The word "crotchet" is correct in written English.
It can be used to refer to a musical note or to describe a whimsical or eccentric idea.
Example: "She had a peculiar crotchet about the importance of wearing mismatched socks."
Alternatives: "Quirk" or "Idiosyncrasy."
He is right, but the line is badly out of tune; such discerning intensity has no place in these pictures, which are rarely more than a crotchet away from the comic.
Women are pursued, seduced, berated, swept away and then aside; listen with care, especially to Jonathan, and you will hear an undying aria of misogyny, replete with every quaver of lust and every known crotchet of fear.
For example, the letter states that when the child said that he didn't know the British system of naming musical notes, he was told by the production staff member the names of four specific notes that "he needed to know," including semibreve for whole note, crotchet for quarter note and quaver for eighth note.
As with any course, it may veer at times toward the technical, and the American user may need to bone up on British terminology for note values: crotchet for quarter-note, quaver for eighth-note and the like.
Ms. Tadin has put a great deal of thought into her back-to-school wish list, which includes Fiorentini + Baker chocolate brown motorcycle ankle boots, a Helmut Lang gray crotchet sweater with an asymmetrical hem, Rag & Bone wide-legged jeans, a Proenza Schouler raspberry suede bag, Charles Philip Shanghai leopard slipper shoes and Vince hand-knitted sweaters.
Then there's the archetypal crotchet triplet repeat echo.
The speed of the step varies with the music: half notes (minims) require slow steps; and quarter notes (crotchets), fast steps.
Laughing at the artist's crotchets is the only way I know to stay engaged with some of his more solemn scenes.
He became an ever more convinced Copernican, but he had his crotchets.
Picasso was excited by El Greco's vertiginous formal inventions, and he dismissed the earlier painter's religiosity as one would a revered brother's harmless crotchets.
That is Housman for you: the more simple, even heroic, the note he sounds — and the words of the poem above are as plain as crotchets on a stave — the more you catch a strain of discord or unease beating time below.
