Words similar to lyric

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Yes, Oscar Hammerstein's lyric is full of "dat" and "dese" (obviously, he was self-taught at Ebonics), but funnily enough, when Paul Robeson sang the song in the London production of Show Boat in 1928, the biggest problem he had was wrapping his beautiful, impeccable vowels around the soi-disant dialect lyric.
In his last film, the lyric basketball saga He Got Game (1998), Lee composed his frames so that his characters had a weathered grandeur; they were African-American icons.
From the poet Sappho, who in the sixth century BC was the first to use the lyric to write subjectively and explore the range of female experience, to the Chinese polymath Pan Chao (Ban Zhao), who flourished around AD 100 as historian, poet, astronomer, mathematician and educationalist, the range is startling.
There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages.
Thirty-one years ago, in a song for The Music Man called “The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl,” Meredith Willson wrote the lyric: “I hope and I pray/For Hester to win just one more `A.