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Recent Examples of purple passage
Writers inevitably fall in love with their more purple passages.
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Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purple passage
Noun
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Glover’s score — for rock band, piano and acoustic strings — evokes pop idioms while politely sidestepping direct quotation.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Following a quotation from Greek poet Odysseas Elytis about the inevitability of the past asserting itself in the present, Hadoula (Karyofyllia Karabeti) is introduced as she is so often seen in the film: walking briskly amid rocky terrain to aid a woman in the throes of childbirth.—
Ryan Swen,
Variety,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Despite the widely differing contexts of these conflicts, belligerents in all of them have used strategic bombing for a similar purpose: to destroy morale and incapacitate an adversary’s ability to wage war.—
Raphael S. Cohen,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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Many Germans were furious, given the context of Vance’s speech and the fact that Germany’s tense elections take place this weekend.—
Tracy Wilkinson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The citation could cost you at least $200, according to city hall.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2025
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The findings stem from Tesla’s failure to provide employees working outdoors with adequate cooldown breaks in shaded areas, according to a citation issued by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, in December.—
Suhauna Hussain,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The pressure to get ahead of other networks—via more updates, more sound bites, more footage, more everything—takes over.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
9 Jan. 2025
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This includes sound bites that can be taken out of context and misrepresented.—
Chad Angle,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Purple passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple%20passage. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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