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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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Every spring, between March and April, a rhythmic, ancient spectacle unfolds across the Platte River Valley.—
Judy Koutsky,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Along the boardwalk, a rhythmic, green light flashes on the outdoor CO2 detectors – a constant reminder that the area is not out of the woods yet.—
Colette Davidson,
Christian Science Monitor,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The outlet unveiled its definitive ranking on Monday (April 7), placing Minaj at the top spot based on a comprehensive set of criteria, including chart performance, cultural impact, lyrical skill, longevity, and flow.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Set in Watts, the film is a lyrical, neo-realist snapshot of a community, family, and slaughterhouse worker all coping with the monotony and powerlessness society forces them to endure.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
31 Mar. 2025
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The film and her lilting performance in it show how grief can coexist with a kind of grace — a peace with the unknowability of what lies beyond.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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Strong breezes have come with another day of drizzle, a chaotic and lilting series of gusts that have required extra effort with every flap of her transparent wings and every maneuver through the vegetation.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Moreover, the combination of the specific chord progression in the melody paired with the verbatim hook was a greater than 50% clone of Vance’s original work, in both lyric choice and chord expressions.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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Doja Rat stated that Strange claimed to have over 300 songs and handwritten lyric sheets.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Engineers determined the most likely cause of the propellant leak was a harmonic response several times stronger than predicted, suggesting the vibrations during the ship's climb into space were in resonance with the vehicle's natural frequency.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
7 Mar. 2025
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Telemetry indicated the fire broke out after propellant lines leading to one of the Raptors ruptured due to unexpected harmonic vibrations.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Queen may have started as a four-piece rock band but their ambitions and grandiose stage shows led to lavish studio productions that took them in orchestral and operatic directions.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
10 Apr. 2025
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The album version shifts from what could at first be mistaken for a pastoral, pleasant crooner about country life into a four-alarm fire, crackling with impatient riffs by the first refrain, when horns pile insistently on top of each other only to strip back, again, to an orchestral piano hymn.—
Shana Naomi Krochmal,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Vara is an appealing narrator—smart, funny, honest, and a little neurotic.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.—
Sanjena Sathian,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2025
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The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Songful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songful. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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