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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

The grande finale of the fireworks show was marked by a massive flurry of blasts - reaching a much anticipated crescendo.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

He thought the chicken would calm as he carried her—Charlie carried all his chickens around—but her frantic clucks added to the chorus of crickets and the crescendo of the owls: Who?

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

“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

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

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

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

It’s a film so flush with ambition that it rarely crescendos; it can afford to chop sequences, songs, even genres, down to a string of snippets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 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

Zardoya’s yearning for a love lost crescendoes, and is most devastating, in the piano ballad “Back to You”; but it seems as though even her darkest, most melancholic moments are touched by the fae.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

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

As the conversation, playing with the theme of war, spread itself in spasmodic blurs about the room, bursting in little crescendoes of conviction, pronouncements, suddenly serious and inviolable truths, Dorn found himself listening excitedly.

From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht

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

Together they led attendees on a sonic journey that began with drums and the hum of singing bowls, then crescendoed into the shimmering roar of gongs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Katherine had always been driven by curiosity, and as the activity in and around Building 1244 crescendoed, it consumed her.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

Vampire is just as good, masquerading as a piano ballad before Rodrigo unleashes on the titular blood-sucker with a series of venomous put-downs and crescendoing high notes.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023

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

“And we wanted each scene to keep progressing and crescendoing bigger and more elaborate.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2021

And the night behind them was filled with the crescendoing sound of pursuit....

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman