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rhapsody

[rap-suh-dee] / ˈræp sə di /








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Another inspires a short rhapsody detailing the six-figure worth of a Richard Mille Felipe Massa automatic chronograph with a rose gold skeleton and a flyback function.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025

This music isn’t a treatise; it is a rhapsody in the best sense, in that each musical vignette is full of heart and intimate understanding of the joys and pains of Black humanity.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

As a TV star, Yair Lapid's weekly commentary was entitled "Being Israeli" - a rhapsody about the middle-class, politically centrist ranks that he saw holding together a fractious country, with him as their tribune.

From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2022

He brought fiery passion to a Brahms rhapsody.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

The House had then decided never again to allow itself to become inflamed by the mere rant and rhapsody of a meddling fanatic” and had argued “that the subject would never be stirred again.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

We will sing our rhapsodies to “heaven and nature” and the Lord’s coming.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022

Long before Holmes came along, business reporters had written rhapsodies to the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2021

But rather than offer misty-eyed rhapsodies to the good old days, Farrell seems most enlivened with ideas about how to fight for a better future.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2020

But does uncoupling such hurrahs, homages, raves and rhapsodies from the works they accessorize and cobbling them together yield a volume that satisfies on its own?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2019

So far, it ran to minute descriptions of the lush furnishings of Sherry’s house, rhapsodies over Sherry’s exquisite clothes, and course-by-course accounts of fabulous meals consumed by the heroine.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith


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