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Example sentences for: lyric

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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.
George, who lived from 1868 to 1933, is ranked high among German lyric poets for his elegant Symbolist visions.
In Rent, there are few strong song ideas, few resolved lyric thrusts.
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.
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"?