crescendo

The recent crescendo of critiques of health messaging is not unfounded.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

You read that right: Despite a chorus of criticism over the last few years, which in recent weeks has reached a crescendo, the 60/40 portfolio is more than holding its own this year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

It was doing so earlier this month as he was zig-zagging across the United States in a private jet to make him virtually omnipresent as the World Cup reached its crescendo.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Linda Noskova wins the women’s championship, and provides the emotional crescendo of the tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

In the orchard the bees sounded like a wind getting up, a sound caught by a spell just under crescendo and sustained.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

“No other tenor did that. And just multiply that a thousand times. It’s crescendi, the decrescendi, all the lovely musical things. He’s just sharp that way, probably the best.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 24, 2018

As to the poets who made it into Dear World, there are predictable highs, plateaux and crescendi.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2013

The suggestion of orchestral relationships is contained in the massiveness of the harmonic texture, and in the cumulative effect of the climaxes and crescendi.

From Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman

Thus, in the coloratura passages of Mozart's arias, I have always sought to gain expressiveness by crescendi, choice of significant points for breathing, and breaking off of phrases.

From How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Richard Aldrich

This did not prevent Rossini from continuing to write crescendi, nor from being satirised and caricatured as "Signor Crescendo," when, some ten years afterwards, he went to Paris.

From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Henry Sutherland Edwards

At least until Hans Zimmer’s music hits one of its glorious crescendos, at which point the cat will leap off the couch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The song blends delicate piano with impressive vocal crescendos, which Goodrem -- a songwriter, musician, film star and a coach on The Voice Australia -- has brought to perfection.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

As I approach the O’Hare exit on I-294, Dr. Becky says, “More than anything, your kid needs you to become a sturdy pilot during their emotional turbulence,” and everything both crescendos and collapses.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

In previous films “The Big Sick” and “Spoiler Alert,” the writer-director managed to tee up more than a few last-minute emotional crescendos.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

Still, decisions about crescendos and decrescendos, tempo, and score reading have to be made, but there are endless possibilities for vocalizing and playing these child-centered compositions.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Near the end of the song, Erivo’s voice crescendoes from delicate notes to a strong and resounding riff that moves her audience to their feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

With its bright, liquid beats, through its chest-jouncing bass line, “Party/After Party” crescendoes into a staggering amalgamation of popular revelry and high art, and a vindication of Black electronic music’s inheritances and influence.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020

As Bannon walks through dilapidated neighborhoods in slo-mo, the cyclical music crescendoes, and “American Dharma” develops a searing, operatic tone complimented by the recurring image of a burning flag.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2018

As the crew struggles to replace it, the storm crescendoes, plucking 's anchor from the seabed twice before it can be secured again.

From Nature ● Sep. 4, 2013

A faint whir crescendoes rapidly into the shrill whoop of a steam-siren, and a great balloon-shaped cloud of smoke and dust has already arisen from amidst the marching mass of men ahead.

From Impressions of a War Correspondent by George Lynch

In a 4-3 extra-innings loss to the New York Mets on Monday, a night that started with frustration — then crescendoed with a late-game rally — ultimately ended in a familiar fizzle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

As “Turn the Lights Back On” crescendoed, the crowd sang along earnestly.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024

In the second, a siren crescendoed into a blaring signal whistle to herald the piano’s violent re-entry — a satisfying climax built from unusual means.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

The roars crescendoed when Gauff was introduced before play began.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

As the song crescendoed, a row of daisies poked up from the dirt and unfurled toward her hands.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

As someone who works in food, I see two main reasons behind all this crescendoing pressure.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

A single like Biology opens with a Chicago blues riff that morphs into a crescendoing succession of Euro-trance verses, followed by a stomping cheerleader chorus, before somehow reverting back to the original blues riff.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023

On “God’s Work,” a nod to the Christian music she’s put out in the past and the album’s devotional undercurrent, she slides through swelling piano ballads and guitar-heavy reggae, crescendoing choruses and gentle, lilting hums.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

Musgraves started her set boldly, with the sweeping Spanish guitar of the album’s title track crescendoing as a giant metal heart ignited in flames behind her.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2022

I miss her laugh, the way it starts like a pianists solo, soft and low and then crescendoing and filling the room.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson