The top, to soothe the agony of labour via his own multiplatinum brand of mellifluous melancholy?
The phrasing in "White Egrets" has a mellifluous, rhapsodic quality throughout, hymning the beauty of the earth even as it recognises the precious fragility both of what it sees, and of the recording eye itself.
Indian promoters hoped that, by filling a few rooms with speakers of mellifluous English, and by hooking them up to a bit of bandwidth, they could scoop up business from the American mid-west, from Ireland and from other call-centre clusters in rich countries.
The more mellifluous the singer, the more dexterous the harpist, the more mates he attracts.In this section Messengers in the modern world Why music?
His enthusiasm for saving children in Darfur as well as fetuses in Kansas makes his social conservatism more acceptable to moderates (so does his mellifluous manner).The bigger problem is that his compassionate foreign policy comes across as hopelessly naive.
As secretary to the cabinet, the mellifluous Mr Muthaura may well be the closest adviser to President Mwai Kibaki, a Kikuyu.
It was a poem inspired less by a particular pharaoh with a mellifluous name, than by ruins, and the lessons they could teach mankind.
"I think," offered Mr Clarke, in his mellifluous rumble, "I'll have a gin-and-tonic".Why break the habit of a lifetime?
Other adjectives recur too, such as mellifluous and laconic.
Ismail Haniyeh, Gaza's Hamas prime minister, normally a mellifluous speaker, has begun to read from prepared speeches.
COMPANIES that do a lot of business on the telephone are in constant search of the perfect accent one that is mellifluous, friendly and makes you feel like reciting your credit-card number.
