In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
- Soft voices whisper place names and dates, invoking memory and history just as the choreography suggests the euphony of physical connections, of reasons for momentum and impetus.
- It's been a long time since a politician offered such euphoria over euphony in political commentary.
- One of the big joys of this production, after the divine euphony of Kremer's sound, is the return to the eleven-instrument orchestration of Piazzolla's original score.
- How much steam-piston euphony survived the voyage from Australia is vague, since Englishmen regularly mispronounced the town to rhyme with ‘stagger’.
- That hands-on style brought an integrity and euphony to the lifetime written record of his creative, illuminating and vivifying mind.
- It still fulfilled prescribed ecclesiastical functions, but its euphony and its expressive power showed the way toward artistic autonomy.
- These bizarre screeching sounds turn into horn samples, which, though they never quite resolve themselves, manage to work up an atmosphere of a nauseated euphony.
- While the advent of TV may have eclipsed the romance of radio, as he puts it, much of the sheen and euphony one used to note and hear in yester-year's music is regretfully found absent in the present-day menu.
- A man who wrote wondrously for the ear was surely not seduced by the euphony of her name, but they fell in love and she stuck to him over the years through many a scrape.
- I would listen to the euphonies of life and the sobriety of earth beleaguering me.
- This encompasses random and fairly meaningless collections of words which have a certain euphony.
- He employs a wide variety of tonal registers and often emphasizes dissonance or euphony in particular verses by varying the intensity of speed and volume while reading.
- Actually, my aunt had done nothing of the sort, but I like the substance as well as the euphony; it has verisimilitude, doesn't it?
- One doubts, nevertheless, whether a newly elected pontiff would weigh the relative euphony that a name might command in various languages.
- Greenfield's self-making depends neither on euphonies nor on arguments, but on a counterpoint of sentences, a music of grammar (as in, for example, Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns).
- ‘Americanism’, incidentally, is one of my least favourite words: not for the meaning, the concept is marvelous, but for its lack of euphony.
- The mosque, however, continues to be used by Muslims, adding to the beautiful euphony of sounds that echo daily as the faithful are called to prayer.
- In a musical climate where beauty is often disregarded or located in asymmetrical euphony, bands like Kepler are clinging to an older and more concrete conception of beauty - one that hinges on order, balance, and tradition.
- The eclectic mix of trance, tabla and the violin euphony left the raving party animals craving for more.
- Let us leave the sweet euphony of Bangla to our poets, and the salvation-enhancement of Sanskrit to our priests.
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