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And the tenor Brian Jagde bellowed out unflagging but unlyrical sound as Radamès, the warrior torn between his love for Aida and his duty to his country.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2022

In receipt of such a fiercely unlyrical metaphor, this reader’s faith was restored.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2016

She didn’t disappoint – that is, if you expected her to keep herself at arm’s length and issue an unlyrical, stentorian 228-word statement praising the development.

From US News • Apr. 3, 2015

In opera, music harmonises discords and helps to pardon moral faults, but the real Anna Nicole was loud, unlyrical and intermittently obscene.

From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2011

What can be more unlyrical than this verse?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various