The dialogue, which ducks and jabs in cadences distinct to the Italian-American vernacular, spits forth like inchoate poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Hard to Be Seen] Reference
He once said he used 700 word cadences repeted in succession to biuld a dramatic and emotional effect. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
Stewart and Robert Pattinson have begun to murmur in precisely the same cadences, which is to say, with no cadence at all!. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
Ionian cadences floated out from the roofless Odeum. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The rhythm and the cadences they never can command. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
Came cadences from gentle tones, unheard for many a year. From Wordnik.com. [The Liberty Minstrel] Reference
There was to be no cadences to open up his heart to sing. From Wordnik.com. [Knell Quarternion] Reference
Sometimes not people don't take his ideas so much as his cadences. From Wordnik.com. [Rallies And Counter-Rallies Compete For King's Legacy] Reference
Bringhurst writes in perfect cadences and with biblical authority. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst] Reference
Delivered in Obama's exhortatory cadences, the words are uplifting. From Wordnik.com. [A Liberal’s Lament] Reference
Do you not hear the cadences of tenderness in the voice of our Lord?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
Smartphones are wonderful servants but poor masters of Manhattan cadences. From Wordnik.com. [The Infuriating Smartphone Saunter] Reference
The new cadences do more than merely prove that Harris had no ear for blank verse. From Wordnik.com. [The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold] Reference
RAZ: You write about a variety of different styles, sort of cadences, and we have a recording. From Wordnik.com. [Many Black Social Movements Began In The Pulpit] Reference
With one wild carnival of blood and passion came the message in his own plaintive cadences. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
The cadences of her speech seemed to owe something to Palin, too -- cheerful, but slightly barbed. From Wordnik.com. [Christine O'Donnell fights back at Values Voter Summit] Reference
Note the smooth rhythm, the peculiar adaptation of sound to sense, the flowing cadences in the lines. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
In lilting cadences she told me that she had been suffering from bad headaches for the past two weeks. From Wordnik.com. [TECHNOLOGY'S LIMITS] Reference
We could hear them singing soldier songs in parts, with pronounced rhythm and unutterably sad cadences. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
"It talks about love between a man and a woman, yeah," Green says, speaking in slow, measured cadences. From Wordnik.com. [Praise Be To Al Green] Reference
The spring of her music was touched, and all the neighbours grew to listen for the gentle cadences she made. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
They had heard the phrases and cadences before in Kerry's speeches, but also in Al Gore's and Ted Kennedy's. From Wordnik.com. [DOWN TO THE WIRE] Reference
The bay sparkled, and across the dunes the ocean's voice spoke in the deep cadences of a mighty organ's tone. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
He knew that it was not in stately rhyme or measured cadences, that passion finds vent from the human breast. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
They speak in the slightly dazed, cautiously euphoric cadences of plane-wreck survivors on the morning after. From Wordnik.com. [Is Aol Out Of Lines?] Reference
As, with soft cadences, he gave vent to these unlooked-for sentiments, the fashion of his countenance was changed. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Rather, it is something much simpler-sorting socks by color or listening to the soothing cadences of a fairy tale. From Wordnik.com. [How To Build A Baby's Brain] Reference
"A melancholy air, yet with somewhat of a pleasing sadness in its minor cadences," commented Doña Orosia when I had ceased. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
The cadences of Turow's prose, is well as the substance, of his stories are as urban as the sound of a jazz saxophone, at 2 a.m. From Wordnik.com. ['The Tangle Of Egos And Rules'] Reference
Its melting involutions and expiring cadences unwound themselves and floated from her lips like satin ribbon gradually drawn out. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
There are Celtic cadences in Lorient, on the coast of Brittany (Aug. 6-15), with a parade of 3,500 musicians, singers and dancers. From Wordnik.com. [Noteworthy] Reference
The cadences, locutions and pauses in their conversation lend an artificiality to what's meant to be an exchange of great portent. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming With 'Eyes Wide Shut'] Reference
It flashed, and glanced, and ran -- and stumbling over itself, fell upwards, showering back again in shattered cadences and fiery foam. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Her voice was delicious in its way, with a noble and simple style, and a pathetic charm in some of its cadences I never heard surpassed. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Liverpool are looking like a scratch team, put together at the last minute and still trying to understand everyone's rhythms and cadences. From Wordnik.com. [Man Utd v Liverpool - as it happened] Reference
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