rhapsody

• Mary Corliss for Time: "It is truly something to see; for among all the lives to be ruined it is a visual rhapsody, attentive to every nuance in the spectacular land and foliage around the family home, following the lives within as meticulously as it traces the dramatic changes in weather - from clear day to torrential showers - in one of the longest, most intricate and beautiful tracking shots in cinema." —  GreenCine Daily
• A chorus is then superimposed on this rhapsody, and a climax of superb richness attained For the organ Coerne has written much and well. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• Now, the Greek word rhapsody is derived from a tense of the verb rhapto_, to sew as with a needle, to connect, and ode_, a song, chant, or course of singing. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• "Yes," said he, when her rhapsody was over, "perhaps I am modest And that is why you hid yourself just now Yes," he gladly said. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
• I have read how they came, with their heads full of quotations and their notebooks full of impressions and hints for effective rhapsody--how they feasted on the silver trout of the Sorgue, and gathered Laura's roses to adorn their buttonholes, and stripped the consecrated laurel of its leaves to make garlands for their own dull heads, and poured forth international compliments, and glorified one another, and hugged themselves for delight at their fine comprehension of the poet, and fell on their knees before him, and immolated their individual hearts and souls at the shrine of his genius; and, lo! —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.

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