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How to use harlequinade in a sentence

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In contrast to the two preceding dramatic frescos, the Scherzo is a wonderful harlequinade.
An enacted harlequinade in costumes to match, with intense zest, enthusiasm and a joie de vivre that communicated itself.
With Harlequin she became a primary character in the English pantomime's harlequinade.
Set to movie-style music by Nino Rota, the ballet is a modern, plotless harlequinade, with three charming but very different pairs of lovers and a corps of twelve.
In England, elements from it were naturalized in the harlequinade in pantomime and in the Punch-and-Judy show, a puppet play involving the commedia dell'arte character Punch.
It is a harlequinade of cities, the fiefs of states they represent, of which a major part such as Milan, the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily even belongs to the Crown of Spain.
From 1717 until the year before his death, he played Harlequin under his stage name of Lun and thus helped develop the harlequinade of English pantomime tradition.
In 18th-century London, Pantaloon, minus his long coat, was one of the characters of the harlequinade, the English pantomime version of the commedia dell'arte.
European puppet shows, the English harlequinade, French pantomime, and the cinematic slapstick of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton all recall the glorious comic form that once prevailed.
A pantomime version of Robinson Crusoe was staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1796, with Joseph Grimaldi as Pierrot in the harlequinade.
The harlequinade ceases for the moment, and a two-character tragedy begins with the shepherds Thyrsis and Corydon, whose names derive from ancient pastoral poetry.
As the scene in Brighton or the reference to a new Strand bridge suggest, the harlequinade sought a good deal of its energy in reference to current fads, fashions, and events.
The muted colours of early Cubist paintings are used for the costumes echoing a Picasso harlequinade and wistfully evocative of the age of Diaghalev.
The point was not lost on Shakespeare, nor on the Harlequinade of Marivaux.
Examples from Classical Literature
And in the harlequinade she's Columbine, but that only means a dove, and a dove is the symbol of the soul.
She chuckled aloud, not that she relished her mirth, but the harlequinade of fate constrained a laugh for its antics.
One needs no civilised culture to appreciate the fun of the harlequinade, and to that has Charlie, with true instinct, returned.
At the end of the harlequinade he sank down on one knee and kissed her hand.
A bit high-spirited when they come on in the harlequinade, but all in good part.
The only species of comedy peculiar to Italy is harlequinade.
We did Belphegor and The Witch and a harlequinade last night.
The scenes described are as full of movement as a harlequinade.
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