| And so The Wild Boy is a sad novel, tugging the heartstrings with some of the rhapsodic lachrymosity that felled Little Nell. |
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| The fresh wave of rhapsodic dither on the director's sociopolitical acuity was inevitable. |
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| The film's reception at the time was overshadowed by its extravagant cost, but Les Amants du Pont-Neuf is rhapsodic cinema at any price. |
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| His descriptive passages are often a rhapsodic rush to the edge of sentimentality, only undercut in the final moment by a shift in tone. |
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| They wax rhapsodic about the pleasure of no longer having to commute or punch the time clock. |
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| The score deftly combines Thai folk music and French impressionism in a rhapsodic manner. |
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| Oddly for a man who pursues sensual things, Saatchi does not share Lawson's rhapsodic appreciation of food. |
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| The poem satirizes merrily enough, being windy and rhapsodic, prostrate and profligate, swoony and bitter, and attacks various people. |
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| The rhapsodic pleasures of her earlier work are alloyed here by a distinctive moral register, a pang of loss and imminent threat. |
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| However, it is heard only twice, and after a rhapsodic cadenza, it disappears for ever, leaving just an echo, diverted by new musical ideas. |
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| The Wisconsin governor also waxed rhapsodic about his small town roots and his disdain of government. |
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| The opera ends with rhapsodic praise of love in the face of all challenges. |
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| The work has a very dreamlike quality and the free rhapsodic form parallels Agee's own choice in developing his work. |
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| The melancholic and rhapsodic music varies according to the content of the songs, related to the shepherds' life and work. |
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| In conventional three-movement external form, its internal structures are never straitjacketed and showcase a rhapsodic inspiration. |
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| The slow movement reveals Rachmaninoff at his most melancholic, rhapsodic and nostalgic. |
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| In the beautiful second etude, recitatives and rhapsodic motives weave in and out between the two hands, giving the piece a colour of its own. |
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| They are told that Miss America has evolved, but shown a contestant waxing rhapsodic about Barbie. |
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| Lapine, who directed it, could do no better than admire his own good work by showing the rhapsodic performance in Six by Sondheim. |
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| Though the initial instrumentation could provide me with luxuriant material, work on the elaboration of a unified dramaturgy was hampered by the rhapsodic character inferred by the very genre of a double concerto. |
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| True believers in trust become almost rhapsodic about its benefits. |
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| In it he contrasts stormy and unsettled sections with passages of more rhapsodic nature to portray the grandiosity of his native British Columbia. |
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| The first complete version may well have been that established as a standard for rhapsodic competitions at the great quadrennial festival at Athens, the Panathenaea, at some time during the 6th century bce. |
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| The rhapsodic mood of the first movement is promptly set in the melodic sweep of the first theme, played by the solo violin against a somber background. |
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| He was also a noted ballad player who could create arpeggiated, rhapsodic lines with an intimate tenderness that contrasted with his gruff attack and aggressive energy at faster tempos. |
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| Texas expats wax rhapsodic about the Tex-Mex food of their youth. |
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| After sleeping in the dirt, she awakes to find that she has grown a tail and the deadpan tone of her story turns a mite rhapsodic. Her political clients, including a far-right president, have plans for her piggishness. |
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| She did not belong either to that gentler but more rhapsodic band who seek to extract strange worshipful music from the male, the xylorimbists or tympanists or flute players. |
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