Sentence examples for addressing a lover from inspiring English sources

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Or was she addressing a lover, lodging a bitter complaint about a relationship gone awry?

In Poem LXXXVI, Loynaz, addressing a lover, writes, "even though I'm yours, I keep everything from you"; the line figures the poet's soul as riches withheld — the ultimate private property.

The low-key torch song "Thinkin Bout You" features soothing synth cycles, sparse keyboards, muffled electronic percussion, and lyrics addressing a lover with white lies in the verses and thoughts of eternal love in the chorus.

Whereas Huntley, Inglis and Walker consider that Harrison is addressing a lover in "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long", other commentators, like Giuliano, view the lyrics as being consistent with the predominant theme of Living in the Material World – namely, Harrison's spiritual search amid the temptations of the physical world.

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The record opens with the "Adore You" a pop and R&B, ballad, which lyrically addresses a lover through lyrics including "We were meant to be/In holy matrimony".

He might not even be addressing an actual lover.

In particular, Toibin's 'Donal Webster' is a revelation, a demonstration of controlled emotion in which a man washed up in an American desert mournfully recalls his mother's death six years previously, all the while addressing an erstwhile lover on whom he can no longer call.

But she did enlist the band for "Ghost," the album's lead single, whose core metaphor comes with a twist: though it begins by addressing a phantom ex-lover, its first-person narrator is the ghost, "Haunting these halls/Climbing up walls that I never knew were there".

The evening's title comes from a comically overwrought-sounding passage in a Ruth Draper monologue that addresses a male lover.

Becker is just as bold when venturing into erotic terrain, as in "Sonnet to the Imagination," where she addresses a female lover: "I want your mouth / on my mouth and wonder where this wanting will lead / if we let it wander, darling, as I wonder who / you will be after my imagination has ravished you".

He seems to be addressing a past or present lover, as he does in most of the other songs here.

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