lilting


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Synonyms for lilting

characterized by a buoyant rhythm

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For a completely different mood, "Beachside Step" features a playful, lighthearted motive, staccatos and lilting rhythms throughout.
Mesmerizing, lilting rhyming language and startling black silhouettes, imposed on sunset-colored background, combine to make this picture book a unique reading experience.
With programming taking a supporting role, Gilberto creates an elegant dreamland where lilting acoustic guitar provides the heartbeat and her warm, caressing voice is so intimate it's almost unsettling.
THIS is a lilting,luminous and lyrical narrative of a young girl who, with her father and four ``uncles'',is plucked from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego.
And then it was the turn of the South Africans and the lilting notes of Cose Sikelele.
The artist maintains the atmosphere of erotic camaraderie and lilting corruption while refining the terms under which beauty and authority entwine.
Dwayne DeRosario grew up in Canada, and now lives in San Jose, California, but everything about him, from his lilting patois and Rastafarian dreadlocks, to his diet, has roots in the West Indian culture of Guyana, where his parents were born.
Motson was established as the true sound of Britain's national sport as his lilting tones matched the first ever blueprint for commentary.
Larger and lusher than Belgium, and imbued with a local culture enriched by lilting Carimbo music and Indian folklore, this once was a place with little future.
Noddy Holder will be greeting visitors in his lilting Black Country tones when they push buttons in lifts at the gallery.
Rost's voice is hauntingly beautiful, lilting and lyrical, yet with requisite power for big climactic moments.
But since Garlick and Mathias select from a span of five centuries, it is actually John Stuart Williams and Meic Stephens's volume The Lilting House (1969) that Abse's anthology most exactly replaces as the up-to-date selection of modern Anglo-Welsh poetry.
Now, the Shanghai-born Cheng, who signed a seven-year contract at Shaw Brothers studios in Hong Kong in 1963, and has worked mainly in the marital arts genre, finds herself in quite a different tale--Sundance opener "Lilting" a drama about an immigrant woman who has to face the death of the son on whom she depends, and the discovery of his homosexuality.