The lover can moon and rhapsodise at a safe distance, and it makes not. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
It's exactly the type of thing the villagers rhapsodise about as "moderation" and "bipartisanship.". From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
On the subject of his Petinka, as he called him, the poor old man could never sufficiently rhapsodise and dilate. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Folk] Reference
June — hear her rhapsodise — be introduced to the painter — have to control her face in front of that girl?. From Wordnik.com. [Swan Song] Reference
He is greater than she had supposed, and so she must even rhapsodise -- she must crowd praise on praise, until she ends with the exultant cry. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
By the time he gets to his time as a TV titan forty years on, he seems more content to rhapsodise about his boat or offer banal observations on family and aging. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Mishmash: June 14-20 : Scrubbles.net] Reference
But the true tragedy of this shameful debacle is that while half-wits rhapsodise about the 30th anniversary shindig, many of the people who imbued the b (r) and with this mercurial quality that everyone wants to rub up against are working on the very peripheries of the music industry, if they work within it at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference
Then a clear soup, a fish aspec, a-- Why rhapsodise?. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool and His Money] Reference
He could even rhapsodise about a lump of black chalk. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
How can one rhapsodise over a view when surrounded by beer-stained tables?. From Wordnik.com. [Three Men on the Bummel] Reference
I am not saying nobody buys pears any more, but it's not a fruit we rhapsodise about. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
He would call, often late at night, and rhapsodise a performance by Emlyn Hughes or Peter. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
It would be easy to rhapsodise too sentimentally about this - but just as easy to understate its momentousness. From Wordnik.com. [True Blue Liberal] Reference
The more I rhapsodise, of course, and the more I expand on my love of the BBC Proms, the louder I can imagine the protests. From Wordnik.com. [Boris Johnson] Reference
Socrates surrounded himself with youths, spouted wisdom and paused every so often to rhapsodise on the subject of male love. From Wordnik.com. [Sydney Star Observer] Reference
But now I praise the admirable patriotism of JOHN REDMOND; I eulogise the financial genius of LLOYD GEORGE; I grow fervid as I rhapsodise about WINSTON. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914] Reference
It is not, therefore, at all out of keeping, although critics have taken exception to the poem on this ground, that Horace makes Alphius rhapsodise on the charms of. From Wordnik.com. [Horace] Reference
Neutrals were trapped between wanting to rhapsodise about Barcelona's play and a more calculating sense that they had tossed away a chance to humiliate Arsène Wenger's men. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
He was the only teacher who wore jeans and allowed you to address him by his first name; he referred to his office as his "orifice", and was as likely to rhapsodise about Bowie as Brecht. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The Tooth of Remorse may be sharp but the Fangs of Hunger bite deeper still, and who shall cherish beauty in his soul or who find patience to rhapsodise on a sunset when his stomach is empty as a drum?. From Wordnik.com. [Peregrine's Progress] Reference
Diderot, though he did not rhapsodise about Sterne as he rhapsodised about Richardson, was, like most of his countrymen then, a great admirer of "Tristram," and in an evil hour he took it into his head to Shandyise. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
Both are silly; both are mischievous; and each, I think, is as silly and mischievous as the other; so you are not to expect me to rhapsodise on the national greatness of Canada on the one hand, or on the glory of the Empire on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Diplomacy and Responsibility] Reference
Jacobi, "of whom from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof and from the going down thereof to its rising I should like to speak and stammer and rhapsodise with you ... this Goethe has, as it were, transcended all the ideals I had ever conceived of the direct feeling and observation of a great genius. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Goethe] Reference
He doesn't rhapsodise. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
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