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Recent Examples of purple passage
Writers inevitably fall in love with their more purple passages.
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Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purple passage
Noun
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Exploring the genre of inaugural addresses through quotations and objects from the past can help listeners better understand the opening speech of a new administration, the first act in a job that began with the taking of the oath.—
Claire Jerry,
The Conversation,
14 Jan. 2025
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Despite the patchwork libretto, Handel ingeniously parlayed Jennens’ quotations and paraphrases from the Old and New testaments into unexpected evocations of wonder and awe.—
Bob Blaisdell,
The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The season so far has set an interesting context leading up to the COTA race.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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Morrison provides just enough context via on-screen text, explaining how the murder of Laquan McDonald four years earlier had created tensions between police and the public.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Every citation must be confirmed against primary sources.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Then, in 2008, Boshoff encountered a scholarly citation about a Portuguese ship that sank en route from Mozambique to Brazil, carrying two hundred Africans to their deaths.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Rare is it that a haphazard, five-word backstage sound bite by a key makeup artist can capture the prevailing beauty spirit of New York Fashion Week’s six-day affair.—
James Manso,
WWD,
18 Feb. 2025
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The pressure to get ahead of other networks—via more updates, more sound bites, more footage, more everything—takes over.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Purple passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple%20passage. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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