diva
Example Sentences
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She reportedly dresses in expensive outfits, and arrives at restaurants with a high-resolution camera and lighting equipment, earning her the nickname, the "dine-and-dash diva".
From BBC
The film cast Crawford and her fellow diva Bette Davis as elderly sisters in a Grand Guignol horror hit.
Driver has wicked fun as the diva who throws her support behind the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck when the position as head of the Paris Opera opens.
From New York Times
It will explore how "diva", meaning goddess in Italian, has been "subverted and embraced over time", from the 19th Century to present day.
From BBC
She was a throwback to the kind of glamorous divas of previous generations, with incredible artistic personality and charisma.”
From New York Times
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