All 3 Uses
staccato
in
All the Light We Cannot See
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- Five streets to the north, a white-haired eighteen-year-old German private named Werner Pfennig wakes to a faint staccato hum.†
p. 7.1 *
- Out of loudspeakers all around Zollverein, the staccato voice of the Reich grows like some imperturbable tree; its subjects lean toward its branches as if toward the lips of God.†
p. 63.7
- A wireless set mumbles the names of ministers in a harried, staccato voice—de Gaulle in London, Petain replacing Reynaud.†
p. 128.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(staccato as in: played it staccato) in music, the separating notes by cutting them short and crisp
or:
sounds that are short and crisp - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)