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Example sentences for: operatic
How can you use “operatic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
If a tune's muscular enough, you can do it as an operatic waltz, a big pop ballad, an electric guitar solo.
This was a confusing half measure, however; the initial ch remained as in the French spelling, representing a Russian letter borrowed from the Hebrew alphabet for the sound represented in English by sh . As a result, many Americans innocently mispronounce the name of the great operatic bass and his descendants.
The appalled Apollo makes an operatic gesture of horror over his muscular lover, while a satyr and a parrot (symbols of forbidden lust) stare sardonically down at the proceedings.
Critics do express some reservations, mainly about the movie's length and overwrought emotion--as Roger Ebert writes, the film is "operatic in its ambition," and viewers should "[l]eave logic at the door.
Critics ignore the absurd premise--a cop (John Travolta) and a villain (Nicolas Cage) each undergoing plastic surgery to look like the other one--and take unabashed delight in the movie's "grandly operatic pulp" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Reviews credit Woo with giving violence "balletic grace" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ) as well as "moral gravity" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Cage and Travolta are deemed "two of the most daring, physically intuitive, soulful performers on screen" (Ansen).
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