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Word: crescendoed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chill. The song starts with a pristine beat and xylophone line and then enters a trance-like mood as Sciubba echoes in French over dreamy, subtle synth. At its halfway mark, it picks up pace with steady bass and sends the dreamy feeling of the song to a crescendo...

Author: By Andrew Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review: The Brazilian Girls, "Talk to La Bomb" | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...mirrored by the penultimate song, “The Crane Wife 1 & 2,” the first two parts of the suite concluded by the opening song. With a restrained sound, “The Crane Wife” gradually builds from acoustic strumming to full band crescendo. The story itself is, like most on the album, a tragic saga about kindness, greed, and misfortune...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD of the Week: The Decemberists, "The Crane Wife" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...Williams could not have picked a more timely play to direct in light of the current scandal in Washington. Jack E. Fishburn ’08 successfully wrestled the challenging role of Wilfred by slowly revealing his dark secret and effectively transitioning from levity to heartbreak in a sweeping crescendo. Near the end, Fishburn muttered the bleak line, “It’s the one part of my life that feels right...and that’s the bit that’s wrong,” with a chilly eeriness. Sound designer Nick J. Shearer...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Terrific 'Shots' at Greatness in Ex | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...troops across the border to attack Hizballah strongholds throughout southern Lebanon and clear a "security zone" that may eventually stretch to around three miles inside Lebanese territory. With diplomatic pressure mounting for an end to the fighting, the Israeli military seems to be bringing its campaign to a crescendo aimed at inflicting maximum damage on Hizballah in the campaign's remaining days or weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Winning the Peace in Lebanon? | 8/2/2006 | See Source »

...opponent?s zipper problem) and then becomes self-congratulatory, boasting about the insurgent primary challenge to Joe Lieberman, where the incumbent now leads by only 55-40. The message of these triumphs? That the ?riffraff? has triumphed over the elite. It?s all very empowering, though the speech?s crescendo is about how the liberal blogosphere propelled Stephen Colbert?s White House Correspondents? dinner speech into the No. 1 spot on iTunes. As wins go, it seems symbolic at best. But what a symbol! The mainstream media is obsolete! ?We don?t need them!? ?We can now choose for ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ambitious Pols Make Their Pilgrimage to Yearly Kos | 6/9/2006 | See Source »

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