Word: rapport
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...ogre at all," he said. "If there was something that was bothering [the dining hall workers], they would tell me. I really have a good rapport with them...
...failing in four different spots to sustain the end of his solo the full length of the note. The final movement suffered from the meek entry of the strings and an overquick temp. But the allegro assai redeemed the piece, with oboe, flute, and violin soloists maintaining a whispering rapport...
Handel's "Water Music" continued the string of brilliant performances. Professional polish and good timing characterized the famous "Hornpipe," "Bouree" and "Minuet" sections, and the orchestra sustained its trills without fading. The strings and winds maintained a sublime rapport in the concluding "Allegro" and "Gigues...
...there was something that was bothering them, they would tell me," he added. "I really have a good rapport with them...
McNally forges a complicated, interlocking structure of relationships. By the end of the book, the initial shock of the suicide has spread through the network of characters and dissipated. The plot appears a mechanical process, divorced from the actions of those whom it surrounds. McNally creates no rapport between the story and the subjects, no common development of scope and substance. The narrative never takes off, never generates its own momentum, never grows--it just plays itself...