grace note
noun
1
: a musical note added as an ornament
especially
: appoggiatura
2
: a small addition or embellishment
Examples of grace note in a Sentence
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Many such grace notes are only evident on repeat viewings.
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Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
By adorning relatively slow and simple melodies with quick grace notes, Moctar turns his electric guitar into something flickering and unstable, with pitches that seem to warp in and out of each other, changing for slivers of moments before snapping back into their familiar previous shapes.
—Eric Torres, Pitchfork, 26 Mar. 2024
The gent also knows how to compose for a giant screen, filling set pieces with unexpected grace notes amidst the sound and fury.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
The menu devotes a section to vegetables, some of which incorporate meat as a grace note.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
Seeing guys in their mid-70s start it up again, 45 years after their friend Jackson warned that everybody was running on empty, is a nice grace note to the ultimate liner-note movie.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
In the case of The Boys in the Boat, a telling of true events that can feel overly cautious in its admiring distance, the surprises lie in small moments and grace notes.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
There are bustling parties, casual family hangouts and some quietly lovely grace notes courtesy of the Bernsteins’ eldest child, Jamie (Maya Hawke).
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
Other characters may not get the same benefit, but Legacy of Monsters grants them little grace notes as well — a romantic backstory, a quiet moment with a family member.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2023
Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
By adorning relatively slow and simple melodies with quick grace notes, Moctar turns his electric guitar into something flickering and unstable, with pitches that seem to warp in and out of each other, changing for slivers of moments before snapping back into their familiar previous shapes.
—Eric Torres, Pitchfork, 26 Mar. 2024
The gent also knows how to compose for a giant screen, filling set pieces with unexpected grace notes amidst the sound and fury.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
The menu devotes a section to vegetables, some of which incorporate meat as a grace note.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
Seeing guys in their mid-70s start it up again, 45 years after their friend Jackson warned that everybody was running on empty, is a nice grace note to the ultimate liner-note movie.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
In the case of The Boys in the Boat, a telling of true events that can feel overly cautious in its admiring distance, the surprises lie in small moments and grace notes.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
There are bustling parties, casual family hangouts and some quietly lovely grace notes courtesy of the Bernsteins’ eldest child, Jamie (Maya Hawke).
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
Other characters may not get the same benefit, but Legacy of Monsters grants them little grace notes as well — a romantic backstory, a quiet moment with a family member.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2023
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“Grace note.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grace%20note. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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