(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.
Largo
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Slow or slowly; -- more so than adagio; next in slowness to grave, which is also weighty and solemn.
(n.) A movement or piece in largo time.
Example Sentences:
(1) By contrast, the Largo and Texas GB strains displayed more differences in the pattern of RNA fragment migration than other strain comparisons.
(2) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest En 2012, sólo el 33% de los niños de entre 10 y 14 años dijeron haber hecho cualquier tipo de ejercicio significativo a lo largo del año anterior.
(4) But as introspective anguish in the opening Largo twists suddenly into a turbulent, rushing allegro molto, Christy and Chloe turn their faces away from the stage and stare at each other, startled and wide-eyed, as if to say: "Did you hear that ?
(5) Baixo Gago is behind the Largo do Machado and a short walk from the train station that takes visitors up to the Christ the Redeemer statue.
(6) En 2012, sólo el 33% de los niños de entre 10 y14 años declararon haber practicado algún tipo de deporte – por ejemplo, el baile, o deportes como básquetbol o fútbol - a lo largo del año anterior, mientras que el 74% de los niños dijeron ver una pantalla más de tres horas al día entre semana.
(7) Through comparing the morphological evolution to the host range and the geographical distribution we can suggest Dipetalonema sensu-largo may be interpreted as a gondwanian lineage which may have evolved after the three main austral continents drifted apart.
(8) Leishmanin skin testing of a sample of 154 people residents in Pedra do Largo showed prevalence of Leishmania infection in 25.5%.
(9) --the instrumental sequence using Largo drills to prepare a canal, presents two types of drawbacks: * Excessive abrasion of the convex (internal) wall of the canal system.
(10) • Largo da Matriz Nossa Senhora do Ó, 168, +55 11 3932 4818, frangobar.com.br Astronete, Consolação Like most hot spots in Sampa's edgiest nightlife district (Baixo Augusta), funky Astronete caters to alt-leaning crowds dissected into diverse subcultures mingling in sweet counterculture harmony.
(11) Half of the chickens were challenged with the Largo isolate of velogenic viscerotropic (VV) NDV at 8 weeks post-vaccination, and the remainder were challenged with the Massachusetts 41 strain IBV at 9 weeks post-vaccination.
(12) To evaluate weight, length and head circumference the neonatal standards of Largo et al.
(13) The moist wound products included in this study were a hydrogel (Intrasite Gel) and a foam wound cavity filler (Allevyn), manufactured by Smith & Nephew United, Inc. of Largo, FL, and a transparent cover (Bioclusive), manufactured by Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. of Arlington, TX.
(14) Colonies of the elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), possessing raised, whitened, irregularly shaped skeletal protuberances, were discovered at Carysfort Reef and Grecian Rocks, Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary, Key Largo, FL.
(15) Randy and Susan Shasteen, from Key Largo, Florida, but traveling on holiday, said it was “too early to give up” and felt Bush had been too polite in his exchange with Rubio.
(16) 2, infection of NDV vaccinates and nonvaccinates with NDV strain Largo; and Expt.
(17) In Rome, where for several decades he kept an apartment overlooking the Largo Argentina, he wrote Julian (1964), a bestselling novel about the enigmatic Roman emperor who rejected Christianity and embraced paganism.
(18) They serve this Portuguese pot au feu at Tony’s (around €20pp plus wine, Largo da Igreja), where portions are big enough to floor a hungry hobbit.
(19) The purified RNA from three velogenic strains of Newcastle disease virus (Ca-1083 [Fontana], Largo, and Texas GB) was analyzed by oligonucleotide fingerprinting.
(20) Based on this analysis, the fingerprints of the Largo and Ca-1083 viscerotropic strains were more similar to each other than either virus was to the Texas GB neurotropic strain.