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grace note
noun
- a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.
grace note
noun
- music a note printed in small type to indicate that it is melodically and harmonically nonessential
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Origin of grace note1
Example Sentences
In a grace note, the actor plays himself as a young man, too, as though his older self is still stuck in his past.
A truly insidious horror film might have found a way to use bloody humor as a nervous grace note to offset what’s tangibly distressing about our gnawing powerlessness.
In a riskier but effective grace note, interspersed throughout are poetic, home-movie-fashioned interludes, scenes of the girls at play that suggest missed experiences.
Winslet was adding grace notes to scenes of herself in “The Regime,” a dark satire created by Will Tracy, a writer and producer on “Succession,” that began airing on Max in early March.
The tenderness flickering in Driver’s eyes is one of several grace notes in a performance that, being delivered entirely in Italian-accented English, could have been forgiven for having no grace notes at all.
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