How To Use Unrhythmic In A Sentence
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Rackingly above the crash and lilt of music, the quick, wild thud of dancing feet, the sharp, staccato notes of laughter -- she heard the dull, heavy, unrhythmical tread of the oncoming years -- gray years, limping eternally from to-morrow on, through unloved lands, on unloved errands.
Little Eve Edgarton
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It does not follow that the music was unrhythmic because it was unaccented, and because in writing it was not divided into bars.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama
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Such children are unrhythmic, and it will generally be noticed that these children are stiff and awkward, often also over-excitable.
The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze
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The constant banging of unrhythmic cymbals got to our nerves quite quickly.
New York: A Weekend of Fusion
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It may make some strange shapes and unrhythmic movements but go with it!
Potsdamer Strasse #2
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Nor, again, if the action be high-wrought, above the measure of man's ordinary activity, can it find expression in the unrhythmical language [9] which corresponds to that ordinary activity.
An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
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Gasping and crying for the strength of an unrhythmic breath that was short and erratic.
GYPSY MASALA
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He began merrily, and in no time had us both laughing; I think the first air which he tortured to fit his unrhymed and unrhythmical words belonged once to Mozart, but I am not sure.
We Three
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In the Pit's small space the loud and unrhythmic declamation was too loud and too clipped.
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[9] The language of prose is not necessarily unrhythmical, nor is it always commonplace, as witness, for example, the more moving and imaginative passages of the English Bible.
An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
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Jaques-Dalcroze's pupils learn to improvise with definite thought and meaning, nothing unrhythmical is ever allowed, nor any aimless meandering over the keyboard.
The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze
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They had that unrhythmic frequency which suggested that they were responses to a speech.
The Pirates of Ersatz
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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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It was completely unrhythmic and very close to normal.
The Machine That Saved The World
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Another body clad in the tan of Hamor joined the first in an unrhythmic dance.
The Death of Chaos
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It is shocking for a whole harmony to be inharmonical, or for a rhythm to be unrhythmical, and this will happen when the melody is inappropriate to them.
Laws
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When the sergeant and his guest moved past them, the unrhythmic waverings of the small yellow lights seemed to change hopefully, as if the machines anticipated being put to use.
The Machine That Saved The World
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Rewa Gunga, perfectly at home, sprawled leisurely, along a cushioned couch with a grace that the West has not learned yet; but King did not make the mistake of trusting him any better for his easy manners, and his eyes sought swiftly for some unrhythmic, unplanned thing on which to rest, that he might save himself by a sort of mental leverage.
In The Time Of Light
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On the other hand, unrhythmical language is too unlimited; we do not want the limitations of metre, but some limitation we must have, or the effect will be vague and unsatisfactory.
Rhetoric
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The last foot of a verse of poetry, then, may have more or fewer syllables than the regular number; still the foot takes up the regular time and cannot be deemed unrhythmical.
English: Composition and Literature
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As we lift the brass cap, we begin to count seconds, -- by a watch, if we are naturally unrhythmical, -- by the pulsations in our souls, if we have an intellectual pendulum and escapement.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863