songful
Example Sentences
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For all that techno-drama, it wound up being Mitchell who took the early, demonstrative lead in improvising — with some fluid, songful passages that added a depth of lyricism to the boisterous material for Signal.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
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
His fiddle playing had the deliberately rough-hewed sound of rural tradition; his tone could be sweet or scratchy, his phrases songful and melancholy or propulsive and gnarled with ornamental turns and quavers.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2016
The sun rose clear and warm; it was like a summer morning, but stiller, for the woods had lost their songful tenantry.
From D'Ri and I by Irving Bacheller
