polyphony

Recent Examples on the Web This is music at once pristine and forbidding, redolent of the austere polyphony of the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. —Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024 In Saunders’s indelible portrait, set in a graveyard populated by garrulous spirits, these images collide and coalesce, transforming Lincoln’s private grief — his 11-year-old boy, Willie, died in the White House in 1862 — into a nation’s, a polyphony of voices and stories. —New York Times, 8 July 2024 Under cover of jokes and the expert polyphony of the overlapping dialogue, David Adjmi leads us to a story about the disaster of maleness, and thus of mating, behind the pop-rock revolution of the period. —Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023 The book, the story of Seymour, an ambitious would-be filmmaker and a second-rate husband, explores different temporalities, creating a polyphony of the sweeping, legato past and the rhythmic present. —Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for polyphony