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单词 orotund
例句 orotund
By the end, he was rehearsing the same material, pressing “shuffle” on the same orotund playlists, and his work lost much of its consecrating power. Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Charles Jencks Architectural writer Jencks, champion of postmodernism, pursued an openly new age theme in his garden of orotund earthworks and soothing lakes. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z
Modern viewers — those who can sit through the full 2hr.50min. version on DVD — might think of it as an X-rated version of HBO's Rome, with all the orotund airs and none of the craft. Penthouse's Bob Guccione: The Dark Prince of Porn 2010-10-21T08:45:00Z
Regardless of their vast intelligence, Buckley and Vidal performed on ABC not to gratify intellect but to signify it, like the orotund televised spokesman for classical-music highlights. Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z
The more strained our circumstances, the more manic the publicity machine, the more breathless and orotund the advance praise. In ‘Luster,’ a Young Woman Moves in With Her Lover — and His Family 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z
His orotund and irregular creations tower and totter. Nan Goldin, Tony Cragg and Robert Rauschenberg ? the week in art 2011-07-22T12:06:33Z
Lester says Othello's otherness manifests itself most in his speech, which is orotund – Iago calls it bombastic – and self-conscious. Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear: 'Othello and Iago are a bit cracked' 2013-04-10T19:00:00Z
Walt Whitman, while not an especially strong reader, was nonetheless captivated by the idea of a “call in the midst of the crowd,/ My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.” Poetry in Performance in New York 2011-10-06T22:17:39Z
But the extravagance of Tudor self-aggrandizement is almost comical, and it wasn’t limited to the orotund Henry plastering his face onto biblical kings. Perspective | Learning an old lesson from the Tudors: Grifters gonna grift 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z
In the title story, for instance, the narrator combines the orotund diction of a robot with little comets of slang, “super nice,” “killing it,” in a way more manufactured than anything in “Tenth of December.” George Saunders' saintly, disappointing new stories: A tender-hearted takedown 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z
But now the speaker’s orotund oratory, his mannered put-downs, his pompous, practiced, often hilarious jawing will be no more. British Parliament Speaker John Bercow bellows ‘Orrrrder!’ for the last time 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z
The prose style in the three memoirs alters under the pressure of the changing agenda: the first time pained and urgent, the second subtler and more considered, the last orotund and outward. The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z
It is sometimes hard to tell Mr. Trump’s voice from that of Mr. Miller, who suppressed his own orotund speech to capture the president’s more visceral, off-the-cuff style. Stephen Miller Is a ‘True Believer’ Behind Core Trump Policies 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z
The Sénateur speaks in orotund donations—“I will give you a story,” or “Mon vieux, I have been haunted by a dream” —and is always resoundingly theatrical: “The Sénateur’s chortle had progressed to a guffaw.” Imagining Haiti’s Inner Life 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z
When Groucho Marx was once asked a long and orotund question, he replied, "Whom knows?" Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z
After four years of sorting through the cemetery’s archives, the volunteers are accustomed to deciphering fancy handwriting and decoding orotund sentences. City Room: Preserving History, and Uncovering Secrets, at Green-Wood Cemetery 2013-07-04T15:00:20Z
Deep colours, organically orotund spaces, and sinuous wood carvings lead you from room to room as if wandering through an undersea palace. Why Gaudí's birthday deserves its Google doodle celebration 2013-06-25T11:34:50Z
He pitched his orotund voice upon me as if he were giving a command in a gale at sea. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories
Then he heard the wonderful orotund organ of Col. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists
When delivering a passage requiring considerable force, she heightened the pitch of her voice, and thus gave an unpleasant shrillness, where the pure orotund tone was needed. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education
More "clamant" than carmine, vermilion, crimson, Costlier than diamond or ultramarine— A deuce of a theme to chant lyrics or hymns on, Or rummage for orotund "rot," is Ruthene. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893
This full, rich voice is called the orotund: These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name— The prairies. The Ontario High School Reader
"Very well, then," he said in a stately, orotund tone. Supermind
"You will recall the episode of the spy and the abstraction of the papers from the President's office," continued the Secretary of War in orotund and complaisant tones. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond
With the orotund, as well as with the natural quality, all the voice modes previously described may be conjoined. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
His voice, soft and gentle when he began, swelled out, as he spoke, into something of the orator's orotund. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain
Her father was the leader of the Bath Orchestra, and had a School of Oratory where young people agitated the atmosphere in orotund and tremolo and made the ether vibrate in glee. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
The father of Seneca had a school of oratory where rich Roman youths were taught to mouth in orotund and gesticulate in curves. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers
To match a short vowel to an orotund concert note for two beats and a “hold” was impossible. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
With such syllables as häh, you, now, man, war, hail, fool, practise in orotund voice the various exercises for pitch, concrete intervals, waves, stress, etc., previously suggested. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
Mrs. Hallam was sitting in orotund silence, but seemed in good humour. Visionaries
In an orotund voice he declaims to his pupils the mighty revelations that he copied from the book. The Vitalized School
The first of these registers is sometimes called the "orotund" voice from its quality of roundness, and is employed principally in language of reverence, sublimity, and grandeur. Talks on Talking
The author does the public a rather bad turn when he suggests to student speakers that, under stress, they might use what is known as the "orotund." Love Conquers All
In quality, whenever the diction, departing from its simple character, becomes pervaded by some deep emotion, the natural mode will give place to the orotund. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
It rolled over our heads with orotund volume. Children of the Market Place
"The dynasty of the house of Thornton must end to-day!" boomed Niles, in his best orotund. The Ramrodders A Novel
There is a voice of unusual roundness and fulness known as the orotund, which is indispensable to the public speaker. Talks on Talking
Oratory was in the air; elocution was rampant; and to declaim in orotund, and gesticulate in curves, was regarded as the chief end of man. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen
Pure voice is usually spoken of as being manifested in two qualities, the natural and the orotund. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
They ask in orotund, "How could William Morris expect to benefit society at large, when all of the products he manufactured were so high in price that only the rich could buy them?" Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
Always an orotund man, he has the Chautauqua manner indeed in this exigency. The Art of the Moving Picture
The use of the orotund voice varies according to the intensity of the thought and feeling being expressed. Talks on Talking
If the orotund rolls too sonorously in his periods it was an excess in which his age upheld him. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe
It may, of course, vary in pitch, but tones of low pitch that are intended to be impressive are most suitably rendered in orotund quality. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
Everything, the prayers, a short sermon, the firm, orotund voice of the minister, and most of all, beyond any portraying, or suggesting, that audience, deeply impress'd me. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
"Why so?" said the other, "have I such an orotund voice?" Redburn. His First Voyage
When she finally did succeed in getting the ear of the sheriff she was informed in placatory orotund by that official that all her fears were groundless. All-Wool Morrison
The orotund, sonorous, and forceful qualities are perhaps dwelt upon too much, and to have a full voice is frequently the greatest care of the elocutionist. Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System
Then give to this expiration vocality, producing the reverberation far back in the mouth: the resulting utterance is a hoarse exemplification of the orotund. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
Obediently, the fanatic began to mouth Holy Writ in orotund. When Egypt Went Broke
He had one of those great, orotund voices that occasionally roll out of little men, and he read the service with a misjudged effort to fill the building. Stories of a Western Town
"In olden days," he said, orotundly, "Paris awarded the golden apple to the most beautiful." Heart of the West
To be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle, yet in a slower, more orotund fashion. The Congo and Other Poems
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