Lilting

We happen into a traditional jam session with the legendary Mary Bergin on tin whistle (the instrument some hold responsible for making the Titanic sound track the bestselling of all time), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh on Bodhran drum (he was a solo in Riverdance for four years and one of the groundbreakers in the musical vocabulary of the instrument) and Steve Sweeney lilting, which is a kind of mouth music along the lines of a Gaelic Bobby McFerrin. ❋ Richard Bangs (2012)

She laughed, softly and with a kind of lilting warmth. ❋ Charteris, Leslie, 1907- (1983)

I try not to overuse the word "lilting" when describing a band's music; it's one of those adjectives that really has to be earned by a certain sweet, heartfelt buoyancy in the way a song is performed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sets and costumes are breathtaking, the story touching, and each song in the lilting score enchants. ❋ John Farr (2010)

When I came home, I found myself drinking in the simplest things -- the blessing of a refreshing breeze, the velvet texture of newly cut grass, a small child's lilting laughter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She started to read in her impeccably clear, lilting, Bible-reading voice, enunciating each word c-r-i-s-p-l-y and pronouncing the biblical names perfectly: Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. ❋ Frank Schaeffer (2011)

She placed the slimy cud behind her, picking up another shock of lazy, lilting grasses — she selected two, let the remains scuttle greenily in the wind, placed a leafy scythe to my lips. ❋ Ivan R. (2011)

Then we shift into the lilting melodies of two Russian lullabies, "Little Birch Tree" and "Good Night." ❋ Brenda Peterson (2011)

The real star is director Ava Roy, whose masterful use of the entire island was both subtle and innovative; at times organic (the gravedigger scene was on a small mountain of rubble) and striking (Ophelia's madness was played inside a wide open hospital room threaded with white twine, empty birdcages, and lilting bird down.) ❋ Lauren Gunderson (2010)

He enlists the young bassist phenom Esperanza Spalding to add her lilting voice to the Latin inspired composition " Salsa for Luisito" where he and percussionist Luisito Quintero parry and play together in joyous rhythmic synchronicity. ❋ Ralph A. Miriello (2012)

The jingle that accompanies the ads, a tune called "Friends and Family," is now so familiar that Lexus' latest ads are built on the assumption that everyone knows the campaign and its lilting signature song. ❋ Joseph B. White (2011)

"What happens when all flags burn together?" he wonders in Jeopardy, over lilting guitar and cheerful trumpets. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tim Ries lilting tenor solo is perfectly complimented by Quintero's infectious congas. ❋ Ralph A. Miriello (2012)

The hour-long one-acter alternates rather mechanically between bright, up-tempo numbers, such as the lilting ensemble waltz, "Astonish me," and more contemplative, less successful back-story moments that explore Stravinsky's homesickness for Russia and Diaghilev's insecurity and vanity. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2011)