Which has been my problem all night: unmelodic songs!. From Wordnik.com. ["American Idol" -- It Came From the Nineties.] Reference
She had an unmelodic name—Nina Goldblatt—and she was a professional dancer. From Wordnik.com. [Born Standing Up] Reference
A small chorus of same continued to moan the same unmelodic drone they'd sung since the water-pouring had begun. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
Celine Dion was terrified of bears, but, to be fair, the bears were terrified of her horse-like face and unmelodic screeching, and so nothing came of the plan. From Wordnik.com. [The Singing Bears Of Madawaska] Reference
The song is constructed by re- recording the rhymeless dialogue of Thatcher and Burke with singing, albeit unmelodic voices; the result is akin to an operetta. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-22] Reference
At a signal from Ululiapa the female crescent began to snake and wend - its way back toward the edge of the clearing, accompanied by an unmelodic but rhythmic drone from the musicians. From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Stones]
“My brother Caepio would have come,” said young Cato in his harsh and unmelodic voice, “except that he's out of Rome with Catulus's army-a contubernalis, if you know that term.”. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
His songs are both undramatic (most of them are cabaret-style specialty numbers that stop the action dead in the water) and unmelodic (the tunes are reminiscent of Mel Brooks on an off day). From Wordnik.com. [Into the Woods Once Again] Reference
"Fork in the Road" is grinding, unmelodic and, as some of the lyrics show, angry. From Wordnik.com. [BMI Headlines] Reference
Like Meshuggah, the work well with the dissonant and unmelodic riffs of the music. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
At times, there have been unmelodic sounds to accompany their regular line up, including educational or health programmes. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
But one's so warm, inviting and genuinely left-field, whilst I feel the other one is just cold, passionless, unmelodic and boring. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Mr. Paul, a soloist at the Opera, didn't make life easy for himself by choosing a selection of rigorously unmelodic, rhythmically thorny music by Ligeti. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
These verses must be treated musically in a certain arbitrary manner, and that arbitrary manner, as it does not bring about a real flow of melody, leads us to harmonic excesses and violent efforts to produce artificial wavelets in the unmelodic fountain. From Wordnik.com. [Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt]
Having read various Citizen letters for and against the new CBC Radio 2, I can only add that as this is being used to allow us to hear more Canadian artists, then someone should tell these people that boring, adenoidal, unmelodic whining does not make for pleasant listening. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
He sang in a soft, unmelodic tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
It's whiny, and at times, unmelodic. From Wordnik.com. [Tara Dublin: Ten Songs Radio Never Should Play Again] Reference
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