Mere mellifluousness is enough to cause you to suspend disbelief when a proven slimebag orates?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Jews and Catholics on the Supreme Court?] Reference
His mellifluousness was gone and he spat out the words with mechanical intonation. From Wordnik.com. [When the Bough Breaks] Reference
Eventually Haroun helped restore to his father, Rashid Khalifa. all the garrulity and mellifluousness for which he, in the story, and Mr. Rushdie, in life, are celebrated. From Wordnik.com. [A Return to the Land of Rushdie] Reference
‘I do know,’ said the old gentleman, laying his finger on his nose, with an air of familiarity, most reprehensible, ‘that this is a sacred and enchanted spot, where the most divine charms’ — here he kissed his hand and bowed again — ‘waft mellifluousness over the neighbours’ gardens, and force the fruit and vegetables into premature existence. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
What's lost in this combination of metrical mellifluousness and clunkiness (elbowed dogwise?) is any sense of genuine exasperation. From Wordnik.com. [3quarksdaily] Reference
The two pieces that Buchholz performed are excellent works - a typical march, while the Canzonetta was pastorale-like in its mellifluousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference
In this condition of things it may seem useless to found any claim for Poe on the ground of the exquisite mellifluousness of his versification. From Wordnik.com. [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference
Though her French accent was so much part of her that it remained, all the mellifluousness of her manner left her when she was engaged in teaching. From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
Nothing can be said, for instance, of that fluent journalist and biased historian Macaulay, nor of the mellifluousness of Newman, nor of the vigour of Kingsley or. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge] Reference
Brown has appeared often on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," and given their mutual mellifluousness and Midwestern affinities, they're a natural comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: All Blogs] Reference
Suddenly nervous, I find myself hoping she'll notice those echoes of New England I've been told are rather charming, or the mellifluousness I like to think of as mesmerizing. From Wordnik.com. [Phillies Zone] Reference
Their oriental mellifluousness, hyperbolism, and obsequious politeness of speech have, as well as the Asiatic appearance of their features and dress, been noticed by all travellers in Poland. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like. From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
If when you have read an author you are pleased, without being conscious of aught but his mellifluousness, just conceive what your feelings would be after spending a month's holiday with a merely mellifluous man. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature] Reference
But that speech wasn’t anything beyond “mellifluousness.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Jews and Catholics on the Supreme Court?] Reference
Everybody else just seems to absorb a sense of Obama’s mellifluousness from it, and then gets bored before long, but never holds their boredom against Obama, who seems like such a nice young man. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » “Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”] Reference
"On Sunday, in the morning, we heard Dr. Leifchild, who was then in his prime, and in the evening Mr. Sherman, who preached with all his accustomed persuasiveness and mellifluousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Personal Life of David Livingstone] Reference
“On Sunday, in the morning, we heard Dr. Leifchild, who was then in his prime, and in the evening Mr. Sherman, who preached with all his accustomed persuasiveness and mellifluousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Personal Life Of David Livingstone]
What then? "said Martha, with the tender mellifluousness of sisterly reproach. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
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