lyrist

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Noun
  • The Calvinist priest and poet John Mason evidently assigned a date in 1694 as the start of the true millennium.
    Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • One such effort was led by Holocaust survivor, poet, and writer Abraham Sutzkever, who dedicated himself to preserving Yiddish language and culture.
    Natalia Romik / Madę by History, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The lyricist’s willingness to jump into the battle rap arena led to fans suggesting potential opponents, including battle rap veterans Murda Mook, Tay Roc, Geechi Gotti, and more.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Anita Bryant, a popular singer who became known for opposition to gay rights, dies at 84 This rock band’s lyricist?
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.
    Sarah Vitali, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Chalamet has been nominated for awards for his performance as the immortal bard at the Golden Globes and several regional critics' awards ceremonies; his fans and lookalikes can tune in tomorrow to discover whether he's been nominated for the Oscar, too.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The husky Black man from the Bronx toiled for every inch of respect, beset by toxicity and misinformation, as hairy white folk-rock and boogie-band alumni pushed similar buttons to become the de facto bards of the everyman.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • European salons were nobility inviting composers into their homes to write and play music.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Behind the camera, Skiba pulls triple duty, also serving as editor and composer.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement *** Schoenberg’s wife, Gertrud, a librettist, and son Larry established Belmont Music Publishers in 1965.
    Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The original version of Sunset Blvd., which Webber developed with librettists Don Black and Christopher Hampton in the early 1990s, premiered with director Trevor Nunn on the West End in 1993.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Something in me wants to talk about the hard rain that is falling right now, and to wonder who will step up to sing about it: who will be our minstrel of the End Times; our guiding, undeceivable voice; and so on.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In 2021 Hartzell hired an outside firm to help the university with its reputation over a racial controversy with the school song's association with old campus minstrel shows.
    Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman, 15 July 2024
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“Lyrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyrist. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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