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minor key

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meanings of minorand key


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minor
adjective
uk /ˈmaɪ.nər/ us /ˈmaɪ.nɚ/
having little importance, influence, or effect, especially when compared with other things of the ...
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key
noun[C]
uk /kiː/ us /kiː/
a piece of metal that has been cut into a special shape and is used for opening or closing a lock, starting a car ...
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Examples of minor key


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The protagonist's melancholy can be understood here not by simply equating the minorkey with sadness.
The clearest representatives of the topos, however, dwell in a minorkey.
It is in a minorkey and has only a short digression or 'pocket' in the major.
It is no wonder then that the whole book seems to be written in the minorkey.
They are only in a minorkey!
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There are additional sources of funding, but relatively minorkey.
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They talk about protecting minorkey industries from attacks abroad.
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Naturally, this debate is set in a more minorkey.
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The aspirate melody's languorous treatment of bar lines runs counter to the rigid feel of the standard fanfare, as does the dreamy minorkey setting.
I would like to ask a factual question in a minorkey.
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They are in a very minorkey, but, so far as they go, they are good.
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It was, of course, in a minorkey, but why should it not be?
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He managed to pitch the whole thing in a very minorkey.
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Only a minorkey was struck in her speech on that issue.
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This intervention now is rather more in the nature of an interlude in a minorkey.
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I fear that henceforth my remarks will be in a minorkey, as it were.
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It was a minor one because it was in a minorkey.
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Whatever criticisms there have been have, with one exception, been in a minorkey.
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For years, we have tried to prop it up on a minorkey.
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They are important to certain individuals, but in terms of the overall responsibilities they are in a minorkey.
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But these estates soon showed in minorkey some of the problems of the pre-war suburban areas.
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I could even set it to music; it would be in a minorkey, but it could be done.
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It was very noticeable that his speech was pitched in a comparatively minorkey, enlivened with an occasional staccato passage.
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Also in a minorkey, it features synthesizers and percussion.
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This section eventually develops into a minorkey.
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