10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OROTUNDITY»
Discover the use of
orotundity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
orotundity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
It arises from the inherent orotundity of French and the artistic uses to which
Nabokov puts French orotundity in this particular text. Recall that the stereotype
of a Frenchman shows him with lips pooched out into an o: the French cook in ...
Steven G. Kellman, Irving Malin, 2000
2
Voice Training for Speaking and Reading Aloud
An example of this increased sympathetic resonance occurring in orotundity is
the rather common observation that a person standing in deep water can speak
naturally but can sing by no means as well as on dry land. Orotundity requires, of
...
3
Foundations of Voice Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach ...
As this table shows, changes to speaking rate, F0 variability, flatness, and “
orotundity” had similar effects on perceived personality for male and female
speakers, but the effects ofchanges in breathiness, throatiness, and vocal
tenseness were ...
Jody Kreiman, Diana Sidtis, 2011
4
Shakespearian Production
66) as evidence; and in Poetry and the Physical Voice (157) Mr. Francis Berry
has convincingly related the peculiar quality of Othello's poetry to the orotundity
of African speech. Whatever we decide, we must respond to both his nobility and
his ...
5
Henry Fielding: Mask and Feast
The passage begins with an orotundity which perhaps needs deflating but
certainly does not require clarification. Therefore, instead of repeating 'in a word'
what he has already said, Fielding says two other things: first that the clock struck
five, ...
6
Forces in Modern and Postmodern Poetry
This expansive segment is a kind of chant over Mrs. Purefoy, silent before her
labor of giving birth; but in Joyce's work orotundity overwhelms silence. The
whole of Finnegans Wake sets up a rhythmic ouroboros by having its last word
dovetail ...
Albert Spaulding Cook, Peter Baker, 2008
The passage begins with an orotundity which perhaps needs deflating but
certainly does not require clarification. Therefore, instead of repeating 'in a word5
what he has already said, Fielding says two other things: first that the clock struck
five, ...
8
The Best Words: More Than 200 of the Most Excellent, Most ...
—Bill Sweetland, “Education in Chicago: Reason to Cheer,” The HuffingtonPost,
2009 orotundity (or-ah-TUN-di-tee) noun ostiary (OS-tee-er-ee) noun 1. a
doorkeeper, especially in a church. 2. someone who guards an entryway;
gatekeeper.
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
9
Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And ...
... 8 granddad; 9 grandsire; 10 granddaddy grandiloquence: 7 bombast; 8
rhetoric, richness; 9 euphemism, turgidity; 10 florid- ness, orotundity; 11
declamation, grandiosity; 13 frills of style, magniloquence, ornamentation
grandiose: 4 rich, tall; ...
Seth Godin, Lark Productions LLC, Seth Godin Productions, 1999
10
Indlish: the book for every English-speaking Indian
Enraged polemic though this book may be, it is also constructive,collected and funny.
Jyoti Sanyal, Martin Cutts, Sarbjit Sen, 2006
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OROTUNDITY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
orotundity is used in the context of the following news items.
Nkrumah Nkrumah, Wole Soyinka, & Kongi's Harvest (3)
... are his inaccessible and erudite diction, dense narrative prose, meandering, convoluted poetic orotundity, dense eloquence, and then some, ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
Amnesty International Asymmetric Security Report On Nigeria By …
Among these, the most dangerous is the 'silent warfare' or what the Bolsheviks referred to as 'active measures' - the human rights orotundity, ... «SaharaReporters.com, Jun 15»
When DSCH met Isaiah
... distinct, and distinctly insular, worlds: the Byzantine rituals and orotundity of Oxford University and the unsmiling officialdom of Soviet Russia. «Slipped Disc, May 15»
This Time, It's Personal
But all with the pace and grit of Lee Child's customary orotundity. Plus, there are lengthy descriptions on how to correctly break down doors, ... «Khaleej Times, Feb 15»
Daidit-e-maa and Amer Mayen hyperventilated and fallacious …
Duk can't allow be misrepresented, or is Malok Aleng's orotundity coming true? That Duk County is yet to bear a leader who will represent her! «Borglobe, Aug 14»
'Lucy' starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman Releases In India
Samuel Norman. The professor is played, with honeyed orotundity, by Morgan Freeman, and his lecture on cerebral efficiency is illustrated with ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 14»
'Lucy': A Diamond in the Action-Thriller Sky
Samuel Norman. The professor is played, with honeyed orotundity, by Morgan Freeman, and his lecture on cerebral efficiency is illustrated with ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 14»
The opéra bouffe that was the Bretton Woods conference
There were speeches of mind-numbing orotundity, interminable procedural rigmaroles, wrangles, schisms, informal parlays, tantrums. But there ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 14»
The Smart Set
He may have picked the number because it sounded good in Japanese; maybe he liked its friendly orotundity. I don't know. But the number ... «The Smart Set, Jan 14»
The Obamacare We Don't Deserve
Lacking any good thing to say, I changed the subject, mocking the op-ed writer's orotundity (“there's fat and then there's MICHAEL MOORE”), ... «American Spectator, Jan 14»
