ADJECTIVE
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having a loud resonant metallic sound
the clangorous locomotive works
a clanging gong
How To Use clangorous In A Sentence
- 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
- I believe I also dropped clangorous hints as the use of Google by which an answer might be procured. 2010 February « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
- 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
- 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
- We should have soared up like clangorous voices, — and here we must trundle as grey – yarn thread – balls. Peer Gynt
- 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
- Pure tones transform themselves into distorted, clangorous metallic noises.
- the clangorous locomotive works
- Grimaud's ability to evoke both sensitive tonal shadings and clangorous dissonance made this movement an overwhelming experience.
- After a clangorous opening flourish, a wispy, airborne figure linked bolder, more earthy ideas. Die Walküre; Siegfried; BBC Proms 23, 26 & 27 – review