Crossword-Solution: NOCTURNE
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| Nocturne | n. | A night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with NOCTURNE (5)
Halfdan sat down at the grand piano and played Chopin’s Nocturne in G major, flinging out that elaborate filigree of sound with an impetuosity and superb ABANDON which caused the ladies to exchange astonished glances behind his back.
Even at the piano by the window, Alice had barely been able to see clearly enough to read the notes of her nocturne.
For instance: if, after dinner, you hear a dreamy waltz or a sleepy nocturne, you may know that all is well.
Not much "trusting and encouraging" here! Soames triumphantly exposing the devil as a liar, and laughing "full shrill," cut a quite heartening figure, I thought, then! Now, in the light of what befell, none of his other poems depresses me so much as "Nocturne." I looked out for what the metropolitan reviewers would have to say.
French Nocturne (Monchy-Le-Preux) Long leagues on either hand the trenches spread And all is still; now even this gross line Drinks in the frosty silences divine The pale, green moon is riding overhead.
Quotes with NOCTURNE (2)
Nocturne Where are you now, my poems, my sleepwalkers? No mumbles tonight? Where are you, thirst, fever, humming tedium? The sodium streetlightsburr outside my window, steadfast, unreachable, little astonishmentslighting the way uphill. Where are you now, when I need you most? It’s late. I’m old. Come soon, you feral cats among the dahlias.
The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1947–2020).