sonority

Example Sentences

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While it’s quicker and faster than its predecessors, much of the focus seems to be on delivering emotional content rather than stopwatch performance—most obviously, in the presence and sonority of the engine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The arresting analog engineering of the Royce Hall sessions are where you witness the marvelous Mehta Sound — where each sonority has a personality, even a kind of chutzpah.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023

“This silvery, fluty, bell-like sonority that seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at once.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2020

Shorter’s tenor saxophone anchors the three disks with a surreal sonority, a wild cry that comes from the heart of sorrow.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2018

Perhaps he thought it meant sonority or something of the kind; or he connected it with that lovely phrase "tone-poem."

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various