Songlike

On both occasions, Willy was mysterious, mocking, and strangely lighthearted, with a maddening songlike quality to his voice. ❋ P. W. Catanese (2011)

The title track typifies the songlike, folk-rootsy lyricism of the set, and Utnem's harmonium blends gracefully with the low-sliding sonorities of Seim's sax here and there. ❋ John Fordham (2010)

In that moment of songlike inspiration, I just knew that the lame gooseherd with his pipe who takes the place of the fairy godmother in Tattercoats, and whose sweet haunting music can be heard at the end of every country lane, was a Puck; and from that, the two worlds of fairytale and Shakespeare mixed, with seamless fluency. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Slapstick comedy – elaborate falls, hits, and takes acrobatic stage fighting tableaux of characters and sets dancelike movement or outright dance songlike speaking or outright singing ❋ Unknown (2007)

TOM MANOFF: Although Kim Kashkashian is world-famous as a violist, when I hear her name, the first word that comes to mind isn't viola, but lyricism, that quality of music to be songlike and to flow easily with emotion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was her form of lyric verse, subjective and unrhymed, a little songlike but with a rigor, a tradition of fixed order, only backwards, to test the presence of another kind of reversal, which a doctor nicely named retrogenesis. ❋ Don DeLillo (2007)

His third and final piece, about 15 minutes long, as were the two previous, was his most songlike. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The rhythmic repetition in these same instances of equal-sounding words of equal length in identical grammatical positions is essential to the songlike quality of the passage. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)

When speeding to safety, they give a high-pitched “chip” which, when repeated 130 times a minute, creates a songlike trill that can attract birds. ❋ Janine M. Benyus (1989)

As her message to the world was usually one of promise and reassurance, she had the gift of dwelling with songlike sweetness on those words in which the music lay. ❋ Charles D. Stewart (N/A)

As soon as they had taken their places in the open area in the center of the floor, Hovan raised his arms and began a songlike chanting similar to the previous night's. ❋ Ann Wilson (N/A)

His original compositions are songlike but often slyly episodic and always deft with groove. ❋ By NATE CHINEN (2011)

The slow movement is, of all things, a tender jazz ballad, with the violin intoning a lugubrious and haunting songlike melody that occasionally breaks into double-stops to devastating effect. ❋ Joshua Kosman (2011)

The melodies are songlike even at their most ambiguous, and Mr. Kimbrough uses his bright, percussive touch to keep them grounded. ❋ By NATE CHINEN (2010)

Her soft Southern drawl is songlike, pleasingly rhythmic as a gentle rain. ❋ Unknown (2010)