cadences
Example Sentences
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Mr. Levine plays a far gentler and more original character than we’re used to from him; Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Nicky’s mother, Victoria, has long turned her dying cadences into the voice of dread.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
It’s an idea that’s sitting there — they’re so polar opposites and they’re both such good actors that they’ve created characters with such specific quirks and body movement and cadences and things like that.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025
He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.
From Salon • Aug. 30, 2024
In the stentorian 18th-century cadences of historian Edward Gibbon and essayist Samuel Johnson, he painted a heroic portrait of that nation of shopkeepers and saw Britain’s current troubles in light of its glorious past.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024
Some marched in formation, easily falling back into old cadences.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
