opera-bouffe

All policy disasters committed by any political party reach this opera-bouffe stage at some point.

McCain In New Hampshire Paper: Without More Troops, We Won't Win 2009

Kerrigan's Confederate flag, on the other hand, remains defiantly in view, and it is worth considering her motives in touching off this opera-bouffe dispute.

Race On Campus: Failing The Test? 2008

But Obama's bus tour has been a success in that it has been a sidewinder kind of a way for him to ease himself into a state where Clinton's support is so strong and loud that it can approach opera-bouffe.

Mayhill Fowler: Pennsylvania Campaign Journal: Obama Hams It Up, Flirts, And Gets A Bit Cocky 2008

Thus, in the course of fourteen years 'literary work, his thoughts make excursions from town-life to country-life, from social satire to story-telling, from art to ethnology, from theology to opera-bouffe!

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

Twice in the week concerts are executed by the first performers of the opera-bouffe; and twice in the week invitations to tea-parties are sent to some of the neighbours, or accepted from them.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

"Even princesses dream," she demurely acknowledged, and thought the line and her fleet, meaning glance went very well with this mad opera-bouffe which fate was forcing her to play.

The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

We have been learning to like Italian opera at an insane cost; we have kindly winked at the follies of opera-bouffe; probably nowhere in the world are the intellectual depths of a German symphony and the passionate declamation of an Italian recitative more thoroughly appreciated.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Twice in the week concerts are executed by the first performers of the opera-bouffe; and twice in the week invitations to tea-parties are sent to some of the neighbours, or accepted from them.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

I might look like an opera-bouffe hero, -- no doubt I did, -- but my hour would come.

The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

Beneath it are worn skirts and skirts, and skirts, so that the opera-bouffe effect is complete.

Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926