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rhapsody
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rhapsody as in:  Rhapsody in Blue

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  • Concertos are these tapestries, and all the other bolts of cloth are serenades, waltzes, overtures, and rhapsodies.†  (source)
  • Next comes Ernest Bloch's Rhapsody for Cello, which begins as a slow, poetic lament.†  (source)
  • Only today, it wasn't blaring "Bohemian Rhapsody."†  (source)
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  • Learn all the words to 'Bohemian Rhapsody.'†  (source)
  • So far, it ran to minute descriptions of the lush furnishings of Sherry's house, rhapsodies over Sherry's exquisite clothes, and course-by-course accounts of fabulous meals consumed by the heroine.†  (source)
  • The wind rushing through my father's deviated septum had become a wild jungle rhapsody—monkey cries, parrot yawps, pachydermous trumpetings.†  (source)
  • The words of one of these rhapsodies I have easily remembered.†  (source)
  • The problem was no longer technical, even though this was the most technically difficult operation anyone could perform, the equivalent of a pianist playing Rachmaninoff 's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini," except that one dare not miss a note or fluff a phrase.†  (source)
  • The Russian military historians in so far as they submit to claims of logic must admit that conclusion, and in spite of their lyrical rhapsodies about valor, devotion, and so forth, must reluctantly admit that the French retreat from Moscow was a series of victories for Napoleon and defeats for Kutuzov.†  (source)
  • Your affectionate uncle SCREWTAPE V MY DEAR WORMWOOD, It is a little bit disappointing to expect a detailed report on your work and to receive instead such a vague rhapsody as your last letter.†  (source)
  • The arena of the king was built, not to give the people an opportunity of hearing the rhapsodies of dying gladiators, nor to enable them to view the inevitable conclusion of a conflict between religious opinions and hungry jaws, but for purposes far better adapted to widen and develop the mental energies of the people.†  (source)
  • The rhapsody welled up within me, like blood from an inward wound, and gushed out.†  (source)
  • The royal governor of Patusan had bizarre mannerisms, and one of them was to introduce boastful rhapsodies into every arduous discussion, when, getting gradually excited, he would end by flying off his perch with a kriss in his hand.†  (source)
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