euphony
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Finally, our group out here settled on Federalist Society as a name, which I suppose makes up in euphony what it lacks in accuracy.
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2021
Listen to how the music unfolds: passages that slyly verge on atonality are linked like gossamer chains to hinge moments of pure tonal euphony, each expressing a clear dramatic point.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2019
He was richly alive to cadence and euphony.
From Economist • May 23, 2018
Instead of a polite Cambridge-style euphony and mellifluousness, I was striving for vibrant colours, drama, vigour and passion: the elements I thought were the hallmarks of Monteverdi's musical style.
From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2010
This inversion of euphony, this violation of beauty, would in ancient Greece have been punished by the state with penal sanctions.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
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