as in theatric
having the general quality or effect of a stage performance
the fall of the scandal-ridden government seemed operatic in its scope and consequences
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But the artifice of operatic singing prospers on more elemental, mythic terrain, which Vavrek artfully supplies.
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
It’s now been two years since Williams retired from professional tennis, wrapping up an operatic run at the very pinnacle of the game.
—Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2024
Longer, richer in character work, and twice as dark in its storytelling, this origin story with Anya Taylor-Joy is operatic and grand and gleefully demented in its set pieces.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2024
Argento fetishizes and stylizes the minutiae of violent crime with his usual operatic bravado, obsessing over leather gloves, metallic zippers, and knives plunging into flesh.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
It’s now been two years since Williams retired from professional tennis, wrapping up an operatic run at the very pinnacle of the game.
—Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2024
Longer, richer in character work, and twice as dark in its storytelling, this origin story with Anya Taylor-Joy is operatic and grand and gleefully demented in its set pieces.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2024
Argento fetishizes and stylizes the minutiae of violent crime with his usual operatic bravado, obsessing over leather gloves, metallic zippers, and knives plunging into flesh.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Operatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/operatic. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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