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lyrical
1. If you feel I was becoming lyrical over honey I am going to be just the opposite about its greatest rival—sugar
2. The sound swells, becomes more complex and, as the non-Gottesmen drop out, transforms gradually into a peaceful, lyrical hymn casting a blessing over the assembled throng
3. Mike knew many men like that, South Boston, Irish longshoremen and for Mike they filled out the picture of William: surely, his father would be lyrical and of course, brawny; he would be a man after a day’s work to hoist a cold beer with his mates in a neighborhood tavern
4. Juan Gelmán, an Argentinean poet wrote that “poetry is an act of love, a useless, but necessary glowing-red type of job…” As most of you know, poetry is one’s lyrical spirit highlighted, and coincides with the harmonized conditions of the heart… So, I decided to play for her, with a poem, the melody that today fills my heart: a ballad that I wrote to celebrate her birthday with a very special gift: A POETIC KISS
5. It establishes, then, in a somewhat lyrical language at times, an epitome of experiences and personal accounts, writing pad or diary of cultural pilgrimage, without the religious emphasis that such concept normally assumes
6. It joins the lyrical eagle’s song,
7. Lunch was delicious and Ralf waxed lyrical
8. Although Aureliano was just as ferocious a lover as his rival, it was Amaranta Úrsula who ruled in that paradise of disaster with her mad genius and her lyrical voracity, as if she had concentrated in her love the unconquerable energy that her great-great-grandmother had given to the making of little candy animals
9. voice was a lyrical, soft whisper
10. Suddenly the lyrical music stopped abruptly
11. The lyrical pronouncement ended and the
12. to the lyrical Irish brogue and responded
13. Having waxed lyrical about one of the
14. I cannot hope to emulate the lyrical heights to which some have soared in the press
15. Her voice was sweet and lyrical, with a slight hint of a Jamaican accent
16. Galinda did not care the slightest whit for this wizard and was about to tell him so in no uncertain terms, but before she could get out another word he produced a wand and waved it grandiosely, while mouthing an incantation in a lyrical cadence
17. They would decorate their legs with leg bids (uyolo), which produces a kind of lyrical sound that makes the dancing steps melodious, giving rhythm to their dancing steps
18. A lyrical line reminded him of Aazuria, and thinking of her made him feel suddenly embarrassed
19. With both hands touching the amulet, she repeated some words over and over in a strange, lyrical language I didn't recognize
20. "Stay," Finch commanded them in between muttering the lyrical chant
21. Toby Keith contends that Peter Jennings argued that a song with the lyrical content in question did not belong on his network
22. (8) The term canción, which means any lyrical composition,is also applied specifically to a verse
23. In the six romances included in this collection the lyrical quality 255predominates above the
24. His mathematical brain, that formidable annihilator of infinities, irrational equations, Pythagorean theorems, matrices and differential geometry, could not abide a short story, a lyrical poem, a poignant painting
25. Excuse me: the name for the most ancient Greek musical instrument is not spelled: liar: It’s spelled lyre…as in lyrical … preserving the older spelling: instead of the modern one… The ancient lyricism of Greece: its legends, myths, words and music, and poetry etc; are all sweetened lies
26. Turner was very fond of these gradated tone compositions, and carried them to a lyrical height to which they had never before attained
27. Her grandmother was less lyrical, but was still disappointed by her granddaughter
28. Hey, I thought, this guy is not unlike my lost self who used to wax lyrical at the drop of a
29. She declared she adored children; this was her consolation, her joy, her passion, and she accompanied her caresses with lyrical outburst which would have reminded anyone but the Yonville people of Sachette in "Notre Dame de Paris
30. Shall I propose, then, that she be allowed to return from exile, but upon this condition only--that she make a defence of herself in lyrical or some other metre?
31. The more lyrical and musical, the more I’d enjoyed them, and I guess I always had a morbid bent, and he must have, too, because he’d indulged me, on soft summer evenings in the kitchen while Mom did dishes and listened, shaking her head at our choices
32. It was a song that imitated the measure of beating upon iron, and was a mere lyrical excuse for the introduction of Old Clem's respected name
33. A densely lyrical novel set on the Moluccan Islands in Indonesia, it had been written in Dutch and published to critical acclaim in 1955, but mostly forgotten now
34. “Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss
35. He talked of the reddening apples around, of the browning nuts, of jams and preserves and the distilling of cordials; till by easy stages such as these he reached midwinter, its hearty joys and its snug home life, and then he became simply lyrical
36. Kate and Mia are waxing lyrical about Paris
37. Then he demanded to know my all-time favorite lyrical quotation
38. Once we had a title and had settled on the letter as our lyrical form, the variations came to us very easily: a child’s note, a postcard from a regretful lover, the reply of an eccentric aunt to a begging letter from scheming relations
39. I chose it for the defiance of the tune, not for its lyrical sentiments
40. her passion, and she accompanied her caresses with lyrical outburst which would have reminded anyone but the Yonville people of Sachette in "Notre Dame de Paris
41. The Russian military historians in so far as they submit to claims of logic must admit that conclusion, and in spite of their lyrical rhapsodies about valor, devotion, and so forth, must reluctantly admit that the French retreat from Moscow was a series of victories for Napoleon and defeats for Kutuzov
42. It was what is said in the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart
43. While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at each other
44. His bills of lading were rhymed no matter how he tried to avoid it, and routine business letters had a lyrical spirit that diminished their authority
45. Despite her rough honesty she did not intend to disclose that to him, either by mail or in person, nor did she have it in her heart to tell him how false the sentimentalities of his letters sounded after the miraculous consolation of his written meditations, how his lyrical lies cheapened him, how detrimental his maniacal insistence on recapturing the past was to his cause
46. It was a calm letter that did not attempt to do more than express the state of mind that had held him captive since the previous night: it was as lyrical as the others, as rhetorical as all of them, but it had a foundation in reality
47. [There are two active persons in this poem – the lyrical hero (the objectified author) and “she” (Riznich), and, consequently, there are two value-contexts, two concrete reference-points with which the concrete, valuative moments of Being are correlated
48. The characteristics of our romantic are to understand everything, to see everything and to see it often incomparably more clearly than our most realistic minds see it; to refuse to accept anyone or anything, but at the same time not to despise anything; to give way, to yield, from policy; never to lose sight of a useful practical object (such as rent-free quarters at the government expense, pensions, decorations), to keep their eye on that object through all the enthusiasms and volumes of lyrical poems, and at the same time to preserve "the good and the beautiful" inviolate within them to the hour of their death, and to preserve themselves also, incidentally, like some precious jewel wrapped in cotton wool if only for the benefit of "the good and the beautiful
49. He is more lyrical
50. If poetry and music may be joined, as occurs in hymns, songs, and romances—(though even in these the music does not follow the changes of each verse of the text, as Wagner wants to, but the song and the music merely produce a coincident effect on the mind)—this occurs only because lyrical poetry and music have, to some extent, one and the same aim: to produce a mental condition and the conditions produced by lyrical poetry and by music can, more or less, coincide
