adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Baudo is much more lyrical in style.
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It made the timbre of my voice sweeter, gentler, the cadences more lyrical .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wax sentimental/eloquent/lyrical etc
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Before waxing lyrical about types of communication we need firstly to appreciate the uniqueness of the hotel environment.
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In the pub, beer glass in hand, he waxed lyrical about how he would spend his earnings.
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Marie Claire devoted last October's issue to the disease, and carried photos of topless celebrities waxing lyrical about their assets.
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Only don't wax sentimental over their hospitality, just thinking of it gives me indigestion.
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Second, it was the theological uses of mathematics on which Bacon waxed eloquent.
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They waxed lyrical on the virtues of introducing business-like methods and improving resource management.
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You're waxing lyrical about the M25 and the hopelessness of building more roads.
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You didn't even wax lyrical about the incredibly romantic island we could see from the cliff-top at the cape.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cynthia Kadohota's lyrical first novel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He has recreated the mood of his beloved Provence in a lyrical mural of clustered vines.
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He was its poet and its prophet for almost 60 years and when he died Saturday, a lyrical voice was silenced.
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His lyrical , meditative poetry speaks to nature and a sense of place.
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In 1900 he published, with R. Silyn Roberts, a book of lyrical verse entitled Telynegion.
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Only the small, nonconformist fraternity were concerned with private and lyrical values.
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Some have ideas for lyrical language.
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The other residents were two friends, Marjorie and Heather, and a girl with the lyrical name of Charmian Romanis.
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The violin and cello ease into a lyrical assignment.