Example sentences for: lyrically

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

  • He and his great cinematographer, Caleb Deschanel, focus all their energy and resources on the task of lyrically withholding your gratification.

  • The Third Wave feminist's third book--part memoir, part sociology, part political tract--gets praised for its lyrically rendered anecdotes and slammed for shoddy thinking.

  • With the exception of Bullmore's ghastly Rezia (her accent is pathetic), the rest of the actors are treasurable: Michael Kitchen as old Peter Walsh, who melds so perfectly with Alan Cox, the young Walsh, that I wondered if Gorris had got hold of a time machine and used the same actor twice; Selina Cadell's rough-hewed missionary Miss Kilman; Sarah Badel's stout and effulgent Lady Rosseter (the aged Sally Seton); Oliver Ford Davies' lockjawed twit Hugh Whitbread; John Standing's anxiously settled older Dalloway; and the lyrically foolish Lady Bruton of Margaret Tyzack, full of liberal schemes for helping the unemployed by shipping them off to Canada.

  • So lyrically American you can almost hear the dissonant yearnings of Aaron Copland.

  • The French tend to talk lyrically about the terroir , the characteristics given by particular climate and soil, while Americans worship winemakers instead, turning them into celebrities.


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