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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "fugue" in a sentence

    fugue example sentences

    fugue


    fugues


    1. I was still deep in the fugue of selfish misery, and I barely comprehended the importance of this simple movement


    2. lost in a fugue of sound


    3. There was moment of fugue


    4. There may not have been the disorientating Fugue State of longer-term immersion, but his limbs still took a few minutes to warm sufficiently to carry him out


    5. But it was just a kind of fugue, he reasoned


    6. It was similar to a fugue, with repetitive themes


    7. introspective state of fugue


    8. The proper way of thinking about them is as leitmotifs in a poetic fugue


    9. No matter how extravagant the lifestyle of the most eclectic multi-billionaire, a moderately competent gamer and skinster can experience all that in a single 48/2 fugue


    10. But who am I to tell you The Code? I'm just another schizoid-non who was apparently having a psychotic fugue in the middle of watching some hap-angry hipsters pantomime a Saint Valentine's Day erasure

    11. Then comes our friend of the red tie, and in the cool of the day when the world is dim and scented shakes a little fugue of Bach's out of his fiddle, a sparkling, sly little fugue, frolicsome for all its minor key, a handful of bright threads woven together, twisted in and out, playing, it would seem, at some game of hide-and-seek, of pretending to want to catch each other into a tangle, but always gaily coming out of the knots, each distinct and holding on its shining way till the meeting at the end, the final embrace when the game is over and they tie themselves contentedly together into one comfortable major chord,--our friend plays this, this manifestly happy thing, and my soul listens, and smiles, and sighs, and longs, and ends by being steeped in _Wehmuth_


    12. I choose the little fugue of Bach as an instance, for of all music it is aimed most distinctly at the intellect, it is the furthest removed from _Wehmuth_; and if it has this effect on me I will not make you uncomfortable by a description of what the baser music’s do, the music’s of passion, of furious exultations and furious despairs


    13. Just as Bach could do what he liked with a collection of little black symbols, forming them as he chose into this or that immortal fugue, so could Job do what he liked with money


    14. Adele had wafted from the grocery store in a fugue


    15. Sensing my fugue, he repeated the question


    16. In what seemed a fugue state, I thought about what it meant to bypass the High Sierra


    17. “Frankly, we don’t know enough about what he’s done during these fugue states,” Dr


    18. Or was this Gary Soneji, still playacting with me? Could he be slipping in and out of his fugue state so easily, and so seamlessly? It could be, but it was rare


    19. I didn’t believe this could be a fugue state, one of his “escapes


    20. Could he be in another fugue state? Was he lost inside one of his fantasies?

    21. And what was played was a fugue- though Petya had not the least conception of what a fugue is


    22. ’ Then it was ‘Tzigane,’ Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in something Minor, ‘Tiger Rag,’ ‘Love Is Like a Cigarette


    23. He put on a pot of coffee, started the Great Fugue on the phonograph, and took a shower


    24. To produce works of musical art, he must first learn to move his fingers on some instrument as rapidly as those who have reached the highest perfection; next, he must know how in former times polyphonic music was written, must study what are called counterpoint and fugue; and, furthermore, he must learn orchestration, i


    25. he may take another man's themes and work them up into definite forms by means of counterpoint and fugue; or, what is commonest of all, he may compose fantastic music, i


    26. And what was played was a fugue—though Pétya had not the least conception of what a fugue is


    1. the sounds of violins and piano fugues


    2. each candidate, and weaves variations and fugues upon it, expressing, in a


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    Synonyms for "fugue"

    fugue psychogenic fugue

    "fugue" definitions

    dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state


    a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days


    a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement