soulfulness

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 …

This Essay changed my mind about Zadie Smith 2009

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 …

Movie Review: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) 2009

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 …

2009 November | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

If we try, we can cultivate the neshamah yeteirah, that extra measure of soulfulness, which is at the heart of the Shabbat experience.

Shabbat Shalom The Raven 2007

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:

Backwards and Forwards: Old Socks, New Hat BikeSnobNYC 2009

Blige amongst contemporary singers is one of the people who maintains that kind of soulfulness and honesty of feeling and emotion.

Song of the Week: 'Don't Explain' 2007

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.

Disquiet » Sonic Postcard from Switzerland 2002

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.

LA Weekly | Complete Issue 2010

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.

TODAYonline 2008

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.

Expecting Rain 2008