might be a caesura, shown by two parallel diagonal lines: railroad tracks, only we ran out of rail.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2020
Alone on the sea for weeks, Fox has a moment of caesura in his own life, and he finds the experience both rewarding and frightening.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2019
That is a semicolon from the heavens, you know, it’s like the most amazing caesura, to say these two things that are simultaneous and true.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 20, 2019
For a musical about a war — or more precisely, a caesura between hostilities — “All Is Calm” is a staunchly apolitical and warily genteel work.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2018
He admitted hiatus, but not to any great extent, and chiefly in the caesura.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
The sentence often flows on over stanza break, and finds its caesurae in designedly awkward places.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2010
What I mean, I suppose, is that this long infatuation is now a marriage — as demanding and exasperating at times as any marriage, and with long caesuras of drudgery.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
Sometimes he pitches language headlong over his line breaks, only to halt it, in the next line, by oddly scattered caesuras and slashes.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
The greatest practitioners of the chapter have preferred to cast their divisions as fleeting caesuras with lingering aftereffects, scarcely memorable in their specifics but tenacious in the feeling they evoke.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014
A closer look reveals how carefully Whittier organises the syntax over his rhythmic framework: the caesuras are nicely judged.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012
Such is not the Latin where the vowels and consonants are mixed in proportion to each other; yet Virgil judged the vowels to have somewhat of an over-balance, and therefore tempers their sweetness with caesuras.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
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