rhapsodical

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His music reflected none of the warm rhapsodical reveries of Chopin and Liszt but, rather, foreshadowed Mahler and Bruckner.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Japanese writer of the fifteenth century, in a rhapsodical account of the Kyoto of his day, dwells on the wonderful majesty of the "sky-piercing roofs" and "cloud-topping balconies" of the Imperial palace.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

In a long and rhapsodical letter to Herder he depicts the intellectual and spiritual experiences through which he was now passing.

From The Youth of Goethe by Brown, Peter Hume

The visionist had deeper thoughts and more concealed feelings than these rhapsodical phantoms.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

An inane expression of vacuous content when music is being rendered, a quantity of rhapsodical rubbish about Chopin and Beethoven without any knowledge of either, and behold! a lover of music.

From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William