Between the heart and the head lies the soul, and soulfulness is not the least thing we ask of thought and thinkers.
But the idea that Russians, any more than other Slavs, are allergic to democracy is as absurd as the myth of their special soulfulness.
On his third album, featuring the dread hand of Linda Perry, Blunt once again shows all the soulfulness of the junior Chris de Burgh he so blatantly is.
There are longueurs, however, and, there isn't the messy, exciting vigour that the rockabilly Imelda May can generate or the tangy soulfulness of Amy Winehouse.
And yet it has something wonderful in it, too, a performance of charismatic soulfulness by Elle Fanning that holds the gaze and touches the heart.
On meeting Penelope Wilton, it's hard to decide what is most beguiling: the eyes – bright, watchful, suggesting depths of soulfulness – or that caramel-smooth voice with its unmistakable hint of mischief.
Later inspiration was provided by Dionne Warwick with the sophisticated soulfulness of "Another Night" and the so-catchy-you-wish-you'd-never-heard-it charms of Chicago singer Barbara Acklin's "Am I The Same Girl".
A recent book about her and her techniques helped remedy that, and this small show of her recent work demonstrates how she brings a soulfulness and haunting quality to portrait painting.
He is a sleekly muscular, robust defender, but there is also a soulfulness to Distin, a deeply held need to feel some kind of empathy with his surroundings, something that jarred with his fraught final months at Portsmouth.
It was the comedy, the overt soulfulness, the high-hearted (to use an adjective he liked) romantic openness of the early Salinger stories that came as such a revelation to readers.
Burnett and his cast tap depths of mystery, soulfulness, and glee.
