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- adjective Resembling a
chorale (hymn tune).
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Examples
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He may not have plumbed the quasi-spiritual depths that Claudio Arrau and others have sometimes found in the choralelike episodes, but that's what the later years of a career are for.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES R. OESTREICH 2011
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The slow second movement begins with a somber, choralelike melody for strings alone, which the Philharmonic played with hushed richness.
NYT > Home Page By ANTHONY TOMMASINI 2012
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But the triumph of Honegger's third movement - expressed in a choralelike theme in the violins, optionally bolstered by a trumpet - sounds less convincing: merely hopeful, perhaps, coming early in what was to be a long war.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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But the triumph of Honegger's third movement - expressed in a choralelike theme in the violins, optionally bolstered by a trumpet - sounds less convincing: merely hopeful, perhaps, coming early in what was to be a long war.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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