A mellowness of light and shade not attainable in marble. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
So far, this Christmas is noteworthy for its mellowness, which is a great good thing, that I'm hoping carries over into 2008. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Lagniappe] Reference
Pari, my holiday wish for you is a day of the kind of mellowness Rae has. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Lagniappe] Reference
I didn't really investigate the town so I don't know much about relative "mellowness". From Wordnik.com. [Mellow,cheap,stops near Matamoros?elsewhere] Reference
But now, in mellowness, I was just ... fine. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Magic Kingdom] Reference
A kind of mellowness now descended on him, a new tolerance with his fellowmen. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
Tisdale turned, and the mellowness stole into his voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
All the same old taunts and snark, but inside: new mellowness!. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs, cartoons, rotting fish, peevish men...] Reference
The mellowness of the butter added a nice richness to the soup. From Wordnik.com. [Tuna Toast] Reference
But that was the last of his mellowness and jolly companionship. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
I love the mellowness of your curry and the colour is beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Murgh Makhani] Reference
Yet his reserve, tempered by age, blended into a genial mellowness. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
Hildegarde had chosen to marry for mellowness, and marry she did…. From Wordnik.com. [Row Three » Read Fitzgerald’s Curious Case of Bejamin Button - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions] Reference
It simply gives temper to the blade, and mellowness to the intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
Hildegarde had chosen to marry for mellowness, and marry she did. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
"You shall," Humfrey said, almost with the illusion of fleeting mellowness. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
But these terms, irritation, mellowness, appeared gross when applied to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrow of Gold] Reference
Moving under the shelter of its mellowness, the two human figures also advanced. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
"A good Benden vintage ... ah, an old one, the wine has a mellowness, a smoothness ...". From Wordnik.com. [Dragon Drums]
Wednesday, the string section performed with a nice unity and sheen, even a kind of mellowness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
The mellowness of a heroin high is appealing, especially after a decade of crack-induced anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Heroin Makes An Ominous Comeback] Reference
It just amazes me that when I come to work all that relaxation and mellowness is sucked right out of me. From Wordnik.com. [marilynnv Diary Entry] Reference
Of all these glycerine is by no means unimportant, as it confers a blandness or mellowness upon the wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
The few windows give a soft light, and the brown of the stone has a mellowness that is both rich and reposeful. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
The sun passed slowly over the western hills, tinging with a beautiful mellowness the clouds along the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
The artist drifts zen like in her mellowness, fingers trailing in the water …. still chuckling about Lincoln bLogs. From Wordnik.com. [How to Ride the River Rapids of the Virtual World] Reference
Wine increases its strength and flavour, and its mildness and mellowness, by age, and the old is therefore preferable. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
Deep within you knew the music would spring forth and engulf you with a sense of mellowness and leave you floating within. From Wordnik.com. [Once There Was A Man] Reference
It was more like a psychic color, the mellowness of the depressant closing him off to her random brushes against his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
The prattling voice charmed him with its delightful mellowness and he went forward gladly to meet Lynda and the new little child. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
The varnish is not so brilliant as that of Giovanni Battista, but possesses a mellowness foreign to the other members of the family. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
Silvertip, and the voice of another, a baritone of startling mellowness and purity, having in it a timbre of youth and recklessness. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
The Golden Swamp Warbler is one of the very handsomest of American birds, being noted for the pureness and mellowness of its plumage. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [May, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
After three or four of them, "a pleasant mellowness steals over you, your imagination glows, you discover humor you never possessed.". From Wordnik.com. [Drinking the Chicago Way] Reference
There is, of course, a chicken-and-egg aspect to all this: are mellow types attracted to tea, or does tea-drinking promote mellowness?. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Henry: Wake up and Smell the Tea] Reference
A is beautiful in it's own way, but there's a mellowness, there's a relaxation that I feel when I hear B, which, we want the listeners. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Vieaux Picks Out a New Guitar] Reference
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