It's a pleasant, genteel comedy that aspires neither to lyrical flight nor penetrating insight.

The music welled about her in rapid, lyrical flights.

She is a songbird given to lush and lyrical flights that unleash the inner child in chat rooms around the world.

O'Brien is a past master at mixing up such lyrical flights with tonic doses of sexual humor.

The music deftly alternates ariosolike declamation with lyrical flights.

I could listen to Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev and spin off that point where lyrical flights go discordant.

But it is most impressive in lyrical flights that demand a pure, steady, semi-operatic legato.

His sound was warm and tender during lyrical flights.

But the opera's lyrical flights are slow-moving and sometimes cloying.

"His voice is urbane, passionate, cultivated, capable of deep lyrical flights and the throwaway camp line."