How to Use space opera in a Sentence

space opera

noun

• And the show still stands as one of the finest space operas on TV (sorry, Star Trek).
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 17 June 2016
• At the forefront of that charge in the 1970s was George Lucas, in the midst of producing a risky sci-fi space opera called Star.
  — Jordan Kushins, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2016
• How, then, to take the space opera genre and the comic book format to make new ideas become real?
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Fans can really grasp the space opera through the eyes of the beloved protagonist.
  — Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
• The film is a space opera that follows a young woman living in a peaceful colony on the outskirts of the galaxy.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 28 Aug. 2023
• In 1980, Hodges directed the glitzy space opera Flash Gordon.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2022
• The trailer plays up the space opera/spaghetti Western crossover vibe.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2019
• Third, an African American sci-fi pulp writer composes a space opera about the end of the world set in 2333.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Take a genre such as the police procedural, the space opera, or the vampire romance.
  — Adam Wilson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• Dune is a visual feast and a space opera tour de force that should please fans of the novel despite some small changes and its missing final act.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• In that regard, this is a very different situation to that of a space opera.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• The eighth and latest chapter in the long-running space opera dives into those mysteries from The Force Awakens, too.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
• Now, Snyder is adding to his canon of large-scale sci-fi with Rebel Moon, a galaxy-spanning space opera about a band of misfit outlaws.
  — Hemal Jhaveri, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
• Still, the novel stands well as a sort of thematic coda to the Radch trilogy, and should please those who like tea with their space opera.
  — N.k. Jemisin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• The novel has a space opera vibe, as a foul-mouthed captain helms a spaceship that bumps from adventure to adventure.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2022
• This is a big, weird space opera that came out of the 1960s: the San Francisco counterculture movement, the Space Race, the heydey of psychedelic drugs.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2021
• It’s got the characters of a noir film, Jackie Chan action sequences, music out of a New York jazz club, and the superstructure of a space opera.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• Star Wars created a culture and a phenomenon that helped pave the way for space opera science fiction in years to come.
  — Daniela Sternitzky-Di Napoli, Houston Chronicle, 4 May 2018
• From westerns to space operas, weapons are part of popular culture.
  — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• Dreadstar Returns is a glorious, goofy space opera – a B-movie experience in the best sense.
  — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• Now, head to the theater and immerse yourself in Dennis Villeneuve’s space opera masterpiece.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• And where the blend of space opera and Reconstruction South tropes was mostly seamless on Firefly, the world-building is spottier here.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2021
• Now the universe George Lucas created could spin out in new and interesting ways that wouldn’t have to hew to the space opera conventions of the main Star Wars series.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 24 May 2018
• Instead, the events with The Resistance take on more of a ticking-clock space opera more similar to the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 12 Dec. 2017
• The first of the trilogy burst upon the pop culture scene like fireworks—a rollicking space opera cowboy film with an epic battle between good and evil.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
• What really counts, though, is the space opera’s profitability.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• This multiverse serves to expand the scope and the stakes of a space opera; Moorcock later used the concept as a metaphysical device and a way to unify his novels.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• The critics were harsh — and legions of fans reared on the original space opera were especially despondent.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 20 May 2022
• So declares one of the three protagonists of Ann Leckie's latest brain-bending, genre-crossing space opera.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
• And Williams’ music, with its sumptuous and stirring signatures, gave the space opera a transcendent power.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024