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

In his Tractate on Education addressed to Mr. Hartlib, he recommends that boys should be instructed in the Italian pronunciation of vowel sounds, in order to give sonorousness and dignity to elocution.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

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 Morley, John

The ladies praised his voice and the music, but were more struck with the softness and sonorousness of the Russian language and asked for a translation of the text.

From The Torrents of Spring by Garnett, Constance

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