Sentence examples for lyrical gestures from inspiring English sources

Portraying Meera, a 16th-century Indian saint, Ms. Shah evoked a yearning for the divine through lyrical gestures of reaching and retreat.

Ms. Kudo was joined by Ms. Cuckson, Mr. Beck and the violist Jessica Meyer for Mr. Boyce's Piano Quartet No. 1 (2008), in which slowly shifting string textures led to more violent passages, working themselves out through juxtapositions of restless rhythms and more lyrical gestures.

Her rare gift for evoking a world of narrative possibility with a few lyrical gestures.

She's one of the most disarming singers in mainstream country music, with a sharp tongue, a penchant for flamboyant lyrical gesture and a cooing voice that only barely sugarcoats deeply acidic thoughts.

Still, there hasn't been a more sublimely lyrical gesture in his 20-year recording career than "Walking Shadows" (Nonesuch), an album that sets his tenor and soprano against a string orchestra, in tremulous but thoughtful new arrangements.

These astoundingly difficult works evolve in swirling, restless outbursts of tonally unhinged harmonies, though occasionally there is a fleeting riff or lyrical gesture that recalls Debussy, Albeniz or Chopin; you're not really sure, though it seems so familiar.

But the lyrical arm gestures eventually seemed repetitive, and "Them" did not build or shift in tone or dynamics.

Originally a sacred ritual, Odissi conveys spirituality through a sensuous flow of movement marked by lyrical curving gestures that bring to life ancient Indian sculptures.

The Escher also offered a committed performance of Berg's "Lyric Suite," which meshes a modernist, 12-tone idiom with lyrical and romantic gestures.

So taken, in fact, that he lifted Mr. Kinnock's closing speech with phrases, gestures and lyrical Welsh syntax intact for his own closing speech at a debate at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 23 - without crediting Mr. Kinnock.

Ralph Shapey, a composer whose idiosyncratic style combined the astringent angularity and structural rigor of Serialism with a Romantic passion for lush textures, grand gestures and lyrical melodies, died yesterday at a Chicago hospital.