Handelian
Americanadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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It was funny, if not terribly Handelian, but pushing limits is what the ONE Festival is all about.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2018
The countertenor Iestyn Davies has made his career as a Handelian, but in “The Exterminating Angel” he plays an arrogant, idle aristocrat.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2017
The performance was formal, conveying little overt sense of rich Handelian theater.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2015
With that brilliant Handelian Laurence Cummings conducting the Glyndebourne on Tour revival from October, it will grow into glory: book now.
From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2011
Yet Handel wrote fashionable music, and so much other of the music of that epoch is Handelian that it is often difficult to be sure where George Frederick left off and somebody else began.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
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