rondelet

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Noun
  • Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
    Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
  • The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • By greatly expanding the dimensions of his images, with their muted palettes, tight cropping, found symmetries, and laconic wit, had the maestro of the photographic epigram betrayed his subtractive aesthetic?
    James Quandt, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Johnson is the author of the epigrams, but Boswell is very much the co-author.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Far from moderating political passions, Freneau stoked hatred of his political rivals, the Federalists, and their leader, Alexander Hamilton, even publishing an anti-Semitic poem comparing Hamilton’s work at the Treasury Department to that of Jewish moneylenders.
    Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • The film is a re-telling of Homer’s poem about Odysseus’ long journey home.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 4 June 2026
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
  • The broken family opens into a kind of broken pastoral, but there’s more than that.
    Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
  • The pastoral was required reading in military academies.
    Gerard F. Powers, The Conversation, 11 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
  • Design a kitchen with a cozy ode to tradition and a mix of modern elements to make the heart of your home feel fresh and rustic at the same time.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
  • The top of the Garden Pavilion is covered in solar panels, which are feet away from a food garden that is an ode to the White House kitchen garden Michelle Obama planted in 2009.
    Tara Molina, CBS News, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Tom Sturridge, Rebecca Hall, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and newcomer Luther Ford co-star in this elegy defiantly tethered to life.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • To say an elegy by heart/to zero our dying before birth.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
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“Rondelet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rondelet. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.

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