How to Use operatic in a Sentence

operatic

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• His sharp turn against Trump was one of the most operatic episodes in the whole Trump drama.
  — Rosalind S. Helderman, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The plot also resorts to the operatic cliché of killing off the female lead.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
• And yet there seems no better place for operatic misery than the stage of an opera house.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
• There’s an operatic side to rock and roll, which is something that I was always drawn to.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2022
• And the close-up shot of Sean’s face, with a single tear sliding down it, set to that operatic crescendo?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 June 2021
• The hills are alive with the sound of bassy Eurotrash, Slavic rap, and gaudy operatic pop.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 11 May 2024
• There was something operatic about that whole production, and Val was the one who set the tone.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• The blood gets very thin after a while, and before long things turn operatic.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Nov. 2019
• All with a 3-month-old daughter, Mila, and all while the men’s World Cup came to an operatic crescendo.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• Patricia showed off her operatic range and the pop star belted out the high notes.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
• Renée Flemming looked the part of an opera diva in crimson, and Don Lemon flashed the satin lining of his operatic coat.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2021
• McCormic pegged away at French and Italian day and night and learned eight operatic leads.
  — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2022
• Her soulful, almost operatic take on the song remains an epic hit for the ages.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 20 Nov. 2019
• The score combines operatic singing and jazz with quotes from tunes by Bird and Thelonious Monk, Bakari said.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2024
• As is par for the genre, the emotional moments can be operatic.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2021
• But the 27-year-old frontman with an operatic voice straight from the Misty Mountains had nothing to worry about.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2023
• Deaton is an operatic tenor who has performed throughout the world.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 20 Mar. 2022
• Tchaikovsky even took heat from critics for the ballet’s operatic tone.
  — Sean Erwin, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• The soundtrack had a throbbing, fuzzy synth bass line and operatic vocals.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2022
• An operatic finale brings the searcher to her knees beside one beloved man, then into the arms of another.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• So there’s aspects of this character that are so big and so operatic.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2023
• Chef Tommy Banks serves up one of those operatic tasting menus where the words are as important as the music.
  — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2021
• The old highway systems had one last cameo in this operatic drama.
  — Hiroshi Okamoto, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2020
• My Dad’s younger sister Sharon Caplan had a top-notch operatic voice.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
• The slow movement was almost operatic in its play of tension and release.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• So it’s already got that ability to do something that’s maybe more operatic, in the sort of broadest sense of telling a story through the vocals.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2022
• Twitter was flooded with complaints when the bridge made its operatic debut on a gusty June 5.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2020
• The acting teeters between the operatic and the overstated.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
• The film’s use of operatic tones further intensifies the stakes, adding layers of both comedy and tragedy.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
• The tone becomes slapstick on a near operatic scale — no scene complete without a pratfall, no pratfall accented without the loudest sound effect possible.
  — Ben Croll, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024