How to Use rhapsody in a Sentence

rhapsody

noun
  • The mayor launched into a long rhapsody about his plans for the city.
  • The hotel itself is a rhapsody in clean, modern design that subtly winks to the legion efforts behind it.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2026
  • In a show built on rhapsodies of food, the appreciation for his nightmarish toil is notably muted.
    — Kanishk Tharoor, The Atlantic, 10 June 2018
  • Cradle of modern civilization, lose yourself in a whirl of rhapsody and romance.
    — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Like the rhapsody, the concerto employs plenty of jazz elements.
    — Eric E. Harrison, arkansasonline.com, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Some of the 2026 kitchen tile trends include retro rhapsody, organic depth and texture, and eclectic artistry.
    — Terri Williams, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • There was rhapsody in these musical seductions — and the calculation that the way to theater lovers’ hearts was through their cast albums.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Their meeting was almost poetic, a confluence of basketball eras, a rhapsody in sneakers.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Following a bellowing sax solo during the sixth movement, the symphony’s brass and strings cascade in lilting rhapsody.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2021
  • To watch Chita Rivera in her prime was to experience the rhapsody of theatricality in motion.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The section on the tablet comes from the Odyssey’s 14th rhapsody, which depicts the hero Odysseus’ adventures after the fall of Troy.
    — Laignee Barron, Time, 11 July 2018
  • Reid’s score alternates between rhapsody and pandemonium, with the latter winning out in a riotous coda.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Houellebecq harbors Balzacian ambitions as well as Lovecraftian rhapsodies.
    — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Only Tennessee Williams, an early influence, summons a cultural past with such a plangent mix of rhapsody and disgust.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Amid the arcana, Liszt was still writing Hungarian rhapsodies, not to mention arrangements of polkas by Smetana and other salon-ready fare.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Navigator color packages are meant to create specific moods with options including rhapsody blue, ebony, cappuccino, dark slate, iced mocha and chroma molten gold.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The rhapsodies about Willow, paired with the silence surrounding the difficult dogs, contribute to a sense of make-believe and avoidance that pervade Biden’s memoir.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 9 June 2026
  • The other work by Ravel, Tzigane, is a fiery, virtuosic showcase for the violinist in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody.
    — Jane Levere, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Akerman turns the youths’ judgmental sociology into a romantic rhapsody with a shot that glides forward, from a wide view of Michèle and Paul submerged in a crowd to a tight double closeup of the two kissing.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Starting in September, the ensemble will perform three popular movie scores, concerti and several takes on rhapsodies — including Gershwin's famous one and a fusion of of his work with Queen.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Both writers quote Michel de Montaigne, who wrote extensively about mortality in the 16th century — Riggs, in fact, prefers his crankiness over her great-great-great-grandfather’s rhapsodies.
    — Gayle Brandeis, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
  • As written by Field and modulated, brilliantly, by Blanchett, Lydia becomes a rhapsody in contrasts, controlling, fastidious, witty, steely, imperious, hubristic.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Embedded in its arpeggiated pads, chimes, and windswept atmospherics is the same chillmaxed peak-time rhapsody favored by peers like Nick León and Facta, whose ever-consistent imprint with K-Lone, Wisdom Teeth, released this track.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 15 Apr. 2026

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