as in rhythmical
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Adjective
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Every spring, between March and April, a rhythmic, ancient spectacle unfolds across the Platte River Valley.—
Judy Koutsky,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025 -
Along the boardwalk, a rhythmic, green light flashes on the outdoor CO2 detectors – a constant reminder that the area is not out of the woods yet.—
Colette Davidson,
Christian Science Monitor,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Poetry remains an exciting place where lyrical wordsmiths turn truth into art.—
Lorraine Berry,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Known for pairing magenta with rhinestones and a lyrical wit, Kirke hasn’t always been country.—
Eva Fedderly,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Moreover, the combination of the specific chord progression in the melody paired with the verbatim hook was a greater than 50% clone of Vance’s original work, in both lyric choice and chord expressions.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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Doja Rat stated that Strange claimed to have over 300 songs and handwritten lyric sheets.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
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Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
25 June 2022
Adjective
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The film and her lilting performance in it show how grief can coexist with a kind of grace — a peace with the unknowability of what lies beyond.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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Strong breezes have come with another day of drizzle, a chaotic and lilting series of gusts that have required extra effort with every flap of her transparent wings and every maneuver through the vegetation.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Everybody in the band understands what the harmonic structure of each tune is, what the chords are, the melody and dynamic of the song.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Apr. 2025
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Engineers determined the most likely cause of the propellant leak was a harmonic response several times stronger than predicted, suggesting the vibrations during the ship's climb into space were in resonance with the vehicle's natural frequency.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Queen may have started as a four-piece rock band but their ambitions and grandiose stage shows led to lavish studio productions that took them in orchestral and operatic directions.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
10 Apr. 2025
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The album version shifts from what could at first be mistaken for a pastoral, pleasant crooner about country life into a four-alarm fire, crackling with impatient riffs by the first refrain, when horns pile insistently on top of each other only to strip back, again, to an orchestral piano hymn.—
Shana Naomi Krochmal,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.—
Sanjena Sathian,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2025
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The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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