How to Use operatic in a Sentence

operatic

adjective
  • The show doesn’t want to shake its operatic stance.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026
  • But the soap operatic, palace-intrigue pieces about how he was fired?
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2018
  • And yet there seems no better place for operatic misery than the stage of an opera house.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Yours is more operatic, and my fella is more in the gangster genre.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 2 June 2025
  • The blood gets very thin after a while, and before long things turn operatic.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Giuliani has lived an operatic life, full of highs and lows, and its final act has been a tragedy.
    John Avlon, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
  • Deaton is an operatic tenor who has performed throughout the world.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Tchaikovsky even took heat from critics for the ballet’s operatic tone.
    Sean Erwin, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Patricia showed off her operatic range and the pop star belted out the high notes.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
  • Her soulful, almost operatic take on the song remains an epic hit for the ages.
    Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The plot also resorts to the operatic cliché of killing off the female lead.
    Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
  • So there’s aspects of this character that are so big and so operatic.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2023
  • There’s an operatic side to rock and roll, which is something that I was always drawn to.
    Josh Chesler, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • In past years, all sorts of singing styles have been entertained, from operatic to less formal.
    Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The old highway systems had one last cameo in this operatic drama.
    Hiroshi Okamoto, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2020
  • As is par for the genre, the emotional moments can be operatic.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Gus was unafraid to be operatic, to be ridiculous.
    Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The question of what the whole operatic package tells us, though, remains open.
    David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Josh Groban is best known for his operatic baritone, not his dancing.
    Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 15 June 2026
  • In her operatic career, Venus has won on the grandest stages.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • There’s an operatic storytelling that just fits the time.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The soundtrack had a throbbing, fuzzy synth bass line and operatic vocals.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The set pieces are massive, and the color and lighting are lush in a way that feels almost operatic.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Mardones was praised for his powerhouse voice, which some even compared to operatic in sound and range.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 June 2020
  • There was something operatic about that whole production, and Val was the one who set the tone.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The slow movement was almost operatic in its play of tension and release.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • This sneering put-down is even more bizarre than the swipe at Carter’s phantom operatic output.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • And the close-up shot of Sean’s face, with a single tear sliding down it, set to that operatic crescendo?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 June 2021
  • The vanity was positioned in front of a window for more of an operatic feel.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
  • An operatic finale brings the searcher to her knees beside one beloved man, then into the arms of another.
    Anna Mundow, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022

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