Word: lyrically
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...confused orchestration of Manhattan art galleries last week two flute parts and a vigorously bowed violin made lyric music...
MacNeice went to Oxford (1926-30), is a lyric poet of the English tradition. In his collected Poems (1926-37) he publishes a number of the most engaging, and a few of the excellent poems of the times...
...premiere last week the much-discussed concerto's orchestral score was outlined by a piano accompaniment. Judging by the rather sketchy results, critics were inclined to support Joachim's deprecation of the work. Typical of Schumann were its lyric melody, its cyclical form and the elusive rhythm of its slow movement. Also typical was its occasional awkwardness for the violin (Schumann was a pianist). Very obvious, despite Menuhin's contentions, was the need of editing. Most of the important violin concertos by great masters have either been edited by, or written in collaboration with, some eminent violinist...
...Civil War. It is a harsh, unsparing book. The fascists who crowd its pages are brutal, the revolutionists fanatical, the peasants stupid, the intellectuals timidly ineffectual or suicidally brave. Writing with deceptive simplicity, sometimes introducing real people like Andre Malraux, Nogales occasionally hits a strange note of lyric violence: "In the morning light a bomb thrown from an airplane leaves behind a pretty, luminous wake. The tuning fork of space vibrates on being struck...
...poets make fewer excuses for themselves, and with good reason. Of course the better sort of poetry has a timeless quality, and the passing of years does not invariably make a better poet of a promising beginner. What lyric of Moody's, for example, is better than the song...