rhapsody

Example Sentences

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It’s a Shakespearean rhapsody in indigo where love, friendship, betrayal and revenge swirl and blur with life-changing consequences.

From Los Angeles Times

Mother love brings strange moments of what can only be called grace, moments Walbert captures with an unusual combination of restraint and rhapsody.

From New York Times

Part rhapsody, part elegy, the book memorializes neighborhood legends, and, even as it impishly indulges nostalgic romance, it never forgets, or forgives, the violence that threatens these young lives.

From The New Yorker

The writer dresses up the events in her life with shifts in point of view, lyrical fragments, nonlinear storytelling, parodies, rhapsodies and a brocade of description.

From New York Times

Another early disk is “Orpheus in the Underworld,” a brooding and lovely set of original rhapsodies that Shirley based on his own phantasmagoric painting, which appears on the album cover.

From The New Yorker