Here is ballet on a grand operatic scale.

His balance of intimate storytelling and operatic scale is stunning.

On these days I hear nothing but operatic scales.

He has come to favor working in an increasingly grand - some would say operatic, even circuslike - scale.

In any case, her splenetic comic style, essentially kvetching on an operatic scale, is entirely her own.

The designers were Italian and they work on a grandly operatic scale.

What gives the film resonance, though, is its almost operatic scale, against which the tragedies and brutalities afflicting the Hispanic families are depicted.

They thrill only to natural disasters and to human violence on an operatic scale.

The Surrealism of Mr. Freud's early work is revived on an operatic scale.

"I loved the operatic scale of what he did," Mr. Law says, adjusting his cap to a sassier angle.