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  • noun Plural form of rhapsody.

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Examples

  • The Western world is in rhapsodies over it, unwittingly measuring the

    The Yellow Peril 2010

  • The inexhaustible luxuriance of the picturesque style of his rhapsodies is intellectually demanding and may weary the reader of whom the poet demands such efforts of concentration.

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1960 - Presentation Speech 1960

  • The Western world is in rhapsodies over it, unwittingly measuring the Japanese patriotism by its own conceptions of patriotism.

    The Yellow Peril 1910

  • There is a curious sense of perpendicularity about these mountain rhapsodies.

    Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

  • Many of these sonatas might almost be called rhapsodies; certainly a great many movements are rhapsodical.

    Purcell Runciman, John F 1909

  • Many of these sonatas might almost be called rhapsodies; certainly a great many movements are rhapsodical.

    Purcell John F. Runciman 1891

  • Many of his work are entitled rhapsodies and even more of them are rhapsodic in fact if not in name.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The profits from that wondrous innovation and growth that send Shlaes into rhapsodies went to fatcats who turned the country into a casino and smashed the economy.

    Lynn Parramore: Amity Shlaes's Forgotten History: When Unions Go Bust, We All Do Lynn Parramore 2011

  • To the comment that the Orientalist composer's intoxicating minor mode—based on what is called the ahava-rabba mode in Hebrew cantillation and klezmer music—is virtually the same as the mode Liszt called the "Hungarian Minor" in his rhapsodies, Mr. Botstein says that "many scholars have pointed out that the same musical gestures end up as ethnic signals for any number of cultures."

    Go East, Monsieur Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

  • That's why, in part, her pieces often turn into jazz rhapsodies, simultaneously lush and hip jazz fantasies.

    David Finkle: First Nighter: The Great Barbara Carroll Even Greater at the Algonquin's Oak Room David Finkle 2011

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