nocturne

• If the melody he had played on her body with his mouth was an exquisite nocturne, then this was a thundering rhapsody, irresistible in its power and its passion. —  ONE NIGHT OF SCANDAL
• Someplace a disembodied piano was playing a Chopin nocturne, and we found ourselves lowering our voices to say good night, as if we were in a concert hall. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,December2004
• 'Atrocious boyband crap' is the first thing that comes to mind about the majority of the album's tracks - there are a couple of gems hidden in there like the album version of the digital single nocturne, Kuon (the Kotetsu Sangokushi ending theme) and the pop-rock tinged Rain, but everything else pretty much falls in the 'drab mid-tempo r'n'b ballad' category. —  Anime Nano!
• Owls is an orchestral nocturne, mostly ruminative but also suggesting the night's unwitnessed activity. —  World of Wonder Productions
• The question is whether either is a nocturne, which is to say a picture whose subject is the night. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

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