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Recent Examples of songful
In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.
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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
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
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Gains from the sectors and its rhythmic strength help the single push 45-44 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart.—
Trevor Anderson,
Billboard,
9 July 2025
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Shakedown leaves the attic and lets the light run over their guitars, with streaks of brightness and a rhythmic tightness that ditches the glorious sloppiness of bar italia’s earlier music.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Featuring 270 works, including 160 never before seen, this exhibition that was two years in the making invites audiences on a multi-sensory journey that mixes sculpture, painting, scent, light, sound, dance and poetry into a lyrical universe shaped by love and transformation.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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For many across America, Abt was the voice and conscience of cycling, with his lyrical prose weaving the tale of the Tour across the Atlantic Ocean.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Its lilting melody leads the listener by the band straight into the fist-pumping chorus, which simply repeats the title multiple times — with the exclamation mark included.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
9 June 2025
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Accompanied by a small string section and a few backup singers, Day’s lilting vocals echoed throughout the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live for her affecting cover.—
Heran Mamo,
Billboard,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Filled with fierce lyric tenderness and clear-eyed commitment to revolutionary aesthetic, Terror Counter devoted to the redemption of the self from a world ready to usurp this resistance.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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Apple also doubled down on games, added new features, including lyric translation to Apple Music, and introduced new options for its Vision Pro headset, among other things.—
Michele Luhn,
CNBC,
10 June 2025
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As dark as the film can seem, it’s also filled with moments of harmonic bliss whenever the girls perform.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
7 July 2025
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The night celebrated music that bears both glamour and grit because of the raw, cracking power and harmonic warmth of rock and roll's roots in country, folk, jump blues and rockabilly music.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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For the orchestral rock band Murder By Death, and its legion of fans, Saturday, Nov. 15 will no doubt be an emotional night.—
Kirby Adams,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
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Those groups' ability to transpose the American songbook and European orchestral composition into lovestruck street-corner harmonies allowed gospel soul to supersede the popularity of blues while fusing culture and race into the juggernaut known as rock-and-roll.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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In fact, on the whole the backup quarterback market might not have been very appealing among players such as Joshua Dobbs (New England), Jacoby Brissett (Arizona) and Mac Jones (San Francisco).—
Chris Perkins,
Sun Sentinel,
15 July 2025
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Regular yard maintenance can help create a yard that’s not very appealing to them.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
13 July 2025
Adjective
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The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.—
Jordan Michelman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 July 2025
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Canadian poetry is polyphonic, exploratory, and urgent.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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“Songful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songful. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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