Sentence examples for lovesome from inspiring English sources

A label is a lovesome thing, as any child knows who buys candy bars.

By Al Graham and E. B. White The New Yorker, July 28 , 1945P. 13 A label is a lovesome thing, as any child knows who buys candy bars.

The New Yorker, July 28 , 1945P. 13 A label is a lovesome thing, as any child knows who buys candy bars.

The essence of the program is distilled in "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing," Billy Strayhorn's exotically harmonized ode to blossoming vegetation, which Ms. Oberlin delivered as an impressionistic tone poem with delicately voluptuous phrasing at Wednesday's opening-night show.

"A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing," with its shifting tonal colors, became an entrancing stroll in an enchanted park on a sparkling afternoon.

Backed by a sturdy jazz trio, he ignites "Lush Life," "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing," "Something to Live For" and "Blood Count" (outfitted with new lyrics by Elvis Costello) with the enthusiasm of a devotee who seeks nothing less than to channel the spirit of this artist, who died in 1967.

He's still cozying up to other styles — Johnny Hodges in a version of the Ellington ballad "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing," Ornette Coleman in his skirmishing tune "King Arthur" — but helped by a great American rhythm section, both steadying and inspiring (the pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Ben Street and drummer Adam Cruz), we can see what's there, and this time it's more than just promising.

When the jazz singer Nnenna Freelon was a little girl, she recalled in her show, "Lena: A Lovesome Thing," on Wednesday evening at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Lena Horne was "held up as the standard of beauty and pride".