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Example sentences for: lyric

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That the 19 th -century French writer Théophile Gautier declared he could not, in his youth, "have accepted as a lyric poet anyone weighing more than 99 pounds"?
Ah, you quoted a lyric by Sondheim, my personal hero.
In The New Yorker , Gary Wills, a classicist by training, praises Robert Fagles' translation of The Odyssey ("Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English, and [ The Odyssey ] ...
You're trying to capture something as elusive as a sound, which suggests a word, from which eventually a complete lyric emerges."
reveals its appearance in a poem by the British lyric poet, Ernest Dowson (1867-1900).