How To Use Cadence In A Sentence
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They have filthy rich players with a distinct air of decadence about them.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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But the lack of substance ultimately adds to the mood: flamboyant unconcern underlined by apocalyptic decadence.
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And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
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Pay attention to the pause at the end of each cadence.
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The full force of the chromatic harmony was thrilling, as in such details as the cellos' dissonant flattened 6th just before the final cadence.
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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
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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
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The true augmented sixth and the true cadence gain in significance as a contradiction to the false cadencing around the mediant.
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We could almost hear the cadenced tread of feet.
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Anyone who has any acquaintance with the Bible will know that prophets regularly used strong language when confronted with hypocrisy or decadence.
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My Silesian cousin, who now lives in Germany, told me to use stock instead of boiling water – well, yes, this is tastier, but I consider it western decadence.
Family life
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From everything I have seen of Mr. Mandela, and from the memories I have of meeting him personally on several occasions, Mr. Freeman gets everything right: the walk, the cadences in the voice, the out-front and straight-ahead posture and the inner radiance that connect his thoughts and his words with visible facial computations — many of the qualities that make Mr. Mandela an inspiring leader.
I'm Cheering for Morgan Freeman
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It has the benefit of a modern approach to cadence and syncopated rhythm, yet it feels more authentic and true to the material.
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Degenerate, decadence and emptiness loneliness loss.
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Imitation, sequences, alberti bass and the typical V-I final cadence make this piece a classic.
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Then the inevitable and auspicious slice of baklava, flaky and honeyed, which brings to mind ancient pleasures, Biblical decadence.
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The logical division of every sentence was clarified by musical cadences which interrupted the flow of words.
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But as they struggled to adapt to the modern era, dissolution, decadence and decay set in.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cadence, phrasing, and rhythm of the language is very similar to that found in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in heroic contemporary Anglo-Saxon poetry.
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The evidences for astrologic demonology in ancient Israel, when the nation was affected by Hellenism and Babylonian decadence, are found in the latter part of the "Book of the Secrets of Henoch" -- the "Book of the Course of the Lights of Heaven" -- as also previously in the fourth section which treats of Henoch's wanderings "through the secret the places of the world".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Giovanni Boccaccio, the great 14th century Italian humanist writer offers us a humorous insight into the corruption and decadence of the Church of his day.
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He sold part of the lands, evacuated the old cattle, where the family lived in their decadence as a mouse (said an old farmer) lives under a firlot.
Guy Mannering
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His voice lacks the distinctive cadence for which he would become known, but there's no denying the presence he brings to the part.
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The author constructs a narrative that closely resembles poetry in its cadence, verse structure and imagery.
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In the long run, I'm optimistic that, as mankind, we shall succeed in curing this problem of epidemic, or endemic decadence, which causes these cyclical behaviors in cultures.
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The last word, proclaiming the totemism of things that are ‘good to eat,’ is uttered in a cadence of triumph.
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Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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To his credit, the director establishes a consistent, measured cadence early and sticks to it, while eschewing the most obvious sentimental tricks.
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Its cadences follow the rhythms of machines, and pull the reader into its moments of repetition, into its pauses.
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Heliogabalus, or Elagabalus as he is also called, is indeed a prime example in the category of Roman decadence, along with other notorious emperors such as Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
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The directors shot the film on location in and around New York City, and you can almost smell the decadence and decay.
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Carl is also very sensitive to the syllabic pulse of a poem, and writes in a subtle music that correlates meaning with cadence.
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The country, they say, will inevitably now plunge headlong into decadence.
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The defects which Maty insinuates, “Ces traits saillans, ces figures hardies, ce sacrifice de la regle au sentiment, et de la cadence a la force,” are the faults of the youth, rather than of the stranger: and after the long and laborious exercise of my own language, I am conscious that my French style has been ripened and improved.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
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There is a fluency and effortlessness about her poetry, not just in the cadence, but also in the flow of thought and how a metaphor moves to a conclusion.
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a masculine cadence
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At that point, Timmy got up and started clapping in a slow rhythmic cadence.
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He had fame at his fingertips, only to reject it for a life that lurched from decadence to decay.
Times, Sunday Times
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The poetic rhythms and cadences of the times tables spoken in Japanese make them as easy to commit to memory as a catchy pop song.
Times, Sunday Times
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It doesn't have that luxurious feeling of decadence like having coffee and scones at 3.30 when everyone else is working.
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Her voice was the same, but the cadence and inflection of speech was entirely Karen's.
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The new air does but make old decadences seem more stale; the young soil does but set into fresh conditions the ready-made, the uncostly, the refuse feeling of a race decivilizing.
Essays
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The fact that he, Fletcher, could hear and smell nothing was simply a testament to the decadence of his senses.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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The Marines, rifles on shoulders, marched in, matching the cadence of a distant pile driver.
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They were having a glorious time and their gay voices and gayer laughter echoed up and down the valley, dying away in elfin cadences among the trees.
Rainbow Valley
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But I do recognize forms of degeneracy and decadence, which have been imposed upon human behavior, which some people mistake, for the essential nature of man.
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This is all the more so because the temporal setting of the film is the 1970s, a decade fraught with problems related to moral decadence.
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The phenomenon of decadence is as necessary as any increase and advance of life: one is in no position to abolish it.
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Page was familiar with verse - especially the cadence and rhythm of the nursery rhyme - and with the idea of creating one's own books.
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He takes a live clip of a drum roll and chops it into a stiff, electro-funk cadence.
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The devil makes work for idle hands, particularly in pre-revolutionary France where pampered privilege combined with decadence to create a bloated elite, ripe for plucking.
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The case looks likely to pit a government that is trying to stamp out Western decadence against a pop star renowned for her provocative behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The authors write in a clear, straightforward style, but the strength of their books lies with pacey dialogue that echoes cadences with which children will be familiar from TV and film.
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With its warm and sympathetic heroines and its finely cadenced prose, this collection demonstrates that [Adichie] is keeping faith with her talent and with her country.
The Thing Around Your Neck: Summary and book reviews of The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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The word Crimea, Krym, sounds like “cream”—sumptuous, hedonistic, melting on my tongue, with a sweet aftertaste of decadence and longing.
A Mountain of Crumbs
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If superfood gateaux do not sound like irresistible decadence to you, you may, like me, be more of a bruncher.
Times, Sunday Times
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The goal of conservatism is to defend our civilization from decay and decadence, from a weakening of our principles.
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The word gringo is often said to have originated with invading American soldiers who sang the lyrics from “Green Grow the Rushes, O” in marching cadence, which the Mexicans are supposed to have adapted phonetically.
Gringos in Paradise
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Think of it as the cadence set by the signature in a piece of music.
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We passed a deli and couldn't resist buying a small bag of dried porcini mushrooms to add some decadence to the dish.
Times, Sunday Times
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At first he did not recognize the tune, and then he caught its cadences.
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Busy textures are rich with incident and hidden melody, though final cadences are perhaps abrupt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The text is laced with an ironic cadence of the oral tradition.
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For instance, some observers see the availability of pornographic material on the Internet as partly responsible for many societies' moral decadence.
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He also should constantly be developing an ear for the cadence and inflection of the languages.
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His cadence is great, and his voice is almost charming in a way.
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Its phrases have been on the lips of millions, its cadences the music of English literature.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rolling in wealth, the Church built great edifices and fielded its own armies and sank deeper and deeper into immorality, materialism, and decadence.
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Beam's overdubbed harmonies, delivered in a repetitive cadence, are spooky without being forbidding, bringing Low's early work to mind, if only in pace and tone.
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As an ingredient, it adds decadence to our dairy desserts, a sweet richness to our dairy beverages.
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The earliest method was to derive a contratenor altus from the written discantus by singing the same notes simultaneously at the 4th below, which produced essentially a chain of what would now be called 6-3 chords, varied and punctuated by single 8-5 chords, though with some decorative passing notes and suspensions, particularly at cadences, and on occasion more licentious dissonances.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Whoever has journeyed in a dahabiya up the old river will remember this song of the water-drawers, with its accompaniment, in slow cadence, of creakings of wet wood.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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He is highly gifted at using his voice and finding the rhythms and cadences of a character's speech like few others.
Christianity Today
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Cadence owner Archie Bleyer, however, was not very enthusiastic about the demo of this raw and primitive instrumental.
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During the test, the rider can change gear, and vary their cadence to suit the effort required.
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From one side you hear the solemn notes of the fanfarade from Libuša; a little farther away a very cheery brass band is stirring its audience with a rattling march -- impossible to keep your feet still; then while the brass band pauses for breath and beer the insistent cadence of a dreamy valse floats up to meet you.
From a Terrace in Prague
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Surely this passage is just as cadenced, just as precise and as evocatively creepy as it was when O'Connor wrote it.
December 2009
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The small, delicately outlined figures grouped together in large, unshaded expanses of background space and the subtle colouring create a pleasing sense of lightness and formal balance, but the air of decadence is inescapable.
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The festival also boasts the world premiere of American director Chuck Parello's serial killer movie Hillside Strangler, a true-crime tale of druggy decadence in 70s California.
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Combining streamlined efficiency with abstract decadence, American Art Deco reconciled these societal dualisms.
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He delivered his words in slow, measured cadences.
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'decadence' which has come to its perfection in uncivilised and overcivilised Russia; and the woman whom Ibsen studied as his model was actually half-Russian.
Figures of Several Centuries
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Sacks adds to this the decadence and emptiness of our culture, especially when exported and transmitted by television.
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Each mixes iambs and anapests in a particular way, yet each blends seamlessly with the others and helps to create a perfectly natural cadence.
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Its phrases have been on the lips of millions, its cadences the music of English literature.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quindlen is in classic form, with strong characters and precisely cadenced prose that builds in intensity.
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen: Book summary
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They cluster in the short midday shadows of the coconut grove, where the steamy air softens even the icy cadences of their accents.
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He also discovers a nest of intrigue, decadence and a heathen willingness to murder people very casually if they get in your way.
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But the band began to gel and the unlikely blend of African rhythm, folk fiddle and classical cadences to work its whimsical magic.
Times, Sunday Times
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For Webster's audience, Italy was perceived as a site of political intrigue, economic power, decadence, and moral decay.
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Coming on like a gang of existentialists they glorified degeneracy, nihilism, decadence and alcoholism.
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The final two books should find a captive audience in anyone whose idea of design hell involves magnolia walls and clutter-free surfaces, and in those who crave a return to decorative decadence.
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But they both heard the bittersweet longing within the plagal cadence, and chose their vocabularies accordingly.
Archive 2007-10-01
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The implied connection between ‘cadence’ and falling is most explicitly realized in music where a melodic line descends conclusively to the modal final or tonal tonic.
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Is our current food obsession unhealthy, a sign of decadence even?
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The Observer praised "the sheer delight of his style – that sustained, lucid, precise and subtly cadenced prose that can keep you inside the dynamic thoughts of one of his characters for as many pages as he wants".
Philip Roth: Still fascinated by himself | Observer profile
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Take heart, things are gonna be rough, in many ways over the next decade, the soft and spoiled days of cheap energy are over, decadence is about to implode.
Most Expensive Living Artist - Lucian Freud
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He rode, his legs firing out the familiar high cadence.
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He heard someone speaking Arabic in a familiar cadence; in the distance, a muezzin was calling the dawn prayer.
The Longest War
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As an ingredient, chocolate adds decadence to our dairy desserts.
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The next cadence of the song began and Elizabeth continued her singing quietly.
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When we have gone to sleep with a maddening toothache and are conscious of it only as a little girl whom we attempt, time after time, to pull out of the water, or as a line of Molière which we repeat incessantly to ourselves, it is a great relief to wake up, so that our intelligence can disentangle the idea of toothache from any artificial semblance of heroism or rhythmic cadence.
Swann's Way
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Luxurious decadence is mostly wasted on you, Virgos.
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Busy textures are rich with incident and hidden melody, though final cadences are perhaps abrupt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Modern decadence and moral ambiguity are brought to the fore, with peerless acting by Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
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Mr. Swinburne to those of Mr. Patmore, in which stateliness of contemplation and a peculiar austerity of tenderness find their expression in odes of iambic cadence, the melody of which depends, not in their headlong torrent of sound, but in the cunning variation of catalectic pause.
Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
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Inevitably, I have focused heavily on the cadences of speech.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had not even climbed far into sensual decadence, a different mountain entirely, with play for the playboy tearing his crepe paper heart the inwardly lachrymose and outwardly debonair way that it did, with these bouts of sensing a woman's genitalia as vapid holes being banged as empty drums from inside by a man's stick; these conclusions that sex was just a bored erumpent man banging on any tin trash can in reach for a bit of sound and vibration, and brief moments of total, pellucid understanding called enlightenment as to the absolute absurdity of an instrument of urination being used for intimacy.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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Although her English has improved over the years, she still speaks in Spanish cadences, and her consonants are so soft that every word sounds whispered.
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They have filthy rich players with a distinct air of decadence about them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cadenza, the Italian word for cadence, is the name given to an unaccompanied bravura passage introduced at or near the close of a movement as a brilliant climax, particularly in solo concertos of a virtuoso character where the element of display is prominent.
The Valiant Woman | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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Moreover he writes like a dream, in sentences cadenced like poetry.
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Lincoln fell in love with metaphors and cadences, assonance and alliteration.
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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.
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It's a psychologized style that is in many ways indebted to the work of the filmmaker Ross McElwee, whose self-deprecatingly cadenced voice-overs sound almost like a model for Mr. Block's.
Parental Guidance Is Advised
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This lower-St-Laurent restaurant-bar offers up a night of sheer decadence.
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One's admiration for this haunting and beautifully cadenced lament is likely to increase when we submit it to metrical analysis.
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It is not surprising that one's responsiveness to a single word incurs a suspicion of decadence.
'On Eloquence'
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Dinner here is pure, pure decadence.
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The lines, broken off of the conventional blues verse, are clipped, colloquial, and cadenced.
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In a moment of sheer decadence I eat cheese on toast in bed.
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As a verbal melodist, especially a melodist of sweetness and of stately grace, and as a harmonist of prolonged and complex cadences, he is unsurpassable.
A History of English Literature
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For instance, when Swinburne read her poetry he exclaimed: “I have always thought that nothing more glorious in poetry has ever been written”, and went on to say of her New Year Hymn that it was touched as with the fire and bathed as in the light of sunbeams, tuned as to chords and cadences of refluent sea-music beyond reach of harp and organ, large echoes of the serene and sonorous tides of heaven
The Common Reader, Second Series
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When the age of decadence arrived, people cut rocks from the mountains, hacking out metals and jades.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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I still feel guilt pangs when I think of the decadence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inevitably, I have focused heavily on the cadences of speech.
Times, Sunday Times
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At length the song drops into a closing cadence, and the little woman, clad in beaded deerskin, sits down beside the elder one.
American Indian Stories
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The earlier anti-liberal revolt was marked by an attack on cultural decadence and a demand for a return to religion and order.
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The word drummed in her head, its cadence familiar from long repetition.
Terms Of Surrender
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But he read their blank verse cadences as cadences, and as poets writing within a Protestant tradition who were trying to also revive a mystical tradition.
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The incomparable, incorrigible Sally Bowles had me reaching for the green nail polish - divine decadence, darling.
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This LP is a Best-Of originally released in 1957 (the Archie of the title is Cadence Records head Archie Bleyer, who was married to one of the ladies).
Weekly Mishmash: February 17-23 : Scrubbles.net
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All of which is to say that he has arrived at something of senior statesman status in the field (which is not to sound the cadence of either his retirement or his demise).
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The appearance of Graves, hinting at decadence, reinforces the notion that he wasted too much time playing toffee-nosed twits in Waughesque nostalgia flicks, when his range as an actor stretches far beyond billiard room banter.
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We all spoke German, too, at the table - except when talking to the waitress, when we settled into sibilant cadences and sharp vowels.
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Calendars begins with the cadenced trochaic tetrameter rhythms of ‘Landing Under Water, I See Roots’.
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One's admiration for this haunting and beautifully cadenced lament is likely to increase when we submit it to metrical analysis.
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As the wind kicked up, the plates and lids began rattling against the stone, beating out a mournful, otherworldly cadence.
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England was on her knees, so weakened and in such a state of decadence and decay that any moral resistance would have been virtually impossible.
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It came with a slurring rush upward, swelling to a great heart-breaking burst of sound, and dying away in sadly cadenced woe -- then the next rush upward, octave upon octave; the bursting heart; and the infinite sorrow and misery, fainting, fading, falling, and dying slowly away.
BÂTARD
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We have entered an age of trashy, casual hedonism in which mild decadence is all the rage.
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If poetic cadence, for example, resonatesor more to the point, if what we believe about the allure of cadence is that it answers to a rhythm essentially held within usthen we are, it is true, treading on structuralist ground: poetics touches us at the level of resonance sounding deep within us.
Romanticism and Philosophy in an Historical Age: Introduction
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The cadence of an efficient milker is almost like a good, strong heartbeat.
Frosty mornings in the sierras
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It is also carried into the text and the projection of horror through the genteel cadences of Victorian speech.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peoples which are rising, or rising again after a period of decadence, are always imperialist; and renunciation is a sign of decay and of death.
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The least of these illuminators, with his insignificant eyeless face, possesses at his fingers 'ends the maximum of dexterity in this art of decoration, light and wittily incongruous, which threatens to invade us in France, in this epoch of imitative decadence, and which has become the great resource of our manufacturers of cheap "_objects of art_.
Madame Chrysantheme
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He might have missed it, for, even beneath the powerful eye of the scope, steadily beating in slow cadence, it was no larger than a speck.
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Decadence, depression, depressed. Or taste a little suffocating.
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His style of delivery can be rather dull, but when the audience is paying close attention, the cadence of his speech patterns work to his advantage in that medium.
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These cadences were indicated by conventional gestures of the hand and fingers.
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By emphasizing the bass line near strategic cadences, he transformed the usual showpiece into real music.
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Whenever I read that text, his cadences, his eloquence and his zeal come readily to mind.
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It is too late to split art and culture, just as it is too late to split populism and decadence.
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The rhythm, harmony and melody of the music are drawn from the sounds of nature, mixed with the cadence of the Gaelic language.
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The opportunity to observe the witnesses, hear the inflections in voice, the cadence of speech, possible delays in answer, impart a great advantage to the trier who is on the scene.
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Willow warblers are little olive-brown birds that sing soft cadences, often in birch trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Final cadences often have short plagal extensions, with pedal notes normally occurring only at these places, often in the top voice.
Archive 2009-06-01
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It has the backing of both Synopsys and its main competitor, Cadence Design Systems.
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The violinist, Ma, plays the opening bars of a Mozart sonata, and the unaccustomed cadences and harmonies of classical western melody are like strange birdsong.
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The word cadenza, Hoffman explains, comes from the word cadence - a closing sequence in a piece of music.
NPR Topics: News
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The defects which Maty insinuates, "Ces traits saillans, ces figures hardies, ce sacrifice de la regle au sentiment, et de la cadence a la force," are the faults of the youth, rather than of the stranger: and after the long and laborious exercise of my own language, I am conscious that my French style has been ripened and improved.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
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Another part of the appeal of the knitting circle, it would seem, is that it's a timeout from the pace of modern life; its cadences those of a bygone era, its rewards measured in something other than money or recognition.
Men With Yarns to Tell
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He must recognize unrhythmical, uncadenced, disjointed, and ejaculatory prose dialogue, with scarcely a lyrical moment in it, as a fit vehicle for music.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
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Its syllables roll out with a fine cadence, its vowels and consonants harmonize happily.
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Their lush certain music I doubt is wholly ascribable to this trimetrical device, however, which explains only their splendid cadence.
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Because of its directness the cadence V-- I is called the _authentic cadence_.
Music Notation and Terminology
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In this it resembles a political speech, written to lull, and, by its soporific cadence and vocabulary, to allow the listener to intuit whatever the hell she wants.
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‘The most efficient cadence is between 90 and 110 RPMs,’ she says.
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To sail in luxurious decadence, try the Symphonia, a 112-foot yacht that sleeps ten.
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The rhythmic cadence of the poetry was not the iambic pentameter or other such metrical patterns but free verse with words scattered randomly across the printed page.
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What is likely to arrest this stepwise progress is the need to form a cadence: leaps are generally felt to be necessary to provide the decisive articulation that best performs the cadential function.
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Are misery and decadence the consequences of maldistribution of property, or of moral depravity, the lack of moral conscience?
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It's common for offensive tackles to time the quarterback's cadence with the snap so they quickly can get into their protection stances.
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Has anyone noticed that their bullet points have a certain cadence?
Think Progress » Rumsfeld Continues To Blame Newspapers
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The poems acknowledge semi-articulate intimacies, their interrupted cadence, a shrewd tenderness, a tang.
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Best of all is taking the private lift up to the Penthouse, a suite built into a turret which combines cosiness and sheer decadence.
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The decadence and debauchery of Paris was beckoning to him and he could hardly resist such open temptation.
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The permissions I give and am given by the interruptions of my thought in the corner of my room contrive my cadences, showing the line breaks to the onrush of my words.
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The first modulates from the tonic key and concludes with a cadence in a related key, usually the dominant for pieces in the major, the relative major for pieces in the minor.
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The Cup of Decadence" as transgressional fantasy fiction.
"The Cup of Decadence" as transgressional fantasy fiction.
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For Ungaretti, this classical perspective would always be a safeguard against solipsism and aesthetic decadence.
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Instead of continuing my acceleration for the pass I start slowing my cadence, unweighting the back wheel and making attempts to slow down quick.
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The method, as contradictions accumulate, is then rather fantastically hypostatized as the efflux of decadence itself.
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Because comedy is about cadence and rhythm.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, as gifted mimic, Boswell could roll out the magisterial Johnsonian cadences.
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Similarly, in our writing, cadences are stress points, moments where syntax and substance team up to convey special meaning.
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In the typically measured cadences of a diplomat, he hailed the arrest as a ‘major step’.
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It was the epoch of the salons, of the philosophers and encyclopaedists, of a brilliant society whose decadence was hidden in a garb of seductive gaiety, its egotism and materialism in a magnificent apparelling of wit and learning.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
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A cadenced curve of arched boxes undulates around the auditorium and continues in an arcade behind the stage.
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Nay, though it well may raise a smile of ridicule (not on the lips of a grave man perhaps, but of some facetious witling) to hear me say it, a beauty like the cadence of sweet music190 dwells even in pots and pans set out in neat array: and so, in general, fair things ever show more fair when orderly bestowed.
Oeconomicus
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The emerging, densely evocative cadences easily eschew the tangible elements of the novel like story or plot in which events move in some kind of linear progression towards a climax.
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Seasonal etiquette says you start pretty early with champagne - crack open a can of beer at the breakfast table and you look like a stinking drunk, but fire open one of these puppies and it's the height of naughty decadence.
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Beyond this, except by the rather violent hypothesis of copyist misdeeds above referred to, [196] nobody has been able to get further in a generalisation of the metre than that the normal form is an eight and six (better a seven and seven) "fourteener," trochaically cadenced, but admitting contraction and extension with a liberality elsewhere unparalleled.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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Gait characteristics of step length, cadence, stride width, toe out angle were measured at both usual and maximal walking speed on a 6-meter course.
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Still others, believing they are in C, will dutifully ‘tweak’ the final phrase of the piece to return to the note C at the cadence, making for a somewhat jarring ending.
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Miss Kendall will not disturb the class, I am sure, if she realizes that her humming is a source of annoyance," she said, her own really musical voice fluting in melodious minor cadences.
Miss Pat at School
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You have to pay attention to the energy of the voice, the pitch, the inflection of every word, singing and breathing with others together, and be able to alight at the mediant or final cadence with ease.
New Liturgical Movement
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Each bird's voice is but four limpid notes, delivered in slow, syncopated cadence, rising to a bell-like question mark.
