intermezzo

Now they appear more as a minor intermezzo before the big upheaval to come.

Then swirling clouds are projected onto the scrim — a tacky recurring “visual intermezzo,” as it is called in the credits — and a maid enters.

And they fear that it can happen again — that America has changed, and that Mr. Biden is “an intermezzo” between more populist, nationalist presidents, said Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, vice president of the German Marshall Fund.

After our “momentary intermezzo” on this Earth, we will soon enjoy again “the lost paradise of non-existence.”

During one stretch, she found common ground between two of Brahms’s searching intermezzos and a few of Chopin’s mercurial, lilting mazurkas.