How to Use fugue in a Sentence

fugue

noun
Definition of fuguenext
  • Even typing out the name Hadrian just now set a sort of fugue in motion.
    — Geddy Lee, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Yet more than most movies, midnight-appropriate or otherwise, this is a work purposefully designed to put you in a particular kind of fugue state.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2024
  • Flavin Judd, the artist’s son, has compared it to a Bach fugue.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
  • That golden tone drew you in at the start of the fugue in the No. 1 in C Major.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Knauss is a master of the organ — the baroque pipes, the swelling fugue soaring in a church nave.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 29 May 2017
  • The chorus, in the old musical forms of canon and fugue, demands light.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • The Simpsons, Snoopy and the Smurfs are all here, floating through a fugue state that refuses to lift.
    — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The Minuet movement took the very unusual form of a fugue.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
  • The brassy, flashy American auteur has made a movie in a fugue state about the world's current state.
    — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • And maybe all of this will lead to stopping Bob and waking Cooper up from his Dougie fugue state.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 10 July 2017
  • In March, Melnikov will perform the complete preludes and fugues by Dmitri Shostakovich in one gulp.
    — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 2 June 2018
  • For a stretch, without losing its pulse, the song became a string-quartet fugue.
    — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Sri spent the next days in a knotted fugue of grief, grappling with the paradox that Mama was everywhere and nowhere.
    — Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The first play is built around a Bach fugue, which DeBoard described as melodic and cohesive in style.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
  • For Bartók, the universe is a structural masterpiece to be represented in the fugue and dance.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • A gray still life of a dead, trussed heron is paired with a painting of the same bird by Sisley, as well as a portrait by Renoir of Bazille at work on his avian death fugue.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 15 June 2017
  • The fugue of religion and superstition sounds over these mise en scènes.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Only in the concluding fugue did the piece lose some of its lucidity.
    — Rick Schultz, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Djokovic's double-fault in the next game helped Federer break back, and the ensuing changeover was filled with a fugue of fans' voices chanting the first names of both.
    — Howard Fendrich, baltimoresun.com, 14 July 2019
  • Sit in the sun somewhere and think about what’s happening without rushing to your laptop to read stroller reviews in a fugue state.
    — Meaghan O'Connell, The Cut, 21 June 2017
  • Vampyr opens in a wild fugue, as Reid's bloodlust forces him to murder his own sister, and then finds himself on the run from vampire hunters out for revenge.
    — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 7 June 2018
  • In the fugue state of the past five-and-a-half-but-who’s-counting months, snacks—salty or sweet, big or small, homemade or store-bought—break up the sprawling hours and motivate me to get through my to-do list.
    — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The Sopranos paid homage with Agent Cooper–esque fugue states and shots of trees blowing in the wind, rippling in their fullness and strangeness.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 May 2017
  • The twists and turns make for a fantastic read, but there is also the underlying fugue of displacement.
    — Karin Slaughter, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
  • Highlights were a haunting prelude and fugue of Shostakovich’s and a powerhouse performance of Prokofiev’s Sonata No.
    — Olin Chism, star-telegram.com, 26 May 2017
  • Trifonov chose five of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues and revealed an affinity for their rich layers of mood and meaning.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 14 June 2017
  • Beyond that, the pianist also a proved a digital wizard, voicing lines in his one hand the way Baroque masters play fugues with two.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • This is theater as a fugue state where your vision is dominated by a huge half cube whirling above the stage, lit by dreamy projections.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2017
  • There was even an organ-like quality to his account of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31, particularly to the fugue in the third movement.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The piece offered many charming moments (the fugue at the breakfast table rose to a delightful roar) but maybe there were simply too many moments.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019

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