mellifluousness

The common mellifluousness of spring's new growth is long gone.

The lifting mellifluousness fell from his tongue as a song in Anna's ears, although she did not know what he said.

In contrast, the Greek-choruslike monologues are delivered with classical theatrical mellifluousness.

Such commonplace afflictions as throat-clogging congestion and a running nose do battle with Barry's mellifluousness.

Rasakallola has a distinct place in Oriya literature for its sheer poetic excellence and mellifluousness.

Since Narraboth kills himself before 100 pages of orchestral score have gone by, Mr. Rosenshein's lack of mellifluousness was not really damaging to the evening.

Though her French accent was so much part of her that it remained, all the mellifluousness of her manner left her when she was engaged in teaching.

The mellifluousness associated with an education from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London may be music to the ears of many theatergoing Americans.

Then go back to the novels and what might too readily have registered as sweet mellifluousness, lacking (as Shields writes of Daisy's voice) "a tragic register," will ring a little differently.

Yet here, it has the inexorable logic of a dream, a feeling subliminally enforced by Shaun Davey's music, which shades seamlessly among eerie dissonance, bright music-hall strains and stirring mellifluousness.

The Sances "Cantada Sopra la Ciaccona" was utterly charming, as much in Eliot Fisk's solo excursion as in Ms. Baird's mellifluousness.

The other new works are Randall Woolf's "White Heat" and the Piano Concerto No. 1 by George Perle, master of 12-tone mellifluousness, with Michael Boriskin the soloist.

A tall and elegant man with a mellifluousness inherited from his thespian parents, he went about his work with modesty and gentlemanliness, no mean feat in the cloistered, egocentric world of the judiciary.

And at the start of the third he gave a magnificent performance of his big aria, keeping his tone severe but moving his voice with certainty and ease to achieve a kind of stony mellifluousness.

His Romeo pours on the poetry as if it were molasses, delivering his share of the balcony scene with the fake intimacy and droning mellifluousness of a narcissistic late-night disk jockey on an easy-listening station.

Whether one spoke and thought with the sharp granularity of German or the mellifluousness of French - or in some hodgepodge like English - it was impossible to translate the strange new ideas of physics into language.

One hypothesis of how Khariboli came to be described as khari (standing) asserts that it refers to the "stiff and rustic uncouthness" of the dialect compared to the "mellifluousness and soft fluency" of Braj Bhasha.

From the small corner stage, a trio of musicians created sinuous melodies that blended and separated, sometimes harmonically, sometimes discordantly, in what even the unsophisticated ear of Wilf Brim understood must be a unique, totally authentic Haelician mellifluousness.

Though it came under the audible influence of David Bowie and Bryan Ferry during its formative years, his voice today occupies a range of tones so particular in its combination of resonance and mellifluousness that it is unmistakable.

It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in flood."

Inspired by the 1991 case of a village man tried for the sacrificial murder of his young daughter, the work is itself a sort of cultural hybrid, adapting tribal traditions of sung storytelling with a largely English libretto and a silken mellifluousness sure to please Western ears.

Thomas Gibson, a fine-featured young actor with high cheekbones and an aristocratic vocal mellifluousness, at first plays the heir apparent as a puckish country-club idler who goes slumming with Falstaff much as a present-day Prince of Wales might drop in at a Mayfair disco.