Word: lilt
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...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The inland town of Ubud is known as the cultural hub of Bali. But before you picture a tranquil artists' community, where the reverent silence of masters at work is broken only by tropical birdsong and the lilt of a distant gamelan, let us put you straight. Ubud is a hot and raucous place - and you're more likely to run into T shirt hawkers than artists. Visitors are also often struck by the uneven quality and random subject matter of the work on display. Many...
...lyrics --"You know it's hard out here for a pimp/ When he's gotta get the money for the rent"--don't quite have the lilt of "Some day my prince will come." And the rapper who composed that verse is no Snow White. DJay is a black man, a Memphis, Tenn., dope dealer and peddler of prostitutes' flesh. But his yearning has the same intensity as any Disney heroine's. For DJay has a mission: he wants to make a hit record. He dares to dream the pimpossible dream...
...there was a war on, terrible things happened all the time and they were in the thick of it, and they managed to feed their kids and get them to school and the days went fast and yet she was lonely, unbearably lonely," Dean writes with an Ulster lilt. Meanwhile, the earnest Dunn must confront a grown son he didn't know he had, and is haunted by the sound of his prisoners talking late at night: "There was something ghastly about it; it was like listening to the voices of men who'd died together, trapped in the hull...
...Christianity is a faith that has no interest in power or no meaning in an environment of power or wealth,” he explains, his lilt turning slightly urgent but remaining delicate. “The moral imperative is a delusion, and [in terms of the election] I think it’s a distraction; [Christianity] is not a faith of morals or principles; it’s about a relationship, service in love to God and other people. If it were about morals and virtues, I don’t think Jesus would have pissed off so many...
...tempted to skip today?s teenagers and go for the toddlers: Generation Z. They?ve been raised on ?Sesame Street? songs - the pre-school equivalent of Broadway melodies, with some of the same wit and lilt. Maybe the very young can be brainwashed, make that enlightened, to appreciate the songs that lifted the world?s spirits for 50, 60 years...