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He takes a live clip of a drum roll and chops it into a stiff, electro-funk cadence.
But every Mersey cadence as enunciated by George was music, Beatle music, to American ears.
Their lush certain music I doubt is wholly ascribable to this trimetrical device, however, which explains only their splendid cadence.
We see a high school clarinetist marching smartly up and down the football field in perfect cadence with the others.
Every tone-syllable with the cadence that follows and the untoned syllable that precedes makes one metre.
Instead of continuing my acceleration for the pass I start slowing my cadence, unweighting the back wheel and making attempts to slow down quick.
She's bright and breezy, but the odd cadence slips in that seems to suggest she doesn't suffer fools gladly.
Talking normally, even to a very young child, helped it to gradually gain understanding of the cadence of normal speech.
He asks short questions but gives long answers, and there's something vaguely patrician about the cadence of his speech.
Samoan oratory is delivered in a cadence and clarity of voice that is clear and ringing.
He also should constantly be developing an ear for the cadence and inflection of the languages.
The timbre and cadence of his drawling voice startle at first and the listener becomes absorbed by his speech rhythms, pauses, and inflections.
My voice cadence changed, my speech began to race, and I was virtually incomprehensible to everyone around me.
His voice lacks the distinctive cadence for which he would become known, but there's no denying the presence he brings to the part.
Its syllables roll out with a fine cadence, its vowels and consonants harmonize happily.
She was now familiar with his mannerisms such as the way he drawled in that deep voice, the cadence of his speech.
Chapter 8 is developed in prose that is remarkable for its oracular cadence, one that temporarily arrests the flow of the narrative.
Carl is also very sensitive to the syllabic pulse of a poem, and writes in a subtle music that correlates meaning with cadence.
The author constructs a narrative that closely resembles poetry in its cadence, verse structure and imagery.
The themes live through a language buzzing with resonance and cadence, a hallucinatory, burlesque fusion that demands to be read aloud.
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He introduced the rhyme in alternate lines, by which he produced a musical cadence.
He moved swiftly over to it, his body jerking in a peculiar, off-beat cadence as he walked.
It will be remarked that it is so free that there is no cadence that any musician could find.
The passage has already been cited in Chapter IV as an example of a deceptive cadence.
This injunction, given in a diminuendo cadence, was quickly obeyed, and all was silence for a moment or two.
That the imagists base much of their poetry upon cadence and not upon metre makes them neither good nor bad.
They wash the body of the deceased to that sad cadence, and perfume it with storax, and other perfumes which are used among them.
Fix and unfix bayonet are executed with promptness and regularity but not in cadence.
Now, there is a difference between the cadence of vers libre and the cadence of oratory.
A plagal cadence is one in which the tonic chord is preceded by the sub-dominant chord.
These enharmonic passages recur to satiety, and the abuse of the plagal cadence deprives it of its religious solemnity.
If it had been the barred owl, the third note would have been doubled and the last note would have had a drop in its cadence.
All his yearnings were fanned to flame by the cadence of her voice and the softness of her eyes.
It regulated the juxtaposition of sounds and the cadence of sentences.
May again sighed, and with a tremor in the cadence that was almost a sob.
The child went singing away, following up the current of the brook, and striving to mingle a more lightsome cadence with its melancholy voice.
They consisted of a few chanted words, with a cadence and a long yodl.
There was a subdued and chastened cadence in the inquiry that pleased me.
It is rather a long motto, but it is eminently Ciceronian in its cadence.
As the dying cadence of his strains was falling on the ears of the latter, he started aside at hearing them repeated behind him, in a voice half human and half sepulchral.
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