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Recent Examples of oratorio
The oratorio concerns the death of an old man and his journey into paradise.
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Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
24 Dec. 2025
This one-of-a-kind Spanish-language oratorio will be released next year.
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Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Dec. 2025
Few singers today dispatch the aria with the panache of Gerald Finley, who performs the oratorio next week with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, from December 16 to 21.
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Matthew Gurewitsch,
Air Mail,
13 Dec. 2025
But her fourth album, Lux, adopts the sound and ambitions of a classical oratorio to mirror the modern quest for salvation, in all its thrilling and frustrating contours.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Nov. 2025
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Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
24 Dec. 2025
This one-of-a-kind Spanish-language oratorio will be released next year.
—
Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Dec. 2025
Few singers today dispatch the aria with the panache of Gerald Finley, who performs the oratorio next week with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, from December 16 to 21.
—
Matthew Gurewitsch,
Air Mail,
13 Dec. 2025
But her fourth album, Lux, adopts the sound and ambitions of a classical oratorio to mirror the modern quest for salvation, in all its thrilling and frustrating contours.
—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for oratorio
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oratorio
Noun
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The film, ostensibly started as a promotional tool, ends up being a paean to pop as a site of projection.
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Nazi parades set to electronic hype music; paeans to Third Reich governance.
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The root ball boundary or the outer edge of the soil-and-root mass typically extends from the main stem to just beyond the edge of the foliage.
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The Unification Church had a mass wedding there in 1982, with 2075 couples participating in the group ceremony – some of whom reportedly only met a few weeks before – and the men wore identical suits and the women identical gowns.
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Cronenworth hit a grounder to the left side in last night’s eighth inning, crossed first base before the throw and raised his hands in a sort of hit hallelujah.
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What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday?
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At 1981's Trooping the Colour, Diana rode in a carriage with former Prince Andrew, as her husband-to-be Prince Charles was riding on horseback as part of the processional.
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The Grand Prix has been criticized as a processional where Saturday hot laps decide the result.
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Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
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This is the starting point of Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth’s stellar and sweeping science fiction novel that is part cosmic comedy and part dirge to our dying world.
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The reason for the requiem Pulse was an Orlando gay bar where, on June 12, 2016, gunman Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded another 58.
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The biggest difference is probably how Laurie plays the final requiem.
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The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
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Synchronized blinking faded when the researchers sped up the Bach chorales to 120 beats per minute.
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“Oratorio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oratorio. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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