Word: propell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps the most thrilling moments of her performance were her displays of extraordinarily executed coloratura in her various diminutions where a number of short notes propel ascending or descending progressions in steps or leaps. Bartoli revels in her mastery of such decorative devices and florid ornamentation as complex scales, arpeggios, trills, gruppetti, and elegantly graduated crescendos. Bartoli is a virtuoso of fioritura. Emerging undetected out of silence, her voice creeps and swells into the warm apex of an exquisitely delivered cresendo—the audience melts under the radiance of her sonic glow...
...Reading about others would help him catch up with the past and it would propel him into the future,” Chacón said...
...unique blend of high-stepping to midcourt, combined with his self-identification as “being the loudest and most insane guy” and what can only be loosely described as “dancing” when music comes over the PA system would certainly propel any Crimson baller to accomplish goals that he or she previously thought were impossible...
...four in the third game, Pereira caught Blumberg leaning the wrong way, but Blumberg saved himself with a shot off the back wall. Pereira later kept himself in the point with his own shot off the back wall, but Blumberg finished the point with a definitive kill to propel himself...
...think that he’ll be denied a statue. Charlize Theron has a lock on Best Actress: she played against type six ways to Sunday, and Roger Ebert has led the same “Best...acting...ever” critical charge that helped propel Halle Berry to her Monster’s Ball Oscar two years ago. And if Return of the King doesn’t win Best Picture (and director Peter Jackson doesn’t win Best Director), it’ll be the biggest upset since Miramax bought the 1999 Best Picture...