divertissement
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This 1898 divertissement by Marius Petipa, to the melodious music of Alexander Glazunov, is accented with moves shaped by Hungarian folk dance and has long been a staple of various classical ballet companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The loveliest expression of these is in the second act, where the enchanted forest is replaced by a pure-dance divertissement.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
But its engagement with these subjects rarely goes beyond the decorative, and the light, airy divertissement I was expecting feels curiously bogged down rather than liberated by Anderson’s five-part vignette structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
Tricia Albertson, partnered by Rainer Krenstetter, led the Act II divertissement in the pas de deux that becomes the ballet’s epitome of harmonious love and chivalrous devotion.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2016
With a slight splash, Matthew began scooping quartered slices of peaches into his mouth with such a zealous sucking and slurping that even his father paused to witness the divertissement.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
He followed it with a succession of intensely theatrical divertissements, often revolving around unexpected intellectual conceits or bizarre juxtapositions and featuring brilliant dialogue, puns, repartee, double meanings and misunderstandings.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
His movies are sleek divertissements about ravishing people and their often sumptuously rarefied sensibilities and worlds.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
To prove he was worth his salt in card-sharking, Fallon asked Reynolds to engage in a friendly game of Slapjack, yet another one of Fallon’s twisted divertissements.
From Time ● Sep. 22, 2015
The divertissements that take up most of act two are the weakest theatrical element of the ballet.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2012
There was nothing but fiddling and playing on the virginals, and all kinds of conceits and divertissements, on every canal of this aquatic city.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
