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Adjective
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The festival also features a Junkanoo Parade, which features street performance filled with vibrant costumes, rhythmic drumming, horns, and cowbells.—
Taryn White,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026 -
In Tracy Arm, this rhythmic surging continued for over 24 hours.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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Not that Cantona’s own words have always been quite so lyrical.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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This aesthetic approach is in sharp contrast to the film’s otherwise crisp digital images, courtesy of the Alexa 35, which render Las Cruces into a lyrical, longing landscape evoking entire histories, in all its deep blues and soft yet stifling oranges.—
Lé Baltar,
IndieWire,
17 May 2026
Adjective
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In the end, Turn (W)here became largely a book of experimental and lyric essays, some framed as archival documents, passport stamps, and definitions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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Over the top of these more ragged edges, Llobet takes a pointillistic approach to lyric writing, favoring half-thoughts and dreamy images that coalesce into a picture of unsettled anxiety.—
Colin Joyce,
Pitchfork,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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Bach was lively, supple, and, especially in the Larghetto, generous in its songful musicality.—
Jeremy Eichler,
BostonGlobe.com,
23 Sep. 2022
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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
Adjective
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Tripping along a lilting triplet rhythm, the album opens with one of its catchiest melodies—and one of those sleight-of-hand maneuvers that are Hoop’s specialty.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
19 May 2026
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What started out as a lilting memoir of youthful abandon eventually reveals itself to be something far more disturbing and scarring.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Working with researchers from Queen’s University, the team concentrated this light into a small region, just a few nanometers wide, using a process called coherent harmonic focus.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 2026
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It’s powered by harmonic resonance technology, using rhythmic pulses to gently and effectively comb through knots.—
Gina Vaynshteyn,
StyleCaster,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In such conditions, the orchestral model does not seem relevant, as it is largely based on predictability and on the assumption that the score is predefined and followed through.—
Naira Velumyan,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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Hong Kyung-Pio’s splendid cinematography, Micheal Abel’s huge orchestral score, Kim Hanjoon’s ace visual effects, and Yoo Sang Seoob’s impressive stunt coordination all deliver on a level Hollywood might envy, and likely at a tenth of the cost.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
17 May 2026
Adjective
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The attempts by the current administration to whitewash or erase certain aspects of American history, especially the horrors of slavery, are powerfully countered by the novel’s investigation of America’s origins and its polyphonic voices.—
Time,
Time,
12 May 2026
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We are left just with voices, and those voices, in the novel’s subtle and canny repetitions, begin to merge with one another, becoming polyphonic.—
Nicholas Dames,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Songlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songlike. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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