Crossword-Solution: LIBRETTOS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Librettos | pl. | of Libretto |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LIBRETTOS | anagram | LOSTTRIBE |
We have 4 clues for the answer “LIBRETTOS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Gilbert works | 1 answer |
| Lerner specialties | 1 answer |
| Opera texts | 2 answers |
| Operatic texts | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LIBRETTOS (5)
You bet in Germany people know their librettos by heart! You Americans are so afraid of stooping to learn anything.” “I _am_ a little ashamed,” Archie admitted.
Travers, remembering the fatal inanity of most opera librettos, was touched by these words as if there had been something pathetic in this readiness of response; as if she had heard a starved man talking of the delight of a crust of dry bread.
She returned to Paris with Conti, the great musician, for whom she wrote the librettos of two operas.
When he asked leave to copy the canons which hung in Joseph's bedroom at Vienna, Joseph replied: "Get away with your copies; you can compose much better for yourself." Michael's statement has often been quoted: "Give me good librettos and the same patronage as my brother, and I should not be behind him." This could scarcely have been the case, since, as Pohl points out, Michael Haydn failed in the very qualities which ensured his brother's success.
How terrible also are the translations! People get systematically accustomed to the absolute senselessness of scenic representations; look therefore to a rational treatment of the translated librettos.
Quotes with LIBRETTOS (1)
We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to be unfolding in a foreign tongue--only we've all been issued the wrong librettos. For a text, we're given the Bible. Or the Talmud or the Koran. We're given Time magazine, and Reader's Digest, daily papers, and the six o'clock news; we're given schoolbooks, sitcoms, and revisionist histories; we're given psychological counseling, cults, workshops, advertiseme…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1972–2006).