rollick

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Armed with an exuberantly boyish timbre, his vocals rollick through the album’s melodies with exaggerated leaps and dips.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2020

Elsewhere he compares himself to gothic writer Edgar Allen Poe, while another line says “I rollick and I frolic with all the young dudes”, a reference to David Bowie’s song All the Young Dudes.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2020

Featuring 14 actors who rollick around and amid the audience areas and band pit, channeling 60-plus characters, the staging brightens and complements Bertolt Brecht’s all-too-relevant fable about power, self-interest, callousness and social inequality.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2018

Because it’s at this point in the book that things begin to really rollick.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2014

Next thing they were up in musty blackness, swinging silver hatchets at doors that were, after all, unlocked, tumbling through like boys all rollick and shout.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury