rhapsodic
adjective
extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
rhapsodical
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a variation of
rhapsodic.
Example Sentences
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His music reflected none of the warm rhapsodical reveries of Chopin and Liszt but, rather, foreshadowed Mahler and Bruckner.
From Time Magazine Archive
An inane expression of vacuous content when music is being rendered, a quantity of rhapsodical rubbish about Chopin and Beethoven without any knowledge of either, and behold! a lover of music.
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
This part is written in a euphuistic, rhapsodical vein, and affords an indication of the saturation of Urquhart's mind with the style of Rabelais.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock
Its rhapsodical style, as well as the conceptions of art and nature which it embodies, directly recall Young's Conjectures on Original Composition.
From The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown
I might say that while Brahms is characterised by a musing reflective element, in Liszt a rhapsodical element has the upper hand, and can be felt as a disturbing element in his weaker works.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
