songlike

He was brainy and clever and had a way of saying my name that sounded songlike in concert with his shy smile.

It can also distinguish between the complex, songlike calls that the animals make when they’re feeling good and the long, flat ones they make when they are not.

In that spirit, Baumbach swung for the fences with his tragicomic chamber play about divorce, which lets Newman’s penchant for sweet, songlike movie music truly sing.

Jensen and Treseler reinterpret nine of Wheeler’s compositions, which tend to be lyrical and songlike, whether moving at a quick clip or drifting as slowly as cloud cover.

Using electric harps that she herself designs, she plays music on a sliding scale between minimalism and superabundance — it’s high on ingenuity and surprise, but less interested in songlike structures.