The word "mellowness" is usable in written English and is well written
It can be used to describe a state of being relaxed, gentle, or soft in character or tone. Example: "The mellowness of the evening light created a serene atmosphere in the garden." Alternatives include "softness" or "gentleness."
Page A14 A MORE MELLOW GINGRICH Those closest to him say Newt Gingrich's late-life maturity and mellowness help explain how he has avoided the self-destructiveness that undermined him in the past.
His lyric tenor voice was remarkable for its power, mellowness, and smoothness of production.
The taper, coupled with the fairly deep, funnel-shaped mouthpiece, imparts a mellowness to the tone and a flexibility to the technique that quickly established the cornet in a leading position in brass and military bands, especially in the United States and England.
The emphasis is on mellowness, in colour and tone.
And as you'd expect of such a well-meaning multicultural bunch, they speak the international lingo of cultivated jazz-fusion, all elegance, mellowness and consideration.
The evening had begun with Kovacevich's beloved Brahms – the Piano Quintet in F minor – and once the birthday boy had settled into the youthful but endearingly old-world embrace of the Belcea Quartet it was a performance full of generosity and what can only describe as "orchestral mellowness".
But mellowness is a relative concept in a man who cherishes a withering revulsion for any upstart with the temerity to beat him.
Simon Russell Beale, National, 2000 Russell Beale portrayed Hamlet in a brilliant performance that combined scholarly ironic wit and a spiritual mellowness and aching regret that were attributed to grief at the death of his own mother.
Near the end of the book, after a "house-heating" dinner party he throws for himself — on the verge, unbeknownst to him, of getting fired — he begins doing the dishes, taking special care with an aquamarine glass bowl, a gift from his ex-wife's artist son, that is his talisman of security and success: Its resonant flint glass emitted a sound full of muffed mellowness as it settled down to soak.
It feeds fantasies of a virtually infinite tolerance, an absence of substantial conflict, a nostalgic take on Scandinavian mellowness that seems to have less to do with the way things actually were than with a Disneyland view of the past.
Live — as seen on the surprisingly satisfying DVD "Okonokos" — a lot of the mellowness gets burned off in the intensity of performance.
