The lofty towers of Gothic architecture led to much larger, more resonant bells and gave rise to an archaic version of the present campaniform bell: tulip-shaped with a narrow, rounded top; a long, straight waist spreading outward at the bottom; and a flared mouth, or sound bow.
Lower formants and formant dispersion give a more "resonant" quality to the voice.
In Clowes's capable hands, escapist iconography is given new and more resonant life, and The Death Ray reads as a cautionary parable and an acidic rumination on the travails of adolescence.
The two probes started off as "GRAIL A" and "GRAIL B", but were renamed by a class of schoolchildren in Bozeman, Montana, who thus won a competition run by America's space agency to give the craft more resonant monikers than the original.Sadly, Ebb and Flow are no more.
The sounds of the cheap drum machine and keyboard Beach House used when it emerged in 2004 imperceptibly give way to the richer, more resonant tones it embraces on its 2010 album, "Teen Dream" (Sub Pop).
It is relevant and perhaps even more resonant nearly a decade after I first read it, given Europe's current immigration crisis.
The timing could not have been more resonant, the day of the vote for secession from the European Union.
At its worst (rare) it allows banal speech to be sacredly intoned across the music; at its best (often) it gives 21st-century domestic desolation a new, more resonant voice.
That argument has grown more resonant as Turkey's membership negotiations have stalled.
Windsor, which was seen as the quieter companion case, may have had the louder, more resonant voice all along.
