Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Striking exactly the right note or tone.
- adjective Producing especially accurate or pleasing sound.
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Examples
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Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011
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Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011
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He was almost pitch-perfect in his speech in Germany as he rejected with the required scorn the right's argument that a clash of civilisations made Muslims and democracy incompatible and the double-standard of the multi-culturalists, who hold that one can oppose fascistic doctrines when they are held by white-skinned demagogues but not when they are propagated by brown-skinned reactionaries.
At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run | Nick Cohen 2011
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Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian...
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011
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He was almost pitch-perfect in his speech in Germany as he rejected with the required scorn the right's argument that a clash of civilisations made Muslims and democracy incompatible
At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run | Nick Cohen 2011
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He did a pitch-perfect “American Pie”, roaring through the song and looking heavenward with glee.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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One of the most underrated actresses on TV, Philipps continues to hit all the right notes with her pitch-perfect dumb blonde shtick that can make even the most ridiculous story line on paper refreshingly amusing.
Emmys: TVGuide.com's Picks for Supporting Actress in a Comedy 2011
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His two greatest books, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, take readers into a time and place that can never exist again, and that, as much as his pitch-perfect writing, is why they are among those few books worth reading many times.
Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial 2011
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He did a pitch-perfect “American Pie”, roaring through the song and looking heavenward with glee.
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Over about an eight-year run starting in 1970, from the Freak Power campaign in Aspen to his hallucinogenic misadventures in Las Vegas, from the 1972 campaign trail to Super Bowl VIII to his pitch-perfect 1978 profile of Muhammad Ali, Thompson surfeited readers with wave upon wave of wild, ferocious perfectly rendered prose.
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride Matt Labash 2011
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