songful
Example Sentences
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Harper moved to New York in 1966, when he was 23, and began turning heads with the piercing and songful cry of his saxophone.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2023
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
Lo, the voice of your redeemer; lo, the songful morning near.
From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
