as in ecstasy
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
listening to Mozart always left him in a rhapsody that lingered for the remainder of the evening
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Recent Examples of rhapsody
Their meeting was almost poetic, a confluence of basketball eras, a rhapsody in sneakers.
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Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
Composed of rhapsody and opinionation, without shape or chronology, Roger Lewis’s biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton tries to get at the strangeness of stardom.
—Frances Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 29 Feb. 2024
To watch Chita Rivera in her prime was to experience the rhapsody of theatricality in motion.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
Amid the arcana, Liszt was still writing Hungarian rhapsodies, not to mention arrangements of polkas by Smetana and other salon-ready fare.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
Composed of rhapsody and opinionation, without shape or chronology, Roger Lewis’s biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton tries to get at the strangeness of stardom.
—Frances Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 29 Feb. 2024
To watch Chita Rivera in her prime was to experience the rhapsody of theatricality in motion.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
Amid the arcana, Liszt was still writing Hungarian rhapsodies, not to mention arrangements of polkas by Smetana and other salon-ready fare.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhapsody
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Her face is placid and grateful, set in ecstasy or prayer.Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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Compared to the agony and the ecstasy on display in McQueen’s extraordinary Small Axe compilation, which celebrated the United Kingdom’s diaspora culture while forcing the country to reckon with its institutionally racist past, this might seem like weak tea.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
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Fernando Valenzuela’s famous windup involved rotating his slender legs and broad, burly chest, eyes gazing to the heavens.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Played by Peter Gallagher in the gregarious, wise, eyebrow-forward mode of Sandy Cohen in The O.C., Peter comes across as a gift from the heavens.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
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These people, and many other Americans, weren’t interested in the politics of joy that Kamala Harris and the other law school grads were offering.David Brooks, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Given Heretic’s clear joy in kicking around ideas, this is frustrating.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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“Rhapsody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhapsody. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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