cadenced
IPA: kˈeɪdʌnst
adjective
- (music) Having a regular, rhythmic cadence.
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Examples of "cadenced" in Sentences
- Bernard-Henri Lévy sounds high and mighty, his speech cadenced and emphatic.
- Lush, cadenced and often disconcerting, this is an accomplished first effort.
- "Quindlen is in classic form, with strong characters and precisely cadenced prose that builds in intensity."
- The result, Messrs. Jones and Meyer say, was a "clean, easy - flowing, and pleasantly cadenced piece of writing."
- Surely this passage is just as cadenced, just as precise and as evocatively creepy as it was when O'Connor wrote it.
- With its warm and sympathetic heroines and its finely cadenced prose, this collection demonstrates that [Adichie] is keeping faith with her talent and with her country.
- It's a psychologized style that is in many ways indebted to the work of the filmmaker Ross McElwee, whose self-deprecatingly cadenced voice-overs sound almost like a model for Mr. Block's.
- The Observer praised "the sheer delight of his style – that sustained, lucid, precise and subtly cadenced prose that can keep you inside the dynamic thoughts of one of his characters for as many pages as he wants".
- It came with a slurring rush upward, swelling to a great heart-breaking burst of sound, and dying away in sadly cadenced woe -- then the next rush upward, octave upon octave; the bursting heart; and the infinite sorrow and misery, fainting, fading, falling, and dying slowly away.