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Definition of Operatically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Operatically
Literary usage of Operatically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"... 1909 and a determined effort to link New York and Boston operatically, and in
1910 to the restriction of the Hammerstein interest by the Metropolitan. ..."
2. History of English Poetry from the 12th to the Close of the 16th Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price, Charles Dudley Warner, Geo. C. Rand & Avery (1871)
"During our entire garden interview (operatically speaking, the garden-scene),
the president was not smoking. I do not know how the impression arose that he ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"Is this incipient libertinism, or only sulphur ? Or is the former the effect,
the latter the cause F Happy Thought.—DON JUAN ended, operatically, in sulphur ..."
4. The Bookman (1911)
"... while the logic of the conversion is sound, without being psychologically
subtle, and the process itself is not too operatically abrupt. ..."
5. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"posturing himself operatically, with perpetual new verses, rhymes to Danvers,
rhymes to Madame Sybille, the cook. Seeing Tellio at one of Henry Wilmers' ..."
6. Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving by George Clinton Densmore Odell (1920)
"The fact that Signor Curioni sang Lysander, and Signora Passerini Hermia, shows
how operatically un-English the whole thing must have been. ..."
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