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UK
/lˈɪɹɪkəl/
]
[ US /ˈɫɪɹɪkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪɹɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
expressing deep emotion
the dancer's lyrical performance - suitable for or suggestive of singing
How To Use lyrical In A Sentence
- ‘Maria Maria Maria’ is simply gorgeous - a dark, reverb-soaked slab of despondency with a lyrical combination of absurdism and sincerity that could only have come from Merritt.
- In the tome, full of glamorous soft-focus pictures of the footballer, he waxes lyrical about the art of seduction, with fish his favourite weapon for luring girlfriends from the dining room to the boudoir.
- Watson had grown up on the rocky coast of New Brunswick in a village with the lyrical name Saint Andrews by the Sea. The Whale Warriors
- These largely acoustic songs reacquaint us with his tremulous, soulful vocals and cutting lyrical style.
- Contemporary British composer Nicolas Maw, no slouch at doing gnarly himself, was represented by "Music of Memory," a suite of mostly nontonal meditations built around a lyrical theme from a Mendelssohn string quartet that made several calming appearances during the piece. News | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
- The music's expression ranges from declamatory to lyrical.
- My mother, a Spaniard, always used to wax lyrical about the lemon trees in the family garden.
- However, it's not explicit that the purple people eater is extra-terrestrial in origin, based on the lyrical evidence, only that it can fly ... Boing Boing
- Wilson depicted the struggles of African Americans with a lyrical beauty and captured the lives of those who lived on the edges of the society with a dignity that was worthy of the titanic power of any character in Greek drama.
- When reviewers and prize jurors tout a repetitive style as "the last word in gnomic control," or a jumble of unsustained metaphor as "lyrical" writing, it is obvious that they, too, are having difficulty understanding what they read. A Reader's Manifesto