A brief show (music or dance etc) performed between the sections of another performance

Usage examples of interlude.

So this was what it came to, Ebdus the bridge between Ashcan school schlock and photorealist dragons, a momentary interlude.

February the transports completed loading troops and equipment, and the pleasant Biak interlude was over.

There followed an interlude of some hours during which the kettle merely boiled, and threw off a column of steam that rose high over Diu and drifted away into the blue sky over the sea.

He reviewed the mission plan several dozen times yet again while composing a complex contrapuntal string interlude based on large prime numbers and the mathematical constructs of Leonardo Fibonacci and Jean Baptiste Fourier.

Her 222 Interlude In Time hands gripped the footpost as she stared at him.

The interlude might even help in his other plan to be restrained in all things despite what the other aspirant Mohocks might do.

For a fleeting interlude the prospect of truly nonpartisan cooperation between them appeared attainable.

When his teaching credentials proved nontransferable to Colorado without a several-thousand-dollar investment in further courses, he managed a Burger King for five years and spent a brief interlude as a paralegal before settling on real estate.

Once strong and free in the plays of Aeschylus and his compeers, hampered and constantly under guidance but still dignified and noble in the Senecan drama, Tragedy now found herself debased and almost caricatured in the English Interlude stage.

One especially persistent machine took advantage of the interlude to score three hits on his back, which triggered the audible alarm, and pushed his shield to the very edge.

Chapter III, shows us that in 1589 a sacred representation had an orchestra of viols, lutes, horns and organ, that it played an interlude with special music composed by Luca Bati, and that it also accompanied a solo allotted to the Deity.

IV nurse slid his transparent catheters into the carotids and jugulars in preparation for the dangerous interlude between bodies when the heart-lung machine would have to take over.

Estimates based on recent episodes of male unrest, six, ten, and thirteen decades ago, lead savants at the Institute for Sociological Trends to suggest that this somewhat more severe interlude may not pass in time to prevent short-term economic loss to many of our subscribers.

Laughing at the imagined antics of the gnats in the comic interludes, she tried the ring of the old heroic meters and began searching out metaphors and fit similes to celebrate the courage and the triumph of her first-hatched forager.

He was distracted from this interlude of austere self-veneration by the awareness that the sheet of paper on which he was calculating was not perfectly flat, containing many distortions in the form of furrows and grooves, meager ravines, curvature rampant from point to point.