songful

Example Sentences

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This is Mahler at his most songful and least angst-ridden.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021

Mr. Peacock’s “raw charisma and fiery temperament could almost match Ayler in songful intensity,” pianist Ethan Iverson wrote in Jazz Times magazine in April.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2020

The jaunty, songful theme that opens the movie sets a mood that Caine catches breezily—even if the character of Alfie himself is sordid and sleazy in a way that the music doesn’t at all imply.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2017

It also uncovered the songful properties of a row of carefully tuned flower pots in “part 3,” an arrestingly poetic movement and one of the highlights of Thursday’s program.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2016

So we may walk from one flower to another until the morning wears to a bright noon and the afternoon wanes into a songful sunset.

From Some Spring Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John