She had only to mention his name, even just his first name, and he appeared, a show of devotion that made Carol rhapsodize about him. |
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But it's not enough — it's not what those marriages deserve — to just rhapsodize about how wifely, or husband-like, someone was. |
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We like to rhapsodize about the influential teacher who changes lives and hearts, and makes students stand on their desks in academic ecstasy. |
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Some Net enthusiasts rhapsodize about the coming of McLuhan's Global Village, when in fact the fractures and fissures among religious groups are as strong as ever. |
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This was the attitude that Swift was satirizing when he had Gulliver, upon first hearing of the Struldbruggs, rhapsodize over the possibility of immortality. |
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Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies. |
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Hearing someone rhapsodize about your birthplace gives you a disoriented feeling — like talking to a man who long ago had a passion for your mother. |
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But the sentimental pieties familiar from Helprin's previous work — his strapping, athletic hero and heroine rhapsodize about the values of hard work and finding oneself — are here made more palatable by the absurd context. |
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