Musical composition to be played slowly and gracefully

Usage examples of adagio.

I segued into the second movement, that sense of bright expectation replaced by the slow, haunting strains of the Adagio, at once lyrical and sad -- mirroring the turns my own life had taken, the shifting harmonies sounding to me like the raised voices of ghosts, of echoes.

As terrible as that night was, I told myself that the Adagio had to end sometime.

I know that life is andante and presto and adagio, all entwined, a fugue of sorts, the promise and the sadness often separated by mere moments, tragedy and serenity not nearly so discrete as I once believed.

Imbs was practicing his complicated piece, the so-called adagio, and the machinist, with a manipulation of the black switch box, had turned off all the machines for the time required to go through the piece three times.

Is it Gutenberg who, after the bright allegro, whistles an adagio as a finale?

I primi venti della tua schiera, disse a Mimo, marcino radi e adagio sino ad incontrare il nemico.

Beethoven adagios, of which we find the most beautiful specimens naturally among the orchestral pieces and in the chamber music, where he could depend upon the long phrases and sustained tones of the violins.

My mind wanders through adagios and andantes, gaping, longing to understand.

There was no sign of Andrew, or of Bitten, but from upstairs came the mournful adagio Bitten had played this morning.

At least the adagio was, though the allegretto was suitable for dancing.

Baseball is the only modern sport with more adagio than allegro built into the structure of the game.

Stooped, he strode stiffly to the machine shop and inquired of the machinist when the buzz saw and lathe were planning to take a fairly protracted intermission, because he, the ballet pianist and former concert pianist, wished to practice, very softly, some thing complicated, a so-called adagio.

So we do the Academic Adagio, the Deconstructionist Dip, the Theosophical Thrash, to rationalize why we love or hate or enjoy or find disappointing some book or movie or comic or tv show.

I primi venti della tua schiera, disse a Mimo, marcino radi e adagio sino ad incontrare il nemico.

You know that they have great sensibility, and cannot restrain their transports, so that in the midst of the finest passages in soft adagios they clap their hands in loud applause and thus mar the effect.