Sentence examples for long lyrics from inspiring English sources

He often sends me mad, long lyrics by text.

There, after much grouching and complaint, he completed half of "The Bridge," which he saw not as an epic but as a "long lyric poem, with interrelated sections".

While its first act is a nigh-perfect preface to what's to follow, the evening's second half relies heavily on long lyric monologues that, as Ms. Yionoulis has staged them, don't always feel organic.

In such a work as the long, slow movement that ends Mahler's Ninth Symphony, one feels the Tristan influence quite directly: the long, lyric lines move freely through a systematic evasion of cadences and through a widening range of tonalities, often reaching tonal regions far removed from the starting point.

The Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (1855 1912) stated that his long lyric poem L'ultimo viaggio was an attempt to reconcile the portrayals of Ulysses in Dante and Tennyson with Tiresias's prophecy that Ulysses would die "a mild death off the sea".

Matt Bjorke of Roughstock also gave the song five stars of five, writing that "the strong, sing-a-long lyrics and driving, percussive melody brings Eric Church to an accessibility that he's previously never had".

Though Weöres's "The Lost Parasol" is the longest lyric in the anthology, eastern Europe is perhaps a little under-represented — Czeslaw Milosz and Johannes Bobrowski would have been welcome additions.

So while the agendas of her long, breathy lyrics are clear enough -- she would map and remap the naked encounter of self and world, preferably in uncontaminated natural settings -- the process of that encounter is often murky, fusing the phenomenology with a rhetoric that can scarcely contain its swarming complexity: Lord of objects.

The group's long, cryptic lyrics have been straightened out, and the themes are thoughtful.

Their founding guitarist, Jimmie Vaughan, has been replaced by Kid Ramos; the band's singer and harmonica player, Kim Wilson, still delivers long-suffering lyrics with suave understatement.

Certainly – and perhaps recognising their own lack of wit or charisma – the remaining members of the band aren't above exploiting his mystery, having last year recorded an album using Edwards's long-lost lyrics.