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Noun
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The poet, who died in 1976, injects mournful omniscience into explorations of heartache.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025 -
Apparently Gabriele D’Annunzio, the poet, saw her and thought, this woman is my muse.—
Dodie Kazanjian,
Vogue,
14 Mar. 2025
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Her second film, The Lyricist Wannabe, is a semi-autobiographical comedy drama about a young woman attempting to become a Canto-pop lyricist.—
Liz Shackleton,
Deadline,
16 Mar. 2025
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The unlikely revolutionaries The lyricist is named Ayman al-Masri, 52.—
Jawad Rizkallah,
NPR,
5 Mar. 2025
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Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2022
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Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.—
Sarah Vitali,
Harper's magazine,
10 May 2019
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2022
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But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 June 2018
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The performance combines puppetry, music, projections, and poetry to illuminate the legacy of Ukraine's blind bards.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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The development of modern Ukrainian literature was spearheaded by Taras Shevchenko, a former serf who would become the national bard.—
Karina Zaiets,
USA TODAY,
13 Dec. 2013
Noun
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The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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Richmond's accomplishments as a composer are as staggering as Fey's — who's won three Emmys out of 18 nominations — as a comedic actor.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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The following year, her suspicions proved correct, when Olson showed up on behalf of her then-husband, the lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner, nominated for 1951’s An American in Paris.—
Seth Abramovitch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Feb. 2025
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Robinson, an American tap dancer, actor, and singer, began his career in minstrel shows and moved to vaudeville, Broadway, the recording industry, films, radio, and television.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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However, the success of what many Latinos consider a 21st-century minstrel show (complete with a European protagonist’s fair complexion conspicuously darkened to play Mexican) lies not in artistic license but a kind of cinematic arbitrage.—
Giancarlo Sopo,
IndieWire,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Lyrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyrist. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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