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  • His films are sometimes guilty of exposition passages filmed too expediently or carelessly, but on the whole he was remarkably inventive and -- at the very least -- a master of what the Germans call stimmung: mood.

    Archive 2008-05-25 2008

  • His films are sometimes guilty of exposition passages filmed too expediently or carelessly, but on the whole he was remarkably inventive and -- at the very least -- a master of what the Germans call stimmung: mood.

    His Name Rhymed With Horror 2008

  • The goal of the Dusseldorf artists was to infuse the landscape with “stimmung” mood.

    The Düsseldorf School James Gurney 2009

  • I can't help noticing that the parallels between the respective careers of Vohrer and another master of stimmung, Mario Bava, are fairly pronounced.

    Archive 2008-05-25 2008

  • I can't help noticing that the parallels between the respective careers of Vohrer and another master of stimmung, Mario Bava, are fairly pronounced.

    His Name Rhymed With Horror 2008

  • It is characteristic of aesthetic expressions, as we have observed, that their media, quite apart from anything that they may mean or represent, are expressive of moods -- the colors of a painting have a _stimmung, _ so have tones and words, when rhythmically composed.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • They may serve, however, to aid the understanding of the _stimmung_ of the sonata.

    Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

  • They may serve, however, to aid the understanding of the stimmung of the sonata.

    Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

  • Physikalische versuche iiber die wirkungen der meisten deutschen wald-baum-hôlzer im verbrennen, zur be - stimmung ihres werths gegeneinander; imgieichen iiber das gewichtverhàltniss derselben im griiiien und im trocknen zustande.

    Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ... 1797

  • "People go to Europe to get atmosphere (stimmung) -- that much abused term!

    Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Harriette Brower 1898

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