lilting
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Returning to the Metropolitan Opera this month, the Italian classic uses the lilting three-beat form as a unifying element in its tragic drama of a woman’s struggle with Parisian polite society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
Reflecting his heritage, the music is full of Afrobeat rhythms, log drums, spiritual mantras and lilting guitar lines.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025
But Jeremy Secomb and Jacob Dickey’s exquisite rendition of “Pretty Women,” a lilting melody amid the murderous machinations of “Sweeney Todd,” deserves special commendation.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
But it was her TV ads for orange juice—featuring her own children, a cartoon bird, and a lilting jingle about the “Florida sunshine tree”—that made her the nation’s leading avatar for white-bread American wholesomeness.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025
From the rear of the building cocks screeched furiously, their cries mingling with the roar of the avenue, their cries interrupted every so often by the lilting qui-qui-ri-quí of the roosters they once were.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Vocabulary lists containing lilting
The Devil's Arithmetic
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"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan
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"American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer
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