as in poet
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Gardone Riviera itself is worth a wander, with the eccentric Vittoriale degli Italiani, the former estate of the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, a short walk from the hotel.
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On the facing page was Gompers’s block print/line drawing of the Tibetan saint and poet Milarepa sitting in a lotus position, a Sierra cup at his feet, and a Campingaz Bleuet stove resting on a boulder.
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The lyricist also touched on the impact of Houston, Texas, and his Nigerian heritage, and on his hope that The Bridge would serve as a conduit between those worlds and cultures.
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As Sabbath’s primary lyricist during the Ozzy years, Geezer established heavy metal’s obsessions with dread, apocalypse, insanity, and the darker corners of spirituality.
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By contrast, the French word for scarcity, rareté, has so many acoustic kin that an English rhymester could weep, with engagé, écarté, and retardé leading the pack.
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Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.
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Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
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But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
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The admiral's swagger, battlefield bravado and desire for revenge will be sung by the bards of Westeros, and serve as a breakthrough showcase for Thorn, a playwright and YouTuber, who came out as a transgender woman in a January 2021 video on her Philosophy Tube channel.
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The bards were the first adapters.
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Perhaps the composer dreamed of a future performance like the one in Ojai; his music rejects the nightmare of history and goes in search of ultimate serenity.
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The evening’s music director was producer and composer Cheche Alara.
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The description by the composer (who is also his librettist) can hardly be bettered.
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Snapshot is West Edge’s intensive, two-week development workshop in which composer-librettist pairs polish and stage scenes from their works in progress with a team of experienced advisers, a strong cast and musicians.
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“Lyrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyrist. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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