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operatically

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From operatic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

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operatically (comparative more operatically, superlative most operatically)

  1. In an operatic manner.
    • 1988 May 1, Allan Kozinn, “Debuts; Flutist Chooses Program of Rarities”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Notable too, if only for historical interest, was a sonata by Donizetti in which, not surprisingly, an operatically shaped flute line is set over a dramatic piano accompaniment.
    • 2013 September 27, Steven Heighton, “Fire and Ice”, in The New York Times[2]:
      There Agnes operatically ponders (“I hear footsteps, awful coming footsteps”; “I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate”), poeticizing even her wounds, the bruises “blossoming like star clusters under the skin.”

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