Word: lyrical
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...Wrath of Achilles. The Iliad has never been translated into English as successfully as the Odyssey, of which George Chapman in the 16th and William Morris in the 19th Century made accomplished versions. The Iliad has less narrative charm and less of the lyric graces that are easy for English poetry. Translators' English has seldom touched its humor and power...
...Italian operatic grapevine registered a medium-sized tremor. When she topped that with a striking performance of the far more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric soprano with dramatic oomph and coloratura glitter, the best Violetta heard in Manhattan since the late, great Claudia Muzio...
Long before the decade's most famous book title was lifted from this lyric, the poems of Ernest Christopher Dowson were a part of the established pattern of English poetry-"not speech, but perfect song," said Dowson's late, great contemporary, William Butler Yeats. But about the poet himself the mists of time and faded memoirs had drawn close. Little but his friend Arthur Symons' brief, exquisite biographical essay had preserved the memory of the Mauve Decade's most desperately romantic life...
...Silo. Several months ago the National Better Business Bureau sent to a large number of suspected sharks the worst sample of lyric writing its staff could concoct...
...extent of the script writer's familiarity with some of the old Douglas Fairbanks pictures. When the spurious prince sets out to seduce the queen of the dancing girls (Marlene Dietrich), he chucks her roguishly under the chin, calls her "my lady of the moonlight," and describes the lyric delights of life in his mythical kingdom. When he wishes to fool the ruthless Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold), he shoplifts the necessary royal satins, arrives in court prepared to pluck the richest plums in Araby...