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After a description of the hotel's interior, Gautier arrives in a room where "several human shapes were stirring about a table, and as soon as the light reached me and I was recognised, a vigorous shout shook the sonorous depths of the ancient edifice.
Apart from his decadent jaw, Nighy's most distinctive quality is his voice: sonorous , soft and slightly nasal.
A veteran of this role, which he will also sing at La Scala in December, Mr Mattei offered a confident performance and sang with a sonorous voice on Monday night but lacked an essential magnetism and seductive charm.
And as for those journalists: "They were elbowing people out of the way, smoking in a non-smoking school...and taking chairs meant for the children".Philistines of the weekThe Tories' sonorous campaign song, "Heartlands"—whose composer is best known for writing the theme tune to "The Wombles"—has not been well-received.
Churchmen from across the Arab world, many with long and sonorous titles dating back to the dawn of the Christian era, recalled their co-religionists' huge contribution to the ancient and modern history of the countries where they live, and their reasonable demand to be treated as full citizens rather than members of a barely tolerated minority.
At times it is visibly being strained for: at Ferndale, in northern California, the land of the redwoods, lies Knud Hansen, laid to rest there in 1904,...a Woodman of the World a sonorous phrase of no obvious meaning whatever.
THE question of what exactly inspires ultra-militant Muslims to hate America has been a contentious one, to put it mildly, ever since George Bush gave his own sonorous explanation, in an address to Congress after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Journalists, and the general public, were less sceptical of government back then; but this young man's copy, soon turned into books, started an erosion of trust that has only gathered pace since.He took his job seriously: so seriously that, with his professor's glasses and a voice as sonorous as gravel shifting underground, he seemed like a shaman of the trade.
The convoluted impeachment procedures, which to Indonesia's credit were scrupulously followed, date back to 1978 and have never before been challenged.What Mr Wahid failed to appreciate was that, despite his sonorous titles of president and head of state, Indonesia's system was designed not as a true presidential arrangement but as something much closer to a parliamentary one.
In a welcome speech to his fellow hierarchs, Patriarch Bartholomew I made a plea in sonorous quasi-classical Greek which echoes the sentiments of many Western Christian leaders.
After more than two years' work, the panel has issued a call to arms with a sonorous title: "Closing the gap in a generation".Which gap, exactly?
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The adjective "sonorous" primarily functions as a modifier describing nouns that produce sound. As indicated by Ludwig AI, it denotes sounds that are deep, full, and resonant, contributing to a vivid sensory description.
Expression frequency: Very common
