nova
Example Sentences
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With each album, Everything but the Girl took a different approach: from skeletal to maximal, bossa nova to rock, retro Wall of Sound to sleek Los Angeles pop.
From New York Times
Mixing a suave bossa nova with a tapping, stubbornly resistant cross-rhythm, Jamila Woods neatly underlines the ambivalence she sings about, as she ponders just how close she wants someone to get.
From New York Times
After leaving school early to help her mother, Ms. Costa found work in a local record store and began singing along to the latest bossa nova releases.
From Washington Post
Commercially, he had his greatest success recording bossa nova, the softened, upscale variation of samba, which had emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1950s.
From Washington Post
Commercially, he had his greatest success as an early appreciator of bossa nova, the softened, upscale variation of samba which had emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1950s.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
