How To Use cadenced In A Sentence
- 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
- Lush, cadenced and often disconcerting, this is an accomplished first effort. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Book summary
- Bernard-Henri Lévy sounds high and mighty, his speech cadenced and emphatic. Claire Devarrieux: Public Enemies: The "Principal Whipping Boys" of France
- 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.
- 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.
- The result, Messrs. Jones and Meyer say, was a "clean, easy - flowing, and pleasantly cadenced piece of writing. One Nation, Indivisible
- 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
- We could almost hear the cadenced tread of feet.
- The spotlight event was an exhibition of cadenced, old-school courbettes, croupades and caprioles, all of them stylizations of the leaping, twisting, fighting and frolicking of high-spirited horses in pasture.
- The political calculus is that Palin is hilariously unelectable, especially given the outstanding contrast between the president's seriousness and legislative accomplishments and Palin's awkwardly-cadenced screeching, her dissonant incomprehensible populist word salads and unserious, airheaded public flailings. Bob Cesca: The Perfect Storm That Could Elect Sarah Palin