Sample Sentences for
fugue
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fugue as in:  a three-part fugue

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It is a delicate staccato fugue.
fugue = classical music in which a theme is introduced and then extended and developed through some number of successive imitations
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    She played a three-part fugue by Bach.
    fugue = classical music in which a simple tune is introduced and then extended and developed through some number of successive imitations
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    Bach improvised a fugue based on the theme.
    fugue = classical music in which a theme is introduced and then extended and developed through some number of successive imitations
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    She was unconscious in a way which shielded her quite as well as fugue state.†  (source)
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    "Dace," Alec said, again, and this time the word seemed to snap Jace out of his fugue state.†  (source)
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    All the churches in the world, with their candles flickering in the cool air, and all the masses and all the fugues can't do it justice.†  (source)
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    My mom walks around in a fugue state.†  (source)
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    Derisive catcalls were hurled at the prisoners; dual thematic fugues of treachery and theft filled the glen.†  (source)
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    But Edgar lay in a fugue, seeing everything as if through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.†  (source)
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    Reich set those traps for himself without ever realizing it...in his sleep, somnambulistically...during the day, in short fugues...brief departures from conscious reality.†  (source)
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    In that fugue state between wakefulness and dreaming, the song I hear is not Rosina's.†  (source)
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    And the angel says, Are you telling me I believed all my life that Jesus changed water into wine at an Italian wedding—and he didn't/' Lenny did this bit a little distractedly, slurring lines here and there, but isn't that what he always did, wasn't that part of the whole hipster format—a kind of otherworldly dope-driven fugue.†  (source)
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    I am remembering a fugue Uncle used to love—a melody Father composed in New Denver which Stephen developed— a quiet light staccato, clear and precise with long pauses between the notes of the melody.†  (source)
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    Any reason to believe she might have overdosed on something that induced a fugue state or a severe personality change?†  (source)
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fugue as in:  entered a fugue state

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We found her in a fugue state.
fugue = dreamlike state of altered consciousness
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    She wandered off in a fugue state.
    fugue = a dreamlike state of altered consciousness
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    Dissociative identity disorder includes amnesia, somnambulism, fugue, and multiple personality.
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    Fugues of amnesia.  (source)
    Fugues = states of altered consciousness
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