Example sentences for: lyrical

How can you use “lyrical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He never finds out, but the notes are succinct, lyrical, and uniformly devastating.

  • Make that the level after next" (Rob Brunner, Entertainment Weekly ). It's blessed with "post-cool happiness" (James Hunter, the Village Voice ), which makes it "an antidote for ennui, using hedonistic, ass-wiggling enthusiasm and 'ain't-no-mountain-high-enough' lyrical proclamations" (M.

  • Main gripes: The rhymes are only so-so, and the tired sexual politics that provide most of the lyrical subject matter send a mixed message.

  • "Ol' Man River" was the song in which he first found his lyrical voice, compressing the suffering, resignation, and anger of an entire race into 24 taut lines and doing it so naturally that it's no wonder folks assume the song's a Negro spiritual.

  • The heroes of his early stories, from the 1940s and '50s, tend to be poor, inarticulate shopkeepers and workers (tailors, grocers, shoemakers, census-takers--Malamud almost always identified his characters by profession, in a bow to the proletarianism of the '30s), New York Jews mostly, whose rough outer appearances suddenly fall away to reveal inner souls of the purest lyrical passion.


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