Angela has a such orotund voice for her age. From LearnThat.org.
orotund tones. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"Very well, then," he said in a stately, orotund tone. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
I know you enjoy orotund grandiloquence and righteous insult. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
A note of exasperation had crept into Tisander's orotund voice. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
Gloha felt her mouth forming an orotund little O. "Oh," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
But Henry, even in white tie, rotund and orotund, always had a twinkle in his eye. From Wordnik.com. [American Sketches] Reference
"The invasion was that of a common ordinary thief," he proclaimed, in orotund tones. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
Hakim seemed to be a big fan of orotund flourishes, and Rossmiller happily indulged him. From Wordnik.com. [Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist] Reference
Though famed for rescuing burnt beef Wellington with orotund cheeriness, Child was at a loss. From Wordnik.com. [Crash Course] Reference
Walcott lingers over his language like a lover; he employs orotund, mellifluously spun lines. From Wordnik.com. [Three Poets] Reference
With the orotund, as well as with the natural quality, all the voice modes previously described may be conjoined. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
But when he talked about assassination plots, he became very orotund and he became, in his words, circumlocutious. From Wordnik.com. [The Very Best MenFour Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA] Reference
Mr. Steel says that the Democrats had "gone down to defeat three times in a row with the orotund Bryan as their candidate.". From Wordnik.com. ['Mr. Fixit'] Reference
Not only are they fuzzy, tinny and hard to follow, but the VOICES all sound the same: baritone, orotund, nasal, self-assured. From Wordnik.com. [Ring them bells] Reference
Expectations have fallen so far that even Obama's pedestrian, orotund oratory is compared - with a straight face - to Churchill. From Wordnik.com. [Which MSNBC character muttered "Oh, God" contemptuously as Bobby Jindal sauntered out to speak last night?] Reference
Select appropriate passages in "The Raven" (p. 258) for exercise in natural, orotund, aspirate, guttural, and pectoral qualities. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
At its best, his tone is unruffled, meditative, intelligent, yet sometimes it does grow gravely august, both orotund and oracular. From Wordnik.com. [Spellbound] Reference
Cameras and crowds respond to him because he comes fully to life before an audience, his low growl blossoming into an orotund baritone. From Wordnik.com. [Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench] Reference
He forced me into whenever I would start getting rococo and orotund and pontifical he sort of brought me down with very gentle questions. From Wordnik.com. [Mad Dreams, Saving Graces Poland: A Nation in Conspiracy] Reference
It may, of course, vary in pitch, but tones of low pitch that are intended to be impressive are most suitably rendered in orotund quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Ms. Paltrow is an orotund, gormless, cungly simpleton. From Wordnik.com. [The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories] Reference
Rome, with all the orotund airs and none of the craft. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
To match a short vowel to an orotund concert note for two beats and a. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference
Russell's words, or indeed to the words of any of those orotund advocates. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Again] Reference
Under the cloak of a theatrical presence and a large orotund manner, and behind a. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Then he turned and pointed, no longer the orotund zealot but the expectant captain now. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
Perhaps the orotund soul-wamblings of Coleridge are recarnate in him, Scawfell become Mount Tom. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
Hundreds of times, he uses question-begging locutions that intimidate with their orotund grandeur. From Wordnik.com. [City Journal] Reference
And just then a sonorous voice, magnificent, orotund, began suddenly from the chancel with the words. From Wordnik.com. [The Pit] Reference
His voice, soft and gentle when he began, swelled out, as he spoke, into something of the orator's orotund. From Wordnik.com. [Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain] Reference
District superintendent Christopher W. McGinley, in an orotund statement, defends the program while canceling it. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
I had mentioned that magnificently orotund Shakespearian actor-manager of the mid-20th-century, Sir Donald Wolfit. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
The following example requires the union of declamatory force, low pitch, slow rate, monotone, and orotund quality. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
I assumed an exaggerated imitation of Dromanus 'most grandiloquent manner and in his orotund unctuous delivery I declaimed. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
The age, moreover, was an eloquent, not to say a rhetorical age; and the influence of Johnson's orotund prose, of the declamatory. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
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