anacreontic

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Noun
  • The pastoral was required reading in military academies.
    Gerard F. Powers, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But in their own ways, these two very different actors — she, the eccentric spirit of New Hollywood comedy; he, the golden-boy stoic of the American pastoral — were bound by something even more powerful than onscreen chemistry: generational gravity.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After all, audiences may be captivated by the psalm singing itself, but then can also find more things that capture their imagination in the observational doc.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Gallagher is also excited about Psalms of the People (Salim Nan Daoine), Jack Archer’s Gaelic-language documentary about Scotland’s cultural heritage of traditional Gaelic psalm singing.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Ginsberg’s incantatory dithyrambs pulled the Beats, Walt Whitman and much of 20th century poetry into view.
    Sesshu Foster, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • The Irishman is an epic in every sense of the word, a multi-generational tale of Frank Sheeran's life as an Irish hitman for the Italian mafia.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Michael Winterbottom followed in 2023 with Shoshana (a film that premiered a full month before the horrors of October 7), and last year saw Cherien Dabis’s sprawling epic All That’s Left of You make the Oscar shortlist.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This dynamic is taken to extreme, surreal heights in Kobo Abe’s Woman in the Dunes, about a man whose idyll is derailed entirely.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • By lunchtime this Italian idyll had become our entire universe.
    Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • The Spiritual Sound Marc-André Hamelin, Found Objects / Sound Objects The Beths, Straight Line Was a Lie A year like no other, my 2025 in music was filled with joyous arias and madrigals of melancholy.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2025
  • This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.
    Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • His poems employ numbers significant to Dine (Navajo) thought and ways of life.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Written by Italian playwright Stefano Massini as an epic poem and adapted for the stage by Ben Power, the play’s language is lyrical and gorgeously descriptive.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
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“Anacreontic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anacreontic. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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