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Definition of "operatically" []

  • In an operatic manner. (adverb)

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Use "operatically" in a sentence
  • "As the service begins, Cantor Erin Frankel stands behind a wooden podium adorned with an elaborate bouquet of white lilies, and intones the opening strains of the Kol Nidre, a hauntingly beautiful prayer sung in operatically styled Aramaic, accompanied by a professional cellist and choir."
  • "The yuck factor is, as usual, intense, especially when the games reach their fiery climax, but this miniseries diversion ultimately and not surprisingly lacks the impact of the operatically staged carnage that ended the freshman season of Spartacus in an audacious bloodbath."
  • "Thanks to Eliot, one line at least of High German may have crept into the consciousness of many an operatically resistant A-level English student: "Oed 'und leer das Meer" – desolate and empty the sea – sung by the shepherd looking out for Isolde's ship in Act 3, as Tristan lies dying."