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

For this reason, when the floor was especially hard or thick and lacking in sonorousness, she sometimes failed in the expected effect.

From The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters by Davenport, Reuben Briggs

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

Boring the ears with the fingers, chafing the limbs, sneezing with unnecessary sonorousness, and even a too fond and ceaseless caressing of the moustache, are in bad taste.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry

There is also a deliberation in the delivery—a sonorousness in the phraseology—that has something of a bygone day.

From Sketches in the House (1893) by O'Conner, T. P.