Sentence examples for not lyrical from inspiring English sources

The point is not lyrical dexterity but the m.c.'s ability to sell his vision of success.

An eyewitness's imagination burns in his language, which is not lyrical but as vivid as a match held close to the face.

Robert Burns was all the rage and the bestselling poetry of 1800 was not Lyrical Ballads, which barely reached 1,000 sales, but The Farmer's Boy by the Suffolk shoemaker and labourer Robert Bloomfield, which eventually sold 40,000 copies.

THIS year's Toronto Film Festival, which ended last weekend, highlighted at least one trend worth noting: women directing women in movies that are openly about sex -- not lyrical playhouse lovemaking, but extreme behavior that makes the participants come to grips with the way that sex can ruin lives.

The essence of his art isn't lyrical but gestural — his sharply etched phrases imply, like dance embodied in sculpture, the motions that produced them.

The first title was Birch Point, but I decided the name wasn't lyrical enough and went fishing for a new one.

I'm not a lyrical person.

This is not the lyrical side of the composer".

Ms. Solomon is best when not being lyrical.

I am certainly not a lyrical man, but this passion I understand well enough.

Hemingway and Gershwin will not wax lyrical again, alas, no matter what rewards are dangled in front of their heirs.