Sentence examples for lousy song from inspiring English sources

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So whom was I hurting by copying one lousy song?

Entitled The Lousy Song, it features Chapman and Eric Idle listening back to a swinging orchestral number that Idle has recorded, with Chapman lampooning his partner's efforts.

As John B. Bremner observed in Words on Words, an insightful and amusing handbook on usage, "I Have Eyes Only for You" would make a lousy song.

If it's a whack song or a lousy song, we have to make some magic out of nothing.

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Although John Lennon would later take considerable risks (and write some lousy songs) in the service of his political convictions, rock stars were generally seen as complacent poseurs who did no more than pay lip-service to radical ideas.

Thus the Broadway musical "Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark" didn't flop merely because of lousy songs, legal troubles and ghastly accidents but because the director Julie Taymor, "like a character in some Attic play," was "led by a single-minded passion to betray her truest self and abandon her greatest virtues".

In that movie, Murray, suffering from jet lag and ennui, haunts the hotel's lavish bar, as the lights of the city flash below, and a lounge band turns out lousy cover songs.

Now nobody knows what a catch is, pass-interference calls are ridiculously called or not called, and the new Sunday night theme song is lousy.

Kelefa Sanneh from The New York Times gave a mixed review, stating that it "contains a roughly even number of great songs and lousy ones", and sait that "her homages to World War II-era pop music resemble skits more than songs".

You didn't hear much about what music he liked during Knowing Me, Knowing You, but I assumed it was dreadful: we were clearly both Abba fans, but he'd named his son Fernando, thus suggesting his taste in their songs was lousy.

Monday night at 8 30, "The Last Lousy Moments of Love: The Songs of Bolcum and Weinstein," with Mary Testa, Alice Playten and Sean Elliott.

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