hymnlike
- a word derived from hymn.
Example Sentences
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Consider a tune like “Good Enough,” a meditation on empathy set to a gently undulating groove, or the hymnlike “Elsewhere,” in which McLachlan yearns for a “space where I can breathe.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024
Hypnotically hymnlike music depicts Malcolm X’s two conversions: to the Nation of Islam at the center of the opera and while making a pilgrimage to Mecca in the final act, to Sunni Islam.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024
She hurled raspy imprecations in “Hurt Yourself” and let her voice break with tearful desperation and then find its own resolve in the hymnlike “Sandcastles.”
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2022
The softness of the synthesizers on “Hyperspace” gives many of the songs a pleading and almost hymnlike feel.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019
The entire assemblage joined in and soon the air was filled with a hymnlike freedom song.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
