Example sentences for: lyricist

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

  • Now, he happily collaborates with director/choreographer Mark Morris and lyricist/Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott.

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

  • Can any postwar song match this prewar stanza from lyricist Leon Robin: "Venus de Milo/ Was noted for her charms/ But strictly between us/ You're cuter than Venus/ And what's more, you've got arms"?

  • 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.

  • but I doubt it: That's not the way the ear hears music, and Hammerstein was too sensitive a lyricist to be so numbingly literal.


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