eclogue

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Noun
  • 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
  • It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story.
    Jann E. Freed, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Is this poem still quoted in pop culture?
    Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Her poem is about her broken home, literal and figurative.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Harmony Holiday’s elegy/essay for D’Angelo is a stunning piece of writing.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
    Ed Simon September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Who would not raise a glass to the memory of so vexed a merrymaker, under whose spell the city is transformed into an exotic pastoral?
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.
    WILLIAM ROBIN, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • 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
  • The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Tutivillus, who totted up all the mistakes clergymen made when singing hymns or reciting psalms.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The basilica was temporarily shut down on Monday, Oct. 13, and prayers and psalms were said as holy water was showered on the altar, according to the outlet.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Eclogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eclogue. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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