Examples of roundelay in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Still, this loose-limbed romantic roundelay — gorgeously filmed in black and white by the French director Jacques Audiard — glows with a spirit of playful, limitless possibility. — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022 The house had a feeling of being offstage, at least compared with the comic roundelay of Turtle Bay. — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022 The story itself is pure Western pulp, a dime-store roundelay of banditos, lost dreams, and femme fatales. — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2021 What followed was a frustrating roundelay in which Chime directed Robertson to the IRS, and the IRS directed her to Chime. — Carson Kessler, ProPublica, 6 July 2021 Gertrude Stein’s roundelay-like syntax and logic feel very present here. — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021 The roundelay in which Nadia is trapped is an allegory for the compulsions and diminishing returns of addiction, the sense that death is overtaking life. — The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2019 Institutional stability is not reliably built on what is essentially a single primary funding source, even if the fiscal roundelay makes the dollar go a bit further. — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 30 June 2018 The roundelay of Broadway revivals comes around again to this Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical, directed by Jack O’Brien and choreographed by Justin Peck. — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018 See More

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