melodious
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Thomas’s youth within a melodious family helped shape his ear for poetry, and the prose of his yuletide memoir also pulses with a pleasing lyricism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Women wearing long wigs and ornate traditional dresses milled around a pebbled courtyard, stopping to snap photos under a pavilion, as the melodious strumming of the Chinese zither played in the background.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
Writing in the Guardian, Lisa Wright awarded it four stars, praising its "poignant moments", while The Telegraph's Neil McCormick gave it five stars, calling it a "glorious return to his bombastic, melodious 1970s pomp".
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
The chorus is just two notes sung over and over again, and not the two most melodious notes in the world.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2024
It was Europa he drew toward, and as she gently touched him, he lowed so musically, no flute could give forth a more melodious sound.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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