songful

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Recent Examples of songful In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen. Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022 Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism. Dallas News, 25 June 2022 The pair also easily handled virtuosic bursts, and elegantly unspooled songful melodies. Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2022 The violins occasionally share songful duets suggesting early vocal music, which Adams also cited as an influence. Dallas News, 4 June 2022 Bach was lively, supple, and, especially in the Larghetto, generous in its songful musicality. Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022 Singing karaoke is one of China’s most popular pastimes among the songful and tone-deaf alike. Yang Jie, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2022 This is Mahler at his most songful and least angst-ridden. Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021 Lively passages blazed in the second movement, which also featured songful melodies in the violins. Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 24 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for songful
Adjective
  • Soon enough, others began to join her – three dozen people dancing in a strange, feverish and rhythmic pattern.
    Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Options typically include light, medium, strong, and pulsatile (rhythmic).
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Released on Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14), the LP blends sultry R&B vibes with sharp lyrical digs—and addresses Drake’s most recent feuds.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 18 Feb. 2025
  • For instance, Cher was inducted last year without Sonny Bono, while Motown producer Norman Whitfield was honored without his lyrical collaborator, Barrett Strong.
    Troy Smith, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Some of Frost’s poems have the lilting quality of lullabies; others seem to deliver their morals in unambiguous terms.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Adam immediately turned around upon hearing Britton’s lilting opening notes.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The connections Plunkett draws between Frost’s lyric poems and their literary influences are valuable, particularly for anyone taken in by Frost’s aw-shucks persona.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The record arrives alongside a lyric video that finds the singer lounging around the studio, willing herself to accept the warmth of a relationship without looking over her shoulder for whatever unfortunate truths might derail it.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • They are imaginatively crafted, showing particular invention in their harmonic writing.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Nine decades later, the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace suggested that the tides could be represented as harmonic oscillations.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2024
Adjective
  • Films like Gladiator, The Lord of the Rings, and Titanic all have them: epic orchestral scores from Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, and James Horner that soundtrack the battles and tragedies occurring onscreen.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Released last November, the creative infused her brooding, futuristic sound into a full-fledged orchestral production.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • But of the three totally different versions of this show presented thus far, this one is the most broadly appealing.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The implementation and use of AI, machine learning, robotics and the latest Industry 4.0 solutions could make this field and others much more appealing to Gen-Z.
    Lucian Boldea, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Kosky, more than most directors, is sensitive to its polyphonic structure in his staging, which moves around, repeats and trims material throughout to make the show move briskly and with a light hand, allowing the subtext its slithering grace.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025

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“Songful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songful. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.

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