Sentence example with the word 'lyric'

lyric

alba, chanson, epigram, graceful, limerick, monody, pastorela, rondel, song, threnody, words

Definition adj. expressing deep emotion

Last update: October 3, 2015


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The secular texts, apart from occasional local orthographical variants, are typical of courtly lyric poetry in 14th century France.   [adjective]

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Like all the lyric poets of the age, they are a curious mixture of the Elizabethan and the Puritan standards.   [adjective]

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Strictly speaking the drama has but two divisions, tragedy and comedy, in which are included the many subordinate forms of tragi-comedy, melodrama, lyric drama (opera), farce, etc.   [adjective]

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In 1981 she successfully auditioned for a place in the new Lyric Youth Theater.   [Please select]

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So called from Pindar, the greatest lyric poet of Greece.   [Please select]

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A lyric is a short poem reflecting some personal emotion, like love or grief.   [Please select]

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Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.   [Please select]

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Does he show any marked appreciation of Burns's power as a lyric poet.   [Please select]

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Browning's famous line, "O lyric love, half angel and half bird," may well apply to her frail life and aerial spirit.   [Please select]

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His Atalanta in Calydon (1864), a beautiful lyric drama modeled on the Greek tragedy, is generally regarded as his masterpiece.   [Please select]

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At his best Wither is a lyric poet of great originality, rising at times to positive genius; but the bulk of his poetry is intolerably dull.   [Please select]

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