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
The words uttered by the little provincial had an indefinable sonorousness.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
Sound -- N. sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence; sonorousness &c. adj.; audibility; resonance &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
The collecteurs, as well as the smaller sewers of the streets and houses, are constructed of masonry laid in mortar, and they are lined with cement which insures their cleanliness and their sonorousness.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William
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 Morley, John
