caesura

Example Sentences

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From The Verge

Mr. Korstvedt, the Bruckner Society president, pointed to the Fifth as an important caesura, concluding Bruckner’s earlier period with its daring fugal finale.

From New York Times

Their developments can be linked to the irrevocable caesura of war.

From New York Times

The irony is that such presentations are highly rehearsed, with each caesura calculated and every syllable stressed in advance.

From New York Times

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