| Her voice was mellifluous and lilting and her soft brown eyes had a hint of mischief in them. |
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| She had dressed for the occasion in a cascade of something filmy and see-through and spoke in a lilting middle-English. |
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| Her voice was strong and clear, with a lilting quality to it that one might think belonged to a professional vocalist. |
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| A gentle and lyrical andantino in triple time with a lilting rhythm and an emotional central section ended intimately, in stillness. |
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| Still, the performances were admirable for their lilting rhythmic undulance and sensitivity. |
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| On top of this was a sweet singing voice that caught the lilting melodies and highlighted the complicated passages of the music. |
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| It goes lilting into cloudless heaven like someone who is chosen for gallantry. |
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| A remake of the lilting Irving Berlin ditty Blue Skies began playing as the lights came up. |
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| The moment he started speaking in that melodious voice with its slightly lilting accent and almost perfect enunciation she was lost in its music. |
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| A lilting, deeply accented voice spoke quietly, yet it cut right through the buzz of conversation around them. |
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| She began the lyrical melody, her fingers flowing over the keys without thought, her body swaying to the lilting melody of the music. |
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| The song is Hollywood, but Hoku's voice, her face, and her smile are pure aloha, the music as lilting as Hawaiian slack-key guitar. |
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| His face would float in and out between images of ordinary men and women discovering hope, with lilting music in the background. |
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| The melody was at times slow and lilting, and other times fast-paced and merry. |
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| The crow's voice was magical and lilting, as if it were playing an instrument rather than talking. |
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| Souvenir's packed with ethereal-sounding tracks that show off the immense range of Thirsk's lilting vocals. |
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| But lilting Irish brogues and ebullient ribaldry are not enough to temper O'Casey's disgusted misanthropy. |
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| He doesn't so much speak to you as he lulls you in lilting, mellifluous tones. |
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| The four girls, Kelly, Tara and sisters Ciara and Cathy, blend pure, lilting harmonies with timeless pop melodies. |
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| Standard French is widely spoken, albeit in a distinctive, lilting French West Indian accent. |
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| The words work best as a means to an end, leaving the melodies and lilting harmonies for your foremost enjoyment. |
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| Its warmth circled the amply furnished common room it bordered, mixing with the early spring breeze lilting in through the open windows. |
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| The song started out lilting and slow, just like the original version that I already knew by heart. |
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| Interestingly, the whale songs are rhythmic and lilting, using similar scale patterns found in human music. |
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| Then to change the atmosphere he played a few festival songs, light and lilting and filling the heart with summer breezes. |
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| An attractively plump woman reclined beside a stream picking flowers to the strain of a lilting love song. |
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| The accent was thick, exotic and lilting, and sounded as if it came from the south. |
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| The pianist augments many of these mid tempo pieces with lilting harmonics, a deft right hand, and well-placed chord clusters. |
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| This track, with its lilting verses and gently lifting accordion phrase, stays in my head, tranquilizing me. |
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| The excellent score, when present, is an ethereal and lilting affair, full of upright bass and tubular bells which fit the film like a glove. |
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| Barth stood a while in the world of mirrored light, his angry breath calmed with the lilting and sighing of the slow wind. |
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| Sassy seems to be largely benevolent as most reports feature his lilting, sing-song voice drifting through the swamp. |
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| Best of the set though is the uncharacteristically breezily lilting third number. |
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| It had a soft, lilting quality to it, like somebody whose mother made them practice singing constantly. |
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| The lilting notes of Cein's flute filled the air as Edith sat amongst her ladies-in-waiting in her private solar. |
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| If you like standard contemporary Irish folk sung by a lilting soprano, here you go. |
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| I found my feet dancing to the lilting ragas of Carnatic classical music. |
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| There it climbs away from troubled pessimism for the first time in Op. 119, to create a loving, harmonious and lilting interlude. |
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| When the Allegro arrives, it is in sunny G major to a lilting theme that serves as the recurring melodic material in this rondo-form movement. |
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| The language used is simple yet lilting, and the meaning is profound. |
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| The lilting croon of a young woman singing, the soft rumble of a man. |
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| Over a lilting, haunting shuffle, the sad story of teenage soldiers and war is brilliantly illustrated with the use of dissolves and double exposure. |
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| Her approach to her work was as gentle as the lilting voice in which she chatted to the lemurs, a smiling human in a Tilley hat. |
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| Gentle brush strokes on a snare drum and soft, lilting vocals are all well and good, but pure pleasantness is apt to fall into the category of being dangerously languorous. |
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| Light, elegant and succulent, this delivers harmony and grace, with a lilting, fresh aftertaste. |
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| Château Bouissel is an environment where Négrette grapes mingle with the Autan wind, a land of plenty with lilting accents and shared delights. |
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| Sister Simone speaks with a gentle, lilting voice, but her words are pointed and direct. |
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| The very sound of her voice, with that lovely lilting accent, warmed him. |
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| He was awoken before dawn by the strange lilting sound of Ottoman bugles, and after prayers and a breakfast of melons he set off behind the Mutawwif towards the Sacred Mosque. |
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| He is undoubtedly a driving force behind the band, his lilting, liquid bass lines underpinning the more ethereal, fractured sound that surrounds them. |
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| Only by adopting their lilting, Valley Girl voice inflections can one gain their growing approval and, ultimately, an invitation to join them at a party. |
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| Lisa meets a musician named Colin whose green politics is matched by his lilting brogue. |
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| Enjoy the lilting strains of international music as you dine on memorable dishes reflecting a tasteful blend of tradition and creativity. |
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| To our surprise, several children confidently asked us questions in dramatic, lilting tones. |
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| After songs calling for social and political reforms, the album ends on a blue note with the lilting lullaby M'Bife blues. |
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| With his sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, and lilting Irish tones, Mosse clearly stuck out as a foreigner in the Congo region. |
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| They were jolly nice, and they've got this lilting kind of accent. |
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| It later softened to suggest a 1940s tea room orchestra in a Cuban-inspired movement and a lilting choros band in the closing Brazilian pastiche. |
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| The uncouth doggrel, recited in a lilting sort of measure, the peculiar and various pleasures of a canter upon a pine rail. |
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| The lilting merchant patter, the scent of joss-sticks, the profusion of cashmeres, silks and cottons, and the polysyllabic splendour of shop names all evoke the shores of Gujarat rather than Arabia. |
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| But his voice is deep, lilting, sing-song Welsh. |
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| Lavil recruited musicians directly from Trinidad and Tobago to record his new album, infusing each and every track on the album with a lilting calypso beat. |
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| Marvel once again at Bach's grasp of the human spirit, as profound as an adagio, as elaborate as a fugue, as lilting as a heartfelt song, as grand as a chaconne, as lithe as a minuet or gigue. |
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| The sun comes out in the lilting F Major pastorale. |
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| The single Au bord de l'eau heralded the arrival of Sortir this spring, giving fans a taste of what was to follow with its cinematic horns and lilting reggae beats. |
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| The work opens with a slow introduction, in a minor key, which gives way to the principal Allegro, whose single lilting theme is versatile enough that the composer can make varying use of it in the two movements that follow. |
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| The contrasting Trio section is a charming rustic dance introduced by the woodwind choir and set to the lilting long-short-long rhythm of which Schubert was so fond. |
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| As a member of the groundbreaking Soul Stirrers, a premier gospel group of the 1950s, he electrified the African American church community nationwide with a light, lilting vocal style that soared rather than thundered. |
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| With Bharat Natyam you have the precision of geometric forms, with Kuchipudi there is the grace and rhythm, and there's the lilting movements of Odissi. |
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| The final movements to many Telemann concertos, written in a lilting binary rhythm, bear witness to this influence, as in the Concerto in A minor for recorder and viola da gamba. |
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| They each had a soul as open and generous as Kovrov's wide open spaces, lilting speech with the typical local accent and an inimitable naturalness that only true proximity to nature can provide. |
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| The music of Paraguay, which consists of lilting polkas, bouncy galopas, and languid guaranias is played on the native harp. |
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| Appallingly, at nauseam it continues lilting boastfully that it has found the key to peace in dialogue that its predecessors had had so demeaningly not. |
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| The narration of Lenny Henry is extraordinary, moving from the lilting cadences of the islands to British and American enunciations as he distinguishes each character. |
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| The soft strumming of an autoharp played by Richard Scholtz, and the lilting, melodic voice of Margaret MacDonald combine to provide an engaging media for storytelling. |
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| Gently lilting verses count one Goby fish, two seahorses, three clownfishes, dolphins, sharks, stingrays, and more, until a pod of 11 whales beam through. |
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| The ukulele evokes images of simple, lilting melodies plucked by stocky entertainers in floral aloha shirts as lovers take moonlight strolls on a white sand beach. |
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| The composer played electric cello against a lilting narrative while whales, echoey sea depths and eerie cries melded with voices including truly stratospheric sopranos. |
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