Adjective : Wagnerian grandeur; a Wagnerian soprano.    From Dictionary.com. 

Of the French late Romantics, Albéric Magnard, a kind of Wagnerian classicist, is perhaps the most resistant to revival.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

There is no anti-Wagnerian literature worthy of the name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

Wagnerian, sometimes, is our BEMBERG, with his horns and brass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892] Reference

The second e-mail amps up the Islamophobia to Wagnerian heights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Islamophobia and Racism] Reference

But recently, I've become a serious Wagnerian … ROBERTS: Really?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rufus Wainwright's Operatic Period: 'Stars'] Reference

The action was highlighted by Danny Elfman's rousing pop-Wagnerian score.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Far From Escapism] Reference

Wagnerian music, though confessedly grand in its way, was a bit too heavy for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

But the "Wagnerian idea" was one that Cosima refined to her own specification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeper Of the Shrine] Reference

You don't have to be a Wagnerian to know that Donizetti's not worth listening to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hotel New Hampshire]

He is in fact independent - a Wagnerian hero, a Siegfried, for all you opera fans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Schwarzenegger To Endorse McCain] Reference

That's the basso profundo section in a Wagnerian mephisto waltz of bad intentions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barry Michael Cooper: The Final Days Of An American Gangsta] Reference

Wagnerian harmony in its gaiety which makes the wedding service always impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guermantes Way] Reference

Grand Wagnerian arias are followed by scenes that are half (or completely) dialogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringing Down From the Hudson Valley] Reference

She's often described as the greatest Wagnerian soprano in the years after World War II.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swedish Opera Star Birgit Nilsson Dies at 87] Reference

This is an exciting calling card from a singer with every chance of a big Wagnerian future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon O'Neill: Father and Son, Wagner Scenes and Arias] Reference

Paris Match, April 27, 1968. chapter 10: Wagnerian Overtones of a Hip and Bearded Revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]

This was his Wagnerian opera, this was the "wall of sound" as it had never been heard before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: The Best Holiday CD Ever Made (See If You Don't Agree)] Reference

It is to this Simple Rhyme what stage scenery is to the Shakespearian play or the Wagnerian opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference

The last push was Herculean, Wagnerian, like an entire Ring Cycle and Symphony of a Thousand in one.    From Wordnik.com.  [aries, gemini rising] Reference

"Williams used a kind of Wagnerian leitmotif thing where various characters had themes that recurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freep.com - RSS] Reference

I went back and re-watched the scene, and I can understand why; it's nearly Wagnerian in its sadness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can a Game Make You Cry?] Reference

On the 1913 side of this Wagnerian stage setting take a look at a real estate office in Victoria, B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

I used to think, when we were engaged, that she was like Brunhilde, or some of the other Wagnerian heroines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Soul] Reference

I could contain myself no longer-I began a poem, a heroic poem on the Wagnerian version of the Niblung story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised by Joy]

Brown, who switched to banjo for the set, sounded subdued and cautious next to Griffey's Wagnerian outpourings.    From Wordnik.com.  [In performance: Anthony Dean Griffey] Reference

Such scenes have the ring of the absurd truth: these people were characters in their own pseudo-Wagnerian opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies Abounding] Reference

Of the influence of the Elizabethan drama upon the Wagnerian drama it is difficult to speak to any good purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

Condensing a graduation speech into 15 minutes is like trying to squeeze a Wagnerian opera into a telephone booth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The funniest commencement speeches] Reference

It was at this time that the differences in character began to cause domestic infelicity in the Wagnerian household.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

Had his lords and masters wished to use it as a dramatic libretto to this Wagnerian sham they would have been disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graf Spee]

He wrote of his arrival in early 1965, "Marxist Historical Revolutionary/futility with Wagnerian overtones/lifted my heart.".    From Wordnik.com.  [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]

That almost Wagnerian chord was a signal in 1927 that this was going to be more than another cute Broadway caper with tootsies.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Show Boat'--It's Still Rollin' Along] Reference

“Mr.St. Trewes,” Mrs. Mering said in Wagnerian tones, “you cannot possibly be thinking of taking thatcreature with you.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

The deeper point was to free Bayreuth from the Nazi tint left by Hitler, who adored Wagnerian opera and often visited the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Wagner, All The Time] Reference

The piece that would transform computer music from obscure, nerdy noodling to crowd-awing Wagnerian epic has thus far eluded him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subatomic Pop: Composing an Electronic Symphony, 0.001 Second at a Time] Reference

Ms. GRAGLIA: The awakened Brunhilda -- and, again, that is based on a-- the Wagnerian series of operas, "The Ring of the Nibelung.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism] Reference

Then on the 1920 side of the Wagnerian stage picture observe this same giant, less baby pink, thinner in the face, clad in evening dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

Enterprising chaps like Andrew Carnegie emigrated from gaunt British poverty to amass Wagnerian fortunes on the other side of the Atlantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [America the Miserable] Reference