Word: lilt
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Next day Bevan addressed the House. As always, the House listened with fascination to the Welsh lilt and the demagogic half-truth. He was not against German rearmament, Bevan insisted, but "the pace and altitude of that armament...
Hence Fanny's merits seem largely incidental. Harold Rome provides a pleasant, sentimental score that also has lilt. As the lover's father, Ezio Pinza is vibrant and masterful, but not once does the great voice of his opera days pour forth. Walter Slezak makes an excellent merry widower; no one middle-aged has more verve, no fat man more avoirdupoise...
...Peter Pan is not all pure gain as a musical, one reason is the indifferent quality of the music, which has nothing better than the tinkling prettiness of Tender Shepherd or the straightforward lilt of I've Got to Crow. And with the original Barrie story very much cut into but seldom seeming cut, Peter Pan comes off a bit more of a long show than a fully sustained entertainment. Barrie and Broadway are not quite an ideal couple. But their marriage has been celebrated with truly festive splash and animation...
School for Hope shuns brogue but catches the lilt of Irish talk, skirts bathos but dips candidly into human feelings. In its quiet, pastoral way, it celebrates nature as well as human nature. No more pretentious than a mousetrap, it captures the novelist's most elusive mouse-a little bit of life...
...slowdown gives the effect of a speedup; it is all so well managed that even the fumbles seem something new in footwork. There are the kind of peppy dance numbers that suggest a cheerleaders' carnival, and there is a great deal of music with an infectious, elementary lilt. A long-legged, gaminlike newcomer named Carol Haney dances like a dervish and is generally fun; Eddie Foy Jr. softshoes nostalgically and is generally helpful. John Raitt and Janis Paige make an attractive, a melodious, even a positively believable pair of lovers...