clangorous
IPA: kɫˈæŋgɝʌs
adjective
- Making a clangor.
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Examples of "clangorous" in Sentences
- After a clangorous opening flourish, a wispy, airborne figure linked bolder, more earthy ideas.
- I believe I also dropped clangorous hints as the use of Google by which an answer might be procured.
- We should have soared up like clangorous voices, — and here we must trundle as grey – yarn thread – balls.
- 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.
- 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.
- The air was full of sound, a deafening and confusing conflict of noises—the clangorous din of the Martians, the crash of falling houses, the thud of trees, fences, sheds flashing into flame, and the crackling and roaring of fire.
- The high-keyed chromatic juxtapositions of Picasso's Homme à la pipe of November 7, 1968, bring to mind (if not with paint - chip exactitude, then closely enough) the clangorous combination of poison green, bismuth pink, and icy aquamarine in Pontormo's Deposition of circa 1528 in the Capponi Chapel in Florence.
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