Remember the sonority hierarchy: fricative approximant vowel. From Wordnik.com. [Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f'] Reference
Bright beams thrummed with the sonority of massed muffled trumpets. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
The sonority brought forth a glow, one familiar to Jon-Tom and his companions. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
The ear of a listener tires sooner of extreme sonority than of any other effect. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
This particular example is not chosen for its sonority, though it appears to be. From Wordnik.com. [Shadows of Ecstasy, by Charles Williams « Unknowing] Reference
"Splendid quality of tonal sonority in the shape ... but rather thick legs, perhaps.". From Wordnik.com. [Modesty Blaise]
Their sweet and penetrating voices had an exquisite sonority in that profound silence. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
One might also suspect that some phonemes were altered to fit better with sonority hierarchy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
I like to blend with other musicians and to hear the sonority of different instruments together. From Wordnik.com. [Big and Small Sounds from Anat Cohen] Reference
And then the pictured dwelling lacks the fragile look and its sonority, that reminds one of a dry violin. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It discusses the concept of 'semisyllables' to account for what only appear to be violations of sonority hierarchy. From Wordnik.com. [Pre-IE Syncope has an easter-egg surprise for you] Reference
I just - I prefer the sonority of the piano and the range of sounds, the possibilities, the different kinds of touches. From Wordnik.com. [Simone Dinnerstein: Variations on a Career] Reference
Musically, I'm now opting to develop a distinctive 'feel' or overall sonority that is more carefully paced and arranged. From Wordnik.com. [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference
And I've learned that "acoustic sonority" isn't the only thing in life — "extensive vamping" is pretty wonderful, too. From Wordnik.com. [Tune-Deaf Scott Brown Opens Pandora's Jukebox] Reference
Each language, he maintained, has utilitarian communication as its function, and harmony and sonority are only secondary. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Barcelo also boasted an elephantine memory allied to a pedantry that matched his demeanour and the sonority of his voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Wind]
Vitellius noticed that one of these was larger than the others, and that when struck by his foot it had not their sonority. From Wordnik.com. [Herodias] Reference
The duo's music moves and warms us through its unique blend of the cello's sonority and the kora's harp-like ringing tones. From Wordnik.com. [Warm Up to a Meeting of Two Classical Minds] Reference
In its sheer sonority music is said to absolve us from the inchoate, rough-and-tumble world of conflicting representations. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant,] Reference
By an additional exertion of physical force, the singer usually attempts to conceal its loss of sonority and carrying-power. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
He returned to Bombay a complete wreck, with shrunken, tottering frame, sunken eyes, and a voice that had lost its sonority. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
(This is how one can produce a beautiful sound on a piano which may seem at first to give a sonority that is intractably ugly.). From Wordnik.com. ['Playing the Piano'] Reference
(Soundbite of song, "El Majo Olvidado") HANSEN: When a good viola is just in command, you can hear the instrument's rich tone and warm sonority. From Wordnik.com. [Kashkashian Finds Her Voice in the Viola] Reference
When Lauren killed the engine and popped open the cabin door, Flinx was assailed by a powerful odor and the steady sonority of the herd's breathing. From Wordnik.com. [For Love of Mother-Not]
The lush, string-centric sound that Stokowski and Ormandy cultivated in Philadelphia for decades has been replaced by a leaner, more protean sonority. From Wordnik.com. [In performance: The Philadelphia Orchestra] Reference
No matter how great the natural beauty and sonority of his voice, his performance will always be monotonous, if he has only one tint on his vocal palette. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
The supernatural comprises the general colour and accent — that is to say, the intensity, sonority, limpidity, vibrancy, depth and reverberation in Space and. From Wordnik.com. [Intimate Journals] Reference
He meant it to be a partner and he meant its unique combination of percussiveness and characteristic sonority to contrast intensely with the sound of the violin. From Wordnik.com. [In performance: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields] Reference
The same energy shone in his eyes, the same sonority rang in his voice, which had become slightly more brusque and authoritative from his long-continued habit of command. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Of the musicians, he said, "They are pulling back, holding back, not developing melodic lines, ignoring tonality, sonority, and I'm fleshing it out to add a melodic vocal line.". From Wordnik.com. [In a Sylvian Groove] Reference
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