Example sentences for: lyrical

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

  • In the lyrical sections, it works superbly (most of the second movement, say, and the beautiful B minor/C flat major section of the first movement's second subject, projected with supple delicacy by Levin).

  • Its painted ceiling illustrates more lyrical stories from Balinese legend.

  • 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.

  • In the New York Review of Books , Tatyana Tolstaya praises David Remnick, author of Resurrection, a book about post-Communist Russia, as "a satirist of Gogolian persuasion; he combines the grotesque with the lyrical."

  • Cuarón's Great Expectations , which has been updated to Gulf Coast Florida and the New York art world of the '80s and given a rock 'n' roll backbeat, is fluid and lyrical and thoroughly transporting.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast