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
• But the soap operatic, palace-intrigue pieces about how he was fired?
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2018
• 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 question of what the whole operatic package tells us, though, remains open.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• 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
• The husband-and-wife duo struggled to wow the judges with their operatic knife-throwing act Tuesday night.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 21 Aug. 2019
• In her operatic career, Venus has won on the grandest stages.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 July 2017
• 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
• The In Series presents a new English version of Mozart’s operatic fairy tale.
  — Carrie Donovan, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
• In past years, all sorts of singing styles have been entertained, from operatic to less formal.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• Deaton is an operatic tenor who has performed throughout the world.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 20 Mar. 2022
• But then there’s ‘Candide,’ which is light and operatic.
  — Jen Banowetz, Elgin Courier-News, 26 Apr. 2018
• Tchaikovsky even took heat from critics for the ballet’s operatic tone.
  — Sean Erwin, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• This sneering put-down is even more bizarre than the swipe at Carter’s phantom operatic output.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Joan has a little bit of that operatic quality, not just the tone or vibrato but also the delivery, the strength of the delivery, the breath support.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
• Audiard has referred to his script as a libretto, but Emilia Pérez stretches past operatic goofiness.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 3 Mar 2025