Sentence examples for dignified sound from inspiring English sources

(Chinen) ★ Benny Golson Quartet (Friday and Saturday) The tenor saxophonist Benny Golson is celebrated in jazz culture for a number of things: his smartly sturdy compositions; his gruff but dignified sound; his voluminous, loquacious wit.

Mr. Anderson is known for helping to codify Nashville's 1960s dignified sound, but these songs show the steps he took to get there, and the slightly overarticulated singing he brought along the way.

(Chinen) ★ Benny Golson Quartet (Thursday through Feb. 12) The tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, who recently turned 83, is celebrated in jazz culture for a number of things: his smartly sturdy compositions; his gruff but dignified sound; his voluminous, loquacious wit.

December   BENNY GOLSON QUARTET The tenor saxophonist Benny Golson is celebrated in jazz culture for a number of things: his smartly sturdy compositions; his gruff but dignified sound; his voluminous, loquacious wit.

It sounds dignified, but it is also sad, and feeble, and shocking.

They've got a new album out by now, but the highlight again comes from You Forgot It In People: a version of the ballad Lover's Spit that is bruised and beautiful, the sound of dignified sadness; it sounds like the best song ever written, and for days afterwards I listen to the version on their odds-and-sods compilation Bee Hives on repeat.

Or a detective story, if that sounds more dignified.

Others call it "the classical humanist tradition," which sounds more dignified.

Maria Freeman was a Countess of dignified bearing and occasionally inconstant sound.

Ismail Haniyeh, the deposed Hamas prime minister – in hiding from Israeli air strikes – sounded confident and dignified when he broadcast a message on new year's eve, quoting a Gaza Strip mayor on the Palestinians' stark choice between "slavery or death" as bombs and missiles rained down – and Hamas carried on firing into Israel.

As an obvious example, if we're talking our work history, the sentence "From 2002 to 2006, I worked as a freelance consultant for several personal contacts" sounds much more dignified than "From 2002 to 2006, I did a little freelance work for a couple of guys I know", even though it has almost the same meaning.