sonorousness
Example Sentences
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The improvisational emphases and tonality mark the unmistakable voice of Scotland's most important living novelist – trilling with hilarity one moment, plummeting into mock sonorousness the next.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2012
We miss the vivid precision and the high spirits of Voltaire, the glow and the brooding sonorousness of Rousseau, the pomp of Buffon.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
Mr. Watts spoke with enthusiasm of the strength and simplicity, the sonorousness and stately march of these lines; and numbered them, I think, among the noblest verses yet written, for every highest quality of style.
From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Sir Hall Caine
"Allah hath sent me to thee," said the dervish, in a deep, hollow voice, which had lost all its sonorousness.
From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Mór Jókai
He gave it inflections, and distinguished its moods, and threw over it an air of system and coherency, and a certain goodly and far-reaching sonorousness.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron by John Morley
