grace note
noun
1
: a musical note added as an ornament
especially
: appoggiatura
2
: a small addition or embellishment
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The balanced home is an animal grace note—one of a great many across both the human and the non-human world.
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
What comes through are highs and valleys seen from the inside, a clarifying memoir from an unsentimental woman who endured being called every shaming name, with powerful grace notes of understanding from a son whose eyes betray a tough childhood.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
Many such grace notes are only evident on repeat viewings.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
By adorning relatively slow and simple melodies with quick grace notes, Moctar turns his electric guitar into something flickering and unstable, with pitches that seem to warp in and out of each other, changing for slivers of moments before snapping back into their familiar previous shapes.
—Eric Torres, Pitchfork, 26 Mar. 2024
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
What comes through are highs and valleys seen from the inside, a clarifying memoir from an unsentimental woman who endured being called every shaming name, with powerful grace notes of understanding from a son whose eyes betray a tough childhood.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
Many such grace notes are only evident on repeat viewings.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
By adorning relatively slow and simple melodies with quick grace notes, Moctar turns his electric guitar into something flickering and unstable, with pitches that seem to warp in and out of each other, changing for slivers of moments before snapping back into their familiar previous shapes.
—Eric Torres, Pitchfork, 26 Mar. 2024
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“Grace note.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grace%20note. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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