Sentence examples for sonorous quality from inspiring English sources

Bell metal, characterized by its sonorous quality when struck, is a bronze with a high tin content of 20 25 percent.

As a poet Clanchy knows the power of a tightly spun line and her prose has the same structured, sonorous quality found in her award-winning poems and radio plays.

Actors have to be heard and their voice may therefore develop a sonorous quality that they can't quite get rid of, so you think actors are as pompous as their voice is large.

Azaria, who has won awards for his work on "The Simpsons" (he voices a number of other characters in addition to Apu), once told an interviewer that he felt there was a sonorous quality to Apu's voice the uplifting singsong of his piecemeal English, if you will.

The voice of ravens is also quite distinct, its usual call being a deep croak of a much more sonorous quality than a crow's call.

The intrinsic musical and sonorous qualities of patterned verse seem to have a kind of instinctual appeal to the child's ear, as to the adult writing for or reading to that child.

The noun resonance and the adjective resonant first made the semantic trip from sonorous acoustic qualities to more metaphorical vibrations, suggesting a person's sympathetic response to something — "striking a chord," to use another musical figure of speech.

What distinguishes the MacDonald is the "very sonorous," "very vibrant" quality of its melodies, as well as its ability to project a clear, strong song.

Dylan seizes on the devotional qualities with sonorous enthusiasm, recalling Leonard Cohen.

The voice itself is of fine quality, colorful and sonorous, though not big enough at present for Siegfried or Tristan".

The voice appeared to have a peculiarly sonorous and ringing tone.