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The Wisconsin governor also waxed rhapsodic about his small town roots and his disdain of government.
The phrasing in "White Egrets" has a mellifluous, rhapsodic quality throughout, hymning the beauty of the earth even as it recognises the precious fragility both of what it sees, and of the recording eye itself.
Joss himself figures only in the minds of these people, except in one rhapsodic trumpet-playing section, where we see him in essence male and female stripped away melting into his music.On these shifting sands, the only solid ground Ms Kay offers is almost too simple for criticism: namely love.
The opera ends with rhapsodic praise of love in the face of all challenges.
The first complete version may well have been that established as a standard for rhapsodic competitions at the great quadrennial festival at Athens, the Panathenaea, at some time during the 6th century bce.
April 21 , 1933Indianapolis, Indiana Easley Blackwood, (born April 21 , 1933 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.) American composer whose music combined rhapsodic and romantic passion with chromatic materials and modified serial techniques.
He was also a noted ballad player who could create arpeggiated, rhapsodic lines with an intimate tenderness that contrasted with his gruff attack and aggressive energy at faster tempos.
Thompson is chiefly associated with rhapsodic accounts of religious experience written in a diction much influenced by 17th-century Catholic verse, though he could also produce elegant, direct, and moving short poems, such as "At Lord's," a remarkable lyric about cricket.
October 27, 1914 Swansea, Wales November 9, 1953 New York City, New York Dylan Thomas, in full Dylan Marlais Thomas (born October 27, 1914, Swansea, Glamorgan [now in Swansea], Wales died November 9, 1953, New York, New York, U.S ., Welsh poet and prose writer whose work is known for its comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt, and pathos.
What was intriguing and unsettling about this unusual book were its apparent contradictions: the sensuality of its language and the insubstantiality of its temporal and spatial settings, its rhapsodic structure and style, and the coherence and unity of the theme of death that inspired it.
Seeking a fresh path, the Chemical Brothers Surrenderr (1999) alternated between a gentler, house-influenced sound and further forays into rhapsodic psychedelia.
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The adjective "rhapsodic " primarily functions as a descriptive term, characterizing something as intensely emotional or ecstatic. It is often used to depict a state of heightened feeling or artistic expression, as evidenced by Ludwig's examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
