The singer's voice was muffled by the thick walls, yet Tyrion knew the verse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One of the two sources Danny had quoted contained a biblical verse, and his father asked him who else had based a law upon this verse. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But he listened and picked up on the verses and chorus. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She sang the next verse in a whisper and then said, “When Toby’s up, pick out your best school clothes.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Then from his sack he took out a music pipe—a recorder, he called it—and began to play the same melody, after which he sang the verse again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

This was extraordinary, but we were too well versed in the devious ways of the state to celebrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Same with these. They all send us into the Religion section to find that Bible verse.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

About midway through the first verse, Nathan tested his ability and saw a fish the size of a car swimming near them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, someone repeated the verse from Zechariah that Denmark had quoted: “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh .... and the city shall be taken.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not. The hook’s catchy, the verses are good. You ain’t put that online yet?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hawkins led them through a dozen verses, each one faster and more spirited than the first. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As verse succeeded verse the voices thrilled with an ever intenser excitement. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Romans, the ninth chapter and the thirteenth verse. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised his staff, but Piper launched into another verse of‘Summertime’. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Barbee cried, slapping his hands, "Ha! Singing verse after verse, until the leader revived!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reprinted on the first page of Anorak's Almanac were the four rhyming lines of verse Halliday had recited in the Invitation video. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Only then did he learn that his verses had not been burned. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe the same man had written those two verses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One verse went: Sir, give me a piece of bread, Look at me, so pale and dead. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last contestant is a thirteen-year-old girl from Sheboygan, who is also really good as she recites the final verses of the Quran. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Joe’s plan was to sing “Malaguena Salerosa” so soulfully, mournfully, sadly, and beautifully that after the first verse he would need a rowboat in order not to drown in the mob’s tears. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred full verses exactly copied out in longhand, because it is the final one that reveals your crime. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The construction of his verse was often clumsy, possibly because strict deadlines meant he had to work so quickly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Although she had been raised on Bible verses, she now spoke of God mostly in metaphor: “Spring spells God, and God is Love.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In another verse assigned to Nezahualcoyotl this theme emerged even more baldly: Like a painting, we will be erased. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She’s ready to read the last few verses when in comes the nurse from Kerry shouting at her, shouting at me, I told ye there was to be no talking between rooms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The rest of the morning goes great—everyone writes their ideas on the whiteboard, and we join verses and borrow words from each other. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Basically, both Bloom and Sherri Pope were talented, educated, sensitive people who, before their marriage, had been so completely versed as social beings that neither could muster the guts to face up to anything. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote Bible verses on anything he could find—small slips of paper, the back of train schedules, pay stubs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixteen verses, no more. And oh, Lord! I had forgotten how dreadful it is—no single tone of encouragement. Maybe Liza’s right. There’s nothing to understand.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’re not old-school Catholics who live by the Bible and conveniently ignore all the verses that contradict the hate coming out of their mouths. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Raised letters of the word “Friendship” hung above a blue and yellow bouquet of flowers and were repeated inside above a verse. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave us her answer with a verse from the Holy Quran. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Having spent that much, Lyddie squandered fifty pence more to get the child a beginning reader and a small paper volume of verses that the bookseller recommended. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced up briefly and scowled again before turning back to whatever verse he was laboring over. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"It's the first verse from the holy Koran. You do know that it is our holy book?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

From my spot on the floor in my parents’ room, I recited a special verse from the Holy Quran, the Ayat al-Kursi. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I stepped to the lectern and began delivering the speech I had written in verse. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

After we sang a welcoming song from the Catholic Hymnal, Mother Lucy read Matthew chapter five up to verse eleven, and then we sang the national anthem. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Izzy wrapped up with a triumphant and brutal verse rhyming spastic, sarcastic, and less than fantastic, and the crowd erupted in thunderous applause. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Chester chirped the second verse of “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and finished with a soaring “Amen.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they drew huge multicolored doves, butterflies, and bloody flowers, with hand-lettered verses by the Poet and appeals for the people to unite. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He puts a hand over his heart and croons the first verse. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The last verse was the furthest from the original song. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he is in the trance of a thousand-year-old verse. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Underwood, who in his time had published memorial verses of indeterminate variety, said he still couldn’t print this because it was blasphemous and didn’t scan. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He starts the second verse, swaying his shoulders and looking at me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He wished he could sing and actually tried a verse but his voice was so bad it didn’t feel right. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they run out of hands, the children pull their left hand out from the bottom of the pile in turn and place on top, continuing until the end of the verse. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She taught him verses and whole chapters of the Bible which she had memorized. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the attic she had struggled with the words, pressed on, doubled back to difficult verses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then the convicted assassin chanted verses he had composed a few hours before. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Scripture reading was from Matthew, twenty-fifth chapter, thirtieth verse through the forty-sixth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad once told me about the poetic symmetry of the verse. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I thought you might not know all the words, it being the fourth verse.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She is so out there that it takes me a while to realize how versed she is in theater, how effective a teacher and director she is, and how deeply Volpe relies on her. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then Donal began shoveling dirt into the open grave while Shady read aloud the verse that had been engraved on the tombstone. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dicey would have said no, but after Maybeth had sung through one verse of Momma’s song about the cherry that has no stone, she joined in, and James did too. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought Pilate’s only acquaintance with the Bible was the getting of names out of it, but she quoted it, apparently, verse and chapter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Neola might grow tired of the constraint the verses imposed on her own voice and select a child to light a match for her cigarette. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed morning namaz while Soraya slept—I didn’t have to consult the prayer pamphlet I had obtained from the mosque anymore; the verses came naturally now, effortlessly. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Europeans were well versed in the brutal logic of quarantine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“By the second verse her face was red as the songbook,” Miss Effie Belle said proudly. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A few verses of “Auld Lang Syne” were sung and some had imbibed enough brandy that much of the event will be “never brought to mind.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I struck the beginning chord of Savien’s verse and I heard a piercing sound that pulled me out of the music like a fish dragged from deep water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It bubbled, and then it ceased bubbling, and both of them sipped it and laughed, and each of the brothers found the verse and the poetry inside himself that he had never let out. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The singers joined him when he returned to the second verse. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The first verse about the hunters coming and the horns blowing and the scarlet coats went really fast. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

By the second verse, he’s warmed up and throwing me cheesy pop star looks with eyebrow raises, penetrating stares, and pouty lips. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would peek into the classroom where she was studying and he would just watch her studying as she pored over the verses from the Quran, her glasses sliding down her nose. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Afterwards we played our old childhood game, opening the Bible and teasing a fortune out of whatever verse our hands landed on. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s recollection of his own reaction has been oft repeated; he claimed that a verse from the Sanskrit Bhagavad Gita leaped into his mind: “ ‘Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A singing game is an activity based on a song verse, which has actions or movements associated with it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Upon hearing the final verse, the urge to weep pierced me like a knife in the gut. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You have to memorize ten Bible verses plus the books of the Old and New Testaments. And it’s a park.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He read the verse, which he had copied so carefully from the blackboard that it looked like Mrs. Oguike’s handwriting, and then closed his eyes and recited it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He reluctantly releases her, following as she walks through the trees, reading bits of verse on branches and trunks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To be a scythe, he explained, meant that one had to be well versed in all methods. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Midway through the first verse, Mrs. Walton joins in with her thunderous piano playing, and the auditorium is instantly transformed into Cotton Temple. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On it was written the third verse of "America, the Beautiful": America! The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still know those verses, but I learned them out of.. .not out of love for God but just out of... what?... The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The verses of your son who was the poet were very popular in Rome,’ the angel said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are reputed to be well versed in magical healing, divination, archery and astronomy. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you are repeating large sections in more informally written music, you may simply find instructions in the music such as "to refrain," "to bridge," "to verses," etc. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My nanni used to tell me that this was one of the most powerful verses of the Quran. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The sad singing started again and they sang the same sad verse twice. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke some verses from the Koran, and moved on. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Round and round he skipped, repeating the verse over and over. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I touched the arm of the man ahead, seeing him turn, his mouth halting in a verse of the song. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father quoted a Bible verse about the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the book of verses off the nightstand and shut it in the bag, then took it out again. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was reciting verses from the Holy Quran as tears streamed down her face. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I consulted Pim, and a week ago we set to work writing a verse for each person. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I flipped over and stuck my finger on the verse that I had memorized gleefully. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt somehow that they must abide by the rules of the verse, waiting until day’s first hour on the night of the full moon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Now she had only the Bible to read to them, but there was far more between those black covers than the verses Uncle Matthew favored. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’re that busy I’m sure. But it’s interesting, just the same. In keeping with what you were quoting there in your Romans, chapter twelve. You remember the third verse, do you not?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This song does not have a refrain, but the verses themselves accumulate lyrics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, you don’t have anything but a stupid list of stupid books and stupid authors and a stupid Bible verse....” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

When we finish the verse, she lets me continue the song alone and steps away from my shadow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When Dad read the verse to his mother, she laughed in his face. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Apologizing, he whispered a Bible verse, and we sat quietly listening to Grandma India say the special prayer. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s voice got nicer with every verse, and at the end of every one the sugarhouse was as full of singing as it was of steam. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t decide on any move, so I recited a few Bible verses, and went home. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guyard the Green, who fancied himself a singer, diddled a harp and gave them a verse about tying lions' tails in knots, parts of which rhymed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Only in your mind. Don’t hum the melody or whisper the verse. You and those around you will live longer,” Wind Being said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A Sunday school verse came back to me: They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Twice by now, but she didn’t know every single word of every single verse. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The young lady, however, seemed slightly bored with her own singing ability, or perhaps just with the time and place; twice, between verses, I saw her yawn. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I’m completely floored once Thaya Jaan starts to recite the familiar verses and finally understand where I got my musical talent. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him, arising from the smoke of the sacrifices, emanating from the verses of the Rig-Veda, trickling through from the teachings of the old Brahmins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were just two or three Bible verses he had copied. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had always found this verse, which was a metaphor for the glory of God, to be deeply moving. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Good. I reply, verse is 'made.' But the word 'make' is unsufficient for a true poem. 'Create' is unsufficient. All words are insufficient. Because of this. The poem exists before it is written.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now that we were no longer stringing beads, I entertained Tanu after supper by reading Tagore’s poems aloud, although the older widows said I would have done better to read the sacred verses. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only upon reaching that one-hundredth verse do you finally understand you are being punished for the sin of insolence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang with his whole body, phrasing each verse as naturally as he walked, his voice rising above all the others, blending with that of the lucid horn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know a limping verse when I hear it,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Too much knowledge had hindered him; too many holy verses, too many sacrificial rites, too much mortification of the flesh, too much doing and striving. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

This particular ritual of my parents’ was actually a thing I loved; I’d spent many nights sitting at the kitchen table with my parents, moved to tears by a particularly powerful line of verse. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tonight, for the first time, she caught the beauty of the ancient Hebrew verses. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I also included a full copy of the lyrics, along with two new verses and full musical notation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And instead of buying Ma a new prayer book, I helped Pa make an audio file of him reciting her favorite Bible verses to listen to every morning. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

There were prayers at sunup and sundown, at the breakfast table and dinner table, followed by a Bible verse from each member of the family. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the Georgia sun, Connelly had recited verses while scourging field hands for infractions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He’d stand on the pulpit, handkerchief in hand, wrestling with the Bible verses like a man possessed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we’re well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When we listen to a song, a musical phrase usually accompanies a phrase of lyrics; a verse or refrain emerges from a short poem. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The class, preferring verse that rhymed at the end of lines, was silent, not knowing what to think of Gloria’s poem. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I sure wasn’t in the mood to memorize Bible verses. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

This one told her to perform headstands, that one to chant Vedic verses at specified intervals throughout the day. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Not really, I couldn’t get the poem to go anywhere. I was going to throw it out, but now it’s the first verse of our song.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Inside was a little gift for everyone, including an appropriate verse. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For many hours, balancing on the edge of the surprises of a war with no future, in rhymed verse he resolved his experience on the shores of death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He sang through all the verses and wagged his foot to the time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“So while we’re here in the temple of Christian coffee, do you still have the snake verse memorized?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Nehemia might not be fully versed in their language, but she was smart enough to know the power of saying those two words. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Will and George were doing well in business, and Joe was writing letters home in rhymed verse and making as smart an attack on all the accepted verities as was healthful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Very few high school directors could be more versed in theater, more knowing about what the finished product should look like. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The organ turned to a melancholy last hymn, playing too slowly; after four verses, it sighed to silence a phrase or two behind the congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“The last verse says he’s old and hasn’t been able to return.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She shivered when she heard that he was singing the last verse of “Molly Malone.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not just a few notes, but whole songs with multiple verses, if you had the patience to sing them and if they liked your voice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One verse of “Come Wash,” a verse I had never heard before, which I suspect she made up on the spot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was quite well versed in being the odd girl out in every situation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The sound was almost overwhelming, but it faded appropriately when I sang the first verse. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just Leviticus—the secondhand clothes I owned were mixed of wool and flax, and if I searched through the verses, I was certain I’d find a dozen other infractions I was guilty of. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We have to hurry,” my dad says when my mom finishes the short verse. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And I remember that during the services it was just row after row of old people repeating some verses, painful organ music, a lengthy sermon that was hard for me to follow. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She remembered a verse from the Koran that Mullah Faizullah had taught her: And Allah is the East and the West, therefore wherever you turn there is Allah’s purpose . A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Also I want Hoyt to read some verses I am going to copy on another sheet and put in with this letter. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The pig was the boar who'd killed him, Sansa knew, but in some verses it almost sounded as if he were singing about the queen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I recited a verse from the Chubb Rock song as it blared out of the car’s speakers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Same song, different verse,” I tell Mateo before going on about the screeching tires, the way we busted through the road’s safety rail and tumbled into the river.... They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looked into a spartan bedroom with a neatly made bed, a cross-stitch with a Bible verse above the bed, a Bible on the nightstand, and almost nothing else. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to go right into the hook and then do the verses Dee-Nice wrote. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But Kaede only glanced down at random, and the verses made little sense out of context. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Read the letters from home along with singing the new verses of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It might consist of a terse statement of law, or a question on the statement, an answer to the question, a brief or lengthy commentary on a Biblical verse, and so on. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In one more verse, surely they will have captured the melody, as it’s simple and repeats four times with little variation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There was wonderful wisdom in these verses; all the knowledge of the sages was told here in enchanting language, pure as honey collected by the bees. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The verses were in Spanish, and I had a feeling I was going to end this reading session with a headache. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The verse was signed Rosencrantz, the name perfectly executed by Hamlet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Father was plainly ready to call a halt to this battle of the Bible verses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three more verses, and each seemed to be faster than the one before it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I hid my books in a bag in our guest room, where it seemed safest, and whispered some Quranic verses over the books to protect them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember when you read us the sixteen verses of the fourth chapter of Genesis and we argued about them?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before too long folk were taking initiative to sing out their own verses when the chorus was over. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So Nina taught her the words, and they sang together, fumbling through the verses, hopelessly out of key, until the lanterns burned low. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He remembered the last verse he sang and began again. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His weapons of choice were brief dialogues and verse. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

If the song was being done properly, with both a man and a woman alternating the verses, the song was further complicated by the female’s counter harmony in the refrains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom pulled a volume of poetry from our bookshelf and began to read the verses out loud. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie remembered the last time Papa had said anything to her was that night when he came home sober singing the last verse of “Molly Malone.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read a few verses from it and then make a special dua for him. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Would Hamlet consider the verse clever or merely forced? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The play was demanding because the dialogue was in blank verse. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

‘But I am Aragorn, and those verses go with that name.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just a chapter from the Bible, from Matthew, with a single verse set apart in bold: O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘We just been to Sunday School and church. Baby, say the verse from the Bible you learned for your Uncle Biff.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the Arabic verse from the Quran on top of our front door. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then she scrunched up her face and chanted one of her memorized lines of prophecy: 'The fall of the sun, the final verse.' Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t really decided which Bible verses to recite. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They settled down an appreciable amount, and began inventing obscene verses to “Tinker Tanner.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Would you ever give us a verse of that song you sang the night before you went to America? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I closed the book without finishing the verse, afraid that if I kept reading, my voice would truly become Yakov’s. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Together we sing the first verse in a low key, just as we’ve practiced. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There are verses, a hook, and a bridge. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

No one stirred or spoke until Ekheneos broke the spell—an old man, eldest of the Phaiakians, an oracle, versed in the laws and manners of old time. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you found a verse in his journal that led you to an ancient Bible in the school’s library.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to make him laugh and quickly shut it as he continues to masterfully glide through the verses. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Read me another verse, the last one, Corinthians thirteen.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And yours?” said Bigwig, to the doe who had spoken the verses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorrento recites the words on the gate in Latin. And Elvish. And Klingon. Then they get hung up on reciting First Corinthians 13:13, a Bible verse that contains the words ‘charity, hope, and faith.’ Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up her Bible and read aloud the verse that cleared away the tears in her eyes: “And Ethiopia shall stretch forth her wings.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had made up songs before; I had even helped my father compose a verse or two. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he woke up, he repeated what little he could remember, a verse from Hebrews about Enoch: “Taken up so he should not see death; and he was not found.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone holds hands and circles to the left on the first verse, right on the second, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed, ballad sellers began to cry out new and final verses to the notorious life of Hold-Your-Nose Billy and his partner, Cutwater. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

But these verses went to his heart as Silverweed’s had not. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get the poet offstage. Twelve verses is enough....” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

With the fire shining in his hair, he sang “Tinker Tanner,” more verses than anyone had heard before, and no one minded in the least. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

TVs a child I thought nothing of it, but when I became an adolescent, I began to read the verses on the tombstones with a certain pleasant melancholy. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see your father is well versed in the works of Herman Melville.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“In First Corinthians, chapter ten, verse twenty-three, it says ‘All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient,’ Father, how can all things be lawful unto Him? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Answering each other from yard to yard with a verse or its variation. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did they read a verse from the Bible every night and fall on their knees to pray? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I took the Bible, pencil, paper, and a rhyming dictionary and tried to write verses for hymns. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always repeats the third verse and laughs so hard she’s crying and I don’t know why. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The next verse was sung with deep, growling passion. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then I gestured expectantly toward the table to sing a verse of their own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My first verse starts, and Malik’s eyebrows meet. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A teenage virgin, the Oracle told the future, speaking the first metered verse in history. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After a few verses of Brent singing, the chorus started, and Momma’s voice filled up every inch of the truck. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And they so impressed him with this that he wrote glib verses to prove it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If they got the door opened before he finished the verse, they won. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat up and waited for the children to begin the verse again. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way, with my vocal cords as my instrument, I glide through the verses, wavering slightly at first, but getting stronger as I continue. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When Courtney Speed described him to me a few years later, she said, “Charisma! Woo! I mean, cream of the smooth! Very well versed and knew something about everything.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Two verses from the end of the song, the end came. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Corner was a creepy car lot/gun shop with a small blinking sign on wheels that displayed a different Bible verse each month. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed out various curiosities and was well versed in the history of the region. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a cassette player, a man’s nasal voice chanted verses from the Koran. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Citra realized that being “well versed” meant she would have to participate in various types of gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Like Emily Dickinson, I ain’t afraid of slant rhyme / And that’s the end of this verse; emcee’s out on a high.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Free verse is what her language arts teacher called it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Wrote it last night. Got your verses, the hook, everything.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It also reminded me of my wedding, when I had repeated endless Sanskrit verses after the priest, verses I barely understood, which joined me to my wife. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first verse she was nodding, by the end of the second she was humming, and by the end of the third she was singing along. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The verse at the end is taken from the Alexandrian poet Moschus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finished the first verse and one chorus, we jogged down to the locker room. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now that she was awake and could speak for herself, Cora told her host that the verses were unnecessary. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He tapped on my door, sang a verse loudly just outside. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The average American, for example, can distinguish easily between the verses and refrain of any pop song, but will have trouble recognizing what is going on in a piece of music for Balinese gamelan. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“That verse refers to the children of Israel.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she asked, “Why would he give you that verse so many times? I never got that one.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I twiddle about with lines of verse now and then, but it’s only a hobby. In any case, thank you for indulging me.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In Sahagun’s reconstruction, the Franciscans speak first, their interpreters struggling to make European concepts clear in Nahuatl verse, the language of high discourse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Likewise, Adele’s 2008 cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Make You Feel My Love’ ends each line of the first verse on two anticipated beats: ‘blowing in your face ... on your case . . . warm embrace’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Liyana and her mother led a few verses of “Angels We Have Heard On High.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re having guests, so I want you to teach the girls all the verses to ‘You Are My Sunshine.’” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Various skits were performed, and I gave a reading of a dozen or so verses from Tennyson’s “In Memoriam.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seamus says a man in his pub knew all the verses of the highwayman poem and it has a very sad end. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Later his family had a headstone put in place that bore this warning verse: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

That following Thursday night, when I joined my friends at the hotel for beer, I pulled out my crude verses and laid them on the table. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tanisha screams, and she breaks out into a pop and lock when the second verse comes on. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Carved in every step were the words to a different verse from the Book of Changes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Lord God Almighty, Weiser, are you an idiot? She will not produce anything worth reading when she’s in this state. Look—this is verse. English doggerel. Pages and pages of it!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Exodus is the second book of the Bible. Twenty and fifteen are the chapter and verse.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Nat repeated the opening verse of the Book of John: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one verse a donkey speaks: I, said the donkey, shaggy and brown, I carried His mother up hill and down, I carried her safely to Bethlehem town, I, said the donkey, shaggy and brown. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I listen to Baba recite the verses from the Quran, his melodious voice washing over me in gentle waves. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

With this verse in mind and a hopeful prayer in my heart I entered the halls of Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he encouraged me to recite the opening verses of the Quran. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I was a bit quiet at first, nervous, but I built up the volume as I hit the second verse of the hymn. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Even in such a voice, the verses touched me: “I am the words, thou the melody; I the seed, thou the bearer; the heaven I, the earth thou.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When his father started to read from Proverbs, Turner was surprised at how many verses about rebellious children he had been able to collect on such short notice. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Samuel Stearns summed up their feelings in a bit of awkward verse: “This mortal Plague at thy command / And thou thereby hast humbled sinful man!” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Her voice seems to materialize out of nowhere, reciting verses with precision and rhythm. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Father’s voice was strong as the congregation moved on to the second verse. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Turner played hymn after hymn, repeating a few verses when she hummed to the chorus, taking care to avoid the ones that suggested the pleasures of leaving this weary world. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

That’s weird obviously, the talking-corpse bit, but it’s not until the third verse that “The Hanging Tree” begins to get unnerving. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In 1823 when the Old Testament appeared with the verse “And Rebekah arose with her camels”—instead of damsels—it was known as the Camel’s Bible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bob Dylan whispered the opening verse of “Forever Young” through the speakers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I doubt whether chance could possibly succeed in producing even a single verse! The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘You know you are never tired of reciting your own verses. But really we cannot answer your question at one hearing!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Since Aunt Ivy had been reluctant to trade in her wood cookstove, I was well versed in how to use one, at least for cooking; baking was beyond me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to tell me if a line was off or hype me up when a verse was good. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The most important reason why you lose it is by neglecting this art, while the way to acquire it is to be well versed in this art. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

We read the Psalms and other verses from the Bible. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Above the grimed crescent of his fingernail was the verse, “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when he heard her humming to it, he played the second verse, and then the third, and while his fingers took on the chorus, he turned to look at her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Recite chapter three, verse thirteen, from the Book of the Six.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

How aptly the verses suited the forest scene, I thought. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Father replied, “You might look to verse twenty-eight there, sir. ‘From the point of view of the good news they are treated as enemies of God.’” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or if he wrote his own verses, or stole lines and passed them off as his own. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was a man well versed in the ways of animals. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan finished the first verse, which took fifteen minutes to sing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Therefore,” verse eighteen had gone on to rub it in, “hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That whoever recited this verse would be under God’s protection. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I had never heard the hymn, but I kept hoping it was one with a dozen or more verses. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes and scanned the verse to make sure he had missed nothing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he was preaching, leaping from one Bible verse to the next. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was not well versed in American history, but I had learned the basics in school in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I moved to a nearby table as I finished my second verse and led the room in the chorus again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One thing boys and girls growing up in Cold Sassy know a lot of is Bible verses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Tateh had no patience, and he’d often stop you in the middle of your verse to scold or slap you if you showed disinterest in the Bible. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burger, who was better versed in the political intricacies of the Nazi regime than the others, explained the infighting among the organizations for power and dominance. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They traced interesting names on some of them, like Mehitable and Josephus, and even gruesome verses about dying. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Because she could not read, my mother always requested that I read her several verses every night before she went to sleep. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling for the first time that I could speak to listening ears, I wrote a wild, crude poem in free verse, coining images of black hands playing, working, holding bayonets, stiffening finally in death ... Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early days of his youth he was sent to serve as a soldier under Paulo Vitelli, so that, once he was versed in that discipline, he might attain some outstanding military rank. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

In what book, chapter, and verse can we read about a winner of a beauty contest becoming a queen? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Celia, clearly not well versed in the way of certain Indian families, could not seem to wrap her head around this fact. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Finally Deacon McNair said, “Well, you don’t have to tell us a Bible story, Billy. Just recite a verse from the Bible.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a naughty child, I was well versed in Xhosa threats. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And wanting to sing a verse from the alma, which I thought meant “soul.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly seen as a worthwhile pursuit for a man in line for the throne, scribbling verses about quarter-life angst,” Henry says dryly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Many verses of the holy books, above all the Upanishads of Sama-Veda spoke of this innermost thing. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had kneeled on the prayer rug, remembering only fragments of verses I had learned in school. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could quote you anything from those pages, chapter and verse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I step over a draped arm and a woman with her mouth hanging open, and hum the beginning of the next verse of the song under my breath. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

With that last verse, Papa Legba’s cigar lights up, the streetlight buzzes, and as if God suddenly threw a blanket over this part of Detroit, a heavy cloud blocks the sun and it becomes dark. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They went on with several verses, the boy in the middle doing his imitation of an airplane. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sailors stymied her both times, versed in the schemes and inclinations of chattel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Looks kind of like free verse, doesn’t it?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I read through the page, paying extra attention to the flow and rhythm of the verses. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I have wondered, incidentally: does Our Father have his Bibles so entirely in mind that he can select an instructive verse and calculate backward to the one-hundredth previous? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

You should imagine yourself walking through the verse, he said, stopping at the chiasmus, the middle line: He knows that which is in front of them and that which is behind them. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As he sat down ready to pronounce the Om, Siddhartha softly recited the verse: ”Om is the bow, the arrow is the soul, Brahman is the arrow’s goal At which one aims unflinchingly.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman said nothing as she passed by me but started singing the second verse of “Yankee Doodle” in a strong voice, which I thought curious indeed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The preacher is quoting verses from the Bible, and the family is weeping, and everyone is weeping, even Amanda Monk and some of the cheerleaders. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem to mind their off-key voices, although Gregor could feel the muscles in Ares’s neck getting tighter with each verse. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, we get chapter and verse on being bad daughters. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She even carried a copy of this verse in her purse, on a little laminated card. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We didn’t even charge her ten cents a verse, as we used to back home. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first prostration, I prayed the Quran verse “Say He is God, the one and only”; the second prostration: “Say O you who are unbelievers, I worship not that which you worship. ...” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take the first verse; you can take the second,” she says. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The song “Rattlin’ Bog” has a refrain with verses that accumulate. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She coaxed a few words from Rachel, and the suggestion of a smile, when she read aloud from the book of verses. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As each verse ended, the contrabands threw up their hands and shouted, “Glory! Glory! Glory!” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just can’t believe the loveliness of loving you” is how the first verse of “Sugar, Sugar” goes. Where Punk Rock Begins 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The arch verse no less than the ruffs and pantaloons too often turn Cyrano into a preening fop, which is exactly what he isn’t. Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

That these words unfurl to the same lulling melody that propels the first verse somehow captures the fateful randomness of a life changed in an instant. Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching “Book of Travelers” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

As a folk singer-songwriter, he has proved that a sharp sense of humor can make for verses more durable than earnest self-examination. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

So when Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean start rapping in their songs, it isn’t because they have dreams of a guest verse on a Rick Ross album. Country-music fans get what they want. Even if what they want is Motley Crue

“Everybody hates a tourist,” Cocker says in the song’s climactic third verse. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

Annie, like the other characters, also moves effortlessly from sinewy prose into sung verse in a way that makes words dance. Remember Arden 2012-11-26T16:22:18Z

Chances are, however, that you still remember whatever scraps of verse you did learn by heart and can repeat at least some of it today. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

“I had the two verses to ‘Always on My Mind’ for a year,” Mr. Carson said in a recorded interview for a book on songwriting. Wayne Carson, songwriter who penned ballad ‘Always on My Mind,’ dies at 72 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

The delicate branches of her verse run you along a harrowing borderline of substance and illusion. Natasha Trethewey’s Poems Take Wing on Intimate Details 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Titled "All Sorts of Sports", the draft story details the plethora of sporting choices available to its indecisive hero, Pete, in an instantly recognisable Seuss verse, accompanied by doodled illustrations. Lost Dr Seuss manuscript comes up for auction 2010-10-18T14:31:00Z

It's certainly not just a modern love affair: Aldous Huxley once claimed that if you took the avifauna out of English verse you would have to dispose of half the poetic canon. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z

While we were at producer Harold Faltermeyer’s Red Deer Studios in Munich, Germany, I wrote the last verse on a typewriter. ‘Being Boring’: the Path to a Pop Elegy 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

A sassy flute tauntingly hovers over things, and Musgraves’s first verse begins with a vicious quatrain that captures the fracture in a nutshell: The Kacey Musgraves Divorce Hour 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

The key to a certain kind of songwriting, it’s been said, is to deliver blues in the verse and gospel in the chorus. Scorching, Sophisticated New Work From Two of America’s Leading Poets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Either way, please share your thoughts in verse here. Poster poems: the sun 2013-06-07T13:28:26Z

In the middle of Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap track “Lost” was a memorable verse by an up-and-coming Chicago rapper named Noname Gypsy. The 7 Female Rappers You Should Be Listening To Right Now 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

The Koran, approximately containing around 6,300 verses, is traditionally written in the Naskhi font, which is designed to be easy to read and write. Calligrapher pens Koran in complex Arabic Diwani font 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

The psychedelic whimsy of "Waterfall" floats off into free verse and loses its anchor. Review: Yoakam shows how it's done on '3 Pears' 2012-09-17T16:10:09Z

That was always a mystery to me, because so many classic children’s books are written in verse. Anna Dewdney, creator of ‘Llama Llama’ series for young readers, dies at 50 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hollander later dismissed his earlier poetry as “verse essay” or “epigram literature.” John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z

They had similar layouts with short verses of amazing banality arguing their worthy cause. Poems on the Underground: copycats and controversies 2013-01-09T06:10:01Z

Honestly, I wasn’t sure if what I had written down was a verse or a chorus. Bernie Taupin Tells the Story Behind 1972’s ‘Rocket Man’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

And on “Rope,” a single from the band’s 2011 album, “Wasting Light,” Mr. Hawkins’s precisely syncopated work on the verses gives way to eruptions of fills. Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters’ Drummer, Dies at 50 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

But each verse begins with a jarring A-minor chord, which tends to land awkwardly. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Another mode is the lyric goodbye, typified by the poetry of James, particularly “Japanese Maple,” a rare popular hit for contemporary verse when it was published in The New Yorker. Meeting Death with Words 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

In the first verse, Gomez asserts, “just like the Battle of Troy, there’s nothing subtle here.” How the death of EDM brought pop music one step closer to eternal life 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Plus, Alasdair Gray considers his own predicament in verse, and muses about the vote for Scottish independence. Guardian Books podcast: Ned Beauman and Alasdair Gray at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2012-08-15T07:35:10Z

“We are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond,” the verse continues. In This Genre-Bending Novel, You Better Believe the Monsters Are Real 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Tiger! is a story by Rudyard Kipling, introduced by a verse. The death of the novel will presage a rebirth of writing 2012-08-22T12:52:45Z

“He also had a passion for new work, and for verse, and for someone to be writing for an actor his age in blank verse — he was in heaven.” Tim Pigott-Smith, Actor Who Put Prince Charles on the Throne, Dies at 70 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

The lessons were all one-way: within minutes, Bono was quoting verses from the New Testament at a reverential Bush. Elvis and Nixon, Reagan and Jacko, Jagger and Blair … when pop stars and politicians collide 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

There’s another version no one’s ever heard that’s different verses, it’s more generic, but in that one we tried to be as honest as we could. 2010-01-29T04:18:00Z

The classic guys really packed a lot of emotion and meaning into songs that are really just verse, chorus and maybe another chorus.” For Fans of Robert Ellis, Vivid Contrasts in a Stylish CD 2011-07-10T06:00:30Z

It’s a shambolic tale that bounces along on the formula he has for writing verse: “something beautiful, something surprising, something familiar — and a joke, so that the work didn’t take itself too seriously.” Three New Memoirs Offer a Glimpse Into the Writer’s Mind 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Its gaggle of material either allures or it doesn't, and the infamous poets, penning topical verse as the programme progresses, will either be the icing on an irresistible cake or an unbearably smug, alienating feature. Radio head: Saturday Live 2011-03-23T08:00:08Z

That song is saddled with a nonsensical verse from the toothless rapper B.o.B, an absurd concession to the times and the only glaring misstep here. New Music: New Albums by John Mayer, Haley Reinhart and Linda Oh 2012-05-21T22:24:29Z

I mean at this point I’m just trying to work on my stuff too, so I can’t really be wasting verses. Danny Brown talks cartoons, possible collaborations 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

And in an improv skill that never ceases to amaze, Lambert nailed a spur-of-the-moment song verse inspired by audience participation. Review | Second City returns to Washington with familiar gifts in ‘She the People’ and ‘Love, Factually’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Leaving large passages of Shakespeare’s verse intact, the update dovetails closely with the characters’ motives and the tragic events they set in motion — a credit to the universe-straddling abilities of the 17-member cast. Shakespeare meets Oliver Stone in 'The Tragedy of JFK' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

What he brought to the early practice of blank verse was a real sense of poetry and passion. My hero: Christopher Marlowe 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

The verse is ... smoother than Cobain, but then the chorus is ... rougher. 'Idol': Pia nails Whitney, Haley fumbles it 2011-03-17T02:32:00Z

But it’s a dark, lovely pipe dream of a play, originally written in verse, that both channels and swims beyond familiar currents of German Romanticism. London Theater Journal: The Serious Season 2010-08-02T16:20:00Z

All those em dashes in her verses — do they represent a breathless rush to be heard? — or a longing for the silences that fall between words? ‘Dickinson’ Is an Offbeat Literary Origin Story, Written in Fire 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

“Both verse and quilt need reasons to survive — / expressions of a message, a design,” she wrote. At age 101, this woman released her first collection of poems 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z

She was recently enlisted by former Saturday Night Live writer Mike O’Brien to read verses from the Bible in a suggestive manner for his comedy album Tasty Radio. Scarlett Johansson to direct Ellie Goulding in Unstaged concert series 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Most remarkably, his passion is for a form of Japanese verse that is the bureaucratic equivalent of the limerick. In praise of? the haiku 2010-04-18T23:05:00Z

In the manner of many one-man plays, “Typical” is a continuous interior monologue; the Alder character narrates his day as if keeping a minute-by-minute journal in lightly rhymed, high-spirited verse. Making Black Lives, Not Just Black Deaths, Matter Onstage 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

Madness is abroad but the verse speaking never loses its clarity. The Old Woman; Macbeth; Bank on It – review 2013-07-06T23:07:05Z

We talked for so long that he nearly missed his cameo verse on “The Whole World.” What Normalization Means 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Aside from her poetry the real Emily Dickinson's defining quirk was her introversion; she rarely left her room in the final years of her life, preferring to evaluate the human condition through verse. Ready, set, bake! Apple's vibrantly witty "Dickinson" layers in the sweetness and spice of fame 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z

“Ti is absolutely focused, completely versed in the language of film,” Mr. Fessenden said. Arts & Leisure: Building Suspense With Ti West and ?The Innkeepers? 2012-01-20T16:14:33Z

Eschewing celebrated beauty spots, Armitage is inscribing his verse on industrial slabs placed in disused mines and quarries, creating a trail across the Pennines. What's wrong with England's 'dark satanic mills'? 2012-07-27T12:44:19Z

Her burdens don’t seem to weigh down her graceful verse but to lift it skyward. Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

"Before we met he sent over a verse riff and a chorus and basically said, 'What can you do with this?'" Slash recruits vocalist A-team for solo project 2010-03-06T06:32:00Z

“His voice sounded tired, he muffed lyrics and he sometimes dispensed with entire verses altogether in a remote performance.” Grateful Dead to celebrate 50 years at Soldier Field this summer 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Woven throughout at well paced intervals are rapped verses and refrains that address mortality from varied angles. Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Most of the new tracks don’t immediately announce riffs and verses; they linger over intros, coalesce, metamorphose and drift away. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, a woman’s voice helps carry the verses in “Home Alone Tonight,” where Luke Bryan engages in a breathless back and forth with Karen Fairchild, the not-so-secret weapon in the country-pop quartet Little Big Town. Bro Country Duets, but With Pop-Star Gals 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

But it’s much more than a retelling of the familiar tale in which a homely poet writes verse to be recited by a clueless hunk. Review | Poking fun at the male ego — and academia — in one cheeky little novel 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

"Luminary" is free verse at its most melodious. Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z

And as he sang an unaccompanied verse of “Amazing Grace,” he sounded less like a star than a man crying out for his country. Perspective | Andrea Bocelli’s Easter performance reaches millions, even with no fans in attendance 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

She patiently tuned instruments, adjusted sound equipment and assigned verses to different singers. Grammy nominee brings young Seattle-area musicians into harmony 2013-05-09T04:34:36Z

The new version will be in verse and in prose, with roots in the Renaissance and the Reconstruction and with an awareness of current culture. The quiet impresario: Pulling the right strings at the Folger 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

He calls it "three-dimensional instantiations" of verses by the poet Rick Holland. Surrender. It's Brian Eno 2010-04-28T20:35:00Z

As a result, memorizing free verse poetry often feels like solving a crossword with only half the clues. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z

A “pedestrian verse” is an average one: normal, everyday, unremarkable. Frightened Rabbit Evolves with Pedestrian Verse 2013-02-07T15:00:35Z

Poetry, the soubrette declares, is “an inflammation of the mental bursa/Where verse becomes your vice — and vice-a-versa.” Review: Rhyme Gone Wild in ‘The Metromaniacs’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

But partway through he became absorbed in the writing itself, recasting sentences as lines of verse. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

This week Reynolds will publish his ninth book — his third this year: a novel in verse called “Long Way Down” about a young man coping with the shooting death of his brother. How a kid who didn’t read a book until he was 17 grew up to become a literary star 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

If there are sections within her mass audience who might baulk at the message, then she has pre-empted that by making the song all-inclusive in the later verses. Lady Gaga's new gay anthem 2011-02-14T06:01:00Z

Bill was very well versed in the book, according to Brock, and had purchased dozens of copies for friends. David Brock’s ‘Killing the Messenger’ 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

“Metromaniacs” is entirely in verse, with one character often starting a rhyme and another finishing it. Poet/actor/playwright: Adam LeFevre is a triple threat 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

"These three men ain't performed together onstage in 26 years," Ice Cube gleefully shouted before he went back to trading verses with MC Ren as DJ Yella spun at the turntables. 150,000+ celebrate black music and more at BET Experience 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

I don't think any of the nominated songs could have been written by anyone who doesn't love or isn't versed in traditional song. Never mind the birdlore: the new face of folk music 2013-01-27T16:59:01Z

Armed with iPods so customers can preview the music, and occasionally dropping a quick verse for those who ask, the crew has become a recognised fixture around the queues outside clubs. Street music: Why face-to-face mixtape selling still matters 2011-01-13T22:30:02Z

“All the evidence makes it plain as day that Rodney Reed is the killer and these fantastic 11th hour attempts to implicate Jimmy are the same song, 200th verse,” Phillips said. Celebrities, others ask Texas to halt inmate’s execution 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

You Need Me, I Don't Need You," on which Sheeran raps lyrics: "I sing, I write my own tune, and I write my own verse. British singer Ed Sheeran bringing "A-Team" to U.S. 2012-06-05T21:07:53Z

Her works, less raps than tight, melodiously crafted free verse set to music, connected over the night to form a bigger piece. Rapper-poet Kate Tempest opens U.S. tour with memorable Echo set 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

There is a Bible verse in Isaiah: “Woe to the country that shadows Ethiopia with wings.” The ‘Detective Work’ Behind a War Novel 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Others include added or deleted verses, or show Mr. Dylan’s composition process at work. The Most of Bob Dylan 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

His verse is almost chipper: “Acting like I’m chasing her or something, she be pursuing me/Can’t hold her, she be telling me all the time she wish that you was me.” Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

The rite begins with a recital of prayers and verses from the Quran. AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams. Robin Williams death: online tributes 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

“But no way am I going to have a woman still broken-up on the second verse.” They always said Cher (and cockroaches) could survive the end of the world. Lately, she’s not so sure about that. 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

Mansfield sometimes uses regular rhyme schemes, but for The Candle she prudently chooses free verse. Poem of the week: The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 2010-07-19T11:11:00Z

Mr. Budbill wrote the poetic dramas “Mannequins’ Demise” and “Knucklehead Rides Again” before publishing his first verse collection, “Barking Dog,” in 1968. David Budbill, a Poet of Small-Town Vermont, Dies at 76 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

It was on a Friday night that Jeff Place finally heard Woody Guthrie’s missing verse. From Woody to Lead Belly, the master of Smithsonian Folkways 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

The second verse, charmingly, plays like a first-grader’s breathless sequence of unguarded observations: Taylor Swift and the Wisdom of Youth 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

In the verse, West's troubled protagonist comes home to find his girl with another man. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) ? review 2010-11-19T12:35:00Z

He follows that with Wood's "Man of Golden Words," including a verse from Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb," and then "Say Hello 2 Heaven." Chris Cornell's acoustic solo tour is a smash 2011-04-29T21:44:05Z

So between Bible verses, arbitrary facts about Mexico’s presidents and words too big for my small Chicano lips, I was not at all interested in picking up a reading habit. Enrique Garcia Naranjo, on the importance of being Mexcellent 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

But when asked about his favorite Bible verse, the Republican presidential frontrunner declines to get specific. Watch Donald Trump refuse to name any verses in his “favorite” book, The Bible 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Late in the night, he did his verses from “Clique” and “3 Kings,” two recent hits that served as a reminder that he is not just capturing past glories, but also making new ones. Music Review: Jay-Z Comes Home to Open an Arena in Brooklyn 2012-09-29T12:27:26Z

Not that he thinks he’s cracked the cosmic whodunit pondered in his verse. Charles Wright Named America’s Poet Laureate 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

"The philosophy behind this band was 'can a riff be a chorus?' Can you make verses, choruses and bridges - classic, standard songwriting - out of riffs, without it being disgusting?" Royal Blood rewrite the rules of rock 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

In one verse, she sings, “You bet the president is sweating/While Russia’s blowing up the phone/Deny, deny everything.” Sheryl Crow Checks the Mirror, and Plays What She Sees 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Dreamy music and melancholy images accumulate, and Mr. Frost even speaks in what sounds like free verse. Review: A Search for Meaning in ‘Garnet’s Gold’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Slide Away, by contrast, had a chorus, but the verses were only sketches. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

We didn't just go in there and have a chart and do the intro/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus/out. Chesney uses break from touring to brew "Whiskey" 2010-08-20T23:30:00Z

A Web site he’d chanced on mentioned that Plath had written a radio play in verse, “Three Women,” which the had broadcast in August 1962, less than six months before her suicide. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z

It deepens with Taylor Goldsmith’s stoical verses about how “They’re cracking down” and “the feeling someone’s watching/Isn’t just a feeling any more.” The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

It was my first experience of a poem in blank verse. 10 from Tennyson 2011-03-07T18:06:49Z

Suddenly, all those years spent writing verse in a lonely garret paid off. Mersey Molière 2013-02-05T18:00:47Z

Her poems were brief, her curiosity boundless, her verse a cataloguing of what she called "that vast/confused library, the female mind." Ruth Stone, award-winning poet, dies in Vt. at 96 2011-11-24T22:01:04Z

The verses evoke the rhythms of the rural world in which he grew up, and the tightly bound connections between language and place, nature and the wider world. Celebrating Seamus Heaney’s Legacy, at His Birthplace 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Then he sang the plaintive verses about a working class man living in the shadow of “that mansion on the hill.” ArtsBeat: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Apollo Theater in New York 2012-03-10T09:43:47Z

Yesterday, Drake weighed in on his own blog, saying that autism campaigners "were understandably hurt" by Cole's verse. Drake joins J Cole in autism apology 2013-07-24T10:02:59Z

In the first verse, Hunt gets stuck at a stoplight idling beside his ex’s “white Maxima with the sticker on the back.” Another country: Sam Hunt maps out Nashville’s bold new future

Thank goodness for Esther Williamson, who speaks the verse with the right mix of animation and cool clarity. Review | Greek tragedy continues to have its moment in fierce new keys 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

“A lot of the songs would be jams, and I’d structure them into verses or choruses or whatever,” he told the Times in 1991. Bernie Worrell, keyboardist and songwriter for Parliament-Funkadelic, dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

That evening in Fort Lauderdale, when Charli takes the stage to that song dressed like a cheerleader, she strikes a pose and flips off the crowd before starting the first verse. Riot Girl: Charli XCX Rages Against the Pop-Music Machine 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Among the snippets of verse he summoned to mind, at an appropriate moment, was this one: A Warlord’s Memoir Is Surprisingly Modern and Charming, When It’s Not Gruesome 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

Poetry One contender for the prestigious position swipes at another with a verse of his own. Candidates for Oxford's Poetry Professor Attack Each Other With (What Else?) Poetry 2010-06-17T13:28:00Z

It involved such a lot of research and we're both English – it wasn't a subject we were versed in. CIA spy outed by own side 2010-05-20T17:41:00Z

His work was admired by many, from scholars in his own country to the American poet Gary Snyder, whose translations introduced Miyazawa’s verses to an English-speaking audience. Dark Fairy Tales From a Now-Vanished Agrarian Japan 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Scrawling the verses on postcards, he’d write a rhyme about an animal, leaving the last word — the name of the species — blank. Spare Times for Children for March 21-27 2014-03-21T02:54:37Z

Anyone as versed in foreign policy as Ms Slaughter knows that hope is not a strategy. Juggling mums and halo dads 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Sung alone, it's a beautifully crafted verse; when joined by an 1,800-plus-person audience, it was breathtaking. Jenny Lewis at the Wiltern: A voyager returns to a sold-out welcome 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

As well versed in the science of the occult as he was practiced in the study of geography, Hariot appears in Charles Nicholl’s book The Reckoning as a likely model for Marlowe’s Faustus. My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth is not the only verse scholar in The Professor of Poetry. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-28T07:30:00Z

After one verse, she stopped him and began to record a video on his phone. Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

It is one Fergie verse away from sounding like an early Black Eyed Peas hit. De La Soul Duo's First Serve: Hip-hop Made Fun Again 2012-04-03T10:45:12Z

Still, in the verse the reader gets to see, Rostov  poses existential questions about Soviet rule: “Well, where is our purpose now?” Amor Towles: A gentleman in New York 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The Bible is full of verses saying, you know, you reap what you sow. An evangelical scientist on reconciling her religion and the realities of climate change 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

“It's got the antagonization. It's got patterns. It's got social and political consciousness. It's got struggle. It's got bravado. It's everything that a rap verse is supposed to be,” West said. Kanye West to release new album this fall; details new single 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Following the pageantry and grandeur of the sixth verse, the seventh follows in meaty unison. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

It goes without saying that she’s a flawless technician; she speaks the verse so clearly that you can feel the commas clicking into place. Deep Dives Into Justice From Shakespeare, Wilde and Atticus Finch 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

And Goslar, the "old decaying city" in which Wordsworth wrote its first verses is only a short train journey from Schwitters's hometown of Hanover. Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z

Between verses Mr. Green reads diary excerpts: “For a really jolly evening I recommend the Times Square subway station.” Review: The Songs of Noël Coward, With Lightness and Bite 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

During the second verse, her voice cracked and she broke down in tears. At Billie Eilish’s Arena Show, the Only Spectacle Is Herself 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

The verse and short stories of “the divine Edgar” — as Humbert Humbert calls him in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita — have inspired more movies than the works of any writer but Shakespeare. The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe Solves a Serial-Killer Mystery 2012-04-27T10:30:18Z

But his songs are fascinating and unwieldy: shifting with little predictability among folk melody, recitative and concert aria virtuosity, sometimes from verse to verse. Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Heaton described the manuscripts as short pieces, some in verse and some in prose, that are comic and written in a strange language of puns and word play. John Lennon manuscripts, drawings to be sold at auction 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The final verse is all Dylan’s, and it’s powerfully valedictory. Bob Dylan’s Sinatra Album 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

In one memorable scene, Eminem describes how he sees verses as a puzzle to figure out, pushing words around, sandwiching rhyming words inside phrases as well as at the end of the sentence. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

The verse embodies Ku Li's ceaseless labour and the ruggedness of his landscape. Poem of the week: Ku Li by Robin Hyde 2011-02-28T12:55:00Z

“Poetry & the Creative Mind” is a benefit for the Academy of American Poets held each year at Lincoln Center, with people in a wide range of fields reading some of their favorite verse. Ellen Burstyn, Ann Curry and others read at poetry benefit 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

It should be read and – it's a verse drama – performed, as it was earlier this year on Radio 4. Pink Mist by Owen Sheers – review 2013-05-26T10:00:01Z

When I was growing up in Dorset, not far from "Casterbridge" , I went through a Hardy phase, reading everything from Under The Greenwood Tree to The Dynasts, his verse play, set in the Napoleonic wars. What writers leave behind in a digital age 2011-04-04T09:07:02Z

The crowds could be enormous with people waving signs with what they claimed to be pictures of aborted fetuses, and singing “My God Is an Awesome God” verse after verse, hour after hour. My illegal abortion 2012-08-27T00:00:00Z

Braxton sang almost all the songs on “Love and War,” even if only for a verse and a chorus, showing off her impressive vocal range. Tamar Braxton tries to mix some inspiration into her concert at the Fillmore Silver Spring

The Cree-Métis Flett pairs rhythmic alliterative verse about animals at play with repeating silhouettes of frolicking children to celebrate our interconnectedness. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

“It’s very likely a reference to a verse in the Book of Revelation describing the heavenly Jerusalem as a city built of jewels with gold as mortar,” Mr. Wieck said. A New Closeup for a Morgan Library Treasure 1460-02-21T05:00:00Z

But "Monster" and a few other Minaj verses made it feel like real music was happening. Concert preview: Nicki Minaj's prime asset 2012-08-09T15:38:06Z

Mr. Levine did not publish his first volume of verse until his mid-30s, but over time he became one of the country’s most highly honored poets. Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Perhaps in his last hours Sargent stumbled upon this musing from that compendium: “People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.” Who are the real women behind John Singer Sargent’s portraits? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Halfway through the first verse, the song falls apart: Dylan’s tricky measures trip up the under-rehearsed musicians, guitarist Bloomfield doesn’t follow the chord progression, the bass player seems completely lost. What really happened the night Dylan plugged in his guitar? 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

By contrast, Wiz Khalifa is by far the most enunciative rapper of the day, his stolid verses served with flat affect and sitting atop the beats, rigid and square. New Music: Big Boi’s ‘Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors,’ and Lifehouse 2012-12-10T23:17:11Z

Olds rescues them from obscurity by paying them the close attention of her verse. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

I asked Halford about his decision to cut a couple of those verses. How Judas Priest turned Joan Baez’s ‘Diamonds & Rust’ into a ‘metal monster’ 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

In this work Mr. Berger, who teaches music and cognition at Stanford University and has written unusual operas about auditory hallucinations, explores the psychic dimensions of desire embedded in these verses. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The track and verses are pretty good, though, with Jay-Z snarling, "Got a pistol under my pit bull." Jay-Z and Kanye West: Watch the Throne ? track-by-track review 2011-08-02T16:29:41Z

All around the hall, other actors were declaiming Shakespearean verse and handing cards to wary, bewildered and delighted recipients. Critic’s Notebook: London 2012 Festival Shows British Talent and Eccentricity 2012-08-31T22:07:21Z

In Saudi Arabia, the poet Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death last year for his verses, which religious authorities called blasphemous. Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

He wrote plays, he designed stage sets, he penned verse, he painted portraits of the duke and his society circle. An 18th-century Parisian garden of delight can teach us much about what not to do today 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

He said the actress "sometimes seems to gargle, and even garble, the verse" and noted "the restricted range of her projection". Plaudits for Maxine Peake's Hamlet 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Composed in free verse, these 50 portraits of Soviet writers, composers and artists trapped between art and politics span the famous — like Anna Akhmatova, Isaac Babel and Dmitry Shostakovich — to the lesser known. New & Noteworthy 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Among them was an introductory limerick he wrote, calling the verses "boring and drear". 'Boring' Barker limericks sold 2012-06-21T16:08:53Z

Both Bartlett and LaChiusa have found counterintuitive wormholes into the minds of the powerful: in song, in verse, in the future, and in dreams. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

In addition to the gulf between free verse and waka in Japan, there is also a sharp historical divide between male and female poetry. The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

As these excerpts indicate, some of her stories trail down the page like verse. Books of The Times: Lydia Davis’s ‘Can’t and Won’t’ 2014-04-01T19:40:25Z

Nathalie Handal’s “Voyages” is made up of verses like “be certain of your direction / your heart knows the road” and “always be kind to / the healing earth.” A Raging Pandemic Inspires Poetry With Little Bite 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

The tune is sung through some muffling device that merely serves to make you strain even harder to hear the words, and after a verse or two the melody is bolstered by some whistling. New band of the day ? No 783: Foster the People 2010-05-11T14:44:00Z

It’s a short poem, scarcely as many words as a sonnet, and though it’s written in free verse, it has its own internal structure, signaled by repetition, that acts as a mnemonic. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z

Identifying the comet in the verses was easy, said astronomer Don Olson, lead author of the article. Scientists identify meteor event in Walt Whitman poem 2010-06-05T01:01:00Z

Yet “Pro Nails,” her kooky ode to manicures — featuring a guest verse from her fellow aesthete Kanye West — remains undeniable. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-06T23:42:51Z

In the past, I have brought out dozens of guest artists not to perform my songs but to perform their songs and I’ll take a verse. Taylor Swift Talks Business 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The poet Avery R. Young recites Ms. Mitchell’s free verse, relating the futurist tale of Mandorla to the contemporary black freedom struggle. Nicole Mitchell, an Innovative Flutist With an Afrofuturist Vision 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Unlike Skinner or Ginsberg, she is playing not just with thoughts and verse, but the conventions of performance itself. Kate Tempest: the performance poet who can't be ignored 2013-04-10T14:50:13Z

The first piece that I was keen to have performed is based on the of Omar Khayyam, in which an actor recites verses and there are musical settings for it. My Meltdown: Richard Thompson 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

The verse proceeds over the same static harmony, with a new bass riff introduced halfway through, effecting a shift to a higher dynamic level. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

Actors will recite some of the Bard's verse, while the orchestra will play music inspired by his plays. The Jets and the Sharks and Dudamel are on the Hollywood Bowl summer schedule 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

“What is from God is the rest of the verse: a spirit of power,” Hayhoe said, referring to Paul’s letter. One of America’s top climate scientists is an evangelical Christian. She’s on a mission to persuade skeptics. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harrison’s unrhymed verse is far less rhetorically organized than is Updike’s, but this is part of his work’s charm. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

“He’s intent on every detail, completely versed in cinema and music,” Mr. Pareles said on this week’s Popcast, after visiting with Mr. Asher in Los Angeles and on the video set in the Mojave desert. Popcast: Boots, Beyoncé Producer, Steps Out 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

One book, “Nox,” was an accordion-bound artists book that came in a box; another, “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos,” was a novel in verse.  Fall literary preview: 6 terrific L.A. events 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Some of the verses were adapted from the third to the second person singular in order to address the royal resident in the palace. Art Review: Iran's Mirror of the World 2011-02-25T12:00:05Z

The brothers are well versed in the art of alfresco work; back home they run the handmade-furniture brand Harbour Outdoor. Harrison and Nicholas Condos’s Outdoor Furniture for RH 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

I'm like, "Oh my God, there's still so many verses." "I've done my share of bombing": Marc Maron talks about navigating failure, grief and embarrassment 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z

Lucretius played down the beauty of his own poetry, Mr. Greenblatt observes, comparing his verses “to honey smeared around the lip of a cup containing medicine that a sick man might otherwise refuse to drink.” Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z

The verses amble by amiably, and there’s just the faintest echo of “Man in the Mirror” as the song begins to build. Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Anderson treated the verses of “Always Crashing in the Same Car” as a recitation punctuated by her electric violin. Review: Remembering David Bowie, With One Artist and One Song at a Time 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

They have their own variants on Lorde’s glum anthems and sullen pride, and Lorde’s technique of nervously accelerating a verse or pre-chorus with a faster flow of words is no longer hers alone. Lorde Learns She Can’t Party Away Her Melancholy on ‘Melodrama’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

It’s no wonder Mitchell turned down a song Prince offered her, “Emotional Pump”; its angular funk and laconic verses hardly suit her style. Prince’s Vault Reveals a Brilliant Trove With ‘Sign O’ the Times’ 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Then there's a final verse and chorus before a long instrumental section built on the verse riff leads to the final fade out. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

And in the track that follows, “When You’re Here,” he crafts poetic verses filled with emotion and interior rhymes that surely would impress even Bob Dylan himself: John Fullbright closes Levitt Pavilion Pasadena series Aug. 23 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. James is terrific at finding the excitement within a line of verse. Review: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ and Its Wronged Queen, via the Pearl Theater Company 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Both offer hyper-topical verses, flanked by titular refrains that radiate heroic despair — and by setting those feelings of total powerlessness to such patently urgent music, the effect becomes strangely self-canceling. Perspective | It’s a brave new world. Why is our protest music stuck in the past? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Cornell sings the first verse, and then Vedder sings the exact same verse again. Chris Cornell Had an Unforgettable Vulnerability 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Beatty painted a poem about the police near the top of the bus, and once on the road his verse attracted the attention of the actual police. Paul Beatty, Author of ‘The Sellout,’ on Finding Humor in Issues of Race 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Individual lines from the Bible were always part of my family’s conversation, but before I learned to read, I didn’t realize these were Biblical verses. What can we learn from translations of the Bible? 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

Crass – I'm Not Thick They're certainly not, and to prove it there's five long verses detailing the hows and whys of Crass' refusal to be tricked by the establishment. Readers recommend: Songs with indecipherable lyrics 2010-05-06T23:01:00Z

If elected, Haldane says he wants to "talk about the neuropsychology of poetry, poetry and verse, poetry and 'more-than-coincidence', poetry in different languages, and what Hardy called its 'sustaining power'." Oxford poetry professorship re-run begins 2010-04-19T18:37:00Z

This production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” based on the verse novel by Pushkin, comes from Garsington Opera, a summer festival in Britain. What’s on TV Sunday: ABC Dramas and Overseas Opera 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Many of the earlier inscriptions were, I noticed when leafing through these for the first time, in verse, dedicated to “la Terpsichore moderne.” The Countess and the Schoolboy 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

"She was really well versed in theatre - her references are as wide as many of the opera directors and theatre directors that I work for," Devlin says. Setting the scene 2011-07-20T07:58:28Z

After one verse, the unfashionably misogynistic tune is abandoned, despite the cautious laughter of the predominantly middle-aged and older crowd. The Summer of Kinky Friedman 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

It’s a simple song with kinks, like a lot of Mr. Shields’s work: the verse comes in nine-bar segments when you expect eight, and repeats twice when you’d expect once. New Albums by My Bloody Valentine, Josh Groban and Tim McGraw 2013-02-04T23:42:25Z

But as much as I enjoyed the visceral punch of the production, I found myself greedy for the riveting music of Shakespeare’s great verse. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z

At any given moment, his dramatic verse is sung, shouted, muttered and sometimes spoken with the warm assurance it needs, from hundreds of stages to thousands of eager spectators. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

He was 29, and among the works he left behind was a verse drama, “Prometheus Unbound.” Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z

He studied drama and improvisation at the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago and is well versed in Stephen Sondheim. Instead of Killer Punchlines, Killer Choruses 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

An early verse, sung by a chipper young woman in a yellow dress, is a kind of overture, hinting at the theme of the bittersweet fairy tale to follow. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Writing your own lyric to that song is not difficult: anyone with a modicum of verbal skill can invent verses to fit Porter's music and sound witty. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z

The verses, though, are pure venom: “Y’all fall into beef, but that’s another conversation,” she spits with that signature fire in her throat. Meshell Ndegeocello’s Magnificent Mix, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

It’s no surprise the verses return in a refrain sung by the cast at the end; these sentiments more than merit a second hearing. Review: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Prevails in Bryant Park 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Here is his third verse reference championing the industry. Colin The Lionheart: Kaepernick is pushing the envelope for black male athletes 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Calasso notes the weight in Baudelaire's verse; he weighs both the verse and the prose. La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso, translated by Alastair McEwen - review 2012-12-28T22:55:02Z

Mr. McGrory is too well versed in the journalism playbook to tell this tale chronologically. Books of The Times: Brian McGrory’s ‘Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man’ 2012-11-28T21:00:37Z

Poe, like Yeats later on in "Sailing to Byzantium" tries to transfix a notional Golden Age in verse that itself is timeless and hard. Poem of the week: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 2010-04-26T09:17:00Z

He raps in a steady, constantly rhyming growl; not an innovator but a master of verse structure. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z

His innovation, starting in the ’60s, was to introduce unrhymed free verse and even prose poetry and to write in mixed meters. A Revolutionary of Arabic Verse 2010-10-17T22:03:00Z

This urgency and desperation only benefit the “Accelerate” song, however; the dynamic song segues from sparse verses to barnstorming choruses with sunny-side-up guitars. R.E.M.’s 10 best songs after Bill Berry: Daring, brilliant, underappreciated 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z

His falsetto and her belting push themselves into the same space; sometimes they trade verses, sometimes they split single lines. John Legend: Love Songs That Bow to Dark Shadows 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Like well-made songs, his essays don’t just have strong verses and choruses but bridges, too, unexpected bits that make subtle harmonic connections. Books of The Times: ?Pulphead,? by John Jeremiah Sullivan ? Review 2011-10-27T22:16:57Z

In the original German the interlocking rhymes have the simple mnemonic power of devotional verses for the layman; each stanza ends with a rhyming couplet exhorting the reader to compassion. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan striking down copyright protection for the lyrics and melody of the first verse of “We Shall Overcome.” U.S. civil rights anthem 'We Shall Overcome' now in public domain 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Minaj absolutely destroys everyone on this track with a brilliant verse that lives up to the Minaj hype, and Kanye and Rick Ross represent well for themselves … but ah, that Jay rap. What music critics left off their year-end lists 2010-12-31T00:14:42Z

After alighting on a verse in 1 Corinthians that asked, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?,” The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Terry Teachout, reviewing the Orlando production of Ms. McLaughlin’s “Pericles” in The Wall Street Journal, deemed it clear and faithful to Shakespeare’s meaning, but rendered in “bald, flat-footed verse that is ‘blank’ in every sense.” Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The crowd erupted in applause when Patrick insisted he get a verse in the show’s opening number. With a Singing SpongeBob, Nickelodeon Aims for a Broadway Splash 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Brunstetter signals it by referencing a verse from Corinthians, the one beginning “Love is patient.” Review: ‘The Cake’ Is Well-Baked but Not Quite Filling 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The words describe a voice: “How sweet to hear a lovely mouth delightfully sing verses of love. Pretty, charming voice, with rapid divisions it entices you, encircles you, even touches you.” She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

A collaboration with the producer Rick Nowels led back to Jamie xx; it yielded a song, “Ecstasy,” that ended up providing a verse for “Loud Places,” a track she sings on “In Colour.” The xx Lets the Sunshine In 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

She spoke a poem out of sync with a recording of the same verse, all the while bouncing a big blue ball against a wall. Review: The Resonant Bodies Festival Completes Its Third Year 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

That leaves little distraction from the smooth-flowing mechanics of overconfident power, rising resentment and rigorous treachery, and from the text’s wealth of dazzling verse. A solid, wrenching ‘Richard II’ at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2014-01-16T21:34:58Z

Brown’s blank verse is supple yet restrained; it contains all its essential oils. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

The story is sung in verse, and i is full of childlike fantasy and sincere feeling. Glyndebourne's odd double 2012-08-09T19:00:12Z

He receives praise for his memorization and recitation of verses. A Sudan in transition presents first-ever film for Oscars 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

After considering her inspirations, which include Jewish texts and Pablo Neruda’s verse, children will express their own tales and ideas in cut-paper art. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Let it simmer for a bit, then jot down a few makeshift verses. The surprising stories behind everybody’s favorite songs 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Yet in the first verse we also have the sense of Shelley being woken from the unreality of his life in Italy. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z

Twice in the song, getting back to the verse, she shushes the band. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z

It is steeped in the Russia of Pushkin, whose 1833 verse novel is the basis for the libretto. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z

Deep Water” showcases each at his best — it’s more propulsive than almost anything on Mr. Lamar’s recent album, and still an accommodating home for his dexterous verse. Review: ‘Compton,’ Dr. Dre’s First Album in 16 Years 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wright, whose work appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere, was the author of more than a dozen volumes of verse. C. D. Wright, Poet of Ozarks and Beyond, Dies at 67 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

It was a team sport, with competitors — male and female — producing and reciting verse on command; the poems were then recorded in calligraphy, on long hand scrolls. Art Review: ‘Brush Writing in the Arts of Japan’ Shows Detailed Efforts 2013-08-29T22:03:18Z

“After I learned the chords, he began going over the lyrics, and I was told to remember the verses that were not in the printed version.” “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

The R&B legend says the rapper's disturbing verse should not have made it beyond the recording studio for the world to hear. Stevie Wonder not happy with Lil Wayne's lyrics 2013-02-15T15:39:09Z

Still, he decided to devote the first week of rehearsal to a workshop on Shakespeare’s verse, to make sure the whole of the cast was on the same pentameter-strewn page. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Harrow brings a regal presence to her role, and her delivery of Shakespeare’s verse is hypnotic in its beauty: What loving son could resist a mother of such commanding eloquence? Review: In ‘Coriolanus,’ a Politician for a Campaign Season 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

On opening night, Hinrichs, filling in for his absent star, clutched the script in his hand as he declaimed the epicurean monarch’s lofty verse. Review: Byronic Heroism Can’t Save ‘Sardanapal’ in Berlin 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

If his verses were finely wrought, his singing conveyed an emotional distance from the words. | 'Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune': Aspiring to Musical Power and Glory 2011-01-04T23:45:27Z

That bliss is fleeting, though, and by the next verse Willow is just as quickly jarred back into her endearingly anxious reality. M.I.A. Takes Aim at Fame, and 7 More New Songs 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

The TankaWanka is a form of verse that the Empress coined back in 2014, as a variation on the venerable Japanese tanka. Style Invitational Week 1389: TankaWanka IV 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

In three verses King moves from sleeplessness and desperation — "I looked all around me, and my baby, she can't be found" — to suicide. B.B. King built a bridge to the blues for the world 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

When he put down the microphone, several hands grabbed for it and a few verses were kicked, but it was a real treat to hear the live-streaming leather jacket man shoot quick-fast lyrical darts. Review: OC Notes, Fergus Farley, City Hall at Hollow Earth 2011-12-29T19:30:11Z

Smokey Robinson had a hand in writing this early Motown treasure, revealing itself as a break-up song in a neat twist in the last verse, as innocence disappears. Readers recommend: songs about a change of mind ? results 2011-08-04T14:27:52Z

A verse of the theme song, which was everywhere on the radio, went: A Cree Artist Redraws History 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Offhand again, in the sense that these verses arise out of the city as both environment and circumstance, out of the poet’s daily life. In 'Wide Awake,' Suzanne Lummis gathers the poets of Los Angeles 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

As the chorus applies to the first verse, the love died out and the couple went into darkness by separating. What Tom Petty's "Straight Into Darkness" teaches us about uncertainty 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Bad Moves alternates singers from line to line and verse to verse, with all four voices in the mix. Review | Bad Moves band’s shared vocals rock the Black Cat 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

Trading verses with Ms. Shah, then eventually trading off line-by-line, Ms. Jordan brings a welcome new lightness to the session, in both timbre and affect. The Playlist: Frank Ocean Rescues ‘Moon River,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Cut to verse two and picture yourself in that ex's shoes. Our best track of 2010: Robyn - Dancing On My Own 2010-12-20T14:01:53Z

I protested to the director, and the posters were removed – not because of the bad verses, but because Greenpeace hadn't paid for the advertising space. Poems on the Underground: copycats and controversies 2013-01-09T06:10:01Z

There's no messing about – almost everything is under three-and-a-half minutes, and there's the brilliant High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive, which combines a verse and chorus set in different time signatures. Pulled Apart By Horses: Pulled Apart By Horses 2010-06-24T22:30:00Z

She is well versed in therapy jargon and beguiled by etymology—a study of particular relevance to anyone set down in an alien narrative and rummaging for her meaning within it. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Only in the last verse does the listener learn that it wasn’t a woman who left the now crazed gent, but a dog. Jerry Samuels, Creator of a Novelty Hit, Is Dead at 84 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

In “Matalla Moon”—named after a series of Neolithic sandstone caves on the Greek island of Crete, which Mitchell also writes about in her song “Carey”—she ends with a goofy, mischievous verse: Joni Mitchell Discusses Her New Book of Early Songs and Drawings 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

According to Midge Ure, the middle eight, which American songwriters tend to call the bridge, is "the bit that isn't the verse or the chorus". Radio preview: from FIP to Love, War And Trains 2013-04-27T05:00:14Z

Claudia Rankine’s nonfiction writing, as presented here in an essay that originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine, lacks some of authority of her verse. Review: ‘The Fire This Time,’ Stoked by Baldwin’s Legacy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Both are impeccable Shakespeareans in verse speaking and lucidity of expression. Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

On three jumbotron-sized screens suspended above the pulpit, the verse John 15:9 is displayed: "I have loved you even as the Father loved me. Remain in my love . . ." In the age of megachurches, communion has become a big business 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

He pointed out that it was written in rhyming verse, like a song. The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

The verse is also cut from Dire Straits' "best of" compilation, entitled – wait for it – Money for Nothing. Dire Straits' homophobic faux-pas 2011-01-18T16:33:25Z

Loving Animals is all the more blissful for that precision, its gritty verses and swooning chorus underscored with the yowl of donkeys and flap of wings. British Sea Power: Machineries of Joy – review 2013-03-28T22:30:01Z

Spoken verse gave birth to Blindspotting, but its journey from concept to fully formed film was a long and complex one. Daveed Diggs: ‘Days before I started on Hamilton, I got thrown against a fence by police’ 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z

He spoke verse better than anyone that I know, and he had a phenomenal ability to cram all of his lines in very quickly.” From ‘Coriolanus’ to ‘Game of Thrones,’ Charles Dance is acting royalty 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Hazel’s kitchen is cluttered with objects she has picked up at garage sales and thrift shops: a fork inscribed with Bible verses, a figurine of a mouse dressed as a baseball player. A Family’s Christmas, Filled With the Tastes of Jamaica 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Yet the story of her pioneering art and adventurous life were for decades lost on all but a small group of historians versed in Art Deco or American mural art. Hildreth Meière, the Forgotten Art Deco Artist 2014-05-02T18:06:08Z

“I took a little time to be honest,” he sings gently in the first verse. Review: ‘Darling Arithmetic,’ a Confessional Album From Villagers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The poet Dana Gioia and the jazz pianist and composer Helen Sung will demonstrate how verse is linked to all kinds of music, from Bach to bop. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

With a group so evidently versed in the visuals of rock history, it’s a shame that a filmmaker wasn’t hired who would pay homage to classic pop films instead of offering a satisfactory paid promotional. Movie Review: ‘One Direction: This Is Us,’ Documentary by Morgan Spurlock 2013-08-29T21:53:09Z

There’s a lot more to the anthem than the one verse we sing at sporting events. Flag Day has special meaning in Washington and in Maryland

I only hope that person likes contemporary verse. Simon Armitage: a poetic pilgrimage around Devon and Cornwall 2013-03-29T16:00:04Z

By the time they closed with Runnin' – whose lilting verses slipped into a lovely, oddly mournful singalong chorus – the night felt like a proper house party. The Pharcyde – review 2012-07-19T17:15:01Z

His third collection, “Felon,” pushes Betts’s story forward, in verse that is “nimble in its diction, tone and focus,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I then repeated the first verse, also the outlines of the history of Nephi,” Mary remembered. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z

The lines of verse are selected and transcribed by local resident Natalie Potell, who began a two-year stint as the county's poet laureate in October, becoming the fourth person to hold that position since 2014. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Megan Thee Stallion takes an otherwise pat workplace anthem about female empowerment and gives it the energy it needs, including a late verse that lets her capitalize on her own flow. "Dicks: The Musical" puts two narcissist bros under a joyous, filthy spotlight 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

Skip Paul and Van Fletcher are remarkably well versed in California’s legacy of modern architecture and design. Marmol Radziner Designs a Modern Beverly Hills Home 2014-01-30T05:00:00Z

“I always had to have a trap door in the third verse through which everything fell into misery,” he said. Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Such verse honors that which is great within us—our plurality, which is our poetry. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

This year contestants must pick a location between the Palm Beaches and the Keys and enshrine it in verse, incorporating the words “This is where.” ArtsBeat: Getting Poetry to the People in Miami 2014-03-27T16:30:36Z

“Paul, can you try rephrasing the last line of each verse?” The Beatles’ struggle to finish “The White Album”: How bad did it get?  2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

The first time we hear Elliott on the album is on the second track, “Hit Em Wit Da Hee,” which refers to her star-making verse on “The Things That You Do.” Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” Came From The Future 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

No matter what challenges we present to the Greater Loser Community — especially the Loserbards of our verse contests — some intrepid few will meet them. Style Invitational Week 1197: Picture This — our cartoon caption contest 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

It is blank verse cast in Frost's trademark craggy voice, and it might be considered a local response to Eliot's more cosmopolitan "The Waste Land." The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z

Method Man’s verse on that blew me away, the way it kind of flows. | Arctic Monkeys: Rock Star Tunes in to the Elders of the Tribe 2011-05-14T04:00:06Z

More than 600 of you keyed in rhymes, haiku, free verse, iambic pentameter ... you name it. Seattle Times Twitter poetry contest concludes 2010-05-01T00:19:00Z

An F.B.I. memo revealed that the cryptic verse, addressed to a pair of botanists in Washington, D.C., was simply a few wistful lines from a classic Japanese poem. Getting to the Bottom of a Mickey Hahn Mystery 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

She dived into drawing, angsty verse and grungy assemblages of worn fabric, often passed down from model and designer friends. Turning Trash Into Poetry 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

When we finished the verse, I spoke again: John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

The Dessner brothers hold on to pop structures; verses, choruses and bridges are distinct. The National Gives Its Sound a Jolt on ‘Sleep Well Beast’ 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

About another: “Not to compose is better than to compose verse such as his.” A Warlord’s Memoir Is Surprisingly Modern and Charming, When It’s Not Gruesome 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

For two verses the song is measured, musically inventive and suspenseful. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

It’s made up of these little poems and verses. How ‘Catcher in the Rye’ Influenced Lenny Kravitz’s Memoir 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Lil Wayne’s verse is long and winding, an elaborate story about running scams on rich men by sending beautiful women to distract them. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Dives Into a Fresh Era, and 15 More New Songs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Grimes is at her best in this novella in verse about a daydreaming girl named Gabby who navigates the woes and wonder of her young life by soaring between the lines and finding her voice. Kwame Alexander aims to win readers who are at the age he hated books 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

These are shot in a style that is at once straightforward — singers facing the camera as they belt out verses of longing and betrayal — and stylized, in a retro-MTV manner. | 'Passione': Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy 2011-06-21T22:19:30Z

Michael “was very well versed and well read,” she said. Date Lab: Her love of mixed martial arts surprised him 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

These parts are repeated in the ensuing verses and choruses. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

Paul tells two good stories, the first about struggling to understand Shakespeare at Northwestern while everyone around him cruised through the verse. Impossible dream: young director brings musicals to Shakespeare Co. 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

It was on the group's 1995 debut album "Conspiracy" and included verses by the two. Rapper Rich Homie Quan apologizes for Hip Hop Honors flub 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

It is as pure an admission of spiritual defeat as any other line in American verse. Springsteen’s Most Anxious Album 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Alarmingly for everybody left behind, the song features a swear word in the opening verse. The girl with the mighty mouth 2011-03-27T00:02:01Z

Lil Wayne, on his verse in the remix of Future’s “Karate Chop,” invoked Till as part of an explicit sexual simile. Critic’s Notebook: Lil Wayne and Other Rappers Run Afoul of Propriety 2013-05-07T18:41:15Z

In the first three verses, the point of view seems to be that of an anonymous observer. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z

“No, this is a verse for a song,” he said. Peter Mulvey's 'Take Down Your Flag' responds to Charleston shooting 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

When Judy Collins sang “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” her clear-voiced sympathy was as much with the list of tribulations in the verses as with the comfort of the refrain. Music Review: Tuneful Paul Simon Tribute Bridges Decades 2014-04-01T22:19:25Z

He sets the scene with verses about his childhood crush and his despotic history teacher, then moves on to his own teaching career at a progressive Peterborough comp. Mark Grist – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-24T14:20:48Z

Some verses comment directly on the political situation. Turkey’s Psychedelic Rock Star Speaks Her Mind, Ambiguously 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

But the song’s producer suggested it needed a bridge, a songwriting element used to break up repetitive verses. Wayne Carson, songwriter who penned ballad ‘Always on My Mind,’ dies at 72 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

It’s a smiley, bouncy song that could be a children’s ditty except that it’s about serial murder, with a new victim in each verse. Music Review: Celebrating a Twisted, Elegant Versifier 2011-08-07T21:46:32Z

The story is told partly in verse and partly in prose; the voice alternates between first person and third person, with the gods — Hermes in particular — stepping in as occasional choruses to the action. Star-Crossed Friends in Ancient Greece 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

His next novel, which will be published in April, is also sports-related and written in verse. Kwame Alexander aims to win readers who are at the age he hated books 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

His conflict is expressed in an almost free verse structure of long and short lines alternating not to a set pattern but to fit the sense of what is being said. Poster poems: religion 2013-04-12T15:23:10Z

It's an anthology of English verse, some well-known, some less so. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z

Deemed soft in the head, the hapless Huw is mercilessly bullied by his father and subjected to hellfire sermons by the local preacher when his erotic experiments in verse are accidentally discovered. The Devil Inside Him 2010-05-12T20:30:00Z

Nevertheless, it is unarguably the case that these early translations introduced into English verse what was to fairly rapidly become the short verse form of choice. Poster poems: Translation 2010-08-20T09:42:00Z

They gave me sacred verses to recite and asked holy men to check if anyone had cast the evil eye on me. From a Sale, Lace Undergarments, Never Worn 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

The solo songs here are breezy and efficient — three verses in about three minutes, mostly. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-23T21:45:25Z

Of course, no matter how many public appearances Mr. Merwin may ultimately make, for most people he speaks most eloquently through his verse. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z

Mr. Joel then parodied country music’s lyrics by reciting an original verse that rhymed “Mama cooked up the grits” with an unprintable bodily function. Don Henley and Billy Joel, at 92nd Street Y, Trade Stories About a Lifetime of Songwriting 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Piotr, a professor of English at Krakow University, is married to Basia but is having an affair with Agnieszka, a poet notorious for the explicitness and indiscretion of her verse. The Divine Comedy by Craig Raine ? review 2012-02-10T22:35:01Z

There’s an easy but irresistible simplicity to the leadoff track from “Tattoo You,” a bare-bones Stones classic: two verse chords, that chunky little riff, steady but shuffling percussion. The Rolling Stones Played Old! They Played New! 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

There’s a verse rapped in sure-footed triplet cadence, but all of the song’s tension comes from the pained rhetorical in the introduction: “Should I stick it out?” The Playlist: Bruno Mars Gives His Funk a Flashy Makeover 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Typically, no matter how good or bad a “So Gone” challenge attempt is, most of the reactions to the amateur verse are encouraging—an anomalous positivity for any product of the social Web. The Beats Fuelling the Viral Dance Challenges 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Yet he was never interested in writing epic verse. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z

At least we uncover a new first draft verse. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

He’ll move at breakneck pace while spinning out a verse, then abruptly stop before shifting into a chorus. Shakey Graves uses all the colors at dynamic El Rey show 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

For decades, on and off, the poet Robert Lowell suffered from extreme bipolar disorder; he composed many of his best verses while stark raving mad. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Hermand, the retired professor, is eighty-six, and he remembers singing all three verses as a boy. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

The simmering verse paces the program’s opening, a rapid panorama of facial details that neatly telegraphs a disparate range of personalities and situations while an airy transition provides a fleeting sensation of sunlight and hope. A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z

The wands of light behind him turned from a dusty yellow to red, white, and blue, as over the beat of “Caroline” he delivered a piercing new verse: A Young Rapper’s Bold Anti-Trump Message on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

I paid each of them $100,000 to make me look cool: “Give me a verse, because you all are cool and I’m an MTV reality star.” | Mac Miller: Mac Miller on ‘Watching Movies With the Sound Off’ 2013-06-14T20:32:52Z

A lot of Bible verses cover this change. An atheist in the White House? It could happen, thanks to Donald Trump 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

If the verse is challenging, that was in part Mr. Ashbery’s aim — to compel readers to rethink their presumptions about poetry, just as the Abstract Expressionists asked viewers to discard their preconceptions about painting. John Ashbery, Prize-Winning Poet, Is Dead at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Frank, who thinks he’s pretty clever, reads up on a few Koran verses and tries to reason with the guy. 'House of Cards' Season 3 Episode 4 Recap: Solicitor General Blues 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Beginning in 17th-century England, a poet laureate would write verse for historic occasions. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Bill Wyman’s song “In Another Land” is a pointed sendup of twee psychedelia, as its sweet harpsichord-backed verse gets a rude awakening in the chorus, and “On With the Show” bristles with sarcasm. Blasts From the Past From the Rolling Stones, D’Angelo, Neil Young and Can 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

A century ago Robert Frost spoke of “the need of being versed in country things,” and that need has now been reinforced, at least politically. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

In 2002, she lent her name and verse to a line of Hallmark greeting cards, table runners and other products. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86

Godine’s sumptuous edition of Wordsworth’s autobiographical masterpiece, written in the best blank verse since Milton, is further enhanced with explanatory annotations and 130 period-appropriate paintings and drawings. Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Those well versed in chapter and verse compete on the return of "American Bible Challenge." TV This Week, May 18-24: "Labyrinth," "The Maya Rudolph Show" and more 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

It is a mix Kwame Alexander achieves as well in his gorgeous verse novels about the emotional dilemmas of basketball and soccer players in “The Crossover” and “Booked.” Beyond Battles, Boogers and Pranks 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The intro became more layered, the drums got slowed down in the verse section. Kids These Days pull songs from the static 2012-11-16T16:04:00Z

More than one song opened with sustained, hymnlike keyboard chords as she unfurled her voice, treating a verse like a spiritual. Seinabo Sey Unfurls Soul-Pop Vocals at Le Poisson Rouge 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Rapper Ameer Vann put in extra work on the up-tempo “Star,” performing the ailing Abstract’s verse in addition to his own. Review | Brockhampton sets the standard for a new kind of boy band at Fillmore 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

Hendricks’ stage show “Evolution of the Blues,” in which he traced the history of African-American music in song and verse, opened at the Broadway Theater in San Francisco in 1974 and ran for five years. Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

That verse, whose words repeat in the fifth verse, includes the lyrics “We shall overcome/We shall overcome some day,” and “Oh deep in my heart I do believe/We shall overcome some day.” U.S. civil rights anthem 'We Shall Overcome' now in public domain 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

“The Ruling Class” blithely employs Victorian-music-hall-like vignettes, while “King Charles III” is rendered in the rolling blank verse of Shakespearean theater. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Some have been surprised to learn that this musical form is all about lyrical dexterity, about elevating vernacular speech into rhyming, rapid-fire verse. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

“I’m proud of who I am,” Kesha bellowed at the top of the second verse, the context transforming her testimony into a self-esteem anthem for kids who haven’t survived anything yet. Review | Everything feels heavy in 2017, even the Jingle Ball 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Which is to say: Those looking for verses, choruses and bridges should head elsewhere. Essential Tracks: Vertical Scratchers, Schoolboy Q, St. Vincent, more 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

As he was performing a committed but cool set full of knotty verses on the MetLife Stadium stage here Sunday night, the crowd regarded him with something less than ebullience. Review: Only Suspense at Summer Jam Was Outside the Stadium 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

“My voice is still the same, but it doesn’t expound in verse nowadays — it rather murmurs or chants or sometimes mutters, meditatively and privately.” John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z

He is also an accomplished religious poet, who, as a student reciting his verse in competition with his peers, was singled out for praise. She Didn’t Know How to Read, but Her Stories Captured History 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

She typically “watched in disbelief” as each new strange fact emerged, and she would get nowhere without the magical reappearance of Eric, Morgan’s father, who is conveniently well versed in the law. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z

How did you verse yourself in hip-hop movement? At ‘The Prom’ on Broadway, It’s Time to Dance (and Flip) 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

In 1948, in a Spanish Harlem apartment, the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg had an auditory hallucination of Blake reciting “Ah Sun-flower!” and other mind-altering verses. The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Now that you're fully versed in soufflé assembly, you are set free! Soufflés aren't scary — at least, not With Sohla by your side 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

A dropout from Harvard, the colonel can make quips in Latin, quote chapter and verse from the Bible, cite Shakespeare, track Indians, shoot straight, speak Dutch and, most of all, keep his own counsel. Review | The timely message in Christopher Buckley’s historical novel 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

It would be as difficult to conceive the existence of Mr. Gilbert’s verses without Mr. Sullivan’s music, as of Mr. Sullivan’s music without Mr. Gilbert’s verses. Music Review: Just Say Yes to Marriage of Music and Words 2011-03-21T22:36:49Z

Mac Miller, a Pittsburgh rapper who built a loyal cult fan base with low-key charisma and intimate verses, died on Friday at his home in the San Fernando Valley in California. Mac Miller, Rapper Who Wrestled With Fame and Addiction, Dies at 26 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

When the verses come in, and there are the two guitar notes, I was like “This is the easiest thing ever.” Remembering Kurt Cobain and Nirvana: the band that defined Seattle 2014-03-30T02:01:27Z

And, in "It's Capital," distills the essence of capitalism into several snappy verses. Review: 'Iron Curtain' turns Cold War into a splashy romp 2011-04-07T19:24:04Z

Here's a piece of a verse from "Forgiven." Top 5 rap and hip hop albums of 2019 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Regardless of the fallout from Glover’s verse, it was a savvy move. Childish Gambino Mans Up, Declares Himself 'The Best Rapper' Alive 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

He went so far as to add that anyone who recited a verse in the same way twice had not understood it correctly. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The nonsense verse known as the limerick was invented by 19th Century poet, famous for his Owl and the Pussycat poem. Barker rewrote 'boring' Lear book 2012-06-13T10:09:26Z

The song's black culture was provided by LL Cool J, whose verses were widely panned as shallow. A country song, assumptions _ and a racial outcry 2013-04-11T20:44:08Z

“What a beautiful verse: two alliterations!” he marveled in broken English that was full of good vocabulary. Music Review: Watch Out for Those Doors, and the Acoustics 2011-07-20T22:10:04Z

During their performance of “Bang Bang” on the AMAs, they added a fiery verse of “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist U.S.A.!” — one of the chants heard at anti-Trump protests around the U.S. — on repeat. Best and Worst Moments of the American Music Awards 2016 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

The hip-hop ensemble checked off nearly 30 songs in just 70 minutes, often performing no more than one or two verses of a given tune. Wu-Tang Clan skips its way to nostalgia mode 2011-01-09T15:49:00Z

She likened Soviet leader Josef Stalin to the abominable snowman in the 1957 poem "Calling Out To Yeti," and frequently mocked communism in her verse. Poland's 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T20:32:13Z

Borowski has had his own brush with rock immortality, with a solemn rumour identifying him as "Guitar George", famously referenced in a key verse of Dire Straits' touchstone hit Sultans of Swing. One for the roadies: in praise of rock'n'roll's unsung heroes 2012-12-12T16:34:31Z

An example is on Your Song, where Buckmaster and Dudgeon decided to not bring in the rhythm section until the third verse. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

Mr. Yulin is a dignified Claudius, with a firm grip on the rhythm and sense in the verse. Review: ‘Hamlet’ as an After-Party That Got Out of Hand 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

The rapper liked what he heard and asked to turn the song into a duet of sorts, flying Arlissa out to LA to watch him record his mainly improvised verses. New music: Arlissa vs Nas – Hard to Love Somebody 2012-08-09T06:00:00Z

One wish, and then my verse is done: Happy New Year, everyone! A New Year's break -- and, some rhymes 2011-12-30T23:16:04Z

Meredith Martin, an assistant professor of English at Princeton who is studying the history of poetic form, was interested in the terms “prosody,” “meter” and “verse.” Analyzing Literature by the Words, but Also the Numbers 2010-12-03T20:30:00Z

Short chapters presented in free verse make this an easy book to read, though it’s the most sober of the three under review, thanks to the more realistic career of its protagonist. Of Mice and Men 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

While Turkey can be proud of its literary traditions – especially poetry heavily influenced by Persian verse forms – it is nevertheless a nation without its own Tolstoy, Flaubert or Austen. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

The book, “The Long Take,” by the poet Robin Robertson, mixes verse, prose and photographs to follow the story of a World War II veteran across the United States in the golden era of Hollywood. Man Booker Prize Shortlist Reflects Dark Times 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

The rapper argued that the second verse of the song off of “Yeezus” is the best of all time. Kanye West to release new album this fall; details new single 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

It is a bilingual edition of verse by the 54-year-old Chinese dissident and literary critic. Poetry by jailed Nobel winner coming to US in 2012 2010-12-09T15:02:00Z

One verse depicts an unhappy ending and the other depicts a happy one, though the four lines that report these two endings are identical. What Tom Petty's "Straight Into Darkness" teaches us about uncertainty 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

But those verses glister, still, if you only give them a chance, their fathomless shadows a mystery, and a balm. Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor – review 2012-11-16T11:00:01Z

Reynolds is known for such popular works as the “Track” series, the novel in verse “A Long Way Down” and the neighborhood panorama “Look Both Ways,” a finalist last fall for the National Book Award. Jason Reynolds named ‘Young People’s Literature’ ambassador 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Good Sin's whole first verse is solid. Friday Favorites: Yuni in Taxco, The Good Sin, Witch Gardens 2010-12-17T18:03:05Z

"The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens Stevens's sumptuous, glittering language takes blank verse and reinvents it. The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z

“Cut Me,” which explores the psychology of self-harm, has a bass line that harks back to vintage soul in its verses, but the track fragments its seeming solidity as it unfolds. Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

“She never saw herself as a West Coaster / moved all the way ’cause her grandma told her, ‘Townes / better swim before you drown,’ ” goes one of the verses on his song “Carolina.” Perspective | Harry Styles and ‘I Love Dick’ reveal the gender differences in how we treat muses 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Smartly, though, Haj and composer-lyricist Jack Herrick smooth over some of the rough patches by setting verse to music, and in other places, inserting sea shanties and other original melodies. ‘Pericles’ shows how ‘lesser’ Shakespeare can be more 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Yushij’s verses—New Poetry, it was called—lingered over the distress of the poor and the politically oppressed. Poetry and Politics in Iran 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Some, including “A Disused Shed in County Wexford,” are among Ireland’s best-known verses. Derek Mahon, whose poem consoled during pandemic, dies at 78 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z

In some ways, a lot of our ideas start off kind of low brow and intuitive, and so this started off as just an action movie concept of like "verse jumping" and fighting. Directors on the ADHD theory of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

As on the recording, he supplemented his own ensembles, Hespèrion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, with Israeli, , Iraqi, Greek and Armenian musicians versed in the accents of their peoples’ music. Music Review: Jordi Savall?s ?Jerusalem? at Rose Theater 2010-05-04T21:05:00Z

“Ain’t no harm to moan,” she says, before taking up the verse again. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Based on a verse in Deuteronomy, it's a reminder to be like heads — leaders and changemakers — and not tails, or followers. This is why there’s a fish head on your Rosh Hashanah table 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

That song features a guest verse from the rapper French Montana, also from the Bronx. Review: Jennifer Lopez Back in the Bronx 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The song’s black culture was provided by actor and rapper LL Cool J, 45, whose verses were widely panned as shallow. A country song, assumptions — and a racial outcry 2013-04-12T04:28:55Z

Those who know what a shapely verse Crowell can turn out may be newly amazed at his way with words when he simply writes sentences. 'Chinaberry Sidewalks': Rodney Crowell's folksy, bittersweet, rollicking memoir 2011-02-04T20:16:07Z

The wunderkind somehow poured a symphonic melody into the 12-bar blues structure and "solved" the challenge of the run-on lyrics in the middle of the verse. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z

It’s a pleasure to walk through this verse with Mr. Swift. Books of The Times: Poetry on His Mind, British Author Revisits His Grandfather?s War 2010-08-31T17:06:00Z

As he got older, he also tried out his verses on one of his father’s jailhouse friends, who listened over the phone. Arts & Leisure Preview: The New Face of Hip-Hop 2010-06-09T19:29:00Z

There are dainty, loping runs; he repeatedly sings a familiar verse, inexplicably, from “The Sound of Music.” Dance Review: At New York Live Arts, Works by Tess Dworman and Niv Acosta 2014-01-31T19:38:38Z

For many years, Mr. Hill had a meager output, publishing a scant 200 pages’ worth of verse from 1952 to 1994, when his first volume of collected poetry appeared. Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain’s greatest poet, dies at 84 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Before I could say “thank you,” two of them began to sing, filling the low-ceilinged space with the resonant tones of the first verses of “Rajula Malushahi.” Following a Folk Tale Through the Himalayas 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

The next verse of the song is about the way that media companies censor content, with animations of movie scenes being snipped out of film strips. CBS Censors “The Good Fight” for a Musical Short About China 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

And to add a little insult to all that injury, Kendrick opens the second verse with what insiders say is a shot at Drake or Big Sean — or maybe both of them? The season of Kendrick Lamar is upon us 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

He had a way, when the dew grew too thick on the leaves of his verse, of breaking into rude song: Adding Up a Prolific Poet’s Charming Weather Reports 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Contestants showed off their “Scripture knowledge” and recited from memory over 800 Bible verses. Bible gets the Facebook treatment: Kirk Cameron’s Bible Bee Game Show streams live 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

“Don’t deceive yourselves. You want the verse? The news media didn’t even know it was a verse. They thought I just made it up.” ‘Duck Dynasty’ star Phil Robertson gives new sermon on ‘homosexual offenders’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Singer Stevie Wonder appeared via video, playing piano and singing the opening verses of his song As for a man he called "a gentle giant". Tom Hanks attends Duncan funeral 2012-09-11T09:17:24Z

"C'mon," says Seal, holding back the first verse of his signature tune Killer until the audience is clapping from front row to back. Seal – review 2012-12-10T18:05:19Z

“The princes of Mercia were badger and raven,” one verse begins. Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Through 90 minutes of flash and zing, along with any number of the Crüe's power metal hooks and recognizable licks, its snapshot verses and scream-along choruses. Motley Crue goes out with a bang at Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Each verse is four short lines, rhyming AA/BB, with four accented syllables in each line, as in Matt’s example above as well as the original. Style Invitational Week 1372: Trash talk, 1880-style 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

By the end of the first verse, however, he starts to sound more celebratory. New music extra: George Michael – White Light 2012-06-29T13:57:00Z

She said by email, “Linda Pastan writes about ordinary life — family, motherhood, aging, relationships, loss — in crystalline, transcendent verse often filled with humor, surprise, joy, and sorrow.” Linda Pastan, Poet Who Plumbed the Ordinary, Dies at 90 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

"O if we but knew what we do, When we delve or hew - Hack and rack the growing green!" the poem's second verse begins. Bodleian Library buys Hopkins poem 2013-05-02T10:08:49Z

OF affiliate Vince Staples is the only MC who truly keeps up with Earl here, his ominous verse on “Hive” even better than anything on his new Stolen Youth. Earl Sweatshirt Takes the Odd Future Lead on Doris 2013-08-23T13:00:08Z

Legend said Rapsody wrote two verses for his song, asking him which he preferred. The special secret sauce in John Legend’s album: the Grammys 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

He sits quietly waiting for the second verse. They took Grandmaster Caz’s rhymes without giving him credit. Now, he’s getting revenge. 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Rauch’s finely calibrated, uncluttered interpretation of “Lear” is a showcase for veteran OSF players who speak the verse with superior cogency and command. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z

Many of the songs on “Fantasy” were released free this summer, but Mr. West has changed them in incremental ways — rerecorded verses, added new lyrics, made amendments to the beat, and so on. Kanye West, Still Unfiltered, on Eve of Fifth Album 2010-11-19T04:30:00Z

It's basically going to be a recap of everything that happened in the Bravo verse that week. Jerry O'Connell talks murder, dog hoarding, Drake & "Real Housewives" 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Awesome songs that are under two minutes, verse, chorus, done. Seattle soundtrack: by Kinski 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z

The band played “Captive of the Sun,” a lovely, impressionistic song, and Bun sauntered onstage during the bridge and rapped a verse that echoed Brown’s lyrics about the racket and din of the city. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The pain-filled verses flowed with an easy grace, and the snaps on a recent night at the Wild Project were a sign of approval borrowed from the world of performance poetry. Review: In ‘Paradox of the Urban Cliché,’ Verse Melts Into Drama 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

And the new One Direction single, “Little Things,” features solo verses sung by each of the group’s members. One Direction’s Songwriters: They’re What Make the Boy Band Beautiful 2012-11-13T15:10:25Z

My only criticism is the ending, although fitting, the verse fell flat and left me with an unfinished feeling. Have you ever ever ever? by Colin McNaughton and Emma Chichester Clark - review 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

Jay-Z's attempts to snarl here don't fall quite as flat as his execrable Monster verse, but it still feels like second-hand paranoia, the kind of thing he's decided a Serious Artist should feel. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z

Leaders of Muslim communities were brought in as advisers and Mr. Robinson employed Arabic speakers to train Cambodian actors in Koranic verses. Television: Cambodians Get a Taste of Western Television 2011-06-01T15:26:40Z

“Pribaoutki” takes its title from a word denoting Russian verse akin to the English limerick. Music Review: Tactus, Student Ensemble, at the Manhattan School of Music 2012-02-08T22:58:19Z

“My mother would speak verse every day of my life.” Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

I've struggled, on occasions, to feel at home with some of Maxwell's own verse. On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell – review 2012-07-13T21:55:02Z

It’s a percolating not-quite stasis, with verses and choruses fully dovetailed. New Music: The Debut of Ultraísta, and ‘Glad Rag Doll’ by Diana Krall 2012-10-01T21:36:40Z

He wrote perhaps as many as 80 verses before paring the song down and recording it on the 1984 album “Various Positions.” Books of The Times: ‘The Holy or the Broken’ by Alan Light 2012-12-09T22:49:21Z

West’s politics still bring a tremendous gravity to his verses, so it’s a pity when he frontloads the pages of his lyric book with rotten celebrity beef. Kanye West will not come down 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

As a track athlete, Nate was well versed; As a gigolo, though, he was cursed. Style Invitational Week 1244: Primed for creative Amazon product reviews 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

So he included a short work by Martin Amlin called “Time’s Caravan,” which use verses from the “Rubaiyat” of Omar Khayyam and a piece of his own incorporating the same source, “Scenes From the Rubaiyat.” Trinity Church Hosts 9/11 Concerts 2011-09-01T22:22:52Z

At the chorus, Mr. Mulherin toggles back and forth between shrieking and soothing, and in the verses, he alternates between a kind of whispered, conspiratorial singing and nimble rapping. nothing,nowhere. Blends Hip-Hop and Emo to Make Tomorrow’s Pop 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

“There was a verse, something like: ‘Look to your mind, wise man — it is subtle, invisible, treacherous,’ ” he said. When a Therapist Puts Buddhism Into Practice 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The six verses are understood to reflect the social upheavals of the 1960s and '70s. McLean to reveal American Pie secret 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

They’re fully versed in how steeped we all are in the dark arts of mercantile persuasion. Review | This may be the funniest Super Bowl commercial. But it won’t make it to the game. 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Most of the members onstage that day were recent college graduates well versed in leftist political theory. When the Young Lords Strove to Change New York 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

The bridge rockets into double time, and after the final verse the band stages a neat slow-motion collapse. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

The word of the day was “HEY!” — a crisp, monosyllabic declaration of presence that kept appearing in loads of hits, usually on the fourth beat of a measure, often leading into a verse. Perspective | Sophie pushed feel-good music toward a boundary that might not exist 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

He even borrowed some of Burroughs’s methods, riffing on Burroughs’s “cut-up” technique in his own verse. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

When Hamrick asked if he would consider ending with a song, Cain complied, singing a verse of a favorite gospel song “He Looked Beyond My Faults.” Herman Cain claims 'witch hunt' 2011-10-31T19:37:00Z

Many of these recent books are also, in one way or another, messy — unruly, sloppy, mixing prose and verse and other media, images and doodles. For 3 Poets Who Embrace Excess, the Mess Is the Message 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Few here in America could imagine the Safeway or the Piggly Wiggly to be deserving of such verse or such sentiment. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

But the bass line’s gummy groove holds all the disparate parts together, allowing Lizzo to glide elegantly from arch, semi-rapped verses to a belted-out bridge that shows off the full range of her vocals. Lizzo’s Empowerment Pop Gets Stuck in the Same Groove 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

A sprinkling of Richard Wright’s haikus appear throughout the book’s 10 thematically organized sections, creating witty respites amid the longer verse. Poetry to Tap Into Women’s Spiritual Sides 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Even if he did, he was hardly different than the millions of others versed on the issues, save for a camera that happened to be pointed at him for totally unrelated reasons. Javier Bardem, Jon Voight and the celebrity punditocracy 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

No, he stands like a statue, bloviating in verse about her suffering, piling up pretty metaphor upon classical allusion for what seems like an eternity. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z

The eulogy was essentially a reprise of the president’s favorite verses from scripture and excerpts from his inaugural speech. Archbishop Philip M. Hannan Dies at 98 2011-09-30T04:56:15Z

It’s a short work, designated for middle-grade listeners, but it’s rich in details, rendered in unfussy verse, that offer a visceral sense of some of those who were killed. Lois Lowry’s Ode to the Fallen in World War II 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

After that came “Paris Morton Music,” another emblematic Drake hybrid, his verse recorded over the dank beat from Rick Ross’s “Aston Martin Music,” on which Drake sings. Music Review: Drake, in a Generous Mood, at Radio City 2010-09-29T15:51:00Z

After the verses, he announced that he was retiring from music and acting “effective immediately.” Mos Def Allowed to Leave South Africa 10 Months After Being Detained 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

And so the verse of Being Boring was in A minor or D minor, maybe, after we went up a semi-tone into A flat for the chorus. Why Pet Shop Boys' Being Boring is the perfect pop song 2010-08-05T12:04:00Z

Give Fun. a verse, and it’ll send you back a choir and a song filled with shout-outs built for sporting events. Grammy Awards: Fun. takes song of the year; Frank Ocean, Adele win 2013-02-11T03:02:00Z

In the Willow Song from Rossini’s “Otello,” she hardened her tone just a bit in the second verse, swelling the tension and conveying, without overstatement, Desdemona’s growing desperation. Joyce DiDonato’s ‘Journey Through Venice’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Very few of the songs on “untitled,” especially in its first half, have much in the way of the traditional verse-­chorus-­verse structure. Kendrick Lamar’s Latest Restless Innovation 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

Is one partner far better versed in your family’s finances? Motherlode: Wives and Money 2011-03-11T15:59:32Z

In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took to rhyming verse in response to what he saw as unfair criticism, so it seems entirely appropriate that his modern-day adapter Mark Gatiss might do the same. Is Sherlock worse for too much action? Gatiss sends his verse reaction 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

They speak in aloof, sometimes foul verse, which Atkins voices himself, and indeed he’s as much a writer as an artist. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

While the example above, because of limited space, is just half a verse, your own parody should be at least one full verse. Style Invitational Week 1459: And we quote: ‘It’s Parody Time’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

When he played me the instrumental for Killer, I instinctively sang some verses I'd written over the funky introduction – but something was missing. How we made Killer, by Seal and Adamski 2013-03-11T19:30:01Z

After the final chorus the horns cycle through a sequence containing the verse riff, the chorus hook and a short passage of long notes adapted from the chorus melody. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

The verses hold regrets and self-criticism, countered by the encouraging chorus. The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

One concerned the band being sued for adapting the lyrics for "Sympathique" from some verses by Guillaume Apollinaire they'd assumed were in the public domain. Pink Martini gets a big lift from clarinetist Norman Leyden 2012-08-16T18:12:03Z

He said he will remember her "loving life and reciting verse". Divinyls singer Amphlett dies at 53 2013-04-22T11:20:18Z

“I went to spurring the verses instead of the horses,” he said. At the Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Tall Tales, Resonant Rhymes 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Speaking of acting and staging trends, they weigh the worth of trying to apply naturalism to Shakespearean verse. Review: In ‘Tea With the Dames,’ Four Legends Dish on Acting and Love 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

The idea for the poetry blog seemed a natural progression: the books blog, after all, was already full of comments in verse. Come rhyme with me: the best of the books blog poets 2010-10-06T20:31:00Z

As for that free verse: Here Woods finds success. ‘Not Too Far From Watts’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

One fellow, a former student of British literature, quoted verses by William Blake. Spring in Paris, My Adopted City, After the Siege 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

His sister began writing serious poetry; young Sheldon opted for comic verse. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Busier Than Ever at 91 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Many of these dawns are designated "rosy-fingered", one of the stock descriptions used to help the original oral bards glue together metrical lines as they improvised their verse. Why 'Odyssey Dawn'? 2011-03-25T12:30:01Z

That’s a refreshingly unexpected tack, and it results in the most sophisticated and austere verses of Wale’s career — even though the album’s conceptual thrust doesn’t always move in the same direction as the music. At top of charts, Wale feels underrated — not that there’s anything wrong with that 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

In the final version of the song, a verse begins with the lines: Was Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Originally ‘Mongolian Rhapsody’? 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

There's nothing wrong with Sternhold's poem – and yet, compared with the biblical verses, his tripping rhythms lack dignity and force. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z

Of the first number, “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,” he wrote, “After a verse like that, sung to a buoyant melody, the banalities of the old musical stage become intolerable.” An “Oklahoma!” for Today 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Sometimes one of us will come in with a melody or a verse idea and we'll jam it out and record it on our phones, take it home and let it simmer. It takes two: musical duos talk about working together 2013-04-11T18:00:00Z

The verse is extraordinarily pungent and the questions obviously eternal. Review: Danai Gurira Makes a Sleek Supervillain of Richard III 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

If a band have a broad enough spectrum of influences and adapt or combine them in clever, compelling ways, then an audience not necessarily versed in those influences will take them at face value. The Horrors: Skying - review 2011-07-07T14:29:01Z

The rappers traded verses and finished each other’s sentences while subwoofers pumped bass that tingled toes, fingers and everything in between. Review | A$AP Mob continues the legacy of the New York hip-hop crew 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The words, famously opening with "Comfort ye", are not Jennens' own but carefully selected verses from the Bible as well as a small number of psalms from the Book of Common Prayer. Show sheds light on Handel's hidden "Messiah" helper 2012-11-29T23:07:23Z

Though our poet seems at first to be left with nothing, he has not been left with nothing—he retains an artistic impulse that repays him, year by year, with the creation of beautiful verses. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z

C86-era nugget that demonstrates admirable economy: it has one verse, one chorus, a solo, then it ends. Readers recommend: B-sides ? the results 2011-02-03T16:36:46Z

My advice to any future director: Become very versed in Sudoku puzzles. dance: American Ballet Theater’s Director, Kevin McKenzie 2012-06-15T14:41:44Z

By the time her son was 6 months old, she was charging $75 for guest verses online. Can the Mainstream Catch Up to Rico Nasty? 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Even after this workshop, the verse remains tricky for some in this cast, Mr. Nunn acknowledged. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

“O magic theater of a poem,/spoil yourself, wrap up in sleepy velvet./I don’t matter,” she wrote in one characteristic verse. Bella Akhmadulina, Bold Voice in Russian Poetry, Dies at 73 2010-12-01T05:58:00Z

As a consumer expert and longtime cruiser, I’m well versed in securing decent prices. Eight ways to make sure you get the best deal on a cruise 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

As an academic at the University of Exeter, he's a leading specialist in the verse of 1914-18 - but some of the material was unknown even to him. The 'lost' poetry of World War One 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

In the next to last verse of the lengthy revelation, God invoked the “law of Sarah,” an insidious stricture for women who didn’t want to share their husbands. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z

Pizarnik’s verse, like Miles Davis’s trumpet playing, was known for its strategic use of silence and restraint. PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

King Charles III by Mike Bartlett, which imagines a future monarchy and is written in Shakespeare-style blank verse, was crowned best new play. Mark Strong honoured for Miller role 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Ms. Shiffert was a quiet sensualist, her verse characterized by spare simplicity and a deep, abiding affinity with the natural world. Edith Shiffert, a Poet Inspired by Nature and Her Life in Japan, Dies at 101 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

She has published collections of her own verse, and even these sketchbooks contain full pages devoted solely to her handwritten text. In a New Book of Sketches, Françoise Gilot Clears Her Mind of the Past 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Many viewers are surprised to learn she was also a gifted poet, whose verses are as moving and relatable as lyrics by Bob Dylan and Neil Young. A Pioneering Photographer, Bare in the Back Country 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

After starting the verse with a husky “As the river flows,” she soared high when she hit the chorus — “So take my hand” — with a dozen men harmonizing behind her. It took 109 years, but Yale’s storied a cappella group just got its first female singer 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Special reference must go to the first verse's GCSE-theatre-studies "love through an overhead projector screen" staging and the duo's impressive sideways moonwalk in the first chorus. Eurovision 2010: (more) ones to watch Eurovision 2010: (more) ones to watch 2010-05-28T12:25:00Z

On “Final,” as in his last few albums, his poetic verses generally come in traditional song forms and ensemble styles — guaracha, changüí, son — made stronger with sophisticated chord changes. New Music: Albums From Sohn, Oran Etkin and Pedro Luis Ferrer 2014-04-07T21:31:47Z

The boy’s uncle, who published a volume of verses before drifting into bitterness and penury as a journalist, is a grim specter of literary failure. Review: From Israel, ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ a Drama About Poetry and Obsession 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

When Joshua spars with Paul over the meaning of biblical verses, he is as ticked off as he is injured by his mentor's reasoning. In the laudable 'The Christians,' characterizations are a saving grace 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

Would you watch three seasons of a show in which Emily Dickinson sits alone at her desk, scratching out verse with a pencil? Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

For Arabs, the poetic form of the Qur'an is one of our cultural foundations, and Shakespeare's blend of verse and prose seems as natural as the way we think; it is the way we breathe. Why Shakespeare is … Palestinian 2012-06-11T14:10:02Z

In “a twilight’s song,” that meant plenty of octave leaping to capture the stark emotionality that underlies Cummings’s meditative verses. Music Review: Molding Sound to Behave Like a Solar Eclipse 2010-10-22T23:27:00Z

The panels include information about Thomas's life and work, with verses of the poem printed on plaques. Dylan birthday poem route opens 2012-08-31T06:23:17Z

Preaching an adaptation of Jehovia’s verse in Corinthians to followers clad in yellow turbans and pink hoods, the Vine told his adherents that God dwells in every man. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Together, they sandpapered off the album’s rough edges, rerecording vocals and sometimes writing entire new verses. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z

Tea Partyers can cling to a verse about “delivering a great nation from taxation.” Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z

The verse is spoken with a light lucidity that brightens even the more philosophically dense passages. 2010-02-15T22:29:00Z

He compressed his songs into a medley, with each getting little more than a verse and a chorus. Pitchfork Festival 2013: It's a wrap 2013-07-18T17:01:00Z

He’s also trying to conjure tricky emotions and build eccentric structures in and around his pop verses and choruses. Mura Masa Wrestles Complex Emotions on His Major-Label Debut 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

She immediately realizes the mistake and stops singing to laugh at herself, telling the audience “s***, wrong words…I started singing the verse.” Watch Adele Forget Her Lyrics But Remain Just About Perfect 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

After his No. 1 on“Still,” Richie pitched his next ballad, a fragment for which he had only the opening word — “lady” — and then the melody of the verse. Lionel Richie can’t slow down, and we’re all the richer for it 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Poetry slams are no place for the introverted, no matter how talented a writer might be at slinging verse on paper. 'Louder Than a Bomb': the power of a youth poetry slam 2011-05-05T23:55:05Z

Instead of verses and choruses the vocals are often incantations, a melodic phrase or two repeated while everything else melts down or boils over. 2010-01-10T23:10:00Z

Victoria modestly suggests it may have been because the songs were "verse, chorus, verse, chorus". Beach House and the curse of the big time 2012-05-18T23:01:00Z

The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics. Laura Marling?s British Folk CD ?Creature I Don?t Know? 2011-09-04T04:25:17Z

Unlike most opening singles from an anticipated album, Albatross doesn't reveal its charms instantly, preferring instead to drift in on a fairly downbeat verse before the heartbreaking chorus chimes in with sighing despondency. New music: Wild Beasts ? Albatross 2011-04-08T15:28:00Z

He also knew enough not to start into an additional verse. Critic?s Notebook: Presidents Sometimes Take the Role of First Musician 2012-02-22T23:25:19Z

Advertisement “I did a bit of Romeo and a bit of ‘Boy With a Cart’” — a verse drama about a saint by the 20th-century playwright Christopher Fry — “and I got a scholarship,” he recalled. Brian Bedford, Stage Actor Who Brought the Classics to Life, Dies at 80 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

But for the last hundred years poets writing in English have taken it to extremes, so that, technically, it’s no longer verse, but prose. Feminists, Poetic Pretensions and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The rappers LL Cool J and Lil Dicky and, in a surprise cameo, Rita Wilson each took a verse and soon had the celebrity guests out of their seats and dancing. With ‘The Crown,’ Netflix Finally Takes the Emmys Throne 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

She said he would read verse with “special, ceremonial intonation that is due only to poetry.” Acclaimed Polish poet Adam Zagajewski dies at age 75 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

For those shamefully in the dark, he cited chapter and verse from the Essay. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Simin Behbahani, a prizewinning poet known as “the lioness of Iran” for deftly combining classical Persian verse forms, poignant emotion and courageous social protest, died on Tuesday in Tehran. Simin Behbahani, Outspoken Iranian Poet, Dies at 87 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

But working with Dr. Luke taught him about song structure and dynamics, about creating rising drama and moments of respite from that drama in the verse, bridge and chorus. Pop: Benny Blanco, Hit Maker for Rihanna and Maroon 5 2013-01-05T05:03:03Z

When soprano Lauren Michelle, in the guise of the hapless, pregnant Irina, begins the opening verse of “Trouble Man,” the otherwise stentorian rhythms of “Lost in the Stars” suddenly take on a becoming urgency. ‘Lost in the Stars’ falls short as compelling musical drama 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. McCartney’s music unfolds through motifs and episodes, not pop verses and choruses; it harks back to Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Holst and Vaughan Williams, with a touch of Gershwin when the tough-guy Terra contingent struts in. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z

An anthology of verse celebrating the pleasures of domesticity, from apartments to farmhouses to lost homelands, from John Donne’s bed to Joy Harjo’s kitchen table to Billy Collins’s favorite armchair. Newly Published, From Quincy Troupe to Art Censorship 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

The double refrains in each verse are relentless, yet their touch is light. Poem of the week: When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare 2013-04-01T09:33:58Z

Listen to how he ties a neat bow on the first verse of “Live Up to the Hype” with a brag of self-awareness: “I’m so elegant.” Review | Shy Glizzy is bigger than ever — but he still sounds like D.C. 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

It was a different way to make the verses unique to allow the story to go somewhere.” Behind Wilco’s 2001 Masterpiece, a Band Breaking Its Heart 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to pick a favorite lyric, but I’m partial to this verse, sung by the cheating ex-husband in counterpoint to LuPone’s ghostly warbling: When Patti LuPone Haunted a Laundromat 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Indeed, it’s worth noting that it’s not just liberal Christians that ignore Bible verses that are just too reactionary for our times. Is religion inherently oppressive? 2014-04-12T12:00:00Z

It is rare for Mr Walcott to seem lost for words: his verse is generous and often recalls epic poetry. Beach bard 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

Both are written in verse, as is “Here Is the Beehive.” Review | In ‘Here Is the Beehive,’ a philandering mother deals with the death of her lover 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

I was a magazine art director many moons ago, and I’m sure anyone entering the world of design these days would—unlike me—be well versed in all manner of design programs and branding lingo. Mark Ulriksen’s “Downtime” 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

More consistently than Davidson, she related the nonsense verse to Lear's life – linking the destruction of his first house in Sanremo with the poem Mr and Mrs Discobbolos, which evoked the childhood loss of home. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z

All three songs, but most especially "Murder Most Foul," grow darker and ominous as each verse makes way for the next. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

One verse of the scorching ballad “Leave” tells you that Gregory Maheu has the guitar chops and a good, clear, gruff baritone as Guy. Review | The musical ‘Once’ sounds fit as a fiddle at Olney Theatre 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, the old master got stuck on a verse, forgetting a line in one of his 600 songs. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

On a computer screen was a piece of the Apocryphon of Daniel, an Aramaic text that includes a verse referring to a figure who "will be called the son of God." 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online 2011-09-27T00:31:04Z

The album’s closest approach to a pop song is “Interference,” a despondent breakup ballad — “We stare into each other’s eyes/ Like jackdaws, like ravens” — with clearly defined verses and choruses. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

"The song is very literal, especially that first verse," Adkins said. Trace Adkins really is "Proud To Be Here" 2011-08-03T21:54:43Z

This is used to great effect on album closer “Neighbor,” a highlight from Infinite Arms, in which you can hear a match drop during the unified verses at the 2,362-seat venue. Band of Horses Captures Magic of a Live Show on New Acoustic Album 2014-02-13T22:31:14Z

But between the verse and the chorus, Burna generates a groan so sodden and slippery with beautiful melody, it’s impossible to describe what’s truly being expressed. Perspective | Burna Boy is an ‘African Giant’ with a sound that defies geography 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

He is one of the most inherently musical rappers ever, a flexible vocalist gifted in complex verse but also fluent in soul serenade, rock shouting, reggae toasting and more. For Yasiin Bey, Once Known as Mos Def, a Comeback With the Finish Line in Mind 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

You don't need to be fully versed in this drama to enjoy follow–up series Lightfields, which begins this week, but it might help you decide whether the latter is worth a watch. Catch-up TV guide: from Bank Of Dave to The Real George Orwell 2013-02-23T06:00:05Z

And kept it moving he did, tearing through verse after verse. Coachella 2015: Drake finds redemption on his own 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

The song’s strongest message is conveyed in its second verse, when Jay-Z relays a story about being pulled over by the cops: “I heard, ‘Son, do you know why I’m stoppin’ you for?’ ” he raps. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

He writes in free verse, appropriate, perhaps, since the deep south feels like a place without rules. A Poet's Return Home to Thailand's Violent South 2010-10-20T16:28:00Z

Seals, dates, verse: It’s a lot to absorb in the first moments of a meal, given that the epic dining room is competing for your attention, too. Review | A chef who reveres the region brings his act to D.C. 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

Its most bloodthirsty verses — especially one calling for spilling the “impure blood” of enemies — have long attracted controversy. After Paris Attacks, ‘La Marseillaise’ Echoes Around the World in Solidarity 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

That reckoning is expressed in some of Shakespeare’s most lyrical and psychologically insightful verse. A solid, wrenching ‘Richard II’ at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2014-01-16T21:34:58Z

As Pete liked to say, he would only sing it with ‘all the verses,’ the last several of which are the most radical and are usually left out. ‘Loud, Strong, Committed, and Always in Search of America’ 2014-01-29T23:32:51Z

In “I Ask Love,” a hand-drum beat and a bouzouki line shadowed a terse melody that grew more impassioned with every verse, as the audience started clapping along. Music Review: Eleftheria Arvanitaki’s Adoring Fans Flock to Carnegie Hall 2014-02-02T22:52:03Z

The Beatles didn't invent pairing a soaring melody and triumphant chorus with devastatingly sad verses, of course, but they did have a singular knack for voicing the otherwise unspeakable in our hearts. "My dad had a secret rage problem that only we could see": Author Erin Hosier on "Don't Let Me Down" 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

Didn't you think reviewing an actual poet in verse might make your own effort look silly by comparison? From Franzen to Fieri, the five rules of the review as takedown 2012-11-28T17:36:00Z

He graduated with first class honours in 1969, the same year he published his debut collection of verse. Poet Douglas Dunn wins Queen's medal 2013-12-18T13:13:11Z

By that fall, a single appeared that featured some young New Jersey vocalists, called the Sugarhill Gang, delivering rhyming verse in sing-song voices over instrumental sections lifted from “Good Times.” Nile Rodgers — defender of disco 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Each verse layers on another instrument, a countermelody, an electronic effect, dabs of backup vocals. On Alice Merton’s Debut ‘Mint,’ Hooks Conquer Fears 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

They lingered over verses by Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou inscribed on the walls. Pride and Pain on Opening Day at a Museum of African-American History 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach reads his profane and affectionate verses about parenting. 31 best bets at Bumbershoot 2012 — plus ticket info 2012-08-30T19:01:05Z

In the most wrenching verses of “Love and War” he pictures brides of servicemen killed in action trying to explain to their children “why daddy won’t ever come home again.” Movie Review: Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young Journeys’ 2012-06-28T23:29:53Z

He mined it, traced its contours, translated them to verse: “black wind,” “wet winds,” “noisy clouds,” “thorn-trees,” “the clinging air.” In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Yet none of the life story enters the poems directly: Ryan's verse avoids biography almost on principle. Kay Ryan: the un-American poet who will fly the US flag at Poetry Parnassus 2012-06-29T08:26:54Z

Rankin is a literature PhD fully versed in English-language literary tradition, who chose crime writing as a "good way of looking at society, and of exploring a city". The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z

The record climaxes with "Mortal Man," a twelve-minute epic that features wondrous Lamar verses about Nelson Mandela, devotion, spiritual enlightenment and power. Kendrick Lamar's 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

In the first verse, he presents himself completely free of bravado, and foreshadows the marital tensions that his wife, Beyoncé, would later mine so effectively on her 2016 album “Lemonade”: The Playlist: Jay Z Responds to Police Shootings With ‘Spiritual’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Molière's verse plays are written entirely in Alexandrines: 12-syllable rhyming couplets. Mersey Molière 2013-02-05T18:00:47Z

In stilted verse, it set up the elf as a watchdog for Santa, a scout for reporting bad behavior, or as Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams writes: "an Orwellian nightmare." How I learned to stop worrying and love Elf on the Shelf 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

Thig's brother Monk Wordsmith contributes several excellent verses and a haunting solo song with "The City Never Sleeps." Review roundup: five local, late-summer albums of note 2011-08-19T19:01:15Z

It reprises his on-line hits "I Don't Like" and "3 Hunna," adding only a Ross verse to the latter. Chief Keef plays it cold on major-label debut 2012-12-17T14:40:56Z

Although he was never a prolific poet himself he greatly enjoyed poetry and had a remarkable capacity to commit to memory copious lines of verse which he loved to recall and recite at appropriate moments. Winston Churchill manuscript reveals his poetic side 2013-02-06T20:30:03Z

In his reverberating brand of free verse, lines hover in the air like pulses of distant starlight, or humming throws from deep right field to home plate. Books: Hawaii and Nature Are Inspirations for W. S. Merwin 2010-07-01T02:20:00Z

There’s something sloppy about the current generation of country-music party boys, who often seem to be barely restraining a beer belch in between verses. Playlist: Gearing Up the Time Machine to Go Back to the ’90s 2014-02-07T22:18:24Z

Before and after the verse and songs, Poets House will lead activities to inspire visitors to write their own poems. Spare Times for Children for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

"I was playing a woman, who was dressing as a boy, who was playing Romeo and speaking verse with an English accent. It was sort of a lot to keep in the air." American actors with the best onscreen British accents, from Peter Dinklage to Renee Zellwegger 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

“I used to memorize Bible verses, and I know the New Testament more than I know the Koran.” The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

The earliest advent calendars from 19th-century Germany offered up a Bible verse each day. Advent calendars are raking it in while counting it down 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Originally, El-P had recorded the verse himself before Mike insisted on finding “a real soul voice,” which eventually led them to Staples. Run the Jewels Is Rewriting Rap’s Rules 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

One of the most distressing episodes came when Polo Mints ran an ad campaign with short verses displayed in a similar style to the type and layout of our poems. Poems on the Underground: copycats and controversies 2013-01-09T06:10:01Z

“But for me, saying them to a person that I really care about in whatever sense, whatever capacity, is a little tougher, because it doesn’t have a first verse, second verse and bridge.” Arts & Leisure Preview: Taylor Swift Is Angry, Darn It 2010-10-20T22:06:00Z

Between snappy choruses — ”Just Dance,” or “Caught in a Bad Romance” — her verses sometimes revel in desire, sometimes question it. 2010-01-21T09:05:00Z

Between its chanted verses, “Home Computer” goes abstract; with a beat, tinkly sounds and cheerfully dissonant arpeggios, who needs a chorus? Florian Schneider’s 10 Essential Songs, in Kraftwerk and Beyond 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Where are the verse and chorus, where’s the play of words? REVIEW: 'Get On Up' Is a Loud, Proud and Oscar-Worthy James Brown Biopic 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

The sense of a universality in Venus’s suffering is underlined in the repeated shifts of language, in the a capella song segments and the spoken bits of Shakespeare’s verse. South Africa’s Isango Ensemble beautifully remolds ‘The Magic Flute’

Part of the academic interest of such miscellanies, said Williams, is the sheer range of styles of verse represented. Did John Milton write filthy, innuendo-laden rhyme? 2010-09-22T15:56:00Z

In video of Towers’s set posted to YouTube, the rapper is dressed in all black, standing under a white beach canopy as he confidently delivers the verses of the aspirational “Dinero En Mano.” Myke Towers Is Seizing His Moment 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

The handling of the free verse here is very assured. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z

I was a very, very bad rapper when I was 12 or 13 years old, writing verses in terrible, broken English. Jonas Hassen Khemiri, the Playwright Behind ?Invasion!? 2011-09-09T07:30:35Z

Even though his guest verse is mainly about spaghetti, he sounds very angry indeed. Amelia Lily, Mikky Ekko: this week's new tracks 2013-01-14T06:00:00Z

The joke, both grim and fruitful, is, of course, that Harrison writes in exquisitely metred rhyme, in verse that has obviously had a great deal of care taken over it to make it look artless. Selected Poems by Tony Harrison – review 2013-03-12T09:59:01Z

She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for “The Wild Iris” and a National Book Award in 2014 for her most recent collection of verse, “Faithful and Virtuous Night.” Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Here in the bar, Robinson sings a couple of verses of Blue Murder, his song about the death in police custody of the amateur boxer Liddle Towers, in 1976. Martin Carthy and Tom Robinson's notes on a revolution 2010-06-13T20:29:00Z

This year he reworked the chords and added concluding verses, among them, “I tried to leave my past behind, but it’s catching up with me.” Making Beautiful ?Le Noise? Together 2010-09-26T22:08:00Z

Everything Speaks In Its Own Way, released on Tempest's own publishing imprint Zingaro Books, is not a slim volume of verse. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Everything Speaks In Its Own Way by Kate Tempest 2012-07-20T10:42:03Z

Frost, in turn, released the poet within Thomas, and would even find a publisher for his verse in the United States. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

There's a nugget of received wisdom that holds that composers should steer clear of first-rate verse. Mark Padmore/Andrew West – review 2013-06-14T17:22:01Z

He is nostalgic and wistful, and his verse settles on the immutability of country lanes and thatched inns and of High Church Anglicanism. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The downside is that it’s also a limited tool set — her flows sometimes sound too much like her other verses. Review: Azealia Banks' 'Broke With Expensive Taste' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

With Kernis at the piano, tenor Nicholas Phan deftly negotiated some challenging settings of verses about the ancient art in which the forces of energy are balanced to harmonize individuals with their environment. What’s it like watching world premiere concerts online? 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Those not versed in Saint-Saëns lore might be surprised to discover just how towering a figure he once was. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z

The acclaimed author of nine books of fiction and the founding editor of the literary journal Noon, Williams is known for minimalist vignettes that are often likened to verse or well-cut gems. Diane Williams Navigates the Tricky Business of Intimacy 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

The words—three verses about being romantically bewitched and bewildered—are nothing special. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

We probably tweaked the forms a little bit, last verses or something. “What’s my purpose on Earth if I’m not playing solos?”: Guitar hero Richard Thompson says every song absolutely, without question, needs one 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Tennant has a wonderful way of demystifying Shakespearean verse without patronising it, mining every word for maximum humour or pathos. David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z

Nima’s verses—New Poetry, it was called—lingered over the distress of the poor and the politically oppressed. Poetry and Politics in Iran 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Shirley said the Bible verses tattooed on his arms “come to life” for him in times like this. Reality TV star leaning on faith after son’s fatal shooting 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

To this extent the show's third verse is very much like the first. The "Ted Lasso" way gets tested in the beloved show's third season 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a fresh, unexpected approach, and Mr. Camargo speaks the verse with a cool beauty. Theater Review | 'The Tempest': Air Sprite, Feral Creature, Rapturous Love and Other Sorcery 2010-02-26T03:15:00Z

“A Quiet Passion” suggests that the mixture of austerity and extravagance in her verse was shaped to some degree by an environment in which religious severity coexisted with aesthetic and intellectual experimentation. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Headlining a sold-out show at Songbyrd in Adams Morgan on Thursday night, Mavi seemed to be zeroing in on that impossible location, leaving his nonstop verses hanging in the air like contrails. Review | Mavi is rapping his way toward the center of human consciousness 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Well, there's the intro, verses, middle eight … but what a chorus. The Wanted, Biffy Clyro, Bo Bruce: this week's new tracks - with videos 2013-06-21T12:00:00Z

An astonishing statement, this, given that Pound is himself arguably the greatest free verse poet in the language! John Keats, Chopped Prose and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

He over-sang verses, changed his look every album, "and gave fans so much to imitate, you could say one of the ways he was influential was he foretold interactive culture," Haynes said. 'David Bowie Is': How do you fit a rocker into an art museum? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

King in notes cites the Bible verse that each track references, connecting written and sung messages into a sublime, often-ethereal whole. Box-set highlights: Paramount Records, William Onyeabor, Joni Mitchell 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

The novel in verse, about a basketball-playing teen, is the first book for middle-graders from Alexander, a veteran author who has published more than 20 books. 2015 Newbery, Caldecott and Printz awards announced 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Her second volume of verse, “A Chill,” was published in Germany in 1968. Bella Akhmadulina, Bold Voice in Russian Poetry, Dies at 73 2010-12-01T05:58:00Z

One study of Bible verses in pro athlete's Twitter bios concluded that major league baseball players were "far and away the most overtly religious group of athletes of the four major sporting leagues." How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Late in the show, Ocean sings a verse from his early mixtape song Swim Good a cappella and his voice soars through the fuggy air with devastating purity. Frank Ocean – review 2013-07-10T18:34:00Z

The writing often proved evocative, such as in the second verse, “Alas, my ship is sinking.” Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

It’s an epic poem told in popular pictures and verse. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

“It’s hard to get Jay Z on a verse,” Khaled said, while noting that he was willing to wait. This Is How DJ Khaled Got Jay Z to Be on 'Major Key' 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

As you might expect, a good proportion of this verse is religious in nature, and this tradition of devotional Easter writing goes back a long way. Poster poems: Easter 2010-03-26T10:58:00Z

This month is believed to be around the time the first verses of the Qur’an were revealed to the prophet Muhammad in 610 C.E. 9 things everyone should know about Ramadan 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Several of the sheets include groups of rhyming words which he used as springboards for additional lines of verse. Unpublished Dylan lyrics to be sold in New York 2011-06-08T19:35:04Z

He thrived in those marginal places and was embraced by countless readers bored with most of what passed for accomplished verse. Letters to the Editor 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

It took no time at all for these parties to quarrel: so exasperating and offensive did Pound find Georgian verse that he challenged one of its protagonists to a duel. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

In 2002, when he won for A Beautiful Mind, Russell opted to read out a lengthy piece of verse on receipt of his award. A plea to actors in awards season: dump the Trump protest 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Because they told stories in verse, his poems — others include “The Song of Hiawatha” and “The Wreck of the Hesperus” — were popular recital pieces back in the day when dramatic declamation was a minor art. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

“Enough Said” features never-before-heard Aaliyah vocal tracks layered over simple percussion, with Drake rapping a typical Drake verse about a minute and a half in. LISTEN: Drake Releases Posthumous Aaliyah Single “Enough Said” 2012-08-06T20:13:18Z

Fitting music to verse can be tricky territory: if you literalize a poem with musical gestures, you may be taking away its mysteries and killing it. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z

A mad prophecy for sure, but daydreaming is the prevailing ideology in Ko's republic of verse. 2010-02-17T14:05:00Z

It's unlikely that they have read the latest book of the avant-garde verse but, in their own microcosm, they are terrifically knowing. Tennessee Williams lambasted his rivals as 'vampires' 2013-02-17T00:06:15Z

This is a lullaby, really, with its soothing rhythm and its verses propelled by a certain circularity and repetition. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-05-20T21:29:00Z

But most of the time, Mr. Barnes stays in a pop universe of verses and choruses, tunes and beats. New Music: Air, Of Montreal and the Jim Black Trio 2012-02-13T23:57:44Z

Six years later, he would transform those lines in the second verse of “A Change Is Gonna Come”: “It’s been too hard livin’, but I’m afraid to die.” The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come” 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Last week, as signaled by the arrival of a new verse in Leonard Cohen’s theme song, “True Detective” seemed to enter a new phase of its second season. 'True Detective' Recap: Full Moons and Sex Parties 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

This album and de facto preamble mixtape are full of fanged verses about drug-game glory and regret, brazen and austere and unnerving. Drake, Kanye West and Ashley Monroe 2013-12-13T18:32:49Z

Sometimes, the prose of “The Dark Lady’s Mask” veers, if not purple, then lavender: “The verses cascaded through Aemilia, rending her spellbound.” Shakespeare strikes back at the woman who helped him write his plays 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Rhyming text is something I love both writing and reading, and Jez is a master of the art of the funny story in verse with the twisty ending. Lucy Coats's top 10 bear picture books 2013-03-21T12:47:16Z

Each recording features a newly written verse, highlighting one of the nine victims, the AME Church or whatever that singer chooses. Peter Mulvey's 'Take Down Your Flag' responds to Charleston shooting 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

I'd simply observe that it's impossible to pinpoint a play's strengths and weaknesses without citing chapter and verse. Michael Billington on giving away the plot 2011-04-03T21:01:01Z

After City Hall finished, Notes got back on the computer/turntable combo and freestyled for a while, coolly making up verses on the spot. Review: OC Notes, Fergus Farley, City Hall at Hollow Earth 2011-12-29T19:30:11Z

“I’m so proud of you,” he croons to his “college-educated girl … with a future and a past,” and then Nicki Minaj snaps out two verses fiercer than anything Drake puts down.  Album review: Drake, 'Take Care' 2011-11-13T19:26:00Z

She powered her way through Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” pouring herself into the verses before spinning on her back during the guitar solo — never mind that she was seven months pregnant. In Berlin, Singing Karaoke at the Site of a Former ‘Death Strip’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The family begins each hymn verse together, but ends it on slightly different accents — a sign of frayed relations and disharmony. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

The final verses of the Iliad, the display of the Trojan prince Hector’s corpse, the wailing women, the feasting and the funeral games, are devoted to his wake. Why the Irish get death right 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Rather, she is a professional food designer — skilled in building flavors and textures, versed in arcana like the aftertastes of alternative sweeteners and the umami of dried yeasts. Meet ‘the Million-Dollar Palate’ Behind a Flood of New Foods 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

As a former editor at and , Salma is well versed in the finer things in life. A Day in Life of a Bentley Mulsanne 2012-08-05T21:56:52Z

Her book works because her blank verse, with its seemingly unstudied enjambments, is supple yet pared down. Beautiful Poems About a House of Horrors 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

In that particular song, the last few verses came first. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

In her National Book Award-winning memoir in verse “Brown Girl Dreaming,” Jacqueline Woodson hones in on the idea that dialogue inspires understanding; throughout the book, Ms. Woodson urges readers, over and over, to listen. Jacqueline Woodson to Explore Belonging in Two Upcoming Books 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

After an editor suggested that Mrs. Babbitt pursue her own writing, she wrote several volumes in verse, eventually moving into chapter books. Natalie Babbitt, author of young-adult classic ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ dies at 84 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

"We do not choose our verses; they choose us," she wrote in the poem Vision. Mabel Ferrett obituary 2011-02-17T17:55:11Z

Be well versed in the driving and auto laws because every country has its things; no one wants to be caught unaware. How to Prepare for Road Trip Abroad 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

There are banners with Bible verses on them, pictures of Kathy with Ronald Reagan and Mother Teresa, and a bumper sticker that reads “Chastity is a Lifestyle.” Movie Review: In ‘Gimme Shelter,’ a Priest Reaches Out to Smooth a Path 2014-01-24T00:12:52Z

In a witty touch after the concluding verse, Mr. McMillen plucked a piano string, which suggested a lute. Music Review: Da Capo Players at Merkin Hall, Musing on Night 2010-06-03T22:18:00Z

Part of me was like, "Man, I really wish I could write some more verses for this." The secret to Jim James’ solo album “Uniform Distortion”: “Turn off your phone and open y... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Snaking among those and other works are the quartet’s fractured recitations of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.’s obscure fifth verse to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” What Is American Music? Three Classical Albums Offer Answers. 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s inscribed in brush and ink, above a stenciled blue-and-white silk floral design, with verse that compares young warriors to scattering blossoms. Art Review: ‘Brush Writing in the Arts of Japan’ Shows Detailed Efforts 2013-08-29T22:03:18Z

As the 1970s drew to a close, Orlovsky published his key verse collection, issued, suitably, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights publishers, which had put out Howl and Other Poems more than two decades previously. Peter Orlovsky 2010-07-04T16:59:00Z

Also an acclaimed poet, Ballou wrote a verse portrait of Charles Darwin called "The Darwin Poems." PBS' 'Masterpiece' to adapt Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Signature of All Things' 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

He also penned rather melancholy occasional verse — much of it quoted by Davenport-Hines — and produced pioneering travel and topographical guides to Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Review | Looking back to a time when leaders and millionaires were also men of letters 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The papers add that in the next verse, Jordan rapped that he “hustles hard, like the mob, a dealer serving hands like they cards.” Prosecutors: Jam Master Jay killer rapped in front of mural 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

That verse is cited very commonly among lots of Christian advocates involved in the orphan care and adoption movement. How the Christian right perverts adoption 2013-05-04T21:00:00Z

“The Bible means a lot to me, but I don’t want to get into specifics,” Trump told Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin, refusing to list one or two favorite verses. Watch Donald Trump refuse to name any verses in his “favorite” book, The Bible 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

“This is my very favorite room,” said Knottingham, who used to run a tea shop, and is well versed in the material at hand. Seattle Art Museum is open again. Here’s how the first day went 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

I was terrible at basketball as a kid, but this novel in verse made me feel that I could have been good. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Some of the lyrics are lifted from the play, but the rest will be mystifying to those not versed in Latin or Polish. Review: ‘Songs of Lear,’ We Hear Cordelia Singing 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Daytona” is terser, leaving only nits to pick; say, that the second and third verses of “Come Back Baby” lack the fire and wit of the rest of the album. Pusha-T, a Lecturer Seeking a Target, Finds One 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

The words set in the final verse refer to the prologue from the Gospel of John, a reading usually reserved for Christmas morning. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

But from one verse to the next, lower voices enter, and the final, lowering notes are given over to the bass alone, suggesting how hope curdles into bleakness. Review: In ‘All Is Calm,’ Thrilling Song in the Trenches 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

The storybook lines then break into something like verse: “Amelia Bedelia / got her bag. / And she went away.” The Secret Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, the Bartleby of Domestic Work 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Cyrano's nose has been integral to popular images of the character ever since Edmond Rostand's swashbuckling 1897 verse drama "Cyrano de Bergerac." Beyond Cyrano de Bergerac’s nose – the real man behind the swashbuckling hero 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

With the first verse, it’s oh gosh, is she going to do that? The poster girl for period sex: “I think it’s unfortunate that women often think their vagina’s kind of disgusting” 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Today’s winner goes a giant step further: It rearranges all three verses of the carol “Away in a Manger” — that’s 432 individual letters in its 116 words — into the rhyming poem below. Style Invitational Week 1416: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

The modernists won the day, and the discrete, imagistic verse of Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore eventually crowded out the more decadent, romantic lyrics of Millay and Sara Teasdale. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t so much a song as a sketch, crudely recorded featuring most prominently a stomping boot, the candy-coated chorus and a mumbled verse that was hard to make out. Darius Rucker rides ‘Wagon Wheel’ to top of charts 2013-05-24T19:43:37Z

Today, on National Poetry Day, the best of the verses are published in a collection called Everyone's Sense of the World Is Invaluable. Come rhyme with me: the best of the books blog poets 2010-10-06T20:31:00Z

There were two unfamiliar names in one of its verses: “And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot / Fighting in the captain’s tower / While calypso singers laugh at them / And fishermen hold flowers.” Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Then, the third verse they decide to meet — so they meet, and it’s his wife!” he exclaimed, leaning forward in excitement. Dave Grohl: A back-aching, coffee-guzzling, minivan-driving classic rocker 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

The music pulls its own connections — to trap electronics, African songs, brass bands, gospel choirs — while Beyoncé flaunts new melody ideas in each verse. Beyoncé’s Surprise Juneteenth Anthem, and 12 More New Songs 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile the doubters cited chapter and verse, the more appalling the better. ArtsBeat Blog: Have a Little Faith? At NYU, The Debate Rages On 2011-11-16T20:55:51Z

"The Theater of War" aims to narrow the divide between soldier and civilian, to lay bare — through verse and myth —- the horrors and transgressions of the battlefield. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The open-air talent show attracted a local poet, Rafael Díaz, who declaimed inspirational verses in several languages. Impromptu Club 124 in East Village Resumes for a Night 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

To my regret, I was only the second cleverest boy in the school, though I remain the only one to have rewritten the entire works of Aristophanes in blank verse. Digested read: Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg 2011-07-11T20:30:02Z

He is a promising talent, as well: On “Amen,” the lead single from his debut album, “Dreams and Nightmares,” his screamed verses handily outshone those from his guest M.C., Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The book is a history of Lehman Brothers written entirely in verse. Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The latter moment still makes George Lucas’ most unwieldy screenwriting faux pas look like the finest Shakespearean verse. From Rey's dark side to Snoke's identity – the questions Star Wars: The Last Jedi must answer 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

For his “Cats,” Lloyd Webber mostly set Eliot’s light verse to music. ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

While the storytelling and structure are quite grounded, even straightforward, the text has the heightened, often surreal quality of Lorca’s verse. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

The “verse” of “Dark Star,” if you can call it that, consists of the phrase Shall we go? My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Whenever he darts off into a virtuoso verse, he isn’t trying to dizzy our ears as much as vocalize his own hyper-awareness to the state of the nation in real time. Perspective | Kendrick Lamar deserves his Pulitzer. Rap is the most significant music of our time. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

I could handle verse, I could speak Shaw, I could do Pinter. What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood (*If you’re not a straight white man.) 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

I kind of just did my verse and was like, ‘Do you like it?’ World Cup Official Song: Jennifer Lopez on Making We Are One (Ole Ola) 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Most were apparently well versed in the customs and folkways of contemporary art. Art Basel Miami Beach Wraps Up Its 10th Year 2011-12-10T12:30:08Z

Ira Wallace, one of the worker-owners of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and the author of the “Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast,” is well versed in Southern pea culture and cultivation. Field peas: A summertime classic throughout the South

Cardi B is featured on “Bet You Wanna,” and the girls couldn’t control themselves when they first heard the Grammy-winning rapper’s verse: “We were screaming. We were literally screaming,” Rosé exclaimed. After ruling K-pop, BLACKPINK aim to takeover pop world too 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

That version in turn was based upon Scandinavian sagas recorded by a 10th or 11th century Icelandic author known as Snow Bear; one verse even refers to a character called Amlothi. Was the great Dane Irish? That is the question 2011-03-03T00:01:02Z

Chance shouted into the microphone, rapping his incandescent verse from “Ultralight Beam,” which includes the couplet “I made ‘Sunday Candy,’ I’m never going to hell / I met Kanye West, I’m never going to fail.” Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self-Promotion 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Thank you for sending me your latest verses. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4 1928-1929 (ed. Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden) 2013-01-06T18:30:02Z

The students added verses to George Gershwin and Cole Porter songs, mimicking rhyme scheme and voice, an exercise that Nardino maintains “captures writing for television” perfectly. His class is famously tough. ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Westworld’ wouldn’t exist without it. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

We even use song and verse to teach kids. Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Her verse from "Monster" by Kanye West had thousands of people losing their minds. Concert preview: Nicki Minaj's prime asset 2012-08-09T15:38:06Z

Freddie Gibbs presented himself as the keeper of a disappearing genre — gangsta rap — but turned traditionalism into swagger, performing bare-chested and rattling off verse after verse a cappella, barely taking a breath. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z

It is a simple and marvelous truth that the sense of the more obscure verses begins to reveal itself almost magically through repeated listening. Review | The words of Martin Luther King Jr. as you’ve never heard them before 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

An infectious R&B number — each verse a rising groove that drops back to base before starting up again — it imparts bounce to the balletic positions and squeezes some soul from the steps. Review: William Forsythe’s Infectious New Hip-Hop Ballet 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Lots of multi-dimensional, otherwise complex dudes rapping about women, but just the one featured female emcee, Gangsta Boo, delivering a one-dimensional verse about getting paid and pleasing her man. 'Run the Jewels 2': Headphone rap that nails it 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Distance, emotional and physical, was an overarching theme best encapsulated on the final song, “Ketchum, ID,” in which each woman sings a verse about the melancholy of life on the road. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus Formed an Indie-Rock Supergroup 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

We might all know the first verse of Jane Taylor’s “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” but beyond that it’s hit and miss. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z

That track’s chord progression would test well; a program could match it up with Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar We’re Going Down” and the verses of Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen.” “The Bestseller Code” Tells Us What We Already Know 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

A verse in “Poor Unfortunate Souls” urging Ariel to keep quiet was dropped and a line in “Kiss the Girl” suggesting Prince Eric kiss her without asking was changed. Alan Menken on ‘The Little Mermaid’ and the Mixed Blessing of Disney Fame 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

For the finale, Schultz serenaded the audience solo again, with all nine verses of Dylan's Boots of Spanish Leather. The Lumineers – reviewhttp://thelumineers.com/tour-dates/ 2013-02-19T16:45:58Z

Questlove, hip-hop’s living memory, bemoaned the changes on Twitter: “Confused at this new version of Fight the Power, minus 6 crucial samples — and its all too important middle finger of a last verse.” ‘Fight the Power’ Roars Back to Relevance at the Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Before the performance, Mr. Bresnick recited a passage of Blake’s verse; midway through the piece, after brassy perambulation and dreamy reverie, Ms. Moore sang the verse as she played. Music Review: A Night of Newer Works, With a Glance to the Past 2011-04-22T22:10:09Z

“Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, out,” he said. A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

That his verse never reads like a parody of a certain kind of life — courtly old men in creaking shirts, flashing their monocles — is a testament to his fluid sense of irony. This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

So she was dissecting the lyrics to Let It Go in front of me, telling me her favourite lines in the verses. BBC Sound Of 2015: James Bay 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Its verses and choruses are as ruthlessly stark as a hip-hop production, mostly just drumbeats and electronic tones, behind a nursery-rhyme melody in the verse and a rhythmic chant in the chorus. Taylor Swift Goes to a Darker Place: Discuss 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

And the verses from Jarobi White, long the group’s lost member, suggest a great hip-hop career that never was. A Tribe Called Quest Returns to a Changed World With Joy and Grief 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Back to the “Bugs on Me” song, and all together for the peanut verse. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World

Walls is too well versed in Thoreau’s life to accept his own often contradictory pronouncements or his semi-fictional first-person narrator as necessarily factual. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

It isn’t that the verse defeats Mr. Wolfert — he’s busy and leans heavily on gesture, but he has a real passion for the language. Review: A Warrior, Leaning on Shakespeare, in ‘Cry Havoc!’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Who gave more — in drama, in singles, in guest verses, in news, in feuds, in brawls? 2018: The Year in Stuff 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

At his best, he is an electric storyteller, with verses that vibrate fiercely on the word level while assembling into something epic. Lil Wayne Becomes an Elder, While Logic Grows Up 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

These battles often have a simple structure: three rounds in which two M.C.s try to out-rap each other with a cappella verses crafted specifically for their opponent. The Fierce, Flourishing World of Battle Rap 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

The usual sequence of ballad-of-a-tormented-artist verses plays out: early promise; success and betrayal; redemption and death. Review: Ethan Hawke’s ‘Blaze’ Revisits a Country-Music Legend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

His mother was also his early interpreter of poetic verse. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Around midnight in the Liverpool Arena, Eurovision’s hosts announced that the pop singer Loreen had won with “Tattoo,” a dance track that grows in intensity with each verse. Sweden Wins a Eurovision Song Contest That Showed Solidarity With Ukraine 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Azzawi also became inspired by poetry: at first by verses written in the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian languages, then by modern Arab poems. Painting the Arab World, From Afar 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Many of his allusions are specific to the time: that's the beauty of occasional verse, but, when it comes to staying-power, one of its disadvantages. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z

Whether or not van Aelst was well versed in his time’s scientific and philosophical developments, his exacting attention to visual experience aligns him with a burgeoning age of skeptical, irreligious reason and scientific naturalism. Art Review: Willem van Aelst Still-Life Paintings at National Gallery 2012-08-10T04:50:08Z

"Let's get this signed, sealed, delivered, and I'm yours," he said, borrowing a verse from one of his hit songs. Stevie Wonder to sing for blind treaty negotiators 2013-06-27T15:56:06Z

The first piece I was keen to have performed is based on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, in which an actor recites verses. Meltdown 2010: Richard Thompson on curating this year's event 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

It seemed to reflect a sense of profound cosmic loss—and hope–that could not be expressed by verses that rhymed. My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

“Tech is terrifying,” Wallace confided before the class, one of several she is offering on such topics as verse and rhetoric. To survive, this Shakespeare troupe is offering online classes and videos. Are branded masks next? 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Swae Lee sounds like he’s recalling a faint dream, and Post Malone follows him with a verse that hops and skips. The Playlist: Esperanza Spalding’s Intoxicating Groove, and 12 More New Songs 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Horace didn't think of these verses as Odes. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z

The political significance of some entries will escape viewers not versed in recent Dominican history. In the galleries: The eclectic art of the Dominican disapora 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Many readers found his verse highly abstract and often obscure. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

After the poet Robert Lowell left his second wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, he wove heartbroken letters that Hardwick sent him into a verse collection, “The Dolphin.” Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Everything is written in blood,” Henry Miller wrote of Cendrars’s verse and fiction, “but a blood that is saturated with starlight.” Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

Glück’s verses often reflect her preoccupation with dark themes — isolation, betrayal, fractured family and marital relationships, death. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

By the end of Saturday, Azalea had made a valid argument to her doubters with defiant, impressively versed lines -- and everybody sang the words to "Problem." Made in America L.A.: Day 1 sizzles, Top Dawg claims throne 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

Like Mr. Saillard and Mr. Alaïa, he is well versed in the émigré fashion story that is Paris, and we spoke for awhile. On the Runway Blog: Christian Lacroix Returns to Salute Elsa 2013-07-01T22:23:58Z

His best verses here are his most spirited rapping in at least two years. Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne Each Sidestep the Traditional Album Cycle 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Berry’s words, with a first verse that begins, “Fine little girl she wait for me/Me catch the ship for ’cross the sea,” are in fact completely benign. Jack Ely, Who Sang the Kingsmen’s ‘Louie Louie’, Dies at 71 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

The words of his verse are often forged together by insistent sound, the orchestration of which is extraordinarily powerful, and helps sustain semantic links. Andrei Voznesensky obituary 2010-06-03T18:01:00Z

After assaying New York detectives and high-tech skullduggery in 1904’s “The Gates of Chance,” he attempted and then abandoned a drama in blank verse. The 1906 Novel That Imagined Present-Day New York 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

To fans of Two and a Half Men not versed in the original, it will probably just seem like a stodgier version of the same concept. Review: CBS's The Odd Couple Is a Revival Without a Reason 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

This will mean more to the reader with some grasp of that country’s history, but nevertheless the novel yields to those of us less versed in those particulars. Review | Yu Miri’s ‘Tokyo Ueno Station’ focuses its attention on the shamefully overlooked 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Digest” winds up slowly with a list-like poem that gives way to more fluid writing and then to bolder, freer verse. Three best poetry books of May 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Structurally, there’s not much to “4 Your Eyez Only”: 45 minutes, 10 songs, some of which have only one proper verse. Review: The Only Big Name Here Is Still J. Cole’s 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Fortunately, he’s well versed in the history of Father Cardenal and the islands. Explorer: On the Solentiname Islands in Nicaragua, an Eden With Art 2012-03-02T23:25:09Z

He whisks through the verse, refreshingly treating it as information rather than self-expression. Macbeth; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Paper Architect – review 2013-07-13T23:05:59Z

A Collected Works, on the other hand, would run to many volumes, and none of his stage or film verse is included here. Selected Poems by Tony Harrison – review 2013-03-12T09:59:01Z

The singing, screaming and chanting was all consuming, and got especially loud when Yuto dropped a verse in his ever-mesmerizing deep voice. A community like none other: Pacific Northwest K-Pop fans welcome Pentagon to Seattle 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Similarly, the best free-roaming verse is likely to have been written by people who have learned the concise, precise art of good grammar. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z

He wrote verses or sayings on at least 40 that have survived. The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

While the wistful verses set the scene nicely, it's all about the bittersweet chorus that washes in on a wave of tears and the kind of key change only a bunch of Swedes could create. New music: Agnetha Fältskog – When You Really Loved Someone 2013-03-12T09:00:00Z

Mields sings just four verses, with slight variations of instrumentation on each one. CD reviews: A Hungarian master stirs the senses and the mind 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Shuddering in the low strings and scurrying violin lines accompanied a verse that went, “In / New York / Tens of thousands of hundreds / Hurry, to / Embark upon the market’s seas.” ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering September 11 With Music 2011-09-11T21:09:27Z

I am well versed in the theories of Locke and Hobbes on human nature and government, so I set to teaching my daughter some of the basics of Enlightenment thought. Motherlode Blog: When 'Help' With Homework Is Too Much 2013-02-03T14:22:47Z

So I sent the song Let Us Move On to him thinking it would be a long shot but he came back with this amazing verse. Dido: 'If you think I'm MOR you need to crank it up' 2013-02-15T07:00:43Z

In two hours and 60 seconds, there are Bible verses, bunnies, scary amusement park rides, brass scissors and boat shoes. What is ‘Us’ about? Winston Duke is ready to tell you. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

And the narrator's last verse in Superheroes – "Crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race, lost in time, and lost in space, and meaning" – has a quasi-gravitas I find appealing. How we made: The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2013-03-04T19:30:02Z

It’s also a dense, chewy work, so crammed with knotty verse and political philosophy that it always seems ready to burst its seams and become something else. Review: At Stratford, ‘Coriolanus’ Is Riveting and Troubling 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Screams of recognition greeted each song, and Ms. Martinez’s voice — whispery, sardonic, tearful, furious — was joined by high-pitched singalongs, throughout verses and choruses. Review: Melanie Martinez Performs ‘Cry Baby’ and Other Songs From Her Debut Album 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

It used to be you had a verse, a bridge, a chorus – you don’t have that anymore. John Cale’s new society: “There’s much more sophistication in hip-hop than in regular rock ‘n’ roll” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

“Nowhere is not a place,” Montes writes, in verse; “It is a modulation.” How Poets Use Punctuation as a Superpower and a Secret Weapon 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

“I been through the storm and it turned me to a G / But the other side was sunny, I get paid to rap on beats,” he rapped on the second verse. Six months after ICE arrest, 21 Savage raps his redemption 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

“It was like 8 in the morning,” Thompson said of the first time he heard Juicy J’s verse. Seattle hip-hop is on a hot streak. Can it finally get the national respect it deserves? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Tay Sean has maybe the best verse, rapping about how he wakes up early in the morning to get his "durn cheddar" and rolls his Optimos inside out because they burn better. From Renton, with heat: 10.4 Rog Remix Roundup Vol. 1 2010-04-07T20:35:00Z

I’ve mixed Old and New Testaments here, but remember, no verse in the Bible authorizes us to disregard a single word of it. Oh God! The lord’s my sex guru: Pious perverts, quasi-incestuous misogyny and the twisted world of religious sexual repression 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

The song might be more credible if it weren’t so ingratiating, with blinking piano chords in the verse, blurting synthesizers in the chorus and a coolly mechanized beat throughout. Playlist: A Confection of Pop, and Newport Chops 2011-08-20T19:45:06Z

Writing about the difficulty of “drawing a single boundary,” Soho also mixes verse with visual art, using typography, layout and line drawings to augment her forceful words. Four New Poetry Books Mine Their Authors’ Pasts for Music and Meaning 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Together they produced all the music, a combination of noodly folk and cloudy, mildly industrial hip-hop, and they trade verses equitably. New Music: New Music by Rod Stewart (‘Time’) and the Uncluded 2013-05-06T21:55:51Z

Further back, I can remember the time when Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, a novel in verse, a work of great charm and erudition, was a popular choice. Summer reading is a holiday essential 2013-06-24T12:45:11Z

But free verse is a form of poetry without rules or expectations around meter, rhythm and rhyme, and the Southern California resident Brenda Woods’s “When Winter Robeson Came” is neither intimidating nor too self-serious. ‘Not Too Far From Watts’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The opening lines, “Yea, Lord we greet thee, born this happy morning,” confirm that; with some helpful amendments of tense, though, the verse has become more of a fixture at Advent services. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

I cannot presume to know what was happening in Jackson’s head as senator after senator added new verses to the ballad of Brett Kavanaugh. Perspective | Indelible in the hippocampus is Brett Kavanaugh 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

In this case, words to an entire verse fell out of my mind and onto the page. Bernie Taupin Tells the Story Behind 1972’s ‘Rocket Man’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

She practically oozes across the stage, at one point singing an aria verse in a side plank position that made my abs hurt just watching it. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Suit and Tie takes us back to '99 when R&B was all horn stabs, finger clicks and obligatory Jay-Z verses. Timberlake v Destiny's Child 2013-01-14T14:26:00Z

But between each verse, the strings freeze in exquisite tension, a fermata sometimes lasting a full thirty seconds—an unheard-of moment of stasis in anything resembling a pop song. Björk's Healing Music 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

She said the official panel, whose 10 members are chosen by government ministries and agencies, is not versed in "literature or aesthetics." Turkish state pans Beat Generation author 2011-05-16T11:46:04Z

The definitive poem in English on the subject of cultural nostalgia may be a short verse by Robert Browning called “Memorabilia.” | 'Midnight in Paris': Kicking the Old Ennui With the Lost Generation 2011-05-19T14:22:17Z

“Under my skin gruesome fire smolders,” she sang in a German translation of verses by Sappho. ‘Atthis,’ a Searing Monodrama by Opera Cabal and ACME 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Bardolators in search of blank verse in sylvan settings needn’t camp out on the ticket line for the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where Al Pacino is sinking his chops into Shylock. The Week Ahead: July 4 ? 10 2010-07-01T16:02:00Z

Analyzing the song, she suggested that each verse is a miniature Shakespearean play, and that’s how she performed it. Barb Jungr’s Jazzy Songs for Troubled Times 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

But the aggregate effect of this loosening, line after line, verse after verse, hints at a sort of metaphysical freedom. Future is now 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

A featured guest on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ sophomore record, Bennett spit a thoughtful verse on the mellow track, “Need to Know.” Chance the Rapper will ‘speak to God in public’ at WaMu 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Galway Kinnell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who opened up American verse in the 1960s and beyond through his forceful, spiritual observations on the outsiders and underside of contemporary life, died Oct. Galway Kinnell, who won Pulitzer Prize for poetry, dies at 87

As April is National Poetry Month, the challenges at this competition will involve verse, meter, rhythm, poetic forms and, according to an email from the company, “as many rhetorical devices as we can squeeze in.” 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

He stays in character through 14 tracks of music and fireside banter, blowing down familiar verses and choruses with spoken asides. Christmas classics butchered by Seattle's Corey Brewer 2011-12-13T17:52:58Z

The seething "Capitol 5" featured a gothic street verse from fellow Central District rapper Dougie, and its extended chant-style outro was excised and used earlier in the set as an interlude. Capitol Hill Block Party day one notables: Macklemore, Shabazz Palaces, Champagne Champagne 2010-07-24T20:25:00Z

In “Even Flow,” Mr. Vedder impulsively tossed the microphone to a man in the audience named Kenneth, who shouted a verse and flung the microphone back. Review: Pearl Jam’s Full-Throttle Marathon at Madison Square Garden 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

And a lot of my songs will sample a lot of his verses or his choruses. In reggae’s second generation 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

About morning ablutions, he writes in a bit of this novel that arrives as verse: In Ben Lerner’s ‘10:04,’ New York Is a Character 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Murray’s verse wears, from the waist up, a cosmopolitan, Philip Larkin-like wit. Books of The Times: Bits of Humor From a Life of Torment 2011-03-08T21:41:25Z

She populates her exacting free verse with deft classical allusion, with food, with nature, with fellow human beings and with abject majesty. Books of The Times: Louise Glück: ‘Poems 1962-2012’ 2012-11-08T22:39:48Z

Here his verse was delivered in his characteristic raspy groan, dexterous but depressive. 2010-02-11T08:54:00Z

That verse, whose words repeat in the fifth verse, includes the lyrics “We shall overcome/We shall overcome some day,” and “Oh deep in my heart I do believe/We shall overcome some day.” U.S. civil rights anthem 'We Shall Overcome' now in public domain 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Two of them were singing the looped sample while one did the rap, switching for each verse. Mobile disco: how phones make music inescapable 2010-08-12T21:30:00Z

“They think about this almost hyperaggressive gay sensibility — which he definitely has, but he’s well versed in the history of feminist politics.” In Memory of a Radical, Sex-Positive Literary Icon 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

It spans 22 panels, down which Cendrars’s free verse runs in 30 different typefaces. Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

The Reporter’s senior editors, for instance, are well versed in Ms. Hammer’s many responsibilities. Battling for The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 100 Women List 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

The controversial lyrics are in Jay Z’s verse on the song: After comparing himself to Ike Turner, he sings the line “Eat the cake, Anna Mae.” A Sobering Look at Beyoncé and Jay Z’s Sexy Song “Drunk in Love” 2014-01-30T20:25:47Z

Here are 11 kinds of verses Bible-believers ignore so that they can keep spouting the others when they want to. 11 kinds of Bible verses Christians love to ignore 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

It is a very rare survival of his Avignon works and contemporary with his lost portrait of Laura, the beauty to whom the poet Petrarch wrote hundreds of verses. Cy Twombly, Ren? Magritte and Thomas Struth ? the week in art 2011-07-08T16:17:00Z

On “You Wreck Me,” he’s excellent with the emotionally spent verses, though there’s tension between those and the almost-bright chorus laden with cheapo slide guitar. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

But by the fourth, speaking in darker tones, she reveals a pulse within the verse with telling drama. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Four Quartets’ Hits Poetic Heights 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

When they explain their religious objections to health officials, employers and school administrations, evangelicals select verses, usually out of context, and reference them on exemptions forms. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context has been done for centuries 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

The difference between his lyrics and poems is tissue-paper thin except when he was writing some wretched approximation of free verse: Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

A banjo player, singer and political activist, Seeger wrote his own songs but also revived and adapted traditional folk songs and verses and popularized them: songs like “If I Had a Hammer,” ”Turn! Seeger tribute at Newport honors traditional folk 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Sporting a Syrian flag tucked down the back of his T-shirt, Jawaad rapped the final verse of Clint Eastwood in Arabic to the obvious pleasure and definite surprise of the crowd. Arabian heights: Gorillaz stage historic gig in Syria 2010-07-27T15:56:00Z

She had to add two verses of her own to the song fragment “Blue Is My Heart,” on which her father, Hank Williams Jr., adds backup vocals. Music: Bob Dylan Assembles ?The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams? 2011-09-23T19:16:45Z

The defiant track not only gives the final battle a firmer edge beyond the easy grooves of the throwback needle drops, it marries contemporary recording techniques with ’90s flair, particularly through Nas’s sharp verses. How ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Throws a ’90s Hip-Hop Party 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

What Petilos appreciates most about Balakian’s verse is that “he takes contemporary events and connects them to our ancient past in inventive and surprising ways.” What you need to know about Peter Balakian, the new Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Yet underlying each strenuous track is a clear-cut, old-fashioned pop structure: verses and choruses, tension and release, matters of the heart. Review: Jack Garratt Chops, Croons and Wobbles 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Three verses written, choreographed and performed to a catchy melody. Motherlode: Motherlode, and Vacation 2011-07-28T15:46:31Z

It is not the only modern musical setting of these verses: Benjamin Britten also composed a powerful response to Michelangelo the poet. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z

The day after the Lox dominated Dipset at Verzuz, they took a private jet to Atlanta, where they laid down verses that became part of “Jesus Lord Pt 2.” Kanye West’s ‘Donda’ Era, on a Chaotic Stage 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

It’s a brief verse riffing on the various performances many homeless people must undertake in order to render themselves visible to passers-by. Does Our Cultural Obsession With Safety Spell the Downfall of Democracy? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Later, deep into her game, she rapped Ice Cube’s first verse from N.W.A.’s “Gangsta Gangsta,” reminding you of two things about that song: that it was funny, and that it was seductive. Music Review: Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill at Rock the Bells - Review 2011-09-04T22:41:25Z

Father Goose has to take over, and he’s not, shall we say, as well versed. Spare Times: For Children, March 23-29 2012-03-22T22:00:09Z

The lyrics detail hard lives, commemorated in long verses; the music rushes ahead, scrambling electronics and hand-played instruments, insisting that a beat can heal everything — but only eventually. U.S. Girls’ Luxuriously Absurd Disco, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Theobald Tiger wrote satirical verse, along with lyrics for the most important of Berlin’s cabarets. Giving a Satirist of the Third Reich the Last Laugh 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Mojdeh Rezaeipour works in a similar mode, using such 3-D ingredients as twigs, wax and dried flowers and often titling the collages after lines of verse. In the galleries: simplicity, spontaneity and the beauty of imperfection 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

No, neither he, nor his compeers by night / Giving him aid, my verse astonished. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

Hymn verses appear five times in the oratorio, descending through the keys of E, E-flat and C major toward the darkness and radical tonal uncertainty of the Crucifixion itself. A Soldier Kills a Deaf Boy, and Rebels Respond With a Barricade of Silence 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

Sankovitch, a veteran scholar of letters and letter writers, reveals historical viewpoints that even those well versed in the period might not know. Review | Meet America’s most extraordinary family: The Lowells 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Contemporaries praised the effortless smoothness of his blank verse. Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z

But Perry's song is not as meaningful as either of those, with a confusing string of similes in the verse leading into an unrelated metaphor in the chorus. Katy Perry comes to KeyArena, demonstrates the power of blending in 2011-07-14T14:01:06Z

There, he scribbles passionate verses in a sun-dappled meadow and earns his living working in a printing shop. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

It’s a work of verse, with some prose end matter to help elucidate the poems, and it will reward a reader sophisticated enough to grapple with language and metaphor. Children’s Books About Black History, Heavy on Biographies 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

They speak, in a strange blank verse, of the flesh and blood they don’t actually have, the “lively excretions of a pair of corpses in stultified congress.” Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Solomon, who tells his part of the story in first-person free verse, is Samoan. Omar Musa brings Australian hip-hop, poetry and subculture to the US in 'Here Come the Dogs' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

And there’s always more to listen for in Lamar’s music —especially in his voice, which often expresses his humanity as vividly as his verses do. Review | Is Kendrick Lamar the greatest of all time? (Don’t ask. Listen.) 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

“And about one in the morning, she sent me all the things she was feeling. Six verses in all.” Iris DeMent Is Worried About the World. So She Made Another Album. 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

But his Petruchio is also uncommonly reflective, and the natural ease with which he handles Shakespeare’s verse brings him into an easy intimacy with the audience. Theater Review: ?The Taming of the Shrew,? at the Duke on 42nd Street 2012-04-03T21:16:19Z

She did rebound when she got into the second verse a little. It's time to Party In The U.S.A. for 'American Idol' hopeful Crystal Bowersox 2010-03-24T15:02:00Z

They drop verses at poet stomping grounds such as New York’s legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe. From Instapoets to the bards of YouTube, poetry is going viral. And some poets hate that. 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

If you make it through the shock and awe of that verse to the Prince-influenced chorus, the hook gives a little back for the effort. Sleigh Bells: Good Band, Not So Good New Album 2013-10-09T12:00:11Z

Each verse, every "but", knocks down another hope. Poem of the week: When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare 2013-04-01T09:33:58Z

Those who know what a shapely verse Mr. Crowell can turn out may be newly amazed at his way with words when he simply writes sentences. Books of The Times: Sad and True Love Story, Worthy of Its Soundtrack 2011-01-12T22:25:13Z

It doesn't just start on a groove and stay there: each verse is arranged differently to advance the song's forward motion, before the breakdown at the end. Scott McKenzie's San Francisco was a hippy anthem with a life of its own 2012-08-20T14:39:00Z

You know, when I talk about the Bible, it’s very personal, so I don’t want to get into verses.” Watch Donald Trump refuse to name any verses in his “favorite” book, The Bible 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

As “Golden Crown” nears its end, Adjuah’s voice fades down to sing a hopeful verse: A Trumpeter Stretches Past the Bounds of Jazz 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Her producer, Mr. Bradley, told her it had too many verses and she needed to cut them. Loretta Lynn Mines a Legacy of Heartaches and High Notes 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

But by the end of the first verse, she’s “crying in the suburbs,” and the music swells until a cathartic bridge that hits with a type-breaking curse word. Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ Hit No. 1 in a Week. Here’s How. 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

He waddles a few octaves down for the verse—“follow me undeerrr”—and then contorts back into the chorus. Listening Booth: “Baby Girl” by Matt Martians 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

In 2012, Kwame Alexander was struggling to sell “The Crossover,” a hip-hop inflected novel in verse about twin brothers who are stars of their junior high school basketball team. Kwame Alexander to Start His Own Imprint. The Name? Versify. Get It? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

In one of the more illuminating letters quoted in “The Untold Story,” Eliot explains his reasons for rejecting the “sound, earnest and educated verse” of a manuscript that the house was considering. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

By taking the first verse, in Spanish, she turns it into a lovers’ duet, far more tense and romantic than the original. A Bittersweet Juice WRLD Team-Up, and 13 More New Songs 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

But get past that and the song’s verses are packed with internal rhymes and tensions. Jack Harlow Knows What He Wants. And Where He Stands. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Edifices of counterpoint materialize around her; verses stretch and detour toward incantations. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

“The letter itself is lost, but we know something of what it contains from Elizabeth’s reply. Evidently, he’s enclosed some verses in Greek addressed to her, but also expressed interest in her ‘improvement.’ Review | Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ahead of her time. ‘Two-Way Mirror’ does justice to her riveting life. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Loewe makes the verses surge and swirl, casting spells even in lines that read like throwaways. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z

Whittier remains a minor writer, but his homeliest and most original work helped bring about the long-lived triumph of American vernacular verse. Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z

Its first verse was written for a single voice and not the grand choral opening for which it is now famous, claims Professor Jeremy Dibble. Anthem meant to be less rousing 2012-07-03T09:02:07Z

“I helped him with the second verse a little bit, helped him with the bridge,” Mr. Cropper said in a phone interview. The Enduring Power of Otis Redding’s ‘Dock of the Bay’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Among Uglow’s most valuable and personal chapters are those devoted to Lear’s fantastic, in all senses, drawings and verse. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

The film concerns poets in Southern China who, while enduring arduous, sometimes hazardous conditions in working-class occupations, preserve their spirits with verse. Review: In ‘Iron Moon,’ Poets Who Know What Work Is 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

He even got to rap a verse on Black Sheep’s “Pass the 40.” An Appraisal: Chris Lighty, Hip-Hop Manager, Changed Music 2012-08-31T16:55:02Z

The celebrated New England poet known for such verse as "The Road Not Taken" and "The Gift Outright" died in 1963. NH university acquires Robert Frost letters 2011-04-05T16:31:05Z

In the original version of the song, in a split-second interlude between the chorus and the third verse, Cure frontman Robert Smith sighs to some unknown other, "Fly me to the moon." I saw The Cure with my parents. Here's why I hope they don't end up on TikTok 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z

It is a mini-history, with verse and images, that traces centuries of Black lives from their thriving communities in Africa to their forced passage overseas and enslavement to their hard-earned freedom. Prize-winning 1619 Project now coming out in book form 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z

He pounded verses of his debut album’s title track through his mike, and the crowd responded fervently. Hard Summer fest: A$AP Mob, Flosstradamus, Skrillex with Diplo 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

When that story climaxes with the titular character obtaining vengeance, even audiences who weren't well versed in the history of this period understand where it was coming from. The problematic history in Tarantino 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

Everyone seems well versed in the menu, if not always in who gets what dish. Review | A Potomac view meets polished cooking at Ada’s on the River in Alexandria 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

When it became obvious that school officials weren’t going to stop, Schempp tried another tactic: One day, he told his teacher he would like to read along with the daily Bible verse. Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America 2012-08-16T17:47:00Z

The sale of the sheet, which features the song's third verse and the opening words to She's Leaving Home, took place at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. Lennon lyrics sell for ?145,000 2011-05-18T09:13:32Z

Black Thought of the Roots delivered a verse written in Phife’s honor, weaving in some of his lyrics. Phife Dawg Is Celebrated at Memorial at the Apollo 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. McClatchy’s verse rendering, not needing to fit the melody, has conversational and poetic punch, though it also leaves out the reference to Heaven: Betray me? Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

In Mahler’s “Himmlische Leben” she landed on the peaceful end of each verse as if she were bringing the audience to a desert oasis. Music Review: Sarah Shafer and Richard Goode at Town Hall 2012-12-10T22:40:00Z

Instead, the group’s look at the other side of fame produced some of the most poignant verses of its career. Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

There were verses from the “Divine Comedy” and symbols of a medieval bestiary in the embroidery. Gucci Has a Rave in a Cemetery 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Dieter has made his life’s work the study of the pop-music genre that gives the show its title, having acquired a “Ph.D. in literature with the focus on the power ballad as epic verse.” | 'Power Balladz': Head-Banging Anthems at Midtown Theater 2010-08-20T02:01:00Z

But he speaks the verse with an easy authority that makes every phrase tell, even when he, like many of the actors, is plowing through the text at a dizzying clip. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z

"Chi-Raq" features all sorts of storytelling methods, from direct-address to the camera by a narrator, to rhyming verse spoken by various characters caught up in the sex strike at the movie's core. Break down of ‘Chi-Raq’ trailer: locations, stars and plot 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Mitchell and Alex’s respective careers have left them well versed in the art of image management, but as they grow closer, each begins to reconsider his own identity. ‘Little Dog Laughed’ balances emotions, showbiz barbs 2014-01-28T04:07:07Z

The show, which opened on Sunday at 59E59 Theaters, combines songs with snippets from Coward’s letters and diaries, in roughly chronological order, as well as some of his verse, set to music by Mr. Shrubsole. Review: The Songs of Noël Coward, With Lightness and Bite 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

Although I was raised Roman Catholic, I’m not religious, and definitely not accustomed to bits of Bible verses floating through my consciousness. Is Little Amal Getting Lost in New York? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

He’s discovered some modestly appealing verse that an Allied pilot left behind in a drawer, and he’s going to walk us through it, in some elegiac version of a PowerPoint presentation. Books of The Times: Poetry on His Mind, British Author Revisits His Grandfather?s War 2010-08-31T17:06:00Z

Indeed, the oft-overlooked third verse of Key’s original text proclaims, “No refuge could save the hireling & slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.” Colin Kaepernick and the Radical Uses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

The image, in verse five, of wining and dining with God is a Herbert favourite: it might possibly have originated from Psalm 23. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z

She would write 30 verses for Mother’s Day alone and was initially paid £150 a poem before being put on a retainer. Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

“I saw it rather like a musical, but the numbers were the Shakespearean verse,” Hall said after Wednesday’s opening night at London’s Noel Coward Theatre. London critics fall for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

That perspective is one of pathos sustained through 20 stanzas of Latin verse. A ‘Stabat Mater’ for the 21st Century, Colored by a Composer’s Faith 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

After Germany surrendered, the U.S. helped implement “denazification” efforts; the first two verses were no longer sung. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Lil Baby matches it with a needling singsong verse, and Future approaches it with an indignant wheeze. Cécile McLorin Salvant Branches Out, and 7 More New Songs 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

A self-described “genuine introvert,” Ms. Hirshfield likes to spend her days gardening, hiking and writing verses about nature, impermanence and interconnectedness. American Poets, Refusing to Go Gentle, Rage Against the Right 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

The irony they missed is that their own response to Harrison's verse is one that Harrison had clearly anticipated ever since he started publishing. Selected Poems by Tony Harrison – review 2013-03-12T09:59:01Z

After “#mood,” he performed his guest verse from 50’s “Tryna F--- Me Over,” rapping that “people want to see me get got.” Post Malone’s underage, suburban crowd was a perfect match for him 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Someday, the annotated edition of “The Revisionaries” will be stuffed with footnotes referencing children’s books, Bible verses, science fiction, philosophical treatises, noir mysteries and ancient histories. Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

This week: Several Losers pen impromptu verses for a song about peas in guacamole. Style Invitational Week 1132: You and what army? 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The violence is interrupted, or rather annotated, by much lush verse that sometimes strikes a preposterous note in the context of the vile deeds being committed. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z

And the contrast among the three lead singers was rewarding, especially on a newer song, “Gris Gris Satchel,” that had them taking turns in the verses. Music Review: Saddled Up for Serious Strumming 2011-08-04T21:59:13Z

I thought that Patrick should experiment with free verse, and told him so, but he did not depart from meter and rhyme. Pablo Neruda Wrote Me a Poem 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

In the second verse, he’s lamenting that “she was over me before the grass grew back where she used to park her car.” Another country: Sam Hunt maps out Nashville’s bold new future

She referred to a verse in the Bible: How I left the purity movement 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

Then a mortal named Kid Cudi wanders by with an evenhanded guest verse, reminding us that this music is still of this world. Perspective | Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

“Free verse” was borrowed from the French, who wanted to ease the strict rules dictating poetry. Feminists, Poetic Pretensions and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The well-known verse begins, "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree." Letter suggests Kilmer's 'Trees' was penned in NJ 2013-05-10T18:59:09Z

This excellent German vocal quintet presents seven of Martin Luther’s chorales in many versions, typically changing composers from one verse to the next. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

I was dumping verses all over the place, and cutting things. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z

But Negga is also extraordinary with the verse, one of the few cast members who not only makes its meaning clear but also projects that meaning past the conceptual firewall Gold has erected. Review: In a New ‘Macbeth,’ Something Wonky This Way Comes 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Eventually he went through the entire Bible and cut out every verse that he felt could not be true if evolution were true. Why creationists can’t be scientists 2014-02-20T20:16:00Z

Before anyone could figure out what was happening — that he had launched into the “Toreador Song” from Bizet’s “Carmen” — another man leaped onto a table across the court and took up the second verse. It?s Not Candid Camera, It?s Random Culture 2011-02-05T22:18:03Z

Very few lines, and not a single verse, of her hit song “212” can be reprinted in this newspaper. Up Close: Azealia Banks, a Young Rapper Taking Cues From the Street 2012-02-01T23:53:01Z

There’s little sustained lyricism in his reading of the verse; all the poetry seems to have leaked out, replaced by fractured bursts of tempestuous feeling. Review: ‘Hamlet’ as an After-Party That Got Out of Hand 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Playing “Down by the River,” he flipped his guitar’s selector switch up and down between verses and choruses. Music Review: Strumming Solo, With the Reverb of a Full Band 2011-04-25T21:59:38Z

Among the “64 arts” a woman should master are “improvisation of poetry; knowledge of dictionaries; knowledge of prosody” and “reciting difficult verses.” Books of The Times: The Kama Sutra, Newly Translated 2012-01-31T17:03:33Z

It’s an album of ballads, some of them extraordinarily slow, built around Björk’s declamatory melodies; there are verses and choruses in there. Björk’s ‘Vulnicura,’ From Deep Within 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Robin, your verse was filled with many lines that inspired a generation. What did Robin Williams mean to you? 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Moreover it's one that shows he's well versed at playing slightly effaced men to more clamorous or dramatically interesting women. Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher ? what's not to like? 2011-02-08T20:30:31Z

One and a half thousand years of verse and history later the chronological selection concludes with a poem by Nick Laird, born in 1975. Nick Laird: a life in writing 2013-01-04T22:55:01Z

In 1962, the academy nominated sublime wit Dorothy Parker for reading an album of "her own short stories, verse and a book review" for cult jazz label Verve. A Grammy for James Franco? Weird tales from the spoken word category 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

He followed Harold with a series of "verse tales" that had little in common with it except that they allowed him to explore the character of the Byronic hero. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

Rebranding can be a tricky business, so it’s not surprising that New York has turned to a celebrity well versed in the subject to help promote its new image as the “friendly” tourist destination. Taylor Swift Welcomes You to New York 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

It needs to make sense to somebody who is not familiar with the books and there are places, ways in which sticking to the chapter and verse of the books would make that impossible. Game of Thrones Creators: ‘We Know What Happens in Each Scene’ of Season 8 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

He allows us to see that Valere's work has a crude vigour, and that the principled Elomire, who argues that "good verse conceals its artifice ideally", is dogmatic. Review 2010-07-08T01:12:00Z

One of the joys of following Mr. Levine’s career has been watching how playful he can be, despite the moral seriousness of his unadorned and lightly accented verse. Critic?s Notebook: Making Rare Appearance: People and Their Appetites 2011-08-10T04:28:58Z

Planned Parenthood is, by now, well versed in how to handle outside attacks and negative publicity. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z

And we know that from multiple Bible verses, and from Ephesians 2:10 — that we are God's handiwork, created to do good works — and so as long as you have breath, you have a mission. Tim Tebow, man on a mission: 'Every single one of us can have a life that counts' 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

Declaring that the poet must become a “seer” through a “derangement of all the senses,” he reinvents poetry’s mission while advancing free verse, raw diction and phantasmagoric imagery. Books of The Times: The Prodigy Burned Out. Why Not Blame Mom? 2011-08-23T20:39:20Z

You can read almost anything into Nostradamus’s verse — he intentionally kept things vague, rarely bothering even with verbs — and over the centuries people have. Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z

A theater lyricist is a playwright who writes short plays in verse that have to be set to music. Sheldon Harnick, 'Fiddler' and 'She Loves Me' lyricist, sails back into the Tony spotlight at 92 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Meyers also joked that Billy Joel rewrote one of his hits to “Actually, We Did Start the Fire,” and sang a couple of phantom verses. For one night, TV comics focus their shows on climate change 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

A love triangle leaves the singer dead with a verse and two choruses still to go, and at the end Hiatt offers a satisfied, sinister cackle. Review: Hiatt sings of Funyuns, more on new album 2012-09-24T16:44:33Z

Eliot’s fondness for doggerel and light verse, in particular, was intertwined with a racist notion of blackness as a gateway to cultural disruption and linguistic play. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Of the two works, it is the Britten – with its weaving of the liturgy of the requiem mass with Wilfred Owen's trench-worn verse – that has had the most flourishing afterlife. King Priam, a pacifist's opera, can still shed light on the trauma of war 2012-05-24T09:32:34Z

“Breezeblocks,” one of the best-received songs of the set, featured a twinkling verse punctuated by a visceral four-beat interjection: a rapping on the door, or a hammer on an anvil, or maybe something more sinister. Music Review: Alt-J, From England, Makes Its Brooklyn Debut at Glasslands 2012-08-08T22:14:11Z

The exuberant Motown beat in “I Feel Better” only pulls him partway out of the despair he keeps returning to in the verses; “Save Me” extols the lover who eases his suicidal anxiety. New Music: Albums From Gotye, Candy Dulfer and Jeff Lorber Fusion 2012-01-30T23:25:12Z

Chance often works himself up to a frantic clip in his verses, as if he is running in place to keep warm. The 2017 Grammys Have No Answers 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

The drawings were originally bound in a volume, with each illustration opposite the corresponding verse in Dante’s epic poem. Italy’s Uffizi opens Dante anniversary with virtual exhibit 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

“Writers Writing Dying” is a solid addition to Mr. Williams’s house of verse, and in it he pays his respects to literary ancestors. Books of The Times: Poems on Mortality by C. K. Williams and Cynthia Cruz 2012-12-31T19:22:03Z

Marc Palmieri’s “The Groundling,” is half comedy and half tragedy, half verse and half prose. Review: ‘The Groundling,’ a Backstage Farce With Heartbreak 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

The numbers have emboldened Davies, a veteran game-show producer, and his team to press ahead with plans to expand what they have referred to as the “Jeopardy!”-verse. Celebrities Are Just the Start of the Expanding ‘Jeopardy!’-verse 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

Subsequently, it was sent to Random House, tinkered with, colored in, published, sent to members of the media along with confidentiality agreements, and, on Tuesday, reviewed in rhyming verse by Michiko Kakutani, in the Times. Good News: The New Dr. Seuss Won’t Retroactively Ruin Your Childhood 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Those versed in contemporary art will recognize the referents. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Rihanna has maybe three dozen words between the first two verses, but her meaning is clear from the delivery, which is forceful and slurry, alternating between stretched and staccato vowels. Critic's Notebook: Rihanna’s Album ‘Unapologetic’ Makes Most of Her Talent 2012-11-20T18:20:20Z

In her verses, she says: “Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you / Know that history holds more than it seems / We are here alive today because our ancestors dared to dream.” ArtsBeat Blog: Maya Angelou Says She's Disappointed With Common After Collaboration 2011-12-19T14:39:50Z

Within minutes, Presley and Monroe responded, adding verses, and the team writing accelerated from there. Country’s Fierce Supergroup Pistol Annies Returns, Humor Intact (and Baby on the Way) 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Maybe I wasn’t as well versed as I thought. Italy’s Treasured Olive Oil, at the Source 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Authenticity is not sufficient when speaking the verse, though; it requires more finesse than some of the young actors yet possess. Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

A boy's quilt becomes a spaceship as the cumulative rhyming verse soars from the galaxy to the Earth to the boy's town and street, "with friends I know and new ones to meet." New kids' books: 12 days of a Washington Christmas and fairy tales for teens 2011-12-09T20:04:05Z

During that first verse, she isn’t actually singing, or even syncing. Perspective | Ariana Grande just stepped into pop’s uncanny valley, and everybody’s going nuts 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Many of the songs are short — a couple of choruses and a verse, sometimes just the verse. Rod Wave and Lil Tjay, Two Brands of Sing-Rap With Different Bite 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

More specifically, as she told Dance Magazine in 2008, she asked her students to use imagery: “Find a verse of poetry and become it.” Mary Anthony, Choreographer and Teacher of Modern Dance, Dies at 97 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

A paragon of industry, he almost single-handedly filled entire issues, even as he was submitting cartoons and light verse to The New Yorker. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z

“Bountiful evening, bountiful evening, a New Year’s carol,” went the original Ukrainian verses, which centered on the fluttering innocence of a bird and the hope it brings. ‘Carol of the Bells,’ a Christmas Staple From Ukraine, a Century Later 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

I remember I was like, “Let’s try to put guitar on this verse,” this crunchy, synth-y guitar. Meghan Trainor on Why New Song 'No' Sounds Nothing Like Her 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Emily Brontë concluded one of her few verses: “The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling/ Can center both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.” Film: Passionate Tales of Lost Identities 2011-09-08T12:30:07Z

Imagine could have gained a new verse, wondering what life would be like if you had no giant hand silhouette on your crotch. Yoko Ono's fashion line for John Lennon gives pants a chance 2012-11-28T18:53:32Z

I hate who they tell me to, But who the hell are “they”? goes the sharpest verse in this anthemic rant from which Mr. Cumming extracted the last ounce of fear and loathing. Music Review: With Some Friends to Help, a Songwriter Reveals His World 2011-01-16T22:07:30Z

Fivio’s resulting marathon verse was immediately hailed as one of the year’s biggest breakouts. Fivio Foreign Had an Epiphany. Can He Change Drill Rap? 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

The actors understand the rhythms of the prose and the verse and speak it well. Much Ado About Nothing – review 2013-06-15T23:06:00Z

"Music Makers" is a simple ditty in multiple verses, with a blue-note refrain, easy enough for any audience to sing. CSO's Muti, Yo Yo Ma close youth festival with flair 2011-05-16T00:58:33Z

Forgive the heresy, but to my mind the Rubaiyat – at least in English – is not great poetry: it's more a series of flowery Victorian Patience Strong-like verses reassuringly extolling the virtue of living for today. The World's Most Dangerous Place for Women, The Genius of Omar Khayyam and A Long Weekend With the Son of God | TV review 2010-03-31T05:45:00Z

Mr. Kong also improvised some verses that drew laughter from Cambodians in the audience. Music Review: Kong Nay at the Season of Cambodia Festival 2013-04-21T21:51:37Z

Springsteen, the quintessential working class rock ‘n’ roll troubadour, broke from both his white worker protagonists and his medium of “blues verses and gospel choruses,” as he often calls it, in the mid-’90s. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

The first verse speaks of there being "no heaven," "no hell" – "Above us, only sky." "Imagine" at 50: Why John Lennon’s ode to humanism still resonates 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Bazzett’s verse translation of the Mayan creation myth grants contemporary readers access to one of the few epics indigenous to the Americas. New & Noteworthy 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

But he's no longer attached to Nancy, which begs the question, what will Steve's verse be? Our Biggest Questions After the 'Stranger Things' Season 2 Finale 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

In fact, it's only MIA that lets the side down slightly, her new verses in the song's final third not quite as energised as her peers. New music: MIA – Bad Girls (Switch Remix featuring Missy Elliott and Rye Rye) 2012-06-25T17:10:29Z

Elle King harmonizes with him and takes a verse herself: “Yeah, the guys can just act tough.” The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The poet Basil Bunting shows up, writing newspaper copy instead of epic verse, but the novelist Beryl Bainbridge is merely a memory, “dead in her grave” by the time the world recognized her talent. Mark Knopfler: “This getting older stuff ain’t for wimps” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

In that first production “View” was one act, written in verse because, in Miller’s opinion, verse was better suited than prose to expressing universal themes. 2010-01-06T08:21:00Z

It is closer to a collection of linked short stories; the first and last of them subtly connect, as if the book were an extended example of that verse form known as the pantoum. Review: ‘All That Man Is,’ and a Lot He Is Not, in David Szalay’s View 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

It was a calm defense of mystery; the hymns were the form for the verse, but explained little of their deeper allure. Cynthia Nixon’s “Emily Thing” 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

By now, the list had turned into free verse. Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z

Meanwhile, uptown in Bethesda, pirates are spouting comic verses in the young Flying V Theatre’s “The Pirate Laureate and the King of the Sea.” Avast! Sunny pirates, a frosty ‘Frozen’ and a forecast from Shaw 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Songwriters like Sia were conquering the charts with what she called “victim-to-victory” anthems like “Titanium,” in which adversity in the verses was overcome by triumph in the choruses. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Without those rich details that make a song like the Judds’ “Flies on the Butter” come to life, the film plays like a country song with more chorus than verse. ‘Wynonna Judd: Between Hell and Hallelujah’ Review: The Show Must Go On 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

The statelier English verse occupies its space comfortably. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z

A fractious process reached rock bottom when Atlantic's chairman, Craig Kallman, told him his verses and performance on a new song the label wanted him to record, called Nothing On You, were "wack". Lupe Fiasco: 'I have the right to speak out' 2011-03-03T21:59:00Z

And in verse again: “What if the nothing is not a place where one can live”; “What if there’s nothing? What if there’s not.” How Poets Use Punctuation as a Superpower and a Secret Weapon 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

And then it moved from verse to prose. Author Jason Reynolds: Racism hasn’t changed ‘because we still haven’t talked about it’ 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Yet he is shaken into naturalness by strength of feeling, hesitating, almost stammering over the verse. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z

And we got it with the butt plug trophies and then the unexpected "verse jumping" action. Directors on the ADHD theory of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

Most of his drafts are neat compositions, save for words he wanted to add to verses and small notes to himself. Tupac Shakur exhibit at Grammy Museum showcases his ambitions 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Van Rompuy said what appeals to him in Haiku - which means "playful verse" - are references to nature and "the great wheel of life" in the Buddhist tradition. EU president publishes Haiku poetry book 2010-04-15T17:51:00Z

The majestic cadences of the KJB echoed from the lectern as a rota of readers, brilliantly organised by the festival, ploughed on through verse after verse. In the beginning of the King James Bible readathon 2011-03-03T12:01:21Z

I have a friend who thinks that only Polish poets should be allowed to write in free verse, after so many razings and rebuildings, after so many border-shifts. Author, author: Nick Laird 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

As an author, I am fully versed in Julian Jaynes's theory of the bicameral mind and interested in seeing this undercurrent played out in the series. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Their voices have a lyrical poise akin to Jamal’s own; he improvises throughout, leaving himself some solo space between verses. Two New Recordings by Two Jazz Greats 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Picture a lavish room overlooking the city, candlelight, full bars, and about 75-100 people lounging about in decadence and listening to verse. Free rap salon at the Sorrento Hotel tonight 2010-04-26T18:46:00Z

It contains an estimated 75,000 verses, and its stories span a wide range of human sentiments. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z

Mr. Hassan, according to clues in his verse and published reports in Danish media, arrived in Denmark from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon as a child. Young Immigrant in Denmark Lashes Out in Verse 2014-04-02T17:00:39Z

Young poets are on Tumblr and Twitter, composing affecting and funny verse as short as a hundred and forty characters and also stretching much longer. The Writing Life of a Young, Prolific Poet 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

She’s revered by literary critics and her peers for her spare, direct and confessional verses. ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

While both writers were well versed on items common to the South and Southwest — like beans, corn and chilies — each introduced different ingredients to the other. Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Julie Tanous cook up a friendship 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Of course, as hip-hop fans of a certain age would be quick to point out, the Dungeons & Dragons line is borrowed from Busta Rhymes' guest verse on A Tribe Called Quest's 1991 track Scenario. Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday 2010-11-22T15:27:00Z

With its antiquated verse, seemingly unmotivated actions and abundance of shipwrecks, “Pericles” is an untidy play. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

As he puts it, “The only verse in the Koran that resonates with me is this: ‘If you kill a single person, it is as if you have killed the whole of mankind.’ An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Trying to put that crazy verse together while at work. Lupe Fiasco Pens Open Letter on Ghostwriting 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

She stayed awake late into the night and finished the poem, adding verses about the apocalyptic scene that unfolded at the Capitol that day: Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

He doesn’t count on a car bomb, a tracking device and a medical examiner versed in snooker balls. 'iZombie' recap: Blaine's World 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

To juggle it all, Dance is on a plane almost every week — flying cross-country or to Paris for lengthy stints — so she’s well versed in the challenges of packing light. A New Brand of Jeans — With Just a Single Style 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The verses of that poem from “The Second Jungle Book” offer the rules and regulations for life among wolves, some of which prove to be good advice for humans, too. ArtsBeat: Kipling Letter Says He Borrowed ‘Promiscuously’ for ‘The Jungle Book’ 2013-05-28T16:22:04Z

Its zigzagging melody seems to expand further with each verse. Drake Clears His Throat With DJ Khaled, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Her devotional verses and paintings might have been a hard sell in New York, but in San Francisco, they were treasured for what they are: intensely personal, unabashedly spiritual and completely of a piece. Art Review: Robert Duncan and Jess, and Their Wonderland of Art 2014-01-16T22:59:26Z

But now there's at least one new verse to help tide fans over to his next LP. Watch: Kendrick Lamar rhymes new verse in Reebok ad 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

His verse was meandering and paranoid, a young rapper tasting the spoils available to him and unsure whether to dig in or recoil in disgust. Kendrick Lamar, Emboldened, but Burdened, by Success 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

What did the lyricist of “Man of La Mancha” vow to do when the composer wanted to cut a verse from “The Impossible Dream”? To march into hell for a heavenly clause. Style Invitational Week 1383: Questionable Journalism 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Mere hours later, a fax came through from the Bergmans, with a new verse, adapted to that post-9/11 moment. Swept Up in the Whirlwind Known as Michel Legrand 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

It’s the opening track of his chart-topping new album, and when 21 reached the third verse, he threw his gaze directly into the camera and recited some previously unheard lines. Perspective | 21 Savage is facing deportation. Curb your memes and locate your humanity. 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

A tolling, gospelly piano and a swirl of harp start her off, letting her preach; later verses add a ratcheting beat and a cinematic horn flourish. The Playlist: Mary J. Blige Sings of Self-Empowerment, Kendrick Lamar Raps About Power 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Walker, his face “scarcely visible,” sang the first verse of “Heart Like a Wheel,” a ballad he’d heard the Canadian sisters Kate and Anna McGarrigle sing at a folk festival. Linda Ronstadt Discusses Her Memoir and Parkinson’s 2013-08-28T15:53:56Z

Some clubs took down their minutes in blank verse. Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z

Mr. Suri recalled watching a video of demonstrators outside LAX chanting the verse. The Perfect Phrase for This Relentless Year 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

I'm not asking for a plot synopsis, but for those of us not versed in the lingo of contract killing, a few clues would help. The Mechanic's poster: garage wall or Turbine Hall? 2011-02-01T16:29:00Z

We wrote the core of the song — her verses and the chords — in under 15 minutes. A Word With: Paul Epworth: Paul Epworth, on Producing Adele 2012-02-09T15:58:40Z

A rare moment of delicacy and vulnerability develops as he tackles "Out Of My Hands" on his own for a few verses before his band joins in the fray. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z

Anthony conducted the band, which included three backup singers, but also cued the fans, who eagerly sang refrains and even whole verses. Review | Marc Anthony elicits screams, swoons and singalongs at Washington concert 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

Stephen Burt, a poetry critic and professor of English at Harvard University, described some of Mr. Pardlo’s verses as “deliberately inelegant in a modernist kind of way.” Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Winner for Poetry, on His Sudden Fame 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

And the bride and groom made sure that their guests did not fail to get the message, selecting the choicest of verses for the couple to declaim. The wedding I almost ruined 2012-06-13T00:01:00Z

If there were any songs, verses or lines censored, nobody ever told me about it and we played all the songs that we intended to play.” ArtsBeat: Dylan Responds to Reports of Censorship in China 2011-05-13T13:50:02Z

In the end, Lambert swapped in “you” for “we” in the final verse, and left the rest of the words unchanged. 'You Are the Champions': Queen, under lockdown, record health worker anthem 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

All of it is performed in a cascading blend of English, French, and German with Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Swahili, not to mention high-speed nonsense verse. The African Toll of the Great War, in Song and Shadows 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Remember that the Invite is a humor/light-verse contest, so your verse should provoke a smile rather than a blubber; but it shouldn’t be ghoulish or gloating. Style Invitational Week 1469: Post Mortems — our obit poem contest 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Master of ceremonies Chip Kidd read a gloomy excerpt by Marilyn Monroe and continued a tradition of fitting Dickinson's compressed verse to contemporary song. Baldwin, Patti Smith featured at NY poetry reading 2011-04-28T06:31:13Z

It’s a landscape that mirrors the bleak outlook of the people in Larkin’s verse. Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z

Babur wrote verse of his own, and he was an erudite critic of the form. A Warlord’s Memoir Is Surprisingly Modern and Charming, When It’s Not Gruesome 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

When Hollingworth first heard “Insect Loop,” she was shocked at how angry it sounded, the rage coiled inside every verse. Let’s Eat Grandma’s Electro Pop Is Glittery. Its Subjects Are Weighty. 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

I like to be polite And this is true: your books are a delight,In prose, free verse and letters you excel.You want my help with getting rhyme-schemes right. A Villanelle for Hugo Williams 2011-03-12T00:06:51Z

You would think they would be well versed in movie clichés. For Those Who’ve Seen ‘Parasite’ and Want More 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

The verse is apparently a reference to a doctor who visited her at home. Japanese woman is bestselling poet ? aged 99 2011-01-26T12:33:17Z

Alongside a few new poems, the work in “I Must Be Living Twice” is drawn from 10 earlier books of Ms. Myles’s verse. Review: In ‘I Must Be Living Twice’ and ‘Chelsea Girls,’ Eileen Myles Ruminates 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

The divide isn't actually between people who want to stitch rhymed verse into samplers and sell it in tourist shops, and those so high-minded they think Basil Bunting was a sellout. Garrison Keillor v August Kleinzahler 2011-04-10T21:29:05Z

But the series, based on the Newberry-winning novel in verse by Kwame Alexander, is more like a junior version of “David Makes Man,” poetic and poignant, stylized and smart. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

Inspirational verse: "There is no time to wash hands, we need quick cash." TV Picks: 'Powerless,' 'Craft,' 'Who,' 'PuppyCat,' 'Garden Wall' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The poet speaks in unadorned verses like an orator with a soapbox under his feet. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Servers are well versed in the club’s arcane lore and customs. The Lobster Club Does Japanese, From Raw to Half-Baked 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

But for those not already versed in the lingo or the people involved, the movie plays like a blurry primer to an anarchic, mysterious world. ‘The Hacker Wars,’ a Documentary About Prosecutions 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Her slide solos are clusters of notes pulled out after the second verse, echoing and underscoring her vocals. Bonnie Raitt and the Fugitive Emotions Evoked by Slide Guitar 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

The rapper who’s best taken advantage of the sound that Drake pioneered — at least by rapping over his beats — is Angel Haze, a meditative young woman with a gift for starkly emotional verse. Nicki Minaj Is the Influential Leader of Hip-Hop 2012-04-01T02:43:03Z

Robert Sears created a collection of found verse in “The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump.” Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Anyway, truly gifted actors have a way of making Shakespeare’s verse sound like thoughts sprung immediately from the minds of the characters to their mouths. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z

“It is writing verse that always calls me back again,” he told The Paris Review. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Few of the songs continue the same arrangement from start to finish; they change from verse to verse, and sometimes line to line. New Music: Nathaniel Rateliff and Regina Carter Release Albums 2014-03-31T22:07:29Z

Bill was playing that drum beat, and I heard that beat and started playing exactly the piano part that became the verse and the chorus. Mike Mills on R.E.M's "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" at 25: A record "infused by being on the road" 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

When we get to Ice Spice's verse she tears into the boy. How Ice Spice became music's new It Girl seemingly overnight 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

But Super Rich Kids, with its monotonous piano chord verses overlaid by a droning rap from Earl Sweatshirt, precisely projects the emptiness of a life stuffed with money but wanting for 'real love'. Great Gatsby and Channel Orange – the perfect soundtrack 2013-05-30T03:11:38Z

Vocally, the division of labor is pretty straightforward: Paak rasps through his verses with unrelenting wink-wink, then Mars soars through the refrains. Review | Silk Sonic get on a nostalgic Soul Train that’s too sleek, too sanitized 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Rather than sacred verses, she incorporated text by the contemporary poet Matthew Zapruder, particularly his 2010 collection “Come on All You Ghosts.” Review: Missy Mazzoli’s Unsettling ‘Vespers for a New Dark Age’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

Little and often is the approach of this charming new series of five-minute shows, where each episode focuses on a single piece of verse, beginning with Robert Louis Stevenson's The Land Of Counterpane. TV highlights 22/04/2013 2013-04-22T06:00:15Z

The young doctor yearned for recognition as a playwright; the merciless Byron laughed at his verse dramas and, after four months, fired him. Review: ‘The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron,’ by Andrew McConnell Stott

"Put molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it," Ross spat in his guest verse. Rick Ross bungles apology for date rape lyric 2013-04-05T11:17:14Z

“I could rap to you the whole last verse, the real crazy verse,” she said. Dominique Fishback Knows You Think She’s Sweet. ‘Swarm’ May Confuse That 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

In orderly free verse constructions, Gilbert deals plainly with grief, love, marriage, betrayal and lust. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

Other rappers tried their hand at delivering verses on “Stoner,” another recent Young Thug anthem, less successfully. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z

He’s particularly gutting in the second verse, when he expresses empathy for the wild boys of the SoundCloud-rap generation, spotting their mistakes — and their likely consequences — way before they will, or can. The Playlist: Lost (and Found) John Coltrane, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

“Pitiless verse? A few words tuned/ And tuned and tuned and tuned.” Who was Wallace Stevens? A new biography looks at the man and his work. 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Or, on the next track, “careful what you wish for,” witness how the plaintive opening for violinist Josh Modney provides a contrast with the comparatively unflappable sounding verse from Brown. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

A poem she penned for the show's first act was inspired by the biblical verse in which God says "let there be light." Seattle artists imagine the apocalypse, set to music and poetry 2012-03-28T19:56:08Z

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight he displayed his skill in his rendering of the alliterative verse of the 14th century into the same metre in modern English. 'New' JRR Tolkien epic due out next year 2012-10-09T15:49:40Z

When Mulvey told Gilbert that he felt his verse had expressed forgiveness, Gilbert corrected him. Peter Mulvey's 'Take Down Your Flag' responds to Charleston shooting 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

His later work, written in prose, mixing realistic and fantastic elements, is made up of little stories full of poetry that tend to be as concise and tightly structured as verse. Review | Charles Simic reflects on what set James Tate’s late poetry apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

In between albums, he tosses off songs that focus on his tougher side, leaning in to wordy verses largely bereft of melody. St. Vincent’s Synth-Funk ‘Pain,’ and 9 More New Songs 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Sermons, hymns and verses of scripture share many techniques with poetry: anaphora, repetition, metaphor, imagery, music. Review | Rachel Held Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

He ended his verse with a stunner: “I was a champion of pain/But now I toast with Martinelli’s instead of champagne.” Utkarsh Ambudkar Finally Gets His Broadway Shot in ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Volume two reprints the light verse and translations. Beyond the bestsellers: Michael Dirda picks 12 books for the holidays 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

I read some more from the verses, poorly written inspirational Christian drivel. Sex, facing death 2012-06-11T00:00:00Z

From the opening, chopped, acoustic guitar strums to the heavy beat, from the backup singers' succinct vocal to Adele's fluid verses, which come spiraling outward — it's just a great song. Classic status: Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" 2011-08-11T02:01:07Z

Lamar's verse in "Never Catch Me" is typically thoughtful: "Analyze my demise, I say I'm super anxious/ Recognize I deprive this fear and then embrace it." Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Garbus pairs well with Moss in that she's a filmmaker expertly versed in drawing upon the palette of an actor's expressiveness to color a scene. "The Handmaid's Tale" furious finale could turn the show around – and it's all in the execution 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

It recently came out with Ceriph, a Singaporean literary journal, and plans to launch a new collection of verse by poet Cyril Wong called Animal Season. Next Time You Are in ... Singapore 2010-05-27T14:05:00Z

I don't want people to start messing with the syntax or changing up the verse in some different ways. Danai Gurira plays "Richard III" for PBS: "This is ancient text running through a contemporary body" 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z

And back in the song’s verses, it comes into focus that she has been singing, in her wise-naïf way, about growing old and obsolete, disillusioned and unfulfilled. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The best jokes are also critical observations, eg that Shakespeare's Othello "is a man who seems curiously aware that he is speaking Shakespearean blank verse". How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z

The answers weren’t clear until Thursday, when a demo version of the first verse of “Famous” leaked online, with the lyrics as the Reddit user reported them. Kanye West Is Fixing His Album in Public. You’ll Want to Read the Edits. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

It flew through thousands of lines of verse like a drone over a wildlife habitat, snapping pictures of similes, allusions, and metatheses. Hacking the Humanities 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Guest vocalist Brother Ali drops an illusive, rapid-fire verse that bobs and weaves, a vocal style that fits like a boxing glove alongside Chuck D’s knockout punches and Flav’s incessant jabs. Public Enemy Still Fighting, Still Fresh 2012-07-27T13:22:16Z

One of the first people to take notice was Kanye West, who took her ode to nail parlours, Pro Nails, added his own verse, and released it on a mixtape. Sister Act 2010-04-27T07:13:00Z

Those on the younger end of the book’s target age group will appreciate Wise’s illustrations more than they will the text’s lessons, but all ages should enjoy the cadence and rhythm of Zoboi’s verse. The Pillars of African American History: Ibi Zoboi’s Kwanzaa Picture Book 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

It holds 13 verses from the Odyssey’s 14th Rhapsody, where its hero, Odysseus, addresses his lifelong friend Eumaeus. 'Oldest known extract' of Homer's Odyssey discovered in Greece 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

Perhaps no children’s form is more ancient than the book of verse, those compilations of light doggerel meant to entertain and instruct. Is Life Fair? Four Picture Books Say No 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

For ages 8-12: Kara, a young orphaned girl in modern-day China, discovers the meaning of family in this inspiring story told in verse. Bunnies and monsters get along; a yoga mystery | Local books 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

But Damon wasn't comfortable doing the verses – he just couldn't get into character. How we made: Graham Coxon and Stephen Street on Parklife by Blur 2012-07-16T17:41:11Z

After only a few verses, his rendition was cut short. Lee Ridley: making comedy out of silence 2012-06-06T17:26:50Z

As a star, Clooney is a master of Q&A banter; as an actor, he turns Matt's churning emotions into verses in the liturgy of grieving and redemption. George Clooney Takes Toronto: Is The Descendants the Next Top Oscar Winner? 2011-09-13T19:55:00Z

Does that mean you’re well versed in the works of the Bard? Thomas Middleditch of ‘Silicon Valley’ on Doing Verizon Ads and Flying His Own Plane 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

But she’s not just classy; she’s classical: so deeply versed in tap tradition and technique that she has the whole of it at her command and never has to worry. Review: Dormeshia Coasts on Her Tap Mastery in ‘Rhythm Is Life’ 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

Rogers added his own theological touch to the episode’s conclusion by flashing the text of the Old Testament verse Isiah 2:4 on the television screen, which said, How Mister Rogers’ faith shaped his idea of children’s television 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Beyoncé leaves the second verse to Ms. Maines, who sings: “Daddy made me fight/ It wasn’t always right/ But he said, ‘Girl, it’s your Second Amendment.’” Beyoncé’s True Political Statement This Week? It Wasn’t at a Clinton Rally 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

At the final handwritten verse, he dropped to one knee and presented a diamond engagement ring. The Vibe Was Electric and That Was Before the Coffee Buzz 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Its verses touched on homes of various kinds, both for living creatures and for other things. Mary Ann Hoberman, Who Tantalized Young Readers With Rhymes, Dies at 92 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

How un-Christmassy it is can be gleaned from the other verses, which never make it into a British carol concert. Coca-Cola didn’t invent Santa ... the 10 biggest Christmas myths debunked 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

How gallant to think of the passenger beside him, whose rights extend to not being seated next to a handsome stranger scribbling verses. Mark Strand’s Last Waltz 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Wilson responded to the controversy with another blog post, which explained to her readers that the verse in question “is subject to a truly fantastical amount of bullshittery in the modern era.” The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

Bolaño was fascinated by how Kerouac infused his verse with the register and musicality of the city that surrounded him, and he wanted “The Spirit of Science Fiction” to achieve a similar effect. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

The famous overture is trimmed and verses are cut throughout along with some arias. Met gives `Barber' a cut in English version 2012-12-28T17:38:08Z

By the time he’s done with the beat, I already had my verse done, had the hook done and went in and recorded it. It’s album-release party time for Greater Than — the trio of Seattle rappers Fearce Vill, Grieves and Grynch 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

The dog recites verse that bears a striking resemblance to the ranns of ancient Celtic bards. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

Jail Guitar Doors was named after a 1978 song by the Clash, the first verse of which details Wayne Kramer’s drug bust. ‘The Hard Stuff’ Review: Motor City Mayhem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The harsh and twisted landscape along this renowned earthquake fault line makes for fascinating viewing, especially when brought to life by a guide versed in geology, botany and Native American history. Indian Wells tennis tournament draws fans — and top players — to Palm Springs 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Songs such as Cowboy and Mike G's King open with wild bursts of flailing, bouncing and silly walks but splutter to apologetic ends two verses and a chorus later. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All – review 2013-07-02T18:29:27Z

Then the third verse is claimed by Mr. McDonald, who calmly polishes off the other two like so many canapés. Music Review: Blue-Eyed Soul Veterans Play for Themselves 2010-12-08T20:17:00Z

With its episodic and asymmetrical stanzas, the verses have a strange and no doubt deliberate nomadic quality. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z

I know he complained in vain about the scansion of some of the lines of verse I translated. Once upon a life: Margaret Drabble 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

And maybe we'll even get her to sing a verse from the song she wrote for "Last Man." Emmy chat: Join Mary Steenburgen on Wednesday to talk 'Justified' and more 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

He delivers his verses in tight, mostly rhyming quatrains and quintets that march down the page like the work of Frederick Seidel or Mr. Muldoon himself. Books of The Times: ‘Alien vs. Predator,’ a Book of Poetry by Michael Robbins 2012-05-23T21:30:10Z

Her work combines free verse with more traditional forms like the sonnet and the villanelle to explore memory and the racial legacy of America. Natasha Trethewey Is Named Poet Laureate 2012-06-07T02:03:39Z

A poetic prodigy, Naomi was writing remarkably capable verse — much of it with a social conscience — by the age of 10. Naomi Replansky, Poet of Hopeful Struggle, Dies at 104 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

Rankine follows her award-winning poetry collection, “Citizen,” with an investigation of race in the United States, bringing together verse, essays, visuals and more. 15 Books to Watch For in September 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Her first book of verse, “The Lamb,” was published that same year. The Hungarian Despair of Magda Szabó’s “The Door” 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Working with Dre back in the day, if your verse wasn’t tight, you weren’t getting on the song.” One Surreal Night With the Rap Veterans of Mount Westmore 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

The author of the verse will not be named in the programme. Poet Laureate writes Corrie poem 2010-12-24T12:39:08Z

The British folkiness continues as the first verse introduces “a wayward lad” making a rural trek. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

The final line of the verse is a dig at what critics say is the British government's approach to Brexit: to both have its cake and eat it. England Lost: sardonic Mick Jagger releases two songs responding to Brexit 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

The next year, Jones’s first significant foray into verse, the long poem “In Parenthesis,” inspired by his experiences as an infantryman in World War I, was described by T.S. Reviving the Art of David Jones 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Then, an old poet recited verses to a young president. Perspective | As Trump slips out of town, Biden repurposes old symbols for new life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

The story’s full connection to the rest of the “Conjuring”-verse is only partly revealed. Review: In ‘The Nun,’ a Franchise Resumes Its Scary Habits 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

He's very versed in cinema – of the west, too. Stoker director Park Chan-wook: 'In knowing yourself, you can liberate yourself' 2013-02-28T16:53:50Z

When verses end, the chord sustains, lasting longer than the verse. For Björk, a New Album, ‘Vulnicura,’ and a MoMA Show 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

A friend had tagged the author of the verse, Reuben Holmes, who goes by the pen name r.H. The Life of an Instagram Poet 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

It starts innocuously enough, but swerves to the dark side on the second verse, as Thompson cops to feelings of inadequacy and those self-medicating weed hits when he’s creatively stifled. Travis Thompson gets real about mental health, dark side of success on pivotal new “YOUGOOD?” 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Also making up for the track’s clunky spoken-word verses is the return of what appears to be Shakira’s “She Wolf” choreography. Shakira Plays Truth or “Dare” on the Dance Floor: Watch 2014-05-07T19:07:15Z

There were letters exchanged between Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton, and a note from Elizabeth I to Shakespeare signed in her unmistakeable hand, thanking him for the "pretty verses" he had sent her. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

J. Michael Martinez’s third book, “Museum of the Americas,” won the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, but its contents are unapologetically, excitingly hybrid, including prose, lineated verse, vintage postcards and black-and-white photographs. A Poetry Collection That Opens Up Like a Cabinet of Curiosities 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Then all we had to do was come up with some music and write the verses. How we made: Jiggs Chase and Ed Fletcher on The Message 2013-05-27T16:18:10Z

The best, judged by me, wins a collected edition of Ayres's verse - if they want it. 50 Shades of Pam Ayres pastiche. Join the BDSM fun 2013-03-28T11:57:35Z

As Hunter became more versed in Yates’ role in events surrounding the 2016 presidential campaign and the election of Donald Trump, her respect grew — even more so after meeting her fellow native Georgian. Holly Hunter suits up as US prosecutor in ‘The Comey Rule’ 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

He's at ease with the verse; he's nimble but furrowed. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

In the sole rap verse on this track, rapper Angel Haze speaks as a mother deciding to keep a child despite the child's being conceived in a rocky relationship. Roe v. rap: Hip-hop artists have long wrestled with reproductive rights 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

Initially, her verse grabs readers with an almost sing-songy nursery-rhyme cleverness — but it quickly draws them into a sense of perilous dissonance, which strikes from the heart of those bony dashes punctuating almost every line. Review | A writer ponders Emily Dickinson’s most pivotal moments 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

The world’s greatest poet did not immortalize his lost child in verse. Review | Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ reimagines the life and death of Shakespeare’s only son 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

The details of his troubled life are hard to untangle from his verse. John Berryman Is Reconsidered in 4 New Books 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

To a person with a sweet tooth versed in Latin American desserts – by which I mean, me – Arequipa, Peru, sounds like a delicious place. Stuffed Peppers, Lamb's Head Soup, Canyons and Condors in Arequipa, Peru 2010-07-07T03:00:00Z

If you don’t know your feminist history chapter and verse, never fear. Round House’s ‘Rapture’ is a funny, thoughtful look at feminist tensions 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

But the value of her work reaches far beyond her witty verses and adorable drawings. The happy future of ‘Llama Llama’ after its creator’s death 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

You half expect another verse about his girlfriend’s cat. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Casualties of War 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Why did Shakespeare reach for rhyme in his most romantic play, despite blank verse being favoured from the 1580s for its realism? How to teach … Shakespeare 2013-04-15T17:45:01Z

In one panel, Syaf alluded to a protest against the governor; in another, he referenced a Koranic verse that is interpreted by some to mean that Muslims can only accept the leadership of Muslims. The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Russell Wilson is tweeting his daily Bible verses. Lonnae O’Neal: So what’s the problem when a baby goes to training camp? 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

The other day I came across a Buzzfeed quiz that asked me: "Heavy metal lyric or bible verse?" ‘Oh creator, it’s you I now renounce’: How death metal lyrics echo some Bible passages 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

On track after track, Weaver and her fluttering trill glide over verses, soar over swooping chorus and chirp high notes at the heavens. Review: Ryn Weaver Won't be Pinned Down on 'The Fool' 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

She forgot the words to the second verse—or at least became too overwhelmed to voice them—and asked to begin the section again. A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

If you are even mildly versed in such topics as Tulipomania, the English landscape style, the creation of Sissinghurst Castle Garden, it seems cursory and, in the absence of stronger connecting threads, actually quite tedious. Review | What got lost in one writer’s garden 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

He began a daily routine of memorizing the Gospel’s verses, a few every day, for nearly a year and a half, and gave his first public performance in 1978. Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Traditional shadow theater was historically a staple of Damascus cafe life, as story tellers used dyed animal-skin puppets to entertain their audience with tall tales, satire, songs and verse. Syria's last shadow puppeteer hopes to save his art 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

He is an outspoken secularist, equally critical of the East and West, and a poetic revolutionary of sorts who has tried to liberate Arabic verse from its traditional forms and subject matter. A Revolutionary of Arabic Verse 2010-10-17T22:03:00Z

He tried verse, he tried masks; he tried abandoning the play entirely and writing a life of Aeschylus instead. Review: In ‘Drunken With What,’ a Streamlined ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Quarles is a solid craftsman, if not a finely elegant one, and, here as elsewhere, Pope's verdict on his verse seems undeserved. Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z

Her verse demonstrates an intense interest in the ways we see and comprehend the world. Mary Jo Bang coming to Washington for the Life of a Poet series 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The poet Richard Howard, in the 1969 book “Alone With America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950,” praised “a technical prowess probably without equal in American verse today.” John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z

She has tattoos of verses from the Lebanese national anthem in Arabic and the conservative Lebanese Forces cross. “Ur head will be cut”: The story of the porn star who is getting death threats for performing in hijab 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

In the 1970s he insisted on singing all three verses of the German national anthem in a version recorded for school pupils, despite the fact that the second, nationalistic verse has long been considered taboo. German far-right singer Heino stages controversial comeback 2013-02-24T13:34:30Z

But much of the indignation in this verse is aimed at Virginia’s Democratic governor. In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, a proposed pipeline hits a sour note 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

“Epitomes” and “extract” volumes — especially of verse — were popular. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

As they trade verses, accusations emerge: he was a narcissist, she was distant, what was incredible turned routine. Shakira and Ozuna’s Breakup Bachata, and 7 More New Songs 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Mary Carr’s 1825 linen square is mostly blank; she managed to complete some colorful triangles, an alphabet and two words from a religious verse before her death at 10. Antiques: Third-Century Cutlery at Auction; Schoolgirls’ Samplers 2013-05-23T19:54:39Z

On stage, discussing “this craft of verse,” he presented an impressive figure: Review: ‘Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife, the Untold Story’

Reagan was also well versed in politics before running a campaign of his own by virtue of leading the Screen Actors Guild. Celebrity politicians test voter interest in post-Trump era 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

It takes work to host, and guests are less well versed than ever in the etiquette of being a guest. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She isn’t a ‘kid’ person. Does she have to attend the parties of her friends’ children? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

She hunches at the keys dramatically, as if playing in a grand concert hall rather than at a crowded party, and meticulously stretches out the vocal syllables of the first verse. “Because it’s fear, after all, that kills us”: Tori Amos released “Little Earthquakes” 25 years ago today 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Ocean resumes crooning in the second verse, with dreamlike harmonies carrying the melody to its abrupt resolution. Listen to Frank Ocean's Atmospheric New Song "Memrise" 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

If you measure a line of verse in terms of feet, you’re recognizing its inner dance impulse. Review: Scottish Ballet Finds the Poetry in ... Poetry 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Consider Ephesians 5:22-24, the verse that the Southern Baptist Convention upholds but Carter disagrees with: Is religion inherently oppressive? 2014-04-12T12:00:00Z

After all, as one frustrated modern poet, Don Marquis, put it, “Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” Galley Girl: Poet Nikky Finney Dazzles the National Book Awards 2011-11-25T18:50:55Z

Pearl Petty The twin sister of Petty’s father, Pearl Petty seems like something from a lost verse of “Rebels.” Stevie Nicks, George Harrison and Tom Petty’s dad: The 10 best supporting characters in “Petty” 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

Ghostface Killah, a veteran so accepted as a lyrical hulk as to be taken for granted, appears on “Purple Hearts” with an astonishing, floating verse. Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Icon 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

Many, if not most, of the songs are strophic, with the same music repeated three, four or five times for different verses. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

After the second verse and chorus, the song breaks down into a churning house song as Gaga chants in much the same way she does in the middle of 'Born This Way.' Critics chime in on Lady Gaga's latest single 2011-04-15T22:24:52Z

But neither Mr. Wainwright’s appealing music nor Shakespeare’s verse — not so bad either — plays the leading role here. Robert Wilson Puts ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ (in German) Onstage 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

It’s great that his heart is overflowing, but so are his verses. Reviews: New Albums From Big Sean, Emile Haynie and DRKWAV 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Note the frequency with which the two weave references to the group’s name and gun-and-fist logo into their verses, wanting to etch them in lyrics so as to make sure that they don’t go anywhere. Albums From Jerry Lee Lewis and Daniel Lanois 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Every line, every bridge, every verse, every chorus. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z

Another is meter: You’re intensely aware of individual feet, as in verse, and of their rhythmic play in far larger units. Review: The Revelatory Early Works of Lucinda Childs at MoMA 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Finally, I can see you crystal clear,” Adele seethes in the first verse. The Singularity of Adele’s Soul 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The show will be presented at Lavizzo Park in the Central District, an underused community space with a small amphitheater from which the Wrecking Crew actors will declaim Shakespeare's verse. New works pepper Seattle stages this month 2010-08-05T20:35:00Z

"One mistake change lives all in one night," he raps in one verse. Maple Valley woman was victim in Las Vegas cab crash that followed shootout 2013-02-23T18:17:57Z

Before he fled Rakhine, a young NGO worker named Mayyu Ali secretly mailed verses to local literary magazines under a pseudonym. In exile in Bangladesh, a bittersweet revival of Rohingya culture 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Beginning each gathering with verse offers a gesture of comfort and hope. Poetry to Tap Into Women’s Spiritual Sides 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Most people, Eliot wrote, think of poets as people who express their feelings in verse. In Praise of Beach House 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

And the inanity of Instagram poets is wickedly lampooned with his description of an app called Locket, on which poets assemble vast virtual crowds to listen to and praise Solomon Wiese’s stolen verse. Review | ‘Dead Souls’ is a witty, sharp, cruel critique of literary culture. But it’s not for everyone. 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

Pinsky's verse, collected in several volumes including "Jersey Rain" and the recent "Gulf Music," has been noted for its musicality, its rhythmic progression and tautness. Former poet laureate sees jazz everywhere in American culture 2010-10-12T20:39:00Z

Describing the poet on his perambulations around the city, Tempest fell into a cadenced performance that could easily be broken into verse, though it did not seem rehearsed: Kate Tempest’s Transformations 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

It's a real tearjerker, friends and family reporting rumours of a lover's infidelity until the final verse, when the poor girl's loyalty is rewarded with a ring. Readers recommend: songs about gossip ? the results 2011-03-03T13:03:50Z

In a mere 18 poems, it demonstrated the qualities that Frost and Thomas had – quite independently – come to believe were essential to the making of good verse. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

But he dispelled the notion that Galás is always serious: While touring together, he said, “she’d turn around between verses and grin at me. She actually enjoyed herself.” Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

They sent him the original version of City, he added a brilliantly laconic verse and they liked it so much it become the official version of the song. New music: Summer Camp – City 2012-07-03T09:25:30Z

An expansion of the intro, and a fleshed out counterpart to meditative yet brief Outkast preludes such as “You May Die” and “Hold On, Be Strong”, it’s devoid of a single rap verse. Big Boi’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors Is Visionary Hip-Hop 2012-12-12T18:30:17Z

During the verses, Gonzaguinha sings of suffering and impermanence, but the chorus keeps returning as an exuberant and defiantly childlike affirmation: “To live/ Not being afraid/ To show your happiness.” The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

I should note that Archuleta also left out an entire verse of the song, the part about no countries or religion existing. Archuleta's 'Imagine' performed well, but why must he change the lyric? 2010-04-11T20:31:00Z

And it also brings with it an implicit pressure on women to strive for the perfect life – pressures that many women are well versed in.” We need to talk about egg freezing 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

“It’s a verse play, so it’s kind of unwatchable. But I got the gist of it, which was a very cool wager about love, and it stayed with me forever.” David Duchovny’s Truth Is Out There, Between Covers 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

The handclapping in the first verse was us clapping, not a synthesizer. The Story Behind the Cars’ ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Wonder appeared via video, solemnly playing piano and singing the opening verses of his life-affirming song "As" for the man he called "a gentle giant." Duncan's life celebrated in images, song, speeches 2012-09-11T03:31:04Z

But the paper was more focused on the attribution of the verse than its purpose. The Surprise Message on a Priceless Ancient Artifact 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Cue Judy Collins singing “Who Knows Where the Time Goes,” because you will be able to listen to all the verses before I’m ready to continue. A Wedding Day Saga Ends With Words From the Heart 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

What's curious, though, about Byron's verse tales is that none of them play off that tension between character and writer that established the Byronic hero in the first place. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

Still, Swift’s new verses raise the ante, as well as the tension: “I’ve been played before if you hadn’t guessed.” Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran Up the Ante, and 13 More New Songs 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

“Every couplet, every verse, every song, every character is constantly fighting for its life, even now.” Sting Frees Himself With the Writing of ‘The Last Ship’ 2013-09-12T12:00:01Z

Sabri Gurses, a Turkish poet and novelist, said he was moved when he learned that Mr. Ali was carrying a German translation of Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, “Eugene Onegin,” when he was killed. A Once-Forgotten Novel Unites Turkish Readers in Troubled Times 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Her structures move by instinct and impulse, sometimes blurring verse and chorus as if they’re coalescing right in the moment, sometimes obsessing over a telling phrase. Vagabon Found Her Voice in Indie Rock. Then Found a New One. 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Almost buoyant, occasionally repetitive, surprised by himself at least as often as he surprised readers, this Heaney remained self-conscious, revisiting and answering earlier verse. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

The sunny/bright bouncy/bassy keyboard figure in the verse sketches a subtly unstable chord, supplying both levity and a slightly off-kilter sense. World premier: Everett producer MTK remixes Fresh Espresso's "Something New" 2010-07-06T16:44:00Z

The first words on the album are “This life don’t last forever,” in “Hold My Hand,” an Akon song that gives Jackson about a verse and a half before Akon takes over lead vocals. Arts & Leisure Preview: After Death, the Remix 2010-12-09T16:58:00Z

It was followed by a version of “Both Sides Now” that focused on the inconclusive final verse that balances losses and gains. Review: Betty Buckley’s ‘Dark Blue-Eyed Blues’ Has Hardly Any Blues at All 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

At various moments it recalls Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Sheltering Sky," Erich von Stroheim's "Greed" and those verses from the Old Testament. Pick of the week: Michelle Williams in "Meek's Cutoff" 2011-04-08T01:01:00Z

After a while, we ended up writing pretty much all the verses together. Q&A: Robin Thicke on Blurred Lines, the Video Music Awards and Working With Dad Alan Thicke 2013-07-26T14:49:55Z

On "Otis", for instance, West declares himself "Luxury rap/ The Hermès of verses". Jay-Z & Kanye West: Watch the Throne ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:27Z

In it, a verse by Grade in transliterated Yiddish alludes to both his affection and ambivalence. In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Whenever I myself leave on a trip, I cannot help but think of this verse. Read Your Way Through Tokyo 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Fabolous is an intense lyricist who often seems to build his rugged, dense verses from the rhymes backward. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-03-08T07:40:00Z

It’ll cram each verse with so many mommas and daddies and shotguns and Chevys that it insulates itself from satire. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Hoffmann-esque transformations called “The Other Side” and three volumes of melancholy verse: Review | The ’90s are having a literary moment. That is, the 1890s. . . 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Early Roman Kings,” on the other hand, never finds its legs, hobbling on an oscillating accordion part that grows grating after only a few verses. Bob Dylan Creates a Perfect Storm on Tempest 2012-09-12T14:45:37Z

For Iranians, a volume of verse is often the first possession to be taken into exile, the last you would ever find in a skip. Skip; More Actors' Words; I Come from There; Nightingales and Roses 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

In his younger days, Alfred himself produced some exceptionally funny parodies and nonsense verse. The enduring allure of A.E. Housman’s poetry 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

"It's the war-torn verse that doesn't get heard too much," he says. Neil Young's US God Save the Queen 2012-06-08T11:08:57Z

One verse: "A night of drink/ A night of hate/ A night as dark/ As last night's date." Some see poetry in Charlie Sheen's `Adonis DNA' 2011-03-03T22:50:11Z

There are verses in Mahmoud Darwish’s “Mural,” one of the great Palestinian poet’s late works, that perfectly describe the uncanny disorientation of collective exile and disappearance. In Lina Meruane’s New Novel, Writer’s Block Is a Symptom of Migrant Trauma 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

All of these verses have been lifted out of context and repurposed to buttress the anti-vaccine movement. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context has been done for centuries 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

To find the verses for her greeting cards, Potell scours poetry books and searches online. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

During his set, Meek Mill continued the attacks on Drake he started last week, accusing him of not writing the verse he contributed to Meek Mill’s album. Review: Nicki Minaj Raps Life Lessons at Barclays Center 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Listen to the third verse of “Mourning Song,” in which Wise bleats, “I’m annoyed with clothes today/I’d rather swaddle myself in sorrow today.” Divas, choirboys, songbirds, angels: None of them sound like Serpentwithfeet 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

In the final verse she acknowledges that someone, gender M-A-N, is listening, and she snarls, "I can make a dress out of a feed bag and I can make a man out of you." Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z

In fact, her work — notwithstanding its overall plangency — could initially be mistaken for light verse. Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Marcell also tends to emphasize key speeches in a stagy manner by stepping to the tip of the platform, sending his eyes heavenward and adorning the verse with imploring or emphatic hand gestures. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Having been exposed to and well versed in all kinds of music before Nashville, I saw no reason to limit the range of songs I could do after getting there.” Kenny Rogers, Who Brought Country Music to a Pop Audience, Dies at 81 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Standards would rise and formerly illiterate brats in key stage II would relax after double quantum physics by dancing around the maypole singing settings of Horace’s verse in Latin, just like in Michael Gove’s dreams. Why too much choice is stressing us out 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

The challenge was to construct music out of what was free verse – but it was liberating. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z

Her riddles interleave what reads like a sociological thesis told in free verse. Review | Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry’ is as powerful as ‘The Hill We Climb’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

The confusion in the first verse of “White Privilege II” is the same confusion experienced, I imagine, immediately in the aftermath of the backlash of that text. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Return to the Hip-Hop Fray 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

The last verse keeps the meditative atmosphere it tends to lose when sung. Season's reading: I Sing of a Maiden 2010-12-21T16:11:01Z

Sensitive and gentlemanly, he is as well versed in Shakespeare as the literature of his own culture. 'The Butterfly Mosque': Learning to live with love and Islam 2010-06-09T23:48:00Z

Could he be talking about the fabled Popcaan verse that didn’t make the album cut of the “Views” song “Controlla”? Probably not, but I will pretend anyway. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Take Control, and 10 More New Songs 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

The second verse develops the idea of being judged into a splendid anti-critic rant that transcends every other effort in this crowded genre. Jon Savage on song: Roy Harper serves up Hors D'Oeuvres 2011-01-26T12:58:35Z

On top of that, every song she performed—if only for one verse or for less than a minute—also saw impressive gains. Beyoncé Leads Post-VMA Sales Gains, Album Rises 1,400 Percent 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

The old spiritual rolls like the Apocalyptic tidal wave described in the lyrics, growing in size and power with each verse. Album review: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, 'Americana' 2012-06-04T02:27:00Z

He takes traditional verse forms — sonnets, sestinas, ballads, pantoums — and retools them, as if they were engine parts, for his own purposes as well. Paul Muldoon Collects His Poetic, Allusive, Satirical Thoughts 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Seeger is credited with writing verse two of both versions, and verse eight of the later version, Rifkin said. U.S. civil rights anthem 'We Shall Overcome' now in public domain 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Her voice is distorted and slightly computerized in the verse, before giving way to a soaring chorus. Katy Perry Releases Surprise Single For 2016 Rio Olympics 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

We're both English and it wasn't a subject we were versed in. Getting tough 2010-05-20T14:50:00Z

The crowd exploded into verse, and Gibson danced along, laughing. How Fred Again.. Turns Digital Bricolage Into Dance-Floor Weepers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

His charm was so great you only slowly realize how much loneliness and anger and depression swam behind his verse. Adding Up a Prolific Poet’s Charming Weather Reports 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

But if you reflexively dismiss modern verse as dauntingly esoteric or embarrassingly corny or tediously singsong, you need to try Ted Kooser. Poetry review: ‘Splitting an Order,’ by Ted Kooser

The verses of a couple of songs are sung quickly, and Mr. Brice sounds as if he might trip over his tongue. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

It is a mark of Keats's poetic genius and the power of his imagination that the words of this letter fall so naturally into the rhythm of verse. John Keats letter to Fanny Brawne set for auction 2011-01-25T17:32:31Z

In Kwame Alexander’s psychologically astute novels in verse, it’s the language that makes the action move. Got a Reluctant Reader at Home? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Hall returned to the pastoral in verse in 1977, with “Ox Cart Man,” a poignant celebration of rural labor, resourcefulness, and nature’s regenerative cycles. Donald Hall in The New Yorker 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The most vividly lovable person here is Fermín, a master of comically flowery rhetoric, who claims that "obstetrics, after free verse, is one of my hobbies". The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón – review 2012-06-28T07:00:01Z

You hear a verse, but the next time you hear a verse, it’s only about 50 or 60 percent the same. Queens of the Stone Age, Redefining Itself to Renew Its Sound 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

They opened the meeting by reciting verses from the Koran, the Girl Scout Promise and the Girl Scout Law. Muslim Scouts pursue an American tradition — in an America wary of Muslims 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Its finest moments are barked in aggrieved-teen shorthand, like this verse from “All the Small Things”: “Late night / Come home / Work sucks / I know.” Reviving the Pop-Punk Innocence of Blink-182 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

And he’s goofy too, unafraid to dance while rapping or in between verses, his skinny body bending at odd angles. Music Review: Wiz Khalifa Raps Beyond His Years 2011-03-30T16:06:49Z

I don’t know that I could write a good book about the South without being well versed in the Good Book. Tayari Jones: By the Book 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

The chorus of a song is generally its most instructive part because it repeats, but Tom Petty often prefers to put his lessons in the bridge or final verse. What Tom Petty's "Straight Into Darkness" teaches us about uncertainty 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

He denounced the “shouting mediocrity” of three-quarters of the poems that he published in an early private booklet, dismissing the verses as “hopeless old friends whom you know will never get a job.” Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z

An allegorical dance floor, the work maps the African diaspora and features verses from Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” Houston Conwill, Whose Sculptures Celebrated Black Culture, Dies at 69 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Usually, a song has one hook and verses, but "Don't push me, 'cos I'm close to the edge" is one hook and "It's like a jungle sometimes" is another. How we made: Jiggs Chase and Ed Fletcher on The Message 2013-05-27T16:18:10Z

But a man sat at a table in one, singing Koranic verses, his melodic voice echoing softly through the souk. Syria's lost heritage stands out in Aleppo's broken minarets 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

As soon as he finished one poem he skipped to the next, making the entire 20 minutes sound like a single, rambling verse. RS Thomas, my favourite religious poet 2010-04-29T16:50:00Z

Lesser religious poets do little more than set Chicken Soup for the Soul to verse. RS Thomas, my favourite religious poet 2010-04-29T16:50:00Z