euphony
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Finally, our group out here settled on Federalist Society as a name, which I suppose makes up in euphony what it lacks in accuracy.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2021
The euphony in Obama’s campaign speeches, alternately fiery and soothing, changed to the melody of authority once he was in office.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2020
Listen to how the music unfolds: passages that slyly verge on atonality are linked like gossamer chains to hinge moments of pure tonal euphony, each expressing a clear dramatic point.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 28, 2019
He was richly alive to cadence and euphony.
From Economist ● May 23, 2018
This inversion of euphony, this violation of beauty, would in ancient Greece have been punished by the state with penal sanctions.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
But to Meredith the euphonies of France were not strange.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
The souls from different parts of the earth recognize each other and converse in human language, but, unless practiced, it is forgotten and our euphonies take its place.
From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by Gratacap, L. P.
And the city?—Oh, my dear, my dear, I never expected to encounter anything so much out of key with the essential euphonies.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
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