Word: lilts
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...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...
Reagan didn't waver, and by 1984 it was morning in America. The new prosperity gave a lilt to the rest of his presidency. But you don't get called great for lilt. You get called great for victory. And Reagan won the cold...
...Reagan didn't waver, and by 1984 it was morning in America. The new prosperity gave a lilt to the rest of his presidency. But you don't get called great for lilt. You get called great for victory. And Reagan won the cold...