crotchet

Example Sentences

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What binds the stories are the tight relationships of Varg and his colleagues and their hilariously human crotchets.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2019

He had his crotchets and blind spots, once panning Dave Brubeck’s classic recording “Take Five” in a review.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2019

In one particularly musical moment, he expresses planetary motions in musical notation — the orbits of Mercury, Venus and their neighbours spun out into crotchets and quavers.

From Nature • Mar. 17, 2015

I'd have too many crotchets in a bar and things like that, but still wrote symphonies and concertos.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2011

Some of these represented mere crotchets, but they were all intended to aid in that conservation of English undefiled which was so dear a purpose to Mr. Bryant.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary