How To Use Cadenced In A Sentence
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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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Lush, cadenced and often disconcerting, this is an accomplished first effort.
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Book summary
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Bernard-Henri Lévy sounds high and mighty, his speech cadenced and emphatic.
Claire Devarrieux: Public Enemies: The "Principal Whipping Boys" of France
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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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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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The result, Messrs. Jones and Meyer say, was a "clean, easy - flowing, and pleasantly cadenced piece of writing.
One Nation, Indivisible
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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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We could almost hear the cadenced tread of feet.
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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.
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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
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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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the cadenced crunch of marching feet
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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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A cadenced curve of arched boxes undulates around the auditorium and continues in an arcade behind the stage.
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We could almost hear the cadenced tread of feet.
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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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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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Calendars begins with the cadenced trochaic tetrameter rhythms of ‘Landing Under Water, I See Roots’.
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The lines, broken off of the conventional blues verse, are clipped, colloquial, and cadenced.
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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'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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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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Moreover he writes like a dream, in sentences cadenced like poetry.
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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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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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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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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.
