Word: lyrically
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...crowd through horn-rimmed glasses, and launched into what Variety called "a comedy of terrors." He would, he said, sing an "ancient Irish ballad, written a few years ago." He turned to the keys, drummed out a melancholy accompaniment, and in a sardonic voice began to sing. Sample lyric...
...sentimental possibilities of Dad.* Last month, nonetheless, Victor picked up a sugary little number called Oh! My Papa, which had been written for a Swiss musical comedy, and gave it to Crooner Eddie Fisher. For good measure it threw in a lush accompaniment, including a gaudy trumpet obbligato. Sample lyric...
Once the curtain was up, he was the old assured Lennie:' he bounced athletically, contorted his features in the" dramatic passages, let his face relax to an expression of drugged bliss in the lyric ones. He sang to himself and punctuated the more stirring moments with hoarse growls...
...lyric poetry of William Yeats presents insurmountable problems to the actor who has not been nurtured on the delicate shadings of verse drama. Faced with elusive changes in meter and rhythm and the even more perplexing mysticism of the Irish folk talc, players often slip into over-emphasis that destroys the delicate blending of intensity and subtlety intended by Yeats...
Jungle Bells (Les Paul & Mary Ford; Capitol). A twist on Jingle Bells, featuring a nursery-rhyme lyric, a Latin beat and some remarkably jungly shrieks and bellows made by Les Paul's guitar...