How to Use adagio in a Sentence

adagio

noun

• That’s how Beethoven said he was inspired to write the Molto adagio movement of Op.
  — Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• This should be a great showcase, not just for their athleticism but for their strength in adagio.
  — Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
• In one sequence, which goes on as long as a Mahler adagio, Ronnie’s genitals get trapped in the slats of a sun bed.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• The adagio movement had a lovely softness and fine balance between strings and woodwinds; and the third movement was kept light, lithe and lucid.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
• The slow opening movement, the upbeat and lively second and third movements, and then the sinking into an adagio, a slow repose.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The outer movements are nervy and restless, never settling, set against a still, melancholy adagio.
  — E.c., The Economist, 21 May 2020
• At each stage of class—the barre exercises, the serene adagio movements, and allegro jumps from petit to grande—there’s a code, a recipe, literal steps to doing things well.
  — Matt Ortile, SELF, 16 Aug. 2018
• And while Cox and Grimaud were in sync for most of the movement, their dynamics diverged toward the adagio’s end — both landing at slightly different angles.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• The ascending trills in the cadenza of the adagio of the Brahms first piano concerto, each joined by the next and then prolonged with a touch of the pedal—just a little, nothing showy—had a resonance like the shimmering of the universe.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• There’s actually a story about the music for The Nutcracker adagio, which would seem to belie its emotional power—that it was composed on a bet.
  — Leilah Bernstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 16 June 2017
• Everything built to the sublime adagio whose slow unfolding was superbly controlled and brought beautiful playing from the CSO string choir, even if the hall’s parched acoustics bleached the sound of resonance.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
• But the adagio third movement, the symphony’s centerpiece, proved somewhat disappointing on this night.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• This middle movement follows an A-B-A ternary structure where the opening material is a lyrical adagio and the contrasting middle section presents more rhythmic, scherzo-like music.
  — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• The following night, his typical, upbeat confidence was again adagio.
  — Alejandro Varela, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• Anodyne outer movements enclosed a sluggish adagio where glimmers of Lupu's Beethoven style at its best shone through — warmly rounded tone, supple phrasing and, above all, sensitive attention to the soft end of the dynamic spectrum.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Beethoven's dramatic gestures registered without rhetorical excess, the adagio was a rapt dialogue between the piano and woodwinds, and the finale danced with rhythmic playfulness.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2017
• In Perlman’s hands, the adagio movement spoke with unmistakable melodic clarity and moments of intimacy and stillness not easily achieved in an outdoor setting.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2019
• The work is a showcase for the first violinist, and Edward Dusinberre’s virtuosity was notable from the start, particularly in the adagio where his cascading melodies were elegantly executed with the lightest of touch.
  — Jonathan Nussman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
• That’s how Beethoven said he was inspired to write the Molto adagio movement of Op.
  — Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• This should be a great showcase, not just for their athleticism but for their strength in adagio.
  — Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
• In one sequence, which goes on as long as a Mahler adagio, Ronnie’s genitals get trapped in the slats of a sun bed.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• The adagio movement had a lovely softness and fine balance between strings and woodwinds; and the third movement was kept light, lithe and lucid.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
• The slow opening movement, the upbeat and lively second and third movements, and then the sinking into an adagio, a slow repose.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The outer movements are nervy and restless, never settling, set against a still, melancholy adagio.
  — E.c., The Economist, 21 May 2020
• At each stage of class—the barre exercises, the serene adagio movements, and allegro jumps from petit to grande—there’s a code, a recipe, literal steps to doing things well.
  — Matt Ortile, SELF, 16 Aug. 2018
• And while Cox and Grimaud were in sync for most of the movement, their dynamics diverged toward the adagio’s end — both landing at slightly different angles.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• The ascending trills in the cadenza of the adagio of the Brahms first piano concerto, each joined by the next and then prolonged with a touch of the pedal—just a little, nothing showy—had a resonance like the shimmering of the universe.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• There’s actually a story about the music for The Nutcracker adagio, which would seem to belie its emotional power—that it was composed on a bet.
  — Leilah Bernstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 16 June 2017
• Everything built to the sublime adagio whose slow unfolding was superbly controlled and brought beautiful playing from the CSO string choir, even if the hall’s parched acoustics bleached the sound of resonance.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
• But the adagio third movement, the symphony’s centerpiece, proved somewhat disappointing on this night.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2019

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