lilting

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Their songs weave in Irish lilting, set against a lively mix of drums, fiddles, flutes, harps, banjos, cello and concertina - skills honed over years of playing house parties, pub céilís and traditional festivals.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Returning to the Metropolitan Opera this month, the Italian classic uses the lilting three-beat form as a unifying element in its tragic drama of a woman’s struggle with Parisian polite society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

But it was her TV ads for orange juice—featuring her own children, a cartoon bird, and a lilting jingle about the “Florida sunshine tree”—that made her the nation’s leading avatar for white-bread American wholesomeness.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025

The “Chairman’s Waltz” in John Williams’ score to the 2005 film “Memoirs of a Geisha” is another lilting, lovely example of grappling onto a dance that refused to die.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

Now only a few feet away, the visitor grew louder and louder until Thomas caught a shadowed glimpse of a skinny boy limping along in a strange, lilting run.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner