quasi-musical

The quasi-musical offers a tour of Lisbon's drag community, where a pre-operative transsexual performer wrestles with a life-changing decision.

Truths and Frictions Steve Dollar 2010

The performance was driven by Mr. Abumrad's deft, quasi-musical orchestration of sound bites, mostly from scientists; animation projected on a screen behind the hosts; their seemingly effortless repartee; and the live soundtrack performed by the cellist Zoe Keating , who was seated stage right.

Friendship Via the Radio Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Perry's neat trick is to turn the film into a quasi-musical, with the monologues from the show serving as 'musical numbers'.

Scott Mendelson: Thoughts on For Colored Girls From the World's Only (?) White/Jewish Tyler Perry Fan Scott Mendelson 2010

Exploring the might-have-beens, McEwan expresses the difference between the pair in quasi-musical terms.

Think of England 2007

Exploring the might-have-beens, McEwan expresses the difference between the pair in quasi-musical terms.

Think of England 2007

Woe betide the unhappy aspirant to the honours of public singing who ignores the demand of this quasi-musical

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890 Various

It is a quasi-musical effect only: there is no invention: the trumpet chords serve the purpose and nothing more.

Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

In what measure are they an independent play of expression, a quasi-musical, quasi-mathematical veil interposed between reflection and existence?

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

It is a quasi-musical effect only: there is no invention: the trumpet chords serve the purpose and nothing more.

Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891

And now for something completely different: running every Friday at Rhino Fest after Kane's tone poem of nihilist anguish, Bruised Orange Theater offers a sometimes sloppy but mostly endearing quasi-musical about a young couple on the ropes and on the run as their American dream goes into full meltdown mode.

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