resonance
Example Sentences
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If Summers’ “sacrosanct rule” was meant to sound sinister a decade ago, it carries considerably darker resonance today.
From Salon
The song had a particular resonance for Ms. Butler and something clicked: “We can make of this world what we want,” she said.
From New York Times
“What are the limitations that those bodies hold that may have a different resonance, a different visual narrative?”
From New York Times
With sparse dialogue, much of the film’s emotional resonance comes in its quiet moments and what remains unsaid.
From Los Angeles Times
It said the name Kaliningrad was unrelated to either the city or the region and had an "emotional and negative" resonance in Poland.
From BBC
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