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music: a composition played in a leisurely or slow tempo

"Adagio for Strings," he said.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

This is the adagio, the first movement.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
In reaction he put his arms about her but she relaxed wearily backward; he held her like that for a moment as in the end of an adagio, her eyes closed, her hair falling straight back like that of a girl drowned.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
By moonlight in the garden she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after as before, and Charles seemed no more amorous and no more moved.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
Finally the room was left—after these last twenty minutes of delirious activity—in what might be termed provisional silence, amid the depths of which I could hear only the soft heartsick adagio scratching on the phonograph, and the woman's broken sobs on the bed above me.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
He just started Duffy doing a dance along the edge, a kind of delicate, feather-toed, bemused, slow-motion adagio accompanied by arms pinwheeling around a face which was like a surprised custard pie with a hole scooped in the middle of the meringue, and the hole was Duffy's mouth, but no sound came out of it.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
The lovely adagio from the Fourth Symphony floated down, merging like the serene, steadfast throb of a human pulse with my exalted mood.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Adagio, Andante, Allegro
Amor Towles -- A Gentleman in Moscow
He had been raised to appreciate music of sentiment and nuance, music that rewarded patience and attention with crescendos and diminuendos, allegros and adagios artfully arranged over four whole movements—not a fistful of notes crammed higgledy-piggledy into thirty measures.
Amor Towles -- A Gentleman in Moscow

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