mellifluously

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Joyce’s words rang out mellifluously at the start of the production, but as the main characters emerged from the reading, some of the musicality of the writing was lost.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

And of course there’s that mellifluously catchy vocal hook, reworked from Mtume’s original by the then-unknown R&B group Total.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2018

Those who were there on Wednesday were rewarded with a lively and often lovely program around the theme “U.K. meets U.S.,” symbolic of the new relationship unfolding mellifluously onstage.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2017

So they imported an Italian architect, the mellifluously named Celestial Sacardim, to build an opera house.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2016

And even where something appears merely decorative—a run of alliteration or a mellifluously turned sentence—it serves to commend the speech more easily to memory, and to give pleasure to the audience.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith