What chiefly lives in it are certain poignant phrases, certain eloquent bars, a glowing, winey bit of color here, a velvety phrase for the oboe or the clarinet, a sharp, brassy, pricking horn-call, a dreamy, wandering melody for the voice there. Reading him somehow suggests hearing a Bach mass rescored for two fifes, a tambourine in B, a wind machine, two tenor harps, a contrabass oboe, two banjos, eight tubas and the usual clergy and strings. The main features of the planning were long, northerly outward and return routes over Denmark and the Baltic which would be well away from most of the German night-fighter bases but would also reduce the bomb tonnage carried by the raiding force, and raids by Oboe Mosquitoes on four of the most important night-fighter airfields in Holland, this support being provided for the first time. The retinue of Croton swelled from hour to hour until it formed a long double line that wound its way through the camp, at first to the sound of oboes and kettledrums only, but then a sort of choric chanting was developed, certain phrases were shouted loudly and repeatedly.īut more probably it was one of the older reed instruments of the oboe family, the pommer or possibly a schalmei.īesides the gallant Ahab, the three companions sat puffing on the bow, Jonathan tut-tutting over the loss of the oboe gun. The kanoon and oud, both string instruments, combined with drums, violin, and the wooden claves to add depth, while the alternately feminine high and masculine low tones of the oboe provided a decidedly sexual connotation. Send us feedback.The swell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional, aeoline, stopped diapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique, flageolet, cornet-3 ranks, 183,-cornopean, oboe, vox humana-61 pipes each. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sonorous.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022 Yet stylistic flourishes like jagged sound editing and sonorous musical composition coupled with repetitive clips of interviews with Kamen end up corporatizing parts of More Than Robots. 2022 Doing so rewards you with a sonorous sound from the staggered quad pipe exhaust, and a freight train-like acceleration. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2021 Their speech moves rhythmically - a sonorous medley. Howard Walker, Robb Report, 8 June 2022 For much of his life, Archbishop Tutu was a spellbinding preacher, his voice by turns sonorous and high-pitched. 2021 Synthetic recordings drown out some of the engine's sonorous notes, and the exhaust is a bit quiet, which further separates car from driver.Ĭlifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 28 July 2022 This is one of the world’s great engines-silky-smooth, eager to rev, properly potent with its 479 ft lbs of torque and truly sonorous in its soundtrack.
Senate Chaplain Barry Black closed out the session with a prayer in his sonorous tones.ĬBS News, 7 Jan. 2022 Vice President Mike Pence completed his duties and announced Mr. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. Recent Examples on the Web And Baird, with his sonorous voice and ability to melt into his characters, oozes world-weariness as the melancholy fool, Jaques.
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