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Ravel   /rˈævəl/  /rəvˈɛl/   Listen
Ravel

verb
(past & past part. raveled or ravelled; pres. part. raveling or ravelling)
1.
Disentangle.  Synonyms: ravel out, unravel.
2.
Tangle or complicate.  Synonyms: knot, tangle.



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"Ravel" Quotes from Famous Books



... Faun he so adequately set. Nevertheless, there is, at times, magic in his music. It is the magic of suggestiveness, of the hinted mystery which only Huysmans's superior persons scattered throughout the universe may guess. After Debussy comes Dukas, Ravel, Florent Schmitt, Rogier-Ducasse, men who seem to have caught anew the spirit of the eighteenth-century music and given it to us not through the poetic haze of Debussy, but in gleaming, brilliant phrases. There is promise in Schmitt. As to Vincent d'Indy, you differ with his scheme, yet he ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... there been a time when it was more difficult than it is today to formulate a complete theory, [Footnote: Attempts have been made. Once more emphasis must be laid on the parallel with music. For example, cf. "Tendances Nouvelles," No. 35, Henri Ravel: "The laws of harmony are the same for painting and music."] or to lay down a firm artistic basis. All attempts to do so would have one result, namely, that already cited in the case of Leonardo and his system of little spoons. It would, however, be precipitate to say that ...
— Concerning the Spiritual in Art • Wassily Kandinsky

... (which was the supreme charm,) how it comes that this larger memory hasn't swallowed up all others. For here, absolutely, was the flower at its finest and grown as nowhere else—grown in the great garden of the Ravel Family and offered again and again to our deep inhalation. I see the Ravels, French acrobats, dancers and pantomimists, as representing, for our culture, pure grace and charm and civility; so that one doubts whether any candid community was ever so much in ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James

... sharply, "a vegetable sprouts. Can't you? Is these stocking caps made so's they won't ravel?" she inquired capably of Abel Ames. "These are real good value, Mary," she added kindly. "Better su'prise the little thing with one ...
— Christmas - A Story • Zona Gale



Words linked to "Ravel" :   damage, entwine, intertwine, harm, interlace, unsnarl, impairment, twine, unknot, ravel, lace, disentangle, composer, enlace, straighten out, ladder, ravel out



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