melodious
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“It was so melodious, and I found it different from the music I heard before,” said the 59-year-old retired accountant in Shanghai, who sometimes finds herself humming it randomly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Women wearing long wigs and ornate traditional dresses milled around a pebbled courtyard, stopping to snap photos under a pavilion, as the melodious strumming of the Chinese zither played in the background.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
Writing in the Guardian, Lisa Wright awarded it four stars, praising its "poignant moments", while The Telegraph's Neil McCormick gave it five stars, calling it a "glorious return to his bombastic, melodious 1970s pomp".
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
“The concerts help me to escape whenever the seclusion of working on an album becomes too much,” she says in Spanish that sounds just as melodious as her singing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
Then it rang again, two melodious chimes, and Mrs. Corcoran clicked through from the back of the house and past us without a word or a glance.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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