descant

Example Sentences

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The Hynde storyline, which includes her messing around with songs on an acoustic guitar, runs as a kind of descant against the personal and professional noise of the Pistols.

From Los Angeles Times

This is a dark and defensive descant to a more substantial and necessary conversation about whiteness in America.

From Washington Post

Birdsong — little sonic bubbles let loose on the air — provided an intermittent descant of optimism.

From Washington Post

It is the ever-present descant to any and every Brexit conversation or judgment.

From The Guardian

With no lines to address it, this extension of the theme of assumed privilege can only serve as a descant to the others, but sometimes that’s enough.

From New York Times