soulfulness
IPA: sˈoʊɫfʌɫnʌs
noun
- The state of being soulful.
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Examples of "soulfulness" in Sentences
- Blige amongst contemporary singers is one of the people who maintains that kind of soulfulness and honesty of feeling and emotion.
- If we try, we can cultivate the neshamah yeteirah, that extra measure of soulfulness, which is at the heart of the Shabbat experience.
- However, there is a brew of quietness, of soulfulness, that is as sure to echo from Bill Frisell’s deeply digitized guitar as it is from Arvo Part’s a cappella chorus.
- However, as someone who does not believe in the "soulfulness" of stuff, I was honestly fascinated by this interview with two bicycle collectors, Kadir Guirey and Rohan Dubash:
- But, in my opinion, there is something cold and disconnected about the way children are raised: I don't think it is nurturing to the "soulfulness" of the child and the natural instincts humans have been endowed with.
- What we commonly call such an ability is "soulfulness," and though not solely the imperative of singers - great instrumentalists have it, too, from John Coltrane to Carlos Santana to Bill Evans to Jimmy Page - it is a quality that the human voice perhaps most ably translates.
- What lingers, however, is a kind of soulfulness - maybe from the brief use of that Bach song "Come Sweet Death" - that puts the entire charade in the context of all the technology and industry that, as we hurtle through space in the 21st century, are proving to be what we're living and dying for, as a species.
- First shade: soulfulness is sorrowful feeling transformed into something beautiful, creative and self-renewing … Another shade … to follow and fall in line with a feeling … Hurston … makes "culture" that slow and particular and artificial accretion of habit and circumstance – seem as natural and organic and beautiful as the sunrise …
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