Some music is very rhythmical and gentle while other music might be harsh and discordant. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : an excellent rhythmical sense. From Dictionary.com.
The first rhythm falls well within English rhythmical norms a dactyl, whereas a sequence of four unstressed syllables does not. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Three men rose and dipped, rose and dipped, in rhythmical precision; but a red bandanna, wrapped about the head of one, caught and held his eye. From Wordnik.com. [The God of His Fathers] Reference
What the Wagnerite calls rhythmical is what I call, to use a Greek metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.] Reference
As they were intended for prayer and not for singing, they may be called rhythmical prayers (in German Reimgebete). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
It is a kind of rhythmical prose, governed by laws of its own, which it carefully observes. From Wordnik.com. [The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891] Reference
They are in great measure composed of long, irregular lines, with a kind of rhythmical progress rather than rhythm in them. From Wordnik.com. [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference
Stevenson as he stood reading it aloud, with his hand stretched out holding the manuscript, and his body gently swaying as a kind of rhythmical commentary on the story. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference
The rhythmical fullness and poise of his periods are remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
It is the logic of rhythmical equation felt there, almost exclusively. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
They are, when properly presented, rhythmical to the point of perfection. From Wordnik.com. [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference
He waited till Mole's sobs became gradually less stormy and more rhythmical. From Wordnik.com. ['Wind In The Willows': A Christmas Take On A Classic] Reference
His speeches have a freedom and a rhythmical flow which captivate the hearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
They are, doubtless, vestiges of the old rhythmical forms; and we may readily allow that. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
DANCING is the expression of inward feelings by means of rhythmical movements of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Throughout this summer Amir has shown himself to be a brilliant, mature, rhythmical bowler. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan's Sydney Test defeat open to doubt but new charges look clearer] Reference
Is there one who cares for these artists and for their rhythmical gesture more than myself?. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Dreamily, dreamily, sounded the rhythmical music; heavily, so heavily hung the perfume in the air!. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
This rhythmical measure he proceeds to show in Hoccleve, Lydgate, Hawes, Barclay, Skelton, and even. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
I felt myself vibrating painfully to the rhythmical sound of the cicalas which filled the atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But as civilization has advanced dancing has modified its form, becoming more orderly and rhythmical. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Kingsley's "Andromeda" -- it is really a splendid rhythmical piece of hexameter -- and some of his Life. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
The singers and dancers in the center of the great throng began their weird chants and slow rhythmical steps. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
The verse, whether narrative or elegiac, runs in rhythmical periods; the sense is not "concluded in the couplet.". From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
I have heard an Avarian mother chant amid her sobs an improvised but rhythmical lament over the body of her dead child. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
It may or may not have a connection with the stanzas following, but its function is to give them their rhythmical model. From Wordnik.com. [Hymns of the Greek Church Translated with Introduction and Notes] Reference
It is a kind of epic, indeed, like the "Odyssey," only written in rhythmical prose instead of rhythmical verse; but, unlike the. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Swinburne, he has some of his phrase-making skill, and he is free from that rhythmical lilt which in Swinburne was often excessive. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
He dispensed with the photographic attitude toward objectivity and yet at the same time held to the pleasing rhythmical shapes in nature. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
The poet, with his manuscript in his right hand and marking the syllables with a rhythmical movement of his left, was seated between the two sisters. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She stood at the foot of the ladder, and, without further solicitation, intoned, in her clear and sympathetic voice, a popular song, with a rhythmical refrain. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The poet takes advantage of this rhythmical tendency of nature and by using accented syllables at regular intervals compels us to recognize the swing of his lines. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
He shared ideas with Kadri, and he came back and he put it through his own pool of ideas and ended up with this sort of harmonic, melodic, rhythmical, textural music. From Wordnik.com. [Rudresh Mahanthappa: South Asian Jazz] Reference
North and south the mountains fell away in an undulating rhythmical sameness, with no abrupt gorges to break in and destroy the poetry of their scroll against the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Homer's words seem to indicate that the rhythmical motion was not limited to the legs, as in our modern dances, but extended to the upper part of the body and the arms. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The music from the neighboring Casino reached their ears, with the "Yo-ho!" of the boatmen and the footsteps of the dancers like a rhythmical, muffled drumming on the tambourine. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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