Example Sentences

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The musicalness of it and the delicately ideal treatment of the love passion were noticeable characteristics.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

It includes constructiveness in story, character-drawing, picturesqueness, musicalness, naturalness,—in fine, whatever art may combine with poetry or the soul of poetry admit in art.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various

Again the sweet, wild power of the musicalness of the voice, and some soft, strange touch of foreignness in the accent,—so it fancifully seemed to Pierre, thrills through and through his soul.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Many of the allusions are classical and introduced with a rich musicalness that Shelley himself might have envied.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

There is a thing in the air of our beautiful slopes which makes the people of a great instinctive musicalness and deceptiveness, with passions like those burning in the old mountain we have there.

From The Beautiful Lady by Tarkington, Booth