unlyrical

The lyrics of Paul Simon have always held an unlyrical, poetic quality to them.

What Is Poetry? T.J. McIntyre 2010

All yesterday afternoon I thought about timed backups, and search results, and mermaids, and women wearing clothes, and women not wearing clothes, and I felt unlyrical.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

All yesterday afternoon I thought about timed backups, and search results, and mermaids, and women wearing clothes, and women not wearing clothes, and I felt unlyrical.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

No one can help admiring the good sense and powerful, if limited, logic of the redoubtable opponent of the Précieuses and champion of formalism; he has all the qualities of a splendid fighter, and in spite of his crushing power of inventive he was far too wise to be bitter; but his enthusiasm for literary law and order makes him support all that is most unlyrical in poetry.

Introduction 1920

They are like mathematical problems and solutions, sheer brain-spun and unlyrical works.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

Nicole was loud, unlyrical and intermittently obscene.

The Guardian World News Peter Conrad 2011

On this occasion Czech conductor Jiri Belohlávek is neither unlyrical nor undramatic, but more thoroughly -- well, having already mentioned two of three classical poetic modes, one could do worse than to dub Belohlávek's style here "epic".

An Unamplified Voice 2009

Reissue of this surprisingly unlyrical black and white 1967 version of James Joyce's stream of consciousness novel.

Home 2009