lyrist

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Noun
  • The poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier worked in Lowell himself for a time as editor of the Middlesex Standard and wrote his impressions of the city in his 1845 The Stranger in Lowell.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Pearl, a poet, writer and environmental justice advocate, will be involved in the Poetic Tuesdays series and help curate interactive writing workshops.
    Shawna Chen, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Once composers and lyricists Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2025
  • However, commercial pressures meant lyricists often wrote intros based solely on show titles, leading to more generic hooks, as seen in the show El Kaboos.
    Hala Mustafa, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.
    Sarah Vitali, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
Noun
  • Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
Noun
  • The performance combines puppetry, music, projections, and poetry to illuminate the legacy of Ukraine's blind bards.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Chalamet has been nominated for awards for his performance as the immortal bard at the Golden Globes and several regional critics' awards ceremonies; his fans and lookalikes can tune in tomorrow to discover whether he's been nominated for the Oscar, too.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The collection also pays tribute to late French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, with a commemorative concert marking the 100th anniversary of his birth, and also features the first live concert at Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral following its reopening last year.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Anastasio’s enthusiasm for Bernstein is based, in part, on the composer’s ability to effectively wed classical theory with popular song.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Washington Post reported that the Kennedy Center’s social impact team also spearheaded an effort to commission new works by Black composers and librettists.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • One giant got distracted by a wandering minstrel One giant overslept and started late Clues: Brumm is not the fastest builder but didn’t oversleep.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Their audiences rejected elitist cultural norms and watched Shakespeare mixed in with minstrel songs and comedy acts on the same program.
    Joanna Dee Das, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Lyrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyrist. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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