(a. & adv.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
(n.) A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps it was coincidence, but when somebody in an apartment in Copacabana, four blocks from the beachside fan park, began playing Barber's Adagio for Strings on a loop, it seemed entirely in keeping with the general mood.
(2) Joni Mitchell's A Case Of You, Elvis Costello's Shipbuilding and Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, from the film Platoon, have similar effects.
(3) An all-Russian programme followed, with arias from Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and a Shostakovich's tango from the Golden Age ballet was only outdone by an elegant adagio from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, featuring principal ballerina Svetlana Zakharova.
(4) The movie is slower, darker and more cynical than anything Aaron Sorkin would write, and West Wing addicts might well find this a little bit adagio compared to the galloping allegro of Sorkin's rat-a-tat style.
(5) His programmes in the orchestra's Mahler, Vienna and the Twentieth Century series were both eclectic and logical; on one evening, the Adagio from the Tenth Symphony and Debussy's Nocturnes shared an elusive tonal incandescence that will never be forgotten by those who heard it.
Aria
Definition:
(n.) An air or song; a melody; a tune.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here petrol is practically a free gift,” Arias said.
(2) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(3) The authors present the clinical history of a 61 year old woman who was treated in the Metropolitan Hospital Complex Arnulfo Arias Madrid of the Social Security.
(4) Another company working on UAVs, and taking an open-source approach, is Aria (Autonomous Roadless Intelligent Array) Logistics.
(5) Based on SDS PAGE and the action of neuraminidase, the acetylcholine receptor-inducing activity (ARIA) appears to be a 42,000-D glycoprotein.
(6) That's why Italians talk as though they're singing lovely operatic arias and had a Renaissance, while in Finland conversations so often go like this – First lugubrious man: "This beer's good."
(7) However, the Arias-Stella reaction is exceedingly rare in the fallopian tube, and may be confused with herpetic infection or malignancy.
(8) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
(9) It can be a bit chaotic, with not enough room to sit down.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Father Fabian Arias, an immigration advocate in New York City, helps people through the legal process at a hearing last month.
(10) The correlation coefficients obtained, based on 62 (out of a total sample population of 3295) highly relevant samples, were 0.467 and 0.766 for Abuscreen (ARIA) and TDx (TDX), respectively.
(11) Although the ARIA was purified on the basis of its ability to increase receptor incorporation, we found that it increased the number and size of receptor clusters as well.
(12) What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
(13) It is reported for the first time that two of the finest arias of this opera were conceived and elaborated in a ward of the Frankfurt University Clinic for Rhinolaryngology immediately after an operation on Richard Strauss in 1928.
(14) The authors report the results of cholecystectomies, with and without drainages performed at the Arnulfo Arias Madrid Metropolitan Medical Complex from May 1986 to May 1990.
(15) Artifactual crowding of glands due to fragmentation and benign processes such as the epithelial regeneration in late menstrual endometrium and the Arias-Stella reaction should not be confused with precancerous changes.
(16) Several factors have been suggested to play a role in this process, such as an acetylcholine receptor-inducing activity (ARIA), ascorbic acid, or calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a peptide known to coexist with acetylcholine in spinal cord motoneurons.
(17) The EU’s commissioner for climate action and energy, Miguel Arias Cañete, said Trump’s unilateral decision marked a sad day for the global community, but he vowed the accord would endure.
(18) A 42-kDa glycoprotein isolated from chicken brain, referred to as acetylcholine receptor-inducing activity (ARIA), that stimulates the rate of incorporation of acetylcholine receptors into the surface of chicken myotubes may play a role in the nerve-induced accumulation of receptors at developing neuromuscular synapses.
(19) The role of Arias-Stella reaction in diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy in a 35-year old woman who used a contraceptive coil in situ is described.
(20) The EU’s climate chief, Miguel Arias Cañete, has already signalled that he would like the union to ratify the Paris climate agreement at a conference in New York on 22 April.