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Spirited staccato Making each note brief and detached; the opposite of legato. In musical notation, a small dot under or over the head of the note indicates that it is to be articulated as staccato. stanza A verse of a song stem Vertical line that is directly connected to the [note] head stentando or stentato (sten. or stent.)
Time magazine’s review of the series called out the show’s “mean-spirited depiction of Jewish women,” adding: “The series seems to loathe Jewish women, who are portrayed as nags, harpies ...
Thumos, also spelled Thymos (Ancient Greek: θυμός), is the Ancient Greek concept of ' spiritedness ' (as in "a spirited stallion" or "spirited debate"). [1] The word indicates a physical association with breath or blood and is also used to express the human desire for recognition. It is not a somatic feeling, as nausea and dizziness are.
Many musical terms are in Italian because, in Europe, the vast majority of the most important early composers from the Renaissance to the Baroque period were Italian. [citation needed] That period is when numerous musical indications were used extensively for the first time.
Of course, the worst part of all this is that passengers have now come to see these grubby fees as the norm. What's one more?
Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2] When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings ...
1. Often a cake eater was the opposite of a flapper e.g.The individual is dressed in tight-fitting attire, including a belted coat with pointed lapels, one-button pants, a low snug collar, and a greenish-pink shirt with a jazzbo tie; see flaming youth [21] 2. Spoiled rich person; Playboy [83] 3. Lady's man [84] 4.
Critic Richard Skorman wrote, "Forsyth does a good job of making light of the tender part in [Gregory's] teenage psyche, and his friends and little sister in particular are quirky and lovable. Unlike the film's American counterparts, Gregory's Girl is refreshingly free of mean-spirited characters and horny young studs bemoaning their virginity ...