choric

There was a wonderful rhythmic, almost choric, force in the time kept, which made it almost impossible to sit still.

The Episode is that entire part of a tragedy which is between complete choric songs.

Shall they sing a choric strain?

The goal, he says, was to establish the children as "a kind of choric picture," in keeping with a play steeped in myth.

Return of choric.

Our Town employs a choric narrator called the "Stage Manager" and a minimalist set to underscore the human experience.

Betty Garrett, in four interludes called "7 Minutes of Life," including one as a baby, playfully swirls a choric motif.

According to Aristotle, writing nearly two centuries later, Thespis was a singer of dithyrambs (songs about stories from mythology with choric refrains).

Prince Deukalion was designed for a masterpiece; its blank verse and choric interludes are noble in spirit and mould.

The dancers spoke with varying degrees of effectiveness and intelligibility, and when all eight members of the cast spoke in unison, their choric recitations sounded stilted.

In Greek drama in the fifth century BC, choric odes were written to be chanted and danced between the spoken sections of both tragedies and comedies.

(A key exception, as Mr. Wolff tells it anyway, is his wife, Alison Anthoine, who acts as the company's lawyer and the drama's choric commentator.)

JON MICHAUD: Vicky makes an excellent point about Laurelle's choric role.

The program also included Martha Graham and her Dance Group in "Choric Dance for an Antique Greek Tragedy," creating an inclusiveness that rarely exists today.

For example, Nicholas Brooke argues that it "stands in the place of a choric commentary on the crime, establishing its significance to the play by making an emblem of the mutilated woman."

Now the order of motion is called rhythm, and the order of the voice, in which high and low are duly mingled, is called harmony; and both together are termed choric song.

In The Secret Pilgrim, le Carré's great spymaster and choric sage, George Smiley, is recalled saying that the right people lost the Cold War, but the wrong people won it.

It is there that balloons wittily signal Time's choric announcement that 16 years have passed; and there that they figure bawdily as part of a phallic dance during Bohemia's rustic sheep-shearing festivities.

The book's first epigraph is a choric ode from Sophocles' "Antigone," a play about Antigone's burial of her slain, disgraced brother, a ritual she performs-in part by pouring libations-in defiance of the state.

The song describes a couple unsuccessfully trying to overcome a bad patch in a relationship, and features full orchestral accompaniment with a choric refrain in French by Lætitia Sadier from Stereolab.

This combination of various voices, including the choric, makes the fifth section distinctly dramatic in its fragmentation, and, clearly deriving from the techniques employed in The Waste Land, also paves the way for the fragmentary drama of Sweeney Agonistes.

By making Laruelle a filmmaker, Lowry updates the choric role, and this perspective, from which all the world's a graveyard, allows Laruelle to witness and also participate in events from many angles, as a kind of detached but all-seeing eye.

If Dolliver, the current favorite, were to be nominated on Wednesday, there would be no chorus in the Roosevelt suite, and the now exuberant windmill in front of the window would no longer revolve once the warm winds of choric frenzy had ceased.

Although the score by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin improves as it goes along, it begins with a screeching evocation of sorority life that made me think back wistfully to the seductive choric opening of a 60s show like Bye Bye Birdie.

The two men were so much as one on so many of the great issues that they never had much of any interest to talk about; or, rather, the eloquent Sumner never ceased to declaim, while Chase, from time to time, would add a choric note to the great actor's surging threnodies.