State musicians in classical court dress played the sonorous "drum song" and happy throngs chanted the plaintive national anthem: "Until the end of time, this is our land.
Smart, eloquent, energetic, and blessed with a sonorous voice and uncommon good looks, he seemed headed for a brilliant career.
Thereafter it became an instrument for bolstering up absolutism and in influence and practical good it remained in reality, to use the words of Metternich, "a sonorous nothing.
Watch Alan Cumming Read Anything We Put in Front of Him In the ranking of sexy accents, the Scottish brogue has to be near the top. And in the ranking of sexy Scottish brogues, Alan Cumming's is definitely in the top five. But just how powerful are his melodious tones? Is there anything he can't make more sonorous with that titillating ... More »
July 8, 2013 - Vulture
Mickey Hart in L&Si Online (press release) The wood is old growth, hundreds of years old, and very sonorous,says Hart in a report in Marin Independent Journal. "It has these extremities that make different sounds. They're beautiful instruments. Over the years I've started to play...
Ingram Marshall in San Jose Mercury News These "sonorous found objects," as Marshall calls them, are incorporated into "Kingdom Come," treated electronically and made to sound far, faraway - like memories cradled by the orchestra, which rises around them, genuflects toward them, merges...