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

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

From time to time there were church-bells, variously like tin pans and iron pots in tone, without sonorousness in their noise, or such wild clangor as some Italian church-bells have.

From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean

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

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