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Crescendo meaning
An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin. | A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax. | The climax of a gradual increase.
Synonyms of Crescendo
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The first three lines (six bars of music) are soft, ending with a short crescendo into "Send her victorious", and then is another crescendo at "over us:" into the final words "God save The Queen".
A behind-the-scenes film ended this marketing crescendo like a symphony.
And whatever it is, it will come to a crescendo at the Stade de la Beaujoire on Sunday afternoon, when Japan takes on Argentina for a spot in the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals.
Even the dreamy stuff cooks: Has Jerry’s guitar crescendo to “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” ever been this epic?
However, its serious tone, gaping plot holes and poor CGI put off fans leading to its crescendo becoming the single lowest-rated episode of any Marvel streaming series with just a 7% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Late in the film, the ugly reality reaches a crescendo just as the suspense drains drily away.
Retailers haven’t been shy about adding early sales to unload inventory, but it’s Black Week” where sales usually crescendo.
The crescendo in the commentator Wayne Mardle’s voice.
THE founding of the welfare state in 1945 was “the crescendo of the democratic settlement”.
The growing confidence of those in blue was palpable and it came to a crescendo as folded to another slapstick set-piece goal.
Their screaming and cursing proceeded to crescendo to the point at which she felt genuinely threatened.
The love for cash reaches a crescendo during seasonal celebrations.
Tom ripping the ladder out from Greg’s corporate climb begins a domino effect that brings the finale to a deafening crescendo.
With 20 goals for club and country this season, the striker has seen his season build towards a crescendo – and there is still time for it to get better yet.
And the end of this experience is a real crescendo where you’ll see a lifesized Elvis in AI perform some of his biggest hits.
Around the other three walls of this Bavarian behemoth of a structure, the crescendo of German whistles amounted to a fierce screech at Steve Clarke’s men.
At times, the orchestration feels like a bit of a counter-productive gimmick – for every snappy crescendo, or satisfying glissando of the strings, there are a dozen bars of gluttonous noise that would, on record, surely provoke claims of “overproduction”.
I half-expect a smoke machine to belch into action as the throbbing Euro house reaches its crescendo, and dancing girls emerge from the floor.
I'm curious where you politically all think all this is taking us because it's coming to a crescendo.
It’s akin to orchestrating a symphony where your main job takes the lead during office hours, and the freelance gig steps in during the after-hours crescendo.