as in passionate
full of or expressing feeling or emotion
soulful music a soulful performer a handsome actor with soulful eyes
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Recent Examples of soulful
Its world is finely wrought, its lead performance — from producer Blake Lively — is soulful and surprising.
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Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
The likelihood is that this high state of flow could only come from someone who’s taken on what is for them a remarkably hard task and found the work immersive, even soulful.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
There’s something so soulful about D’Angelo.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Humanity seeped and shone through non-actors interacting with actors, always under the wise and soulful gaze of Fernanda Montenegro.
—Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
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Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
The likelihood is that this high state of flow could only come from someone who’s taken on what is for them a remarkably hard task and found the work immersive, even soulful.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
There’s something so soulful about D’Angelo.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Humanity seeped and shone through non-actors interacting with actors, always under the wise and soulful gaze of Fernanda Montenegro.
—Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for soulful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soulful
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Alongside contemporaries including Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill and Maxwell, the neo-soul class focused on recapturing the live, thick instrumentation, rich songwriting and weighted, passionate delivery of its nominal genre predecessor.—
Trevor Anderson,
Billboard,
22 Oct. 2025
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For viewers in the US interested in Canadian sports, CTV provides a window into some of the country’s most passionate sporting traditions alongside major American league coverage.—
Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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No one ever came forward, and a local family adopted the sisters together, naming them Tina and Melissa and giving them a loving home.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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But there are things girls can do, too—often with encouragement from their parents, mental health professionals, or other loving adults in their life.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
21 Oct. 2025
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The intense taste and smell can make this tonic hard to stomach.—
Kathleen Ferraro,
Verywell Health,
24 Oct. 2025
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Part of what spurred intense interest, according to sources, was the success of Weapons, Zach Cregger’s summer horror hit.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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The fun doc features affectionate tributes from Michael Douglas, Martha Stewart, Mick Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg and Graydon Carter, to name a few celebrities the up-until-now elusive Pigozzi has become close with over the past five decades.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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And third wife Isabella Rossellini, while affectionate toward him, is candid about how angry and destructive Scorsese could be.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Final Finale is the result of a joint effort between Bleecker Street, the distributor of The End Continues and a recent This Is Spinal Tap theatrical re-release, and Vertigo Live, which has produced concert films for acts like Duran Duran and Billy Idol.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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His 2024 mixtape Underworld imagines what that would be like by morphing the sinister choir-drill popularized by guys like Ot7Quanny and Hood Tali P into full-on theatrical horrorcore.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Nulu fabric is buttery-soft, sweat-wicking, and warm without overheating.—
Nicol Natale,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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First, warm soil temperatures combined with moderate air temperatures in early autumn create ideal grass seed germination conditions.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Soulful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soulful. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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