How To Use Clangor In A Sentence
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The clangor of honking cars and the maddening din of a thousand engines almost drive me to vertigo.
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No two adjacent doors are ever opened at the same time and the whole building is a clangour of keys and doors, enough to rapidly induce headaches and rampant claustrophobia.
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Industrial progress in Chicago produced loud sounds, whether the thrum of machinery, the clangor of busy loading docks, or the cries of brawny laborers.
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Grimaud's ability to evoke both sensitive tonal shadings and clangorous dissonance made this movement an overwhelming experience.
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Rarely do I descend to that cauldron of hissing pipes and clangor of which so few are aware — am I blessed or cursed to have discovered it within?
The Indolent Magician (II)
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‘Ah - Miss Corel,’ he greeted her charmingly, ignoring the clangor of alarms and frantic shouts from outside.
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‘It is a fine sight to see the skyscrapers of Manhattan slip away astern; with them fade the cares and clangor of the city,’ she wrote some years later.
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He could hear the hundred gates of Thebes closing on him with a great metallic clangor.
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
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the clangorous locomotive works
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Emerson really means to ‘accept,’ as he puts it, ‘the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies’.
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And then, amid the clangour of the machinery, came a drifting suspicion of human voices, that I entertained at first only to dismiss.
The War of The Worlds
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He could hear the hundred gates of Thebes closing on him with a great metallic clangor.
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
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After a clangorous opening flourish, a wispy, airborne figure linked bolder, more earthy ideas.
Die Walküre; Siegfried; BBC Proms 23, 26 & 27 – review
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That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a Jews-harp; that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; - these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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As the shouts redoubled, and mingled with the various clangors of battle, drew nearer the tower, the impatience of the earl could not be restrained.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The sound can be a raucous metallic clangour or it can be as soft as notes on velvet.
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My own interest in Bethlem and madness came from a number of sources; the onomatopoeic clangour of the word Bedlam itself, suggesting an infernal din, like a bedstead falling downstairs, somehow echoed in the vast Victorian asylum near my childhood home, and its noisy but harmless residents, who occasionally spilled out into the streets, weeping and shouting.
Bedlam
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An exchange of livings had been arranged with an acquaintance who was incumbent of a church in the south of London, and as soon as possible the couple removed thither, abandoning their pretty country home, with trees and shrubs and glebe, for a narrow, dusty house in a long, straight street, and their fine peal of bells for the wretchedest one-tongued clangour that ever tortured mortal ears.
Life's Little Ironies
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Beneath him spread; nor clangours, nor deep groans,
The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
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Pure tones transform themselves into distorted, clangorous metallic noises.
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The sound can be a raucous metallic clangour or it can be as soft as notes on velvet.
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Emerson really means to ‘accept,’ as he puts it, ‘the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies’.
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That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime than the twingle-twangle of
The Letters of Robert Burns
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He could hear the hundred gates of Thebes closing on him with a great metallic clangor.
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
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Sed eheu inquis euge quid agemus? ubi pro Epithalamio Bellonae flagellum, pro musica harmonia terribilum lituorum et tubarum audias clangorem, pro taedis nuptialibus, villarum, pagorum, urbium videas incendia; ubi pro jubilo lamenta, pro risu fletus aerem complent.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It used the shell of the earth valley for its trumpetings, its clangors — but as one hears in the murmurings of the fluted conch the great voice of ocean, its whispering and its roarings, so here in the clamorous shell of the
The Metal Monster
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And even with the clangor of tourists, who on many days at least double the city's population of about 300, it's still possible to find peaceful spots to enjoy a glass of wine as you admire the sun kissing the countryside below the walls.
Malta's Sun-Kissed 'Silent City'
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Then clash their sounding arms; the clangours rise,
The Iliad of Homer
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Her soprano voice was agile, yet strong enough to be heard over the sometimes somewhat clangorous orchestra.
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The high-keyed chromatic juxtapositions of Picasso's Homme à la pipe of November 7, 1968, bring to mind (if not with paint - chip exactitude, then closely enough) the clangorous combination of poison green, bismuth pink, and icy aquamarine in Pontormo's Deposition of circa 1528 in the Capponi Chapel in Florence.
The Late Show
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For the clangour continued at the same rate, -- _Dang, dang dang, dang_.
The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
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That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a jew's-harp: that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; -- these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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The play was punctuated by the merciless clangor of wood blocks.
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To tremendous cheers and the clangour of bells they rode in on one horse, with Margaret riding pillion behind the King, escorted by two hundred knights and pausing to witness numerous pageants.
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Henley speaks of his "clangours of bronze and gold and scarlet" and admits that "there are moments when his work is as infallibly decorative as a
Promenades of an Impressionist
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The clangor of honking cars and the maddening din of a thousand engines almost drive me to vertigo.
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-- The name jubilee is derived from the Hebrew jobel, the joyful shout or clangor of trumpets, by which the year of jubilee was announced.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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In the clangor of battle I discerned the slight sound of something moving at a great velocity toward me.
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Sed eheu inquis euge quid agemus? ubi pro Epithalamio Bellonae flagellum, pro musica harmonia terribilum lituorum et tubarum audias clangorem, pro taedis nuptialibus, villarum, pagorum, urbium videas incendia; ubi pro jubilo lamenta, pro risu fletus aerem complent.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He grasped the sword and traced the sword's point on the stone with a slow clangor.
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On the other side, you can see and hear the whole old city of Kabul, with the laughter of children, the clangor of metalsmiths, and the chanting from the Shi'ite mosque reverberating up through the clear, dry air.
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The air, which encouraged perspiration, was rich with many odours; voices endeavouring to make themselves audible in colloquy, swelled to a tumultuous volume that vied with the Hungarian clangours.
In the Year of Jubilee
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They soon formed a deep and confused mass of dismounted cavalry in front of their encampment, when, at the signal of a shrill cry, which arose high over the clangour of the music, each cavalier sprung to his saddle.
The Talisman
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The air was full of sound, a deafening and confusing conflict of noises—the clangorous din of the Martians, the crash of falling houses, the thud of trees, fences, sheds flashing into flame, and the crackling and roaring of fire.
The War of The Worlds
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On the other side, you can see and hear the whole old city of Kabul, with the laughter of children, the clangor of metalsmiths, and the chanting from the Shi'ite mosque reverberating up through the clear, dry air.
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A voice cut cold and taunting through the clangor of the fight.
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Also the winds brought rumbling earthquake and duststorm, thunder and lightning and the lurid thunderbolt, which are the shafts of great Zeus, and carried the clangour and the warcry into the midst of the two hosts.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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But when the trumpet's clangours ceaaei Let Virtue tune the lute of Peace.
The works in verse and prose
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The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns -- those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of
The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
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A voice cut cold and taunting through the clangor of the fight.
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The sound can be a raucous metallic clangour or it can be as soft as notes on velvet.
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Putting it in motion takes time and attention; do it right, and you get all kinds of clash and clangor and pretty sparks ‘His voice trails off, and his gaze is suddenly hard and keen.’
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The songs are therapeutic laptop pop ballads amidst the industrial clangor of the album.
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It is the same on all the feast-days: then the city sinks into profounder quiet; only bells are noisy, and where their clangor is so common as in Venice, it seems at last to make friends with the general stillness, and disturbs none but people of untranquil minds.
Venetian Life
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‘It is a fine sight to see the skyscrapers of Manhattan slip away astern; with them fade the cares and clangor of the city,’ she wrote some years later.
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The songs are therapeutic laptop pop ballads amidst the industrial clangor of the album.
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Despite their clangor on LA based Persian satellite TV, these individuals who spend all of their time attacking groups that secure victories for the community, were unable to prevent positive change, exposing themselves and demonstrating that they have no base of support.
Shawn Amoei: Obama Scores Points With the Iranian People
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Someone tripped the fire alarm, which added its deafening clangour to the tumult.
NIGHT SISTERS
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They had not died away, before they were taken up and repeated, east, west, and north and south, by shriller, more pervading clangors.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)
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The play was punctuated by the merciless clangor of wood blocks.
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The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
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At night, from his hospital bed, he could hear the chanting and gunfire and, on the day the Shah left, the clangorous sounds of a giant celebration.
The Prize
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He took us first to see his docks and godowns, resounding with the loud clangors of trade, and then through the grassy Kow-Loon plains, by a wide red road shadowed with banana-trees, to this lordly pavilion set on the crest of many flowering terraces – its pale-yellow outlines cut cameo-like against the burning blue of the equatorial sky.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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The clangor spread outward until all of Rata Sum was ringing.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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The cacophonous clangor grows louder and louder.
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Hurtling through the air, it seemed, with a sense of fierce speed, the varied clangors of the train, the ringing of the rails, the frequent hoarse blasts of the whistle, the jangling of the metallic fixtures, the jarring of the window-panes, all were keenly differentiated by her exacerbated and sensitive perceptions, and each had its own peculiar irritation.
The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
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Industrial progress in Chicago produced loud sounds, whether the thrum of machinery, the clangor of busy loading docks, or the cries of brawny laborers.
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No two adjacent doors are ever opened at the same time and the whole building is a clangour of keys and doors, enough to rapidly induce headaches and rampant claustrophobia.
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When cries confused, and clangours rolled more near;
The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
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the alarm clangored throughout the building
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Putting it in motion takes time and attention; do it right, and you get all kinds of clash and clangor and pretty sparks ‘His voice trails off, and his gaze is suddenly hard and keen.’
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‘Ah - Miss Corel,’ he greeted her charmingly, ignoring the clangor of alarms and frantic shouts from outside.
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In the clangor of battle I discerned the slight sound of something moving at a great velocity toward me.
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Which is why Obama's paean to Lawrence Summers on Stewart show rang so clangorously, as he praised the oafish Harvard professor for having performed a heckuva job, a phrase that one might have thought would have been permanently exiled from the presidential lexicon.
Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference
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'There is the bell,' cried Sophie as a remote but insistent clangour reached them.
Is it foolish to question whether the Vice President is part of the Executive Branch?
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So, too, the poem, entitled Sleeping Out, charms me and stirs me with its golden clangors and crying flames of emotion as it mounts up to the white one flame, to the laughter and the lips of light.
Introduction by George Edward Woodberry
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Also the winds brought rumbling earthquake and duststorm, thunder and lightning and the lurid thunderbolt, which are the shafts of great Zeus, and carried the clangour and the warcry into the midst of the two hosts.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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We should have soared up like clangorous voices, — and here we must trundle as grey – yarn thread – balls.
Peer Gynt
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Someone tripped the fire alarm, which added its deafening clangour to the tumult.
NIGHT SISTERS
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He grasped the sword and traced the sword's point on the stone with a slow clangor.
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Leader Zach Condon gained wide attention for the artful clangor of Beirut's 2006 debut, which bore the influence of Gypsy music.
A Brief Guide to the Northside Festival
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The cacophonous clangor grows louder and louder.
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■ who have ftood forth the zealous advocates of the democratical American charters, be the loudeft in their clangours againft fuch inn novations?
Political reflections on the late colonial governments [microform] : in which their original constitutional defects are pointed out, and shown to have naturally produced the rebellion, which has unfortunately terminated in the dismemberment of the British
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To tremendous cheers and the clangour of bells they rode in on one horse, with Margaret riding pillion behind the King, escorted by two hundred knights and pausing to witness numerous pageants.
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A dirty orange glow escapes from half-open hatches, grilled vents, and small square windows of grimy glass, and the clangour of beaten metal can be heard far out into the endless snowstorm.
Weapon Of Choice short story – excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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Two of the works, Cage's clangorous First Construction in Metal and Skempton's hypnotic Lento, are relatively well known, but both Cardew's Bun No 1 and Feldman's Piano and Orchestra will be receiving their London premieres.
This week's new live music
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Indeed it was his custom, though Elsie had not known it, to follow every funeral going to this, his favourite churchyard of Ruthven; and, possibly in imitation of its booming, for it was still tolled at the funerals, he had given the old bell the name of _the wow_, and had translated its monotonous clangour into the articulate sounds -- _come hame, come hame_.
The Portent & Other Stories
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Hereward passed on to the barracks, where the military music had seemed to halt; but on the Varangian crossing the threshold of the ample courtyard, it broke forth again with a tremendous burst, whose clangour almost stunned him, though well accustomed to the sounds.
Count Robert of Paris
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Which is why Obama's paean to Lawrence Summers on Stewart show rang so clangorously, as he praised the oafish Harvard professor for having performed a heckuva job, a phrase that one might have thought would have been permanently exiled from the presidential lexicon.
Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference
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So, too, the poem, entitled "Sleeping Out", charms me and stirs me with its golden clangors and crying flames of emotion as it mounts up to "the white one flame", to "the laughter and the lips of light".
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
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I believe I also dropped clangorous hints as the use of Google by which an answer might be procured.
2010 February « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
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They are like sensitive surfaces that have been laid in the midst of the New Yorks; and record not only the clangors, but all the violent forms of the city, the beat of the frenetic activity, the intersecting planes of light, the masses of the masonry with the tiny, dwarf-like creatures running in and out, the electric signs staining the inky nightclouds.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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He longed with a great longing for sympathy, for love, for the softer influences that cradle even warriors between the clangors of the battles.
The Blazed Trail
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He slammed the truck door behind him sending a metal clangor through the manzanitas.
Owls
