Twelve dancers, accompanied by the Tricia Woods Trio, clicked their way through percussive and lyrical turns with endearing ease.

By turns brutal and lyrical, willfully mundane and stratospherically exalted, this is above all the music of twilight.

At the time his work was heavily influenced by his socialist and anti-imperialist sympathies but has since also taken a more introspective, lyrical turn.

At the same time, Ms. Vaughn emerges as a thoroughly original writer, blessed with a distinctive voice, by turns witty and lyrical, wisecracking and nostalgic.

Their poems-fragmentary, purposefully ungrammatical, sometimes mixing texts from different sources and idioms-can be by turns abstract, lyrical, and highly comic.

Ms. Picoult is a solid, lively storyteller, even if she occasionally bogs down in lyrical turns of phrase.

This work, by turns raucously propulsive and expansively lyrical, would be a fixture of the concerto repertory were it not so difficult for the pianist.

Mr. Levine does almost the opposite, making the most of every lyrical and subdued turn.

His poetry was by turns lyrical, satirical and narrative.

Such moments were lovely, including the whole of the famous Adagietto, which was given a meltingly lyrical turn.