postlude

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Recent Examples of postlude The event is led by Bob Lundy and Elizabeth Yahn Williams with preludes and postludes of pianist Andrew Wong and assisted by artist Marion Wong, illustrator of the HAÏKU for an Artist series. San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2019 The dance now continues and switches gears as sound bites of Ailey and of Mr. Harris present a postlude suggesting them in conversation. Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018 Make a very long weekend of your trip to the Berkshires with three Boston Symphony concerts and, as a postlude on Monday, an evening with the young players of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. New York Times, 12 July 2018 The 14 songs that made up Wednesday’s program were grouped in three sets, with an introduction and postlude, collectively exploring mortal interaction with the gods, the Orestes myth and the deities themselves. John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017 Perhaps the best thing to do with GWTW is to ask anyone who shows the film to put together a prelude or postlude — or maybe a little presentation for the intermission that is usually provided — that interrogates the film’s presentation of history. Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Aug. 2017 The six postlude concerts next season will be played by Peter Richard Conte. Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 7 Aug. 2017 The postlude concerts were studded with some wonderful surprises. Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 1 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postlude
Noun
  • Armand of the title is Elisabeth’s six-year-old son, never shown onscreen outside of a key final coda.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Feb. 2025
  • One of the first drafts of this story had the voice of the coda in the beginning, too, framing the story as a kind of monologue.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • After nearly two centuries of bitter but worthless wrangling, one of the longest-running cultural quarrels in Europe might soon be entering its epilogue.
    Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The book’s epilogue imagines a world in which similar missions don’t go so well; a fictional NASA spokesperson describes the mysterious loss of a crewed space capsule.
    Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Eventually, the group locates the fourth appendix and starts reading from it.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The book ends with a pair of appendices that will help out Dungeon Masters in a pinch.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Prequel series Dexter: Original Sin will release its Season 1 finale this Friday, Feb. 14, on the Paramount+ With Showtime streamer; the episode will air on the linear Paramount+ With Showtime Sunday, Feb. 16 at 10/9c.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Feb. 2025
  • In between New Blood and the forthcoming Resurrection is Dexter: Original Sin, the currently airing prequel series that releases its finale this weekend.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Postlude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postlude. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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