tone poem

noun

: symphonic poem

tone poet noun

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Garland’s properly alarming and exquisitely designed film is as close as American mainstream cinema is likely to get to an experimental tone poem. —

Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024 The film is more elegiac tone poem than structured narrative, echoing Maria's dreamlike trance induced by her abuse of medication and nostalgia for her glory days. —

Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2024 This is less a traditional documentary than a collection of non-narrative tone poems, which abstract the spirit of the games rather than charting any individual story. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024 There’s dialogue here and there, but the whole thing is essentially a tone poem, working to put us inside our hero’s head even more than usual. —

Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for tone poem