How To Use Euphony In A Sentence

  • He employs a wide variety of tonal registers and often emphasizes dissonance or euphony in particular verses by varying the intensity of speed and volume while reading.
  • The eclectic mix of trance, tabla and the violin euphony left the raving party animals craving for more.
  • If so, the euphony is, for Conrad, not just thoroughly but almost allusively Romantic. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • A man who wrote wondrously for the ear was surely not seduced by the euphony of her name, but they fell in love and she stuck to him over the years through many a scrape.
  • Such euphony is hard to resist.
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  • Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm to him. The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
  • In addition to its more commonly recognized senses, "euphony" also has a more specific meaning in the field of linguistics, where it can refer to the preference for words that are easy to pronounce; this preference may be the cause of an observed trend of people altering the pronunciation of certain words apparently in favor of sound combinations that are simpler and faster to say out loud. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • That hands-on style brought an integrity and euphony to the lifetime written record of his creative, illuminating and vivifying mind.
  • Fowler prescribed "a'n't" and not "amn't", for the reason of euphony you gave. On aren't I
  • Soft voices whisper place names and dates, invoking memory and history just as the choreography suggests the euphony of physical connections, of reasons for momentum and impetus.
  • I will also call my mousme Kikou, Kikou-San; this name suits her better than Chrysantheme, which, though translating the sense exactly, does not preserve the strange-sounding euphony of the original. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • It involves many techniques of expression such as innuendo, pun, irony, euphony, allegory, hyperbole, and oblique references, etc.
  • How much steam-piston euphony survived the voyage from Australia is vague, since Englishmen regularly mispronounced the town to rhyme with ‘stagger’.
  • The mosque, however, continues to be used by Muslims, adding to the beautiful euphony of sounds that echo daily as the faithful are called to prayer.
  • The alternative will be called delusive, for, in European literature at least, there is no word-symbol that does not imply a spoken sound, and no excellence without euphony. Style
  • Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm to him. The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
  • Bardo - now that's a name with a certain euphony, don't you think? THE BROKEN GOD
  • The euphony of Brodsky's verse is irresistible in its ease and naturalness, and one finds oneself remembering lines and stanzas after no more than a couple of readings. A World Fiercely Observed
  • Watling, for this and other reasons dwelt on by English surveyors, is on the new maps rebaptized San Salvador, in rectification of euphony not less than of historic truth. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
  • Fowler prescribed "a'n't" and not "amn't", for the reason of euphony you gave. On aren't I
  • Sa and Vaila reached Savaii, united their names also, and, for the sake of euphony, or, as they call euphony "lifting it easily," made it Savaii instead of Savaila. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before
  • Notice the ways in which the problem/argument is posited in the octave and the solution/response is presented in the sestet; moreover, to further the problem/argument, Hopkins relies heavily upon cacophony in the octave but turns heavily to euphony in the sestet. Argument in verse
  • One of the big joys of this production, after the divine euphony of Kremer's sound, is the return to the eleven-instrument orchestration of Piazzolla's original score.
  • In a musical climate where beauty is often disregarded or located in asymmetrical euphony, bands like Kepler are clinging to an older and more concrete conception of beauty - one that hinges on order, balance, and tradition.
  • He is devoted to reader empowerment like Keats was devoted to euphony. Pop Culture
  • Actually, my aunt had done nothing of the sort, but I like the substance as well as the euphony; it has verisimilitude, doesn't it?
  • It still fulfilled prescribed ecclesiastical functions, but its euphony and its expressive power showed the way toward artistic autonomy.
  • ‘Americanism’, incidentally, is one of my least favourite words: not for the meaning, the concept is marvelous, but for its lack of euphony.
  • This encompasses random and fairly meaningless collections of words which have a certain euphony.
  • It's been a long time since a politician offered such euphoria over euphony in political commentary.
  • Let us leave the sweet euphony of Bangla to our poets, and the salvation-enhancement of Sanskrit to our priests.
  • One doubts, nevertheless, whether a newly elected pontiff would weigh the relative euphony that a name might command in various languages.
  • While the advent of TV may have eclipsed the romance of radio, as he puts it, much of the sheen and euphony one used to note and hear in yester-year's music is regretfully found absent in the present-day menu.
  • Exempting microbrews from a beer tax is the most absurdly tone-deaf proposal the State Dems have come up with in a session that was short on euphony to begin with. New Senate Revenue Proposal: Sales Tax Reduced, Beer Tax Now in Play « PubliCola
  • We are therefore obliged to adopt the French words themselves as well as we can to our own idiom, with some variations for the sake of euphony and analogy, as far as these can be obtained. The Institutes of Justinian
  • These bizarre screeching sounds turn into horn samples, which, though they never quite resolve themselves, manage to work up an atmosphere of a nauseated euphony.
  • Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm tohim. The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
  • Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm tohim. The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
  • It's fortunate, too, that their voices blend so well: their duetting is a model of euphony. Evening Standard - Home

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