Word: lilted
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...typed at his manuscript, seated at a secondhand rolltop desk that his father had given him. A year was par for a novel. As critics and readers quickly learned, his characters behaved with a realistic mixture of human strength and frailty. Storyteller Shute was peculiarly immune to the lilt and color of prose, but he fashioned his sentences with pane-of-glass clarity...
...horse-and-buggy pace. Its drinking is confined to a likable bachelor and a would-be sex-bad boy; its passion consists of the same boy's book-fed notions of it. Even in its parading, the show never turns brassy. Its tunes are offhand but full of lilt; and those who fill its period roles are mostly actors rather than musicomedy performers. That is why, at their best, they perform so engagingly. Take Me Along itself has less the effect of a full-scale musical than of a show much enlivened with music...
...this time, even the commercial for "Lilt Home Permanent" is out of kilter. Buranelli turns to the audience with a happy, conspiratorial grin: "Let me out!" He is obviously speaking for everyone onstage, including M.C. Edwards...
...Grimy Tams-insists that "nightclub singing is the hardest thing in the world to do." She makes it sound like the easiest, as she concocts a wistful chant out of Oscar Levant's Blame It on my Youth, throbs through Limehouse Blues, races with a fine, light lilt through The Springtime Cometh, a take-off an old English madrigal ("Gaily skippeth, nylon rippeth, zipper zippeth, whoop-de-do, which is to say, the springtime cometh"). For Cole Porter's urbane lyrics, her precise, finishing-school inflection provides just the right sophistication...
...folk music. Together with his friend Gustav Hoist, he severed the bonds binding English music to Germany and France. He once wrote: "Have we not all about us forms of musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art? For instance, the lilt of the chorus at a music-hall joining in a popular song, the children dancing to a barrel organ, the rousing fervor of a Salvation Army hymn . . . the cries of the street pedlars, the factory girls singing their sentimental songs. Have all these nothing...