rhapsodical

You should have seen the look on the face of an actor from Mare of Easttown that I interviewed for a piece publishing next week as I waxed rhapsodic about how the show could be a metaphor for surviving pandemic life.

In his dying moments, Blade Runner’s murderous android played by Rutger Hauer lapses into a rhapsodic recollection that may or may not actually be his own, but by which he achieves humanity just by virtue of how much it moves him.

They are told that Miss America has evolved, but shown a contestant waxing rhapsodic about Barbie.

Texas expats wax rhapsodic about the Tex-Mex food of their youth.

Lapine, who directed it, could do no better than admire his own good work by showing the rhapsodic performance in Six by Sondheim.

Is there, then, no place for rhapsodic writing in musical criticism?

“It teaches us a great deal,” said Rhapsodic Pantril vaguely, but impressively, after the Fern dance had been given and applauded.

She conceived scenes in which she was haughtily rhapsodic in defending her good, sensible husband before them.

But his heart was heavy with new burdens and he could not take his usual rhapsodic joy in the things of Nature.

In other words, the lymphatic temperament is essentially despondent, and the rhapsodic is bilious.