lilting

1 The only upbeat tune is the lilting, calypso-inflected “Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting.”

2 Expect to hear some Granda songs at Jazz Alley, along with others Baca has made her own, performed in spare, stirring arrangements that set off a lilting, expressive voice with acoustic guitar and percussion.

3 And that voice of hers — gritty, lilting, with phrasing that suggests that efforts to reveal herself cause just as much of herself to hide — sounds not merely fearless but unafraid of fear itself.

4 They put together a rollicking trio offering wild guesses about why the hero was in trouble, then a lilting duet in which the girlfriend revealed her true complaint.

5 She is an energetic conversationalist who speaks English with a lilting Croatian accent and nimbly moves between personal anecdote and cultural analysis.

6 It was a clear, lilting noise, like the sound of a bamboo flute.

7 The former lead singer of the Ronettes delivers her lilting covers of “Frosty the Snowman,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Sleigh Ride” and other holiday fare during the latest installment of her popular Christmas show.

8 This personal story reflects the sad, often lilting melody of “Uncommon Measure,” which is written in a mostly minor key.

9 We watched three hill mynahs fly overhead when we heard the long, lilting song of the Malabar whistling thrush.

10 Best of all were the rich, familiar smells of garlic and onion and the lilting cadence of Spanish spoken by the dark-eyed waiters, who reminded Sandi of her uncles.

11 The second major component of swing was a lilting effect achieved by subtly shifting the subdivisions of the given four-in- a-bar beat.

12 It's a font of glorious melodies propelled by lilting rhythms that keeps pulling the ear into musical pleasure.

13 The sewer drains thundered liltingly; the streets shone like glazed candy.

14 She can’t tell me, but I can tell by the cadence of her sentence — the lilting highs that her voice used to reach whenever she needed to summon optimism when I was a boy.

15 “There you are,” she said in her soft, lilting voice.

16 The appeal of slack key on the mainland isn’t hard to understand: the lilting sweetness and chiming resonance, the airy ease and impressive technique.

17 Time was when the lilting incantations of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas were viewed as visionary outpourings of a holy bohemian by audiences entranced by his mellifluous voice.

18 What remained was indeed vinegar, but it still tasted overpowering rather than gentle and lilting, like Tony’s.

19 The music traverses the Americas, from old school hip-hop to Andean flutes, and Ms. Tijoux’s tough-minded rhymes lead into lilting choruses.

20 He is taller, smarter and possessed of social skills not seen in Turnbow men: handsome, Harvard educated, African-American with a lilting Virgin Islands accent, and named after poets.

1 动听的

sweet euphonious

2 轻快

light round smart sharp airy swinging chipper springy limber facile birdlike tripping rakish slippy lightsome volante lightly sweetly briskly rakishly breezily jauntily vite trippingly spring briskness sprightliness lively brisk snappy spanking sprightly smartly rattling liveliness

3 轻快的

light round smart sharp airy swinging chipper springy limber facile birdlike tripping rakish slippy lightsome volante lively brisk snappy spanking sprightly rattling

4 抑扬顿挫

cadence lilt singsong

5 抑扬顿挫的

singsong