interlude

A poolside interlude channels the tension of distance between two people who were once close: The woman grasps a book but seems primarily absorbed in melancholy; the man broods around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“It was just this six-week interlude of time when people liked each other and people were having fun together,” Schloessman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

It has stayed below 5% for a decade, if a brief interlude during the pandemic is omitted.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

Another important interlude is the segue of “American Skin” into “Long Walk Home.”

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

Actually, I’m what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker—a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten: not bad, but not particularly good either.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Roughly half the cuts are interludes that last a minute or less—track listings vary according to format—and many of these are cut-up and pieced-together fragments of spoken material and sound effects from ads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

However, long-range forecasting is fraught with uncertainty and while the season as a whole may be mild, some chilly interludes are also anticipated.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

While past records often featured such incense-perfumed instrumentals as connecting interludes, here the background has been moved to the front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Anchored on a near-orchestral soundstage, its 20 tracks ricochet from in-your-face punk dissonance to majestic broken-heart dirges, a lovely duet with St. Vincent, rootsy folk interludes and farfisa-rich lounge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

For Wagner, nothing was allowed to distract from the unfolding musical story and he would happily intertwine chorus, solo, duets, instrumental interludes so that you could hardly tell when one ended and another began.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall