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intermittent
(redirected from intermittences)

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in·ter·mit·tent  (ntr-mtnt)
adj.
1. Stopping and starting at intervals. See Synonyms at periodic.
2. Alternately containing and empty of water: an intermittent lake.

inter·mittence n.
inter·mittent·ly adv.

intermittent
Adjective
occurring at intervals
intermittently adv
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Adj.1.intermittent - stopping and starting at irregular intervals; "intermittent rain showers"
sporadic - recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

intermittent
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Spanish intermittent [ɪntəˈmɪtnt] adjintermitente
French intermittent [ɪntəˈmɪtnt] adjintermittent(e)
German intermittent [ɪntəˈmɪtnt] adj (noise) → periodisch auftretend;
(publication) → in unregelmäßigen Abständen veröffentlicht

Italian intermittent [ɪntəˈmɪtnt] adjintermittente

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Elisabetta Terabust, one of Petit's favorite ballerinas and now the artistic director of the Florentine Ballet, filled the gap at the Maggio Musicale Festival with Proust ou les intermittences du coeur (Proust, or the Vagaries of the Human Heart), set to a wonderful score with music by Saint-Saens, Wagner, Debussy, Faure, Franck, and Beethoven.
You will find more information here on bedouin dance than on Roland Petit's Les Intermittences du Coeur (1974) or William Forsythe's Orpheus (1979).
Among his many works for this company have been Proust--Les Intermittences du Coeur Nana, La Rose Malade, and Ma Pavlova.
 
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