Despite a lyrical tendency toward premature world-weariness, Mr. Harper's music is mainly a celebration of the way music can free people from their daily burdens and bring them together in joy.
I was looking for that centre of existence that would make everything clear". He re-emerged an acoustic troubadour with a lyrical tendency towards mysticism and spirituality, and succeeded on such a scale that it obliterated his brief period as a teen idol.
Even after all these years, prog remains one of the most intrinsically silly of rock fads: concept albums, ornate time signatures, keyboard solos, lyrical ruminations on the tendency of mountains to fall out of the sky.
A tendency to more lyrical treatment of the text developed in Venice, however, and purely musical demands began to outweigh strict subservience to the poetry.
Having taken to heart the advice of his best friend, the poet Louis Bouilhet (to whom he dedicated "Madame Bovary"), Flaubert settled on a mundane topic to suppress his admitted "tendency to wax lyrical and effusive in response to exotic materials".
Unsurpassed as a perspective on the complexities of the Middle Eastern campaign, the book can nevertheless be considered at least part-fiction thanks to its questionable historicity and its tendency towards the lyrical and its ornate 19th-century prose style evidencing Lawrence's aspiration towards high art.
Moments in her stories, often her endings, cause me real sorrow, and, perhaps acclimated to the contemporary tendency toward compensatory lyrical updraft, I feel myself mentally looking over at the author, for, maybe a conciliatory little suggestion that all will be well?
In other words, while pop songs have the tendency to collapse into lyrical nonsense they also avail themselves of corrective mechanisms that somehow salvage their lyrical and/or musical meaning.
While the role and the actress share many characteristics, among them a tendency to glide midconversation into lyrical cadences, Ms. Hecht is careful to mark the distinctions and prevent the part from becoming self-caricature.
She would sooner talk about her work, wax lyrical about Paul Abbott's writing quirks, his tendency to make up words and defuse a serious scene with a dash of slapstick.
