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How to use Wagnerian in a sentence

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Integral to Wagnerian ideology is a belief that all sense of individual identity vanishes during sexual activity.
Our first glimpse of the underwater world, implied through a perspective of giant rings, has a Wagnerian grandeur.
There was, of course, a vast amount of music in the U.S. in this period besides symphonic music, Lutheran hymnody, and Wagnerian opera.
He was literally larger than life and had an impossibly dramatic Wagnerian voice.
He must also contend with a house phone on which the chef buzzes him with a Wagnerian ring, as insistent as the Doomsday trumps.
That's how opera fans go about their business, collecting wayside works for the inevitable Wagnerian longueurs.
In 1919 his debut as Siegmund at Covent Garden established him as a leading Wagnerian tenor.
Unfortunately he had a chamber orchestra rather than a large Wagnerian orchestra at his disposal.
To the untrained ear, the Wagnerian clarinet sounds almost identical to its more modern cousin.
In recent years, she has developed a growing reputation as a Wagnerian superstar.
On occasion Wolf approaches a Wagnerian grandiosity of utterance, stretching the Lied to its breaking point.
Shore manages the admirable feat of summoning up a Wagnerian atmosphere without copying the original.
Everything from the thunderous Wagnerian music to the performers' skin-tight unitards and birdlike headdresses reinforces the show's sleek, aerial character.
The idea of Falstaff as a Wagnerian work caused controversy for the octogenarian Verdi.
Traditional Wagnerian performances tend to be rather silly spectacles, with lots of swords, cloaks and horned helmets.
Lamont sang with the Chicago Civic Opera until 1930, specializing in performances of Wagnerian, French and Italian opera.
It is Mallarmé who in the Wagner affair will have the most decisive influence and to the end will remain a fervent admirer of Wagnerian music.
This disc includes previews of two eagerly awaited debuts in other Wagnerian roles.
The tidal waves of sound rushing from the Wagnerian orchestra at peak intensity could nearly wash you out of the room.
The combination of socially acceptable elegance and Wagnerian lyricism that Franck presented did not please the orchestra of the time.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Nietzsche, just before 1876, experienced the pangs of a Wagnerian reactionary.
It is only when Verdi is compared with his earlier self that he appears Wagnerian.
In their smallish roles, Wendy Bryn Harmer and Adam Diegel brought both Wagnerian pleasure and Wagnerian promise.
Given that she has the demeanour of a Valkyrie, it would take a person of Wagnerian proportions to wrestle her on to a bed.
Much of the linking narrative is presented as recitative, while the cumulative desperation of the heroine is virtually Wagnerian.
In Burnt Money, an Argentine film with Wagnerian flourishes, two men meet in a public john and become lovers and partners in crime.
Fourth invitee Gottfried Bohm's proposal, also stadtkrone-like, was more akin to a Wagnerian gasworks.
Almost all later music, and much of the earlier, sounds Wagnerian.
His orchestral prelude, however, reverts to an earlier Wagnerian type.
That is to say, the music is continuous, as in Wagnerian musical drama.
The symbolism of the Wagnerian drama is both poetic and musical.
What a difference enjoying Terfel soar to his true Wagnerian heights in TimAlbery's take on the psychological nightmare compared to Welsh National Opera's recent offering.
It began arrestingly, in almost Wagnerian fashion, with plenty of bloom in the strings and warmth from the brasses, and the ensemble was as tight as could be.
Alastair Miles, always plausible, was a sympathetic Daland, despite this character being the first of many Wagnerian basses who blithely bestow their daughters upon strangers.
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