lyricism

• “On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party.”

  Been there, done that

• “But then, I am notably lacking in lyricism, myself.”

  And Again, Love « Tales from the Reading Room

• “Can one fail to see that lyricism is the diametric opposite to the cult of strength and power and, in an utterly natural manner, offers itself as a corrective to our tendency to resolve society's problems by forcible means and through power struggles, through technological, financial, organizational, political, and physical power - power that, in any case, is ultimately merely a product of incomplete insight («ein Produkt unvollständiger Einsicht»)?”

  Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture

• “All that's left is a pained lyricism, which is sometimes brilliant, but can also feel so self-regarding and wet.”

  New Statesman

• “He does frequently employ the declarative mode, but this approach also prompts Kerouac to long, cumulative sentences that invoke a kind of lyricism:”

  October 2009

• “It wasn't just the overheated, nonsensical "lyricism," which vito_excalibur mentions here.”

  SeeLight:

• “This kind of lyricism has come to define what Marjorie Perloff has called “official verse-culture,” and indeed this kind of “sentiment” does in fact seem to confront every “crisis of subjectivity” with a reassuring return to the normality of thoughtful meditation.”

  By the Letters : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “His "lyricism" is by no means what we understand by that term.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy

• “What could we have sent?" he went on, in the kind of lyricism Danes fall into when discussing the mermaid.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “Sharp replaces the dominant pastoral image of the English countryside, not with a deflated quotidian realism, but with a different kind of lyricism, one coloured by revolt: fields and ditches become hiding places or battlegrounds; landscapes that on the surface seem tranquil still reverberate with the unavented spectral rage of murdered working class martyrs.”

  ReadySteadyBlog

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