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opening move

NOUN
  1. the first of a series of actions

How To Use opening move In A Sentence

  • On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Been there, done that
  • Think of it as the opening move in a chess game. Times, Sunday Times
  • He sat there passively, content to wait for his father to make the opening move.
  • The massive attacks work well for the opening movement, with its homage to Bach.
  • He sat there passively, content to wait for his father to make the opening move.
  • Uchida gave an almost classical strictness to the sonata's opening movement, before turning the scherzo into a fleet, almost dreamlike vision, colouring the modulations of the Largo quite magically, and romping exuberantly through the rondo finale. Mitsuko Uchida
  • Think of it as the opening move in a chess game. Times, Sunday Times
  • The opening movement combines a brass fanfare with a Widorian toccata figure for its music argument.
  • In 1979, taking a different tack, Plain English Campaign publicly destroyed government forms as the opening move in a crusade against officialese and obfuscation.
  • For example, the first movement, ‘Introitus,’ uses the opening movement to the requiem mass with its reference to ‘lux perpetua luceat eis.’
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