English sonnet

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for English sonnet
Noun
  • The rabbi intones psalms and speaks about his mother, offering recollections of her and the principal details of her life: birth in the embers of the Shoah, Yiddishkeit, Soviet existence, antisemitism, immigration, courage, struggle, family, community, legacy.
    David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Then, using his talents playing the lyre and singing psalms, David grew to be a supportive comfort to the possibly mad King Saul (Ali Suliman) as well as begin a romance with Saul’s daughter, Michal (Indy Lewis).
    Jim Halterman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.
    Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This is rock and roll as pastoral.
    Mitch Therieau, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Elsewhere, Abercrombie’s pastorals are almost like burlesques of plein air painting.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • After Vincent’s death, there were excruciating days, days of numbness, days of contentment and days of melancholy, days of reading and writing and days of not being able to read or write, days of holding on upside down (like the bat in Marianne Moore’s poem) and days of holding on right side up.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Her journals and poems, collected in binders, served as the scaffolding.
    Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout, Snook hams for laughs, turning Wilde’s witticisms and epigrams into slapstick.
    Christian Lewis, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Houston’s trip to the national championship game was going to end either as the best night in school history or as another chapter in this cruel epic.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Set in Mexico between the 1870s and the 1920s, the magic realism epic revolves around the history of a remote town called Comala, the life of which has been destroyed by vengeful local feudal lord Pedro Páramo.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.
    Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at [email protected].
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.
    Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
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