: having a soul : possessing soul and feeling—usually used in combination
whole-souled repentance
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebPhillipa Soo’s Cinderella is a gentle-souled, indecisive dreamer — and a pratfalling klutz with a sharp but guileless sense of humor. Naveen Kumar, Variety, 10 July 2022 Kaczynski is an intellectual, however thwarted; a charmer on occasion, and a cold-souled killer who may or may not suffer from paranoid schizophrenia. Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2022 Sweet-souled virtue is always difficult to play convincingly. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2021 The fruit here—plums, blackberries, black currants—is just so generous and sweet-souled, yet with a gorgeous tinge of iron that brings it back down, literally, to earth. Brian Freedman, Forbes, 3 June 2021 The discovery that Graham, a large, cheerful, broad-souled man, had a very recent affair curdles Annie’s grief. Pamela Miller, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020 There’s a tough-guy Ukrainian adoptee named Mischa (Michael Hanna) and Ricky (Jordan M. Leggett) a sensitive-souled boy with a life-threatening disease. Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2019 While yearning for celebrity, especially on the scale of Jesus or Arnold, might seem small-souled, aspiring to fame was for centuries considered morally superior to yearning for money or power. Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019 And the other is Frank Ocean's Blonde, a great-souled mess: striking and draggy, purposeful and oblique, an integrated repository of hundreds of small ideas, uninterested in winning all the stakes in the old way. Ben Ratliff, Esquire, 2 Dec. 2016 See More