That fine melodiousness, which is one of Spenser's signal characteristics, may be perceived in his. From Wordnik.com. [A Biography of Edmund Spenser] Reference
The lack of melodiousness only added to my embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [100th post] Reference
Their music began to lose some of its childlike melodiousness and drive harder. From Wordnik.com. [EVENING’S EMPIRE] Reference
Suddenly the coelura massed together, uttering a trill that was a warning despite its melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Coelura]
I have also seen that quote with the idiots replaced with jackasses, which seems to add to the melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [All at once...] Reference
He does it in a tone of voice that never renounces a penchant for oratory or the melodiousness of a well-constructed phrase. From Wordnik.com. [SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future] Reference
What a wild beauty and fragrance and melodiousness it possessed above all forests, because of that mystery that drew me to it!. From Wordnik.com. [Green Mansions] Reference
In comparison with music, the melodiousness of verse is confused and chaotic; and this condemns to failure any attempt to identify the laws of the two arts. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Like melodiousness shimmering through the folds of a dress, "chaos," now and then, even in Mozart, can be "shimmering through the overlay of order" (Novalis). From Wordnik.com. [A Mozart Player Gives Himself Advice] Reference
He combines a haunting melodiousness with a B. A.M.-savvy visual presentation and vaudevillian comic timing – and, most uniquely in this jaded age, genuine sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Waits Shows Head and Heart in Beautiful New York Show] Reference
It is a poem full of grace and beauty, and of matchless melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Biography of Edmund Spenser] Reference
Voices of people boating on the river floated up too, softened to melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight] Reference
That wind-blown voice of his, with its deepwater melodiousness, had dropped to a whisper. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
With his remembrance of the grim deacon he had doubts as to the melodiousness of HIS utterance. From Wordnik.com. [Openings in the Old Trail] Reference
The former was gifted with the greatest affluence of pure melodiousness ever given to a composer. From Wordnik.com. [The Great German Composers]
The wonder of his poem is that it has a melancholy melodiousness while retaining a tight aphoristic ring. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
Sullivan Smith became aware of a ravishing melodiousness in the soliloquy, as well as a clean resemblance in the simile. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
Further there appeared a couple of Duettists in ordinary evening habiliments, who sang in unison with egregious melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference
Mendelssohn its melodiousness in his "Elijah"; for a balance of good qualities, and for even and sustained inspiration throughout, the. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
But she would not listen to him; she would joke and feign a rough old bogey's voice, to which the echo imparted a raucous melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
It's part of a new, bold melodiousness that is inoculated against the accusation of kitsch or triteness through sheer quality and originality. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
I also loved the melodiousness of Tijuana to Ushuaia and the idea of travelling the length of Latin America between its geographical extremes. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Love, Mercy and Wisdom, who came forward whenever nothing of consequence was transpiring, and sang with the melodiousness of Paradisiacal fowls. From Wordnik.com. [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference
On the whole, that melodiousness in the voice is graceful, I know not how, even in old age; which, indeed, I have not lost, and you see my years. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome] Reference
Likewise, he found a nice balance to the strained lyricism of the slow movement, giving it a dark edge without losing the beautiful melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
This was the beginning and the end of Gounod, for in his other works, while there is much cleverness and melodiousness, there is also much reminder of. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
The seventeenth and eighteenth-century scientists who set the pattern for classical borrowings were not driven by the melodiousness of the two tongues. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3] Reference
He never reconciled himself to the light bow introduced by Paganini, and all his work is distinguished by sweetness, singing quality and a flowing melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
His music occupies a middle ground between the melodiousness of the Italian composers of the early part of the century and the seriousness of later German opera. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
Therefore, even if Moskowszki's compositions are in the lighter forms, their originality and melodiousness make them worthy of ranking high among modern salon pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players] Reference
An unusual melodiousness, these days, (last of April and first of May) from the blackbirds; indeed all sorts of birds, darting, whistling, hopping or perch'd on trees. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
AN UNUSUAL melodiousness, these days, (last of April and first of May) from the blackbirds; indeed all sorts of birds, darting, whistling, hopping or perchd on trees. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Birds and Birds. Specimen Days] Reference
For indeed, despite the ostensible melodiousness and ramshackle charm of a large part of this collection, there is indeed quite a dark and downbeat seam that also runs through it. From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
That clang was followed by a buffet of randomness, which was particularly striking, following as it did on Roden’s near-melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Disquiet » Beyond Laptops] Reference
Italian melodiousness, simplicity and frequency of its vowel sounds, and the comparative ease with which its exemplars can be acquired and spoken by Europeans "(p. 15). From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Moichi could hear its true melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
We have spoken above of the melodiousness of. From Wordnik.com. [Nonsense Books] Reference
But he has plenty, if not profound melodiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
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