cadence

How To Use cadence In A Sentence

• He also seems to write with little concern for cadence, leaving himself stumbling over excess syllables and quixotically stuffing verbal square pegs into musical round holes when it comes time to sing.
• The four stresses of the Anglo-Saxon verse are retained, and as much thesis and anacrusis is allowed as is consistent with a regular cadence. Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
• For all their - almost - excess of expression, the lines are cadenced and paid out in a sort of listening rhythm, a very personal, measured gather and tumble of polysyllables, after the unhearing jack-hammer blast of the early poems.
• They have filthy rich players with a distinct air of decadence about them. Times, Sunday Times
• But the lack of substance ultimately adds to the mood: flamboyant unconcern underlined by apocalyptic decadence.
• And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
• Pay attention to the pause at the end of each cadence.
• The full force of the chromatic harmony was thrilling, as in such details as the cellos' dissonant flattened 6th just before the final cadence.
• Descending downstairs feels like entering a 1970s vision of decadence – all red and gold sequinned drapes, geometric railings and carpeted walls. 10 of the best music venues in London
• The true augmented sixth and the true cadence gain in significance as a contradiction to the false cadencing around the mediant.