songless
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In an article in The Times, John S. Wilson wrote, “The tight Bacharachian rhythmic patterns keep bouncing around in your head as you walk into the night, songless but pulsing with a busy little beat.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
And if “all art constantly aspires toward the condition of music,” as Walter Pater wrote, what can poor songless plays hope to achieve?
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
"While there are some spectacular fight sequences with a large - but totally bloodless - death toll, there is a distinct lack of humour in this version, making it both songless and smileless," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2020
I went to the ever-trusty, ever-free Internet Archive, meanwhile, to find Garland’s first wholly songless dramatic performance.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2019
O, many a tuneful tongue that thou madest vocal Would lie cold and silent then; And songless long once more, should often-widowed Erin Mourn the loss of her brave young men.
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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