Fanfaring

"Fanfaring" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The National Orchestral Association wound up its tenth concert season last week without much fanfaring.

A broad tier of shelves below an expanded metal "pegboard" gives Kline's a focal point for shoe-apparel-accessory fanfaring.

It then attempts to answer, with much fanfaring, 'The world's most embarrassing questions', eg, 'Why is my chest getting bumpy', 'What's a wet dream?'

He had retired two years ago amid much fanfaring and fandangoing, with medals and speeches and bands; and Time had asked him what he proposed to do and he'd said, 'Grow fruit on Mt Carmel.'

Loud drumming and blaring And strident fanfaring, Big banging and booming were rife in the air.

If you can take it, you'll find all this fanfaring a lot of fun.

The start of the D major concerto K2 18 goes back to cheerful fanfaring, and the movement maintains a very active role for the soloist.

Then Fraser discovered that the forty million fanfaring Uncle Blaises were rolling towards him again on the surface of their Beachball of the World.

'PJ's!' explained Steve, unnecessarily, adding in a fanfaring kind of a voice, 'Home of PJ's fa-a-amous pancakes!"

Thapelo gives a grand fanfaring laugh, for celebration or derision: it it yona ke yona or shaya-shaya, this bit of black empowerment.

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You want to inveigle me from my own clear task and metier — the writing of verse — into a vague maelstrom of fanfaring trumpets, bewildering lights, chaos of costumes, enigmatical actors, untangoing dancers, all helplessly entangled in frescos of civic reform; pageantry, in short.

Bulging muscles, steaming with sweat and all completely accurate and recognizable, in service to rattling flags, fanfaring festival music, pretty parades, girls dressed only in the German fashion, such was the art of the Third Reich: loud and gaudy, banal and servile - and for many very beautiful.

Then, with a parenthetic reminiscence of the fanfaring fourths in the piano, it repeats the first movement's closing bars (also based on fourths, but with trills that chill to the bone) almost literally, with some slight intensification of effect.

Naturally, with no pretense at capturing actual musicological accuracy, the fourteen-minute permutation twisted the overfamiliar tune into interesting new shapes and made it bubble with enthusiastically fiddling string sections, whooping girls, fanfaring Woodwinds, and lots of Parisian gaiety.

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