postlude

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Recent Examples of postlude The event is led by Bob Lundy and Elizabeth Yahn Williams with preludes and postludes of pianist Andrew Wong and assisted by artist Marion Wong, illustrator of the HAÏKU for an Artist series. San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2019 The dance now continues and switches gears as sound bites of Ailey and of Mr. Harris present a postlude suggesting them in conversation. Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018 Make a very long weekend of your trip to the Berkshires with three Boston Symphony concerts and, as a postlude on Monday, an evening with the young players of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. New York Times, 12 July 2018 The 14 songs that made up Wednesday’s program were grouped in three sets, with an introduction and postlude, collectively exploring mortal interaction with the gods, the Orestes myth and the deities themselves. John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017 Perhaps the best thing to do with GWTW is to ask anyone who shows the film to put together a prelude or postlude — or maybe a little presentation for the intermission that is usually provided — that interrogates the film’s presentation of history. Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Aug. 2017 The six postlude concerts next season will be played by Peter Richard Conte. Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 7 Aug. 2017 The postlude concerts were studded with some wonderful surprises. Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 1 May 2017
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Noun
  • Carmen Aristegui, the prominent Mexican journalist and news anchor whose fame may insulate her to some degree from risk, provides a coda to the film, addressing the stakes for a democratic nation where reporters routinely face mortal danger.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Colored Television ends with a happily-ever-after coda.
    Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Jansson, whose early life was depicted in the 2020 Finnish biographical drama Tove, spent five months a year for three decades on the island with her life partner, who shot the 8mm home movies seen in an epilogue in that film and on the end credits here.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Some have functioned as an epilogue or finale, others as backstory to the main plot—a kind of playable flashback—or even a commentary upon it.
    Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Far Eastern War, 1937-1941 A reliable and serviceable review of events in China from July 1937 to December 1941, with maps, documentary appendices and bibliography.
    Harold S. Quigley, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The 165-page public filing included an appendix of sealed evidence that has remained confidential while Chutkan decides whether to release it publicly.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In the final part of the finale, Joan and Chock come out to be interviewed.
    Alice Burton, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Justin Hebert produced the lone victory in the regular season finale in 2020. Spags, as he is known, creates panic before the snap.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2024

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“Postlude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postlude. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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