How to Use rhapsody in a Sentence

rhapsody

noun

• The mayor launched into a long rhapsody about his plans for the city.
• Thump: Now that’s a New York rhapsody if there ever was one.
  — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• The book is something of a requiem and a rhapsody combined.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• The section on the tablet comes from the Odyssey’s 14th rhapsody, which depicts the hero Odysseus’ adventures after the fall of Troy.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 11 July 2018
• Which brings Jepsen to an impassioned rhapsody on a favorite hairstyle: the mullet.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 18 July 2019
• There was rhapsody in these musical seductions — and the calculation that the way to theater lovers’ hearts was through their cast albums.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
• In a show built on rhapsodies of food, the appreciation for his nightmarish toil is notably muted.
  — Kanishk Tharoor, The Atlantic, 10 June 2018
• Cradle of modern civilization, lose yourself in a whirl of rhapsody and romance.
  — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Apr. 2017
• Gorka seems to tailor his answer to the situation, which could indicate that his rhapsody on Trump's instinct is spin.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
• Amid the arcana, Liszt was still writing Hungarian rhapsodies, not to mention arrangements of polkas by Smetana and other salon-ready fare.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Following a bellowing sax solo during the sixth movement, the symphony’s brass and strings cascade in lilting rhapsody.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2021
• Only Tennessee Williams, an early influence, summons a cultural past with such a plangent mix of rhapsody and disgust.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Both writers quote Michel de Montaigne, who wrote extensively about mortality in the 16th century — Riggs, in fact, prefers his crankiness over her great-great-great-grandfather’s rhapsodies.
  — Gayle Brandeis, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
• Houellebecq harbors Balzacian ambitions as well as Lovecraftian rhapsodies.
  — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2020
• Navigator color packages are meant to create specific moods with options including rhapsody blue, ebony, cappuccino, dark slate, iced mocha and chroma molten gold.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2018
• As written by Field and modulated, brilliantly, by Blanchett, Lydia becomes a rhapsody in contrasts, controlling, fastidious, witty, steely, imperious, hubristic.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024