How to Use rhapsodic in a Sentence

rhapsodic

adjective
  • The most rhapsodic prose is reserved for the trees themselves.
    Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • The rhapsodic lyricism and dry gallows humor, the speed and nimbleness of the tonal shifts, drew me in to these books.
    Francine Prose, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • All this made Sedaris rhapsodic about words and weird meanings.
    Caroline Leavitt, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
  • And all eight scores bloom in the last act with a surge of lyrical, rhapsodic revelation.
    Tim Greiving, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But to wax rhapsodic about the good old days when golfers decamped to Florida for the month of March to gear up for the Masters is to turn a blind eye to the game’s evolution.
    Karen Crouse, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2017
  • The process gives the effect of a living canvas, though audiences have been less rhapsodic about the result this time around.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Because there’s a kind of rhapsodic freedom when they are stranded.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 17 Jan. 2022
  • By Your Name, the Italian auteur’s rhapsodic love story set in the fields and lakes of northern Italy, that sent the 26-year-old actor stratospheric.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 26 July 2022
  • Among those who love to chase trout with flies made of feathers, just the mention of a certain seven-mile stretch of Utah’s Green River can turn a hardened man rhapsodic.
    Bill Weir, CNN, 18 June 2022
  • Joel Link’s stylishly rhapsodic playing of the concerto-like first violin part was the icing on the cake.
    Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • That also goes for one-night stands and moody outbursts and rhapsodic pledges of eternal affection.
    New York Times, 26 June 2022
  • Bryce Dallas Howard, who played John’s mother in the film, also joined the party and all the actors waxed rhapsodic about being part of the film and thanked the audience for coming.
    EW.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • These two lives glance off each other as lives do, and Mr. Faulks, who can be rhapsodic, is restrained in his depiction of the unlikely alliance.
    Anna Mundow, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
  • There are rhapsodic tweets, and pins on Pinterest, and the pink stuff even made a cameo on a Buzzfeed list of ’90s childhood memorabilia.
    Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 18 July 2017
  • The first movement has lyrical legato playing, kind of rhapsodic.
    Paul Freeman, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2017
  • The misery is spread around evenly, which feels like a more accurate evocation of ’70s Manhattan than a rhapsodic love letter to the city’s one-time rough edges.
    Rachel Syme, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • But the most sheerly entertaining villain proves to be Kane, who at one point delivers a rhapsodic, metaphor-laden monologue about the glories of lemon meringue pie.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
  • In the rhapsodic coda, Potter's phrases soared over a swirl of instrumental sound.
    Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
  • His Fifth is a cogent affair, not as expansive as some, but with its own rhapsodic poetry.
    Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The season ended with a rhapsodic portrayal of her relapse.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The rhapsodic rapport Tillmans has with his subjects gives his work a tenderness that seems almost sacred.
    Vulture, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Gucci Fall 2023 Where even to begin with the rhapsodic Bottega Veneta?
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The indie sensation has earned more than $90 million at the box office so far and was met with a critical response that can only be described as rhapsodic.
    Amy Nicholson, Town & Country, 17 Aug. 2022
  • All the elements gathered into a rhapsodic yet melancholy dance melody.
    Jeff Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Debbie’s departure comes as a slant blessing to the reader, too, who has had to countenance the book’s many rhapsodic statements about the sisters’ dynamic.
    Zoe Hu, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • These are eaters who wax rhapsodic when reminiscing about the unctuous pleasure and salty pop of caviar washed down by an icy, astringent vodka.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Spare and rhapsodic, Eartheater is set on the margins of an unnamed Latin American city and follows a teenage clairvoyant who communes with the dead by eating dirt.
    Wired Staff, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The escalating, rhapsodic song unleashed midway through the set transformed the venue into a raucous rock cathedral.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Chantel Aguirre and Mason Cutler’s rhapsodic duet over a silver flask and velvet couch depicts a couple not only tangled in love but also caught in the grip of alcohol.
    Christina Campodonico, latimes.com, 30 June 2017
  • The family is called Chloranthaceae, and paleobotanists like to wax rhapsodic about it.
    Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2023

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