Or were the adagios mournfully predicting perils, coming disaster and death?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

One of the adagios has the sole appearance in Beethoven's oeuvre of a harp, used quite idiomatically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven] Reference

In ethereal 'fantasies' and divine 'adagios,' he won the Lily to rest its snowy cup upon his manly heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

He leans over, yawns, and funk vibrates from his armpits, adagios from his mouth, staccatos from his feet in yellow-orange waves of tone and melody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinchillas in the Air] Reference

All electronic devices might be rendered useless, but amidst the twittering of fauna and the rustling of flora, you can still listen to minuets, sonatas, and adagios throughout the park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

As if that weren't enough, adagios are waved in to insist you weep.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

My mind wanders through adagios and andantes, gaping, longing to understand.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography] Reference

Haydn's adagios, at his best, speak with the deepest yet the simplest feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haydn] Reference

And then the bleak contraction is accompanied by a number of gloomy adagios about remorse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Safehaven] Reference

Boccherini's adagios and minuets are deliciously fresh; only the finales seem to me a trifle antiquated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child of Pleasure] Reference

In the bravura she astonished! in the cantabile she charmed; her maëstoso was inimitable! and her adagios!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference

Today I love the profondeur of the adagios, and my passion for cars allows me to satisfy that taste for speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ionarts] Reference

The Op. 1 adagios contain the seeds of Haydn's more dramatic movements found in his later quartets and symphonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Sad adagios make their lament in the middle of his symphonies, but a note of joy and triumph is always sounded at the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musicians of To-Day] Reference

The adagios reminded me of Beethoven, not as they were imitated, but as all the great ones, in their appearing, summon all the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference

Beethoven's adagios could be quoted against his scherzos if a dispute arose between two fools as to whether he was a melancholy man or a merry one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring] Reference

These di concerto psalms are "theatrical compositions ... with soli, chorus, and orchestra, comprising adagios, allegros, and often dance airs" (Duclos, 106, footnote 2).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

The whole entertainment, music, colours, costumes, songs, dances, and all, is as nicely arranged in its crescendos and decrescendos, its prestos and adagios as a Mozart finale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference

By moonlight in the garden she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after as before, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

The Fifteenth Quartet (1974) reverts to the late Beethoven model of Op. 131, a suite sequence in six unbroken movements, but this time all adagios, as though Shostakovich were duplicating the Dvorak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

You know that they have great sensibility, and cannot restrain their transports, so that in the midst of the finest passages in soft adagios they clap their hands in loud applause and thus mar the effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Haydn]

Beethoven adagios, of which we find the most beautiful specimens naturally among the orchestral pieces and in the chamber music, where he could depend upon the long phrases and sustained tones of the violins.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

Night after night, and sometimes day after day, they rolled out their choruses in the great Speak House -- solemn andantes and adagios, led by the clapped hand, and delivered with an energy that shook the roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the South Seas] Reference

By moonlight in the garden she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after as before, and Charles seemed no more amorous and no more moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

If Beck didn't leaven such adagios with uptempo tunes like the wah-wah-heavy, hard-rocking "Hammerhead" and a high-style take of Screamin 'Jay Hawkins'"I Put a Spell on You," featuring great white soul hope Joss Stone, we'd be in trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleveland Scene] Reference

By moonlight in the garden she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after this as before, and Charles seemed no more amorous and no more moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life] Reference

The problem of writing seven adagios to be performed consecutively, each one to last ten minutes, without wearying the audience, was not an easy one to solve, and I soon recognized the impossibility of making my music conform to the prescribed limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Memories]

The Frenchmen here cannot restrain their transports in soft adagios; they will clap their hands in loud applause and thus mar the effect. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Haydn]

But Beethoven's playing in adagios and legato, in the sustained style, made an almost magical impression on every hearer, and, so far as I know, it has never been surpassed. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Beethoven the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words]

Panicky adagios thrilled along Jim's nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delta Search]

And his radiant adagios, those heavenly outpourings of love, have a consoling and healing power that can touch even the most afflicted heart. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [San Francisco Sentinel] Reference

He played adagios softly on his flute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference