"proportion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Norman has constructed an elaborate defense system, which exaggerates natural anger and exasperation to operatic proportions as a way of dealing with the death he knows is just around the corner.
- "The crimes called for a sentence of two to three years but Judge Robinson sentenced Kerik to more than that because of "the almost operatic proportions of this case.
- Still, the uncertainties make for a cliffhangar of operatic proportions.
- He cut a figure of operatic proportions himself and was lionized wherever he went, befitting both his operatic and gastronomic reputations.
- If the festivities were of operatic proportions, that was the point.
- A crush of operatic proportions, but conducted pianissimo.
- Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine said that "the gospel-tinged [song] starts out simply with measured piano and basic drum programming, eventually building to a crescendo of operatic proportions."
- Mr. Goerne was not shy about singing at full power, at least at climactic points, and for him full power is of operatic proportions.
- Stripped down and free of operatic proportions, the songs had no identity crisis at all.
- His indignation, like his girth, is of operatic proportions.
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