rhapsodic

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So we waxed rhapsodic, summoning to our mind's eye a nineteenth-century alter ego who'd have covered the epic tilt with Unreal incisiveness and panache.

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  • I was all set to wax ... well, if not rhapsodic, at least gently dismissive about Aaron Miles. —  Viva El Birdos
  • So we waxed rhapsodic, summoning to our mind's eye a nineteenth-century alter ego who'd have covered the epic tilt with Unreal incisiveness and panache. —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
  • J Hoberman and a friend / colleague have expressed disappointment that the film, to use Hoberman's words, 'rarely achieves the rhapsodic (let alone the delirious).' —  GreenCine Daily
  • Still, I don't know if I can see Depp playing the rhapsodic Queen frontman. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • This forty-three second segment of "Rhapsody in Blue," while indeed rhapsodic, is kind of playful and coy, so our eye-gazing should be compounded with some sassy half-grinning, lip-biting, eyelash-batting, and hair-twirling. —  NOGOODFORME.COM
 

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  1. = French rapsodique, rhapsodique, from Greek ῤαψῳδικός, from ῤαψῳδία, rhapsody: see rhapsody.
 

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/ræpˈsɑdɪk/
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