Diminuendo

Definitions

1. A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly
2. A passage having this mark
3. The gradual dying away of something.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuendo, the French subtext states a set⟳ of harmonies (the young American returned from France) and cacophonies (the supercilious French art critic, Roux) shedding light⟳ on the main text with its own⟳ consonances of intergenerationsl friendship, marital loyalty, artistic pleasure, and joyful lesbianism.”

“Harlow gazed, like⟳ Henry, out the wide corner window, enjoying the diminuendos of the light⟳.”

“Jillian haad the kind of charm that wore off. Or after enough romantic diminuendos, that's what she theorized.”

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