dedicatory

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But as is typical with Kurtag’s dedicatory works, he’s able to tip his hat to another composer while sounding like himself.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

One of St. Petersburg’s more flamboyant journalists, Alexander Nekrasov, showed a photo on Instagram of a copy of one of Sokolov’s books, on which the historian had written, “With the dedicatory inscription of a maniac.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2019

The volume is constructed identically to her first, with a dedicatory epistle followed by the translations and an original poem, “The necessitie and benefite of affliction.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2019

“Throughout it all, Los Angeles has never broken faith with the Coliseum’s dedicatory purpose,” Hahn wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2019

We only discover it by a remarkable dedicatory sonnet to his translation of Virgil’s “Gnat.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac