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

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 Caine, Hall, Sir

A new grace invested his every gesture; a new sonorousness rang in his voice; a simple and manly pomposity marked his very walk as he passed from curio to curio.

From Penrod by Tarkington, Booth

The childish and tremulous voice acquired a grave sonorousness as it resounded over the watery expanse and was reproduced by the echoes from the rocks.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances

Contrast of imposing personality of the Minister and sonorousness of his voice with commonplace character of utterance tickled fancy of House, then as now almost childishly eager to be amused.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir