Example sentences for: lyricist

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

  • Barlow, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, offers this analogy: The Dead let people tape concerts, and the tapes then led more people to pay for the concerts.

  • As every New York Times reader knows, Rent is a Pulitzer- and Tony-winning "rock opera" version of La Bohème , with a dramatis personae of HIV-positive performance artists, transsexuals, and drug addicts from the East Village, whose cachet was greatly enhanced by the death on the eve of opening of its young composer/lyricist/librettist Jonathan Larson.

  • The songs in Disney's Hunchback , by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, are a mishmash of the ersatz--sometimes imitating the old-fashioned Broadway cleverness of George Gershwin's brother Ira, the lyricist (as in Hunchback 's "A Guy Like You," sung by stone gargoyles, which you can listen to briefly by clicking , though I don't advise it), other times imitating the modern Broadway cleverness of Les Mis (as in Hunchback 's opening number, which you can also listen to with a click , though why?)

  • The late John Belushi, for instance, is said to have "specifically encouraged" De Niro to star in Analyze This , while the trio of Lenny Bruce, John Huston, and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner have all been trying to tell the Oscar winner to "make more comedies and musicals."

  • Poet Craig Raine argued that Lorenz Hart was a better lyricist than Dylan.


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