Sentences with phrase «characters lilt»

Quite simply, I adored this book which explored slavery and subjugation in a prose so lyrical and moving that I heard the characters lilt in every phrase I read.

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Moreover, the restless, twitching lilt of the song catches perfectly the light - headedness of early morning — especially if one has stayed up all night, as many of the characters have, for happy or desperate reasons.

For example, if the narrator makes his / her voice lilt slightly at the end of a passage of dialogue, the character sounds hopeful, wistful, possibly cheerful.