wordless
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The wordless vocal refrain bears a resemblance to Leo Sayer’s 1976 hit “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing,” and that’s one catchy hook alongside several others.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
The Jewish composer recalled the niguns — wordless, improvised prayers — that he grew up hearing in synagogue, and he drew on that sense memory.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
Then, when The Blind Man realizes that the rumored “Spirit of the Forest” is, in fact, this wounded, wordless being seeking nothing more than company, his reaction is not terror but tenderness.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025
The most striking departures are the handful of wordless sequences of Hujar and Rosenkrantz posing in the manner of a fashion shoot, scored to snippets of Mozart’s Requiem.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty and wordless descent of itself from the fly-specked ceiling.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
