Example sentences for: operatic

How can you use “operatic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • She has sung no more than a handful of operatic roles onstage, mostly Mozart and Rossini, and she has made a specialty of the songs that kept Rossini busy after his opera-composing career had ended.

  • The score, which borrows from Benjamin Britten and bebop, is called incoherent and "bland" (Paul Griffiths, the New York Times ). "One of the biggest missed opportunities the operatic world has seen in a while," says USA Today 's David Patrick Stearns.

  • It consists of a play on one of a dozen set romantic themes, accompanied by dance, operatic singing, and knockabout comic routines.

  • 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 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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