How to Use nonmusical in a Sentence

nonmusical

adjective

• Still, the nonmusical musical is sure to hit all the right notes.
  — oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2023
• Robert Horn won a Tony Award for the show’s book — the story line and nonmusical dialogue — but maybe the Tony voters only caught the first act.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2021
• It was nominated for twelve Tony Awards, breaking the record for a nonmusical play—and then lost them all.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• The platinum-selling rockers are not new to nonmusical projects.
  — Kelly Dearmore, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2021
• That’s true even in nonmusical plays that have become much more visually abstract in recent years.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• It was first produced in London in 2020 and comes to Broadway with its original director, Patrick Marber, and a cast of (take a deep breath) more than two dozen actors — unheard of for a nonmusical play these days.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• For this reason, Daft Punk’s aesthetics remain exalted by artists of all stripes, even nonmusical ones.
  — Patrick Lyons, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2021
• Any criticism of previous productions tended to focus on the musical’s book, which is the nonmusical script.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2022
• Paredes, a rare nonmusical member of the family who was more interested in film, serendipitously crossed paths again with González years later.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2022
• But after the success of his first two albums, Biz Markie’s third would become a part of hip-hop history for nonmusical reasons, which would nonetheless reverberate through the genre: a copyright lawsuit.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2021
• The quality of nonmusical theater on Broadway this fall has been exceptional.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
• My Obsession is a regular column in which our favorite musicians show off their nonmusical passions.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2022
• But Hollywood insiders outlined the complexities Rudin now faces in maintaining his position as one of the industry’s most hands-on film producers and, arguably, the most important single producer of nonmusical plays on Broadway.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2021
• There’s a venerable tradition of nonmusical stars playing major roles in musicals.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• But it also became embedded into popular culture in nonmusical forms.
  — Maura Ives, The Conversation, 20 Dec. 2022
• In blind auditions, orchestras evaluate prospective players by listening to them behind a screen, allowing the judges to select musicians without respect to race, gender, or other nonmusical characteristics.
  — David Thomas, National Review, 19 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024