Adjective : an excellent rhythmical sense. From Dictionary.com.
Jaques-Dalcroze's pupils learn to improvise with definite thought and meaning, nothing unrhythmical is ever allowed, nor any aimless meandering over the keyboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze] Reference
On the other hand, unrhythmical language is too unlimited; we do not want the limitations of metre, but some limitation we must have, or the effect will be vague and unsatisfactory. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
As we lift the brass cap, we begin to count seconds, -- by a watch, if we are naturally unrhythmical, -- by the pulsations in our souls, if we have an intellectual pendulum and escapement. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
‘unrhythmical’, is equivocal, meaning in the one case not geometry at all, in the other bad geometry?. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
His wing-covers are nevertheless in rapid motion, but are no longer sounding, or at most emit but an unrhythmical rubbing sound. From Wordnik.com. [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference
His own enrolled unrhythmical bardic troops (humorous mercenaries when Celts) do his trumpeting best, and offend not the Pierides. From Wordnik.com. [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference
He must recognize unrhythmical, uncadenced, disjointed, and ejaculatory prose dialogue, with scarcely a lyrical moment in it, as a fit vehicle for music. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
I allow that some of his blank lines may appear unrhythmical; but Experience, especially if she bring with her a knowledge of Dante, will elucidate all their movements. From Wordnik.com. [England's Antiphon]
The last foot of a verse of poetry, then, may have more or fewer syllables than the regular number; still the foot takes up the regular time and cannot be deemed unrhythmical. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
He began merrily, and in no time had us both laughing; I think the first air which he tortured to fit his unrhymed and unrhythmical words belonged once to Mozart, but I am not sure. From Wordnik.com. [We Three] Reference
| the language is unrhythmical; and such, of course, is often |. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
"interpret life" from the material offered by the uninspired unconcentrated unrhythmical "average" moods of the soul is like trying to interpret the play of "Hamlet" from a version out of which every one of Hamlet's own speeches have been carefully removed. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
Now, Moro music is strangely unrhythmical to. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
1815, not in 1821, and it is far more probable that Byron called his hero "Werner," because "Kruitzner" is unrhythmical, or simply because. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
Its unrhythmical first line. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference
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