How to Use Wagnerian in a Sentence
Wagnerian
adjective-
The doctor himself is characterized sometimes by boisterously chattering lines, sometimes by semi-Wagnerian bombast; at the end, his music turns elegiac, implicitly undercutting his dreams of beginning anew.
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Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2025
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