So far, this scribe detects two "fortissimo" candidates -- people palpably impatient to get in office and shake things up. From Wordnik.com. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News] Reference
Forewarned is forearmed forte for the birds fortissimo. From Wordnik.com. [Entry Index: existentialism to Ganges River] Reference
Hatto may have been the fortissimo version of Milli Vanilli. From Wordnik.com. [Grand Theft Piano] Reference
The sound of the gong rose fortissimo from the hall outside. From Wordnik.com. [4.50 From Paddington]
Soon after eight a patrol car went up the road, siren fortissimo. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Sports]
Fitzgerald, Ella flute flying buttress folk music forte fortissimo. From Wordnik.com. [8. Fine Arts] Reference
She was part of the refrain -- a note in the fortissimo of industry. From Wordnik.com. [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference
And conductors are reconsidering the definition of “fortissimo.”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Everything started hurting at once, climbing from piano to fortissimo. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
Sister's voice, pitched fortissimo for most of the day, was surprisingly dulcet. From Wordnik.com. [The Fateful Bargain]
'Well, now,' he said, at only medium fortissimo, 'when did you get hold of the firelighters?'. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
I know conductors who have hundreds of shades of fortissimo, but not many in the lower levels. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Toothaches can play it staccato, glissando, accelerando, prestissimo, and above all fortissimo. From Wordnik.com. [All for a Liberace Smile? Amis in the Dentist's Chair] Reference
Arne moved restlessly round the apartment like a bull and switched Beethoven on again fortissimo. From Wordnik.com. [Slay Ride]
The fortissimo multiple-guitar soundscape doesn't so much make one's ears ache as it makes them tingle. From Wordnik.com. [Da Noise and Da Punk] Reference
Under cover of a fortissimo finale on the part of the orchestra she leant forward and spoke in a low voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Beyond that the noise of the drilling took over, as aggressive to the eardrums as six fortissimo discotheques. From Wordnik.com. [Smokescreen]
But the Mexicanos claimed this land, so I suppose the Americanos Mangas (fortissimo): It was never Mexicano land!. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Redskins]
But the Mexicanos claimed this land, so I suppose the Americanos Mangas: (fortissimo): It was never Mexicano land!. From Wordnik.com. [Isabelle] Reference
'What do you mean,' she said, advancing upon D.J. with eyes flashing fortissimo, 'the question of arson isn't yet settled?. From Wordnik.com. [In The Frame]
All the cockiness was back fortissimo, and I would have known even without the tin that he had again been to see his father. From Wordnik.com. [Bonecrack]
The Sing-Off finale didn't exactly reach fortissimo, but it helped NBC win the night with its 2.7 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds. From Wordnik.com. [Ratings: Sing-Off Leads NBC to Victory] Reference
Some internal bands were translucent, and some blazed with colors seldom imagined by man, like fortissimo, charm, phon, and torque. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
At a busy corner of a city street these vibrations rise to a tumultuous fortissimo; in the hush of a night upon the plains they sink to pianissimo. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency] Reference
There was no modulation, no phrasing, no interpretation; it was merely a steady fortissimo outpouring of a remarkable volume of tone for so small an instrument. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
This is certainly “fortissimo,” but not therefore by any means “verissimo.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour] Reference
Was there ever in a musical composition a more startling change from fortissimo to pianissimo?. From Wordnik.com. [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference
Young Kerrigan, stimulated by the cheers, worked the band up to a fortissimo performance of his tune. From Wordnik.com. [General John Regan] Reference
If you strike with the hardest fortissimo (Velocity = 127), the modulation will take place as indicated by the upper arrow. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Shrill shrieks from the figure at length drew its attention and a fortissimo of jabbering and arm-waving welcomed its nearer approach. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of a Trooper] Reference
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