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 sonorousness of conviction with which Wordsworth sometimes gives utterance to commonplaces of thought and trivialities of sentiment has a ludicrous effect on the profane and even on the faithful in unguarded moments.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
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 John Morley
The silence is as profound as the obscurity—a strange silence that is only broken by the sonorousness of the metallic floor when I move about.
From Facing the Flag by Jules Verne
Flare and sonorousness and a deep vibration of the old massive passions, and through all the outward air a September sea mist creeping.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
