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  • The professor was Dr. Richard Kimball, and he had a resonant, contemplative voice.†   (source)
  • When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate the most.†   (source)
  • He would later be told that it was the metal in his fillings resonating with the radioactivity of the bomb.†   (source)
  • Look: when I was working on missiles, we dealt with something called resonant yaw.†   (source)
  • The shrill squeaks and resonant groans produced by these must be ascribed to frictional vibration, and should not be mistaken for speech.†   (source)
  • Late at night, the rotary dial on the telephone resonated through the walls, the rip of a digit rolled clockwise, the grind of the dial working backward, loud enough to wake him.†   (source)
  • The tremors in that hand revealed a heart that resonated with hers.†   (source)
  • Looking back, it's hardly surprising that a show about fiercely loyal, sometimes violent outsiders resonated with Mamaw.†   (source)
  • Johann's exact words might fade, resonating indistinctly inside the boy as if through cotton wadding, but the moment would lie dormant in Paul's mind, ready to spring back at the slightest trigger.†   (source)
  • Armed with an insatiable desire to succeed—and aided by his natural gifts, which included a deeply resonant voice—he made his dream come true soon after finishing up at Bard College in 1971.†   (source)
  • The train whistle blares, the sound resonating in my chest.†   (source)
  • And tigers hiss and snarl, which, depending on the emotion behind it, sounds either like autumn leaves rustling on the ground, but a little more resonant, or, when it's an infuriated snarl, like a giant door with rusty hinges slowly opening—in both cases, utterly spinechilling.†   (source)
  • In the distance, loud booms resonated and sudden plumes of smoke rose to the sky.†   (source)
  • As she spoke, her accented English resonated off the tile walls, giving her voice a hollow quality.†   (source)
  • Very little receptivity to the resonances of the future.†   (source)
  • The bassist, Damien Ghilotti, was in New Zealand, was a studio engineer now, but was happy to kndw that "Puking Sally" was still resonating with the flu-ridden.†   (source)
  • And you can put different amounts of water in different glasses and they make different notes because they have what are called different resonant frequencies, and you can play a tune like Three Blind Mice.†   (source)
  • Jess's voice was confident and flat, without resonance, as if everything he might say would be the simple truth.†   (source)
  • Every preacher sounded better than he was there; every hymn was distinct; each prayer was resonant; the organ had a cathedral tone.†   (source)
  • As the blood clears, I can see where every stroke of the lash landed and feel it resonate in the single cut on my face.†   (source)
  • Around us gleamed white tile and glass brick; the green, artificial-looking water rocked gently in its shining basin, releasing vague chemical smells and a sense of many pipes and filters; even Finny's voice, trapped in this closed, high-ceilinged room, lost its special resonance and blurred into a general well of noise gathered up toward the ceiling.†   (source)
  • But Leo could hear her voice in his head, as if the vibrations were coming through the ground, straight into his feet and resonating up his skeleton.†   (source)
  • He had a sincere way with a platitude which he made resonate like hard-won wisdom in his tight-buttoned chest: it never rained but it poured, the devil made work for idle hands, one rotten apple spoiled the barrel.†   (source)
  • She forced these words to resonate, to stick.†   (source)
  • After a pause it spoke to them in a voice rich, resonant and deep.†   (source)
  • Human,' she intoned, her voice suddenly resonating with bass tones, 'your will is mine.†   (source)
  • I loved hearing the prayers resonate throughout the building.†   (source)
  • This is something he's never said before, it resonates around his head a moment.†   (source)
  • But though it was the most resonant and real-seeming thing that had happened in a long time, I didn't want to spoil it by talking about it, especially not with him.†   (source)
  • She had a bottom-of-a-well voice, deep and strangely resonant.†   (source)
  • Infinite sadness resonated in his voice.†   (source)
  • Starlight sparkled in the barbed wire, and there were curious reflections and layerings of shadow, and the big white moon added resonance.†   (source)
  • She stood listening to the alternating timbres and resonances of the men's voices.†   (source)
  • The blade touched the skin and each time this song became louder in my head, a song which wouldn't let up, as the melody resonated through me and the emptiness inside compressed intoitself.†   (source)
  • "You know," he said quietly, his own voice suddenly so rich and resonant that Mack was tempted to look behind him to see who had spoken.†   (source)
  • The echoes resonated in the village, causing birds to fly off and return curiously chattering.†   (source)
  • The notes rose from bass growls so deep that my bones and teeth resonated in sympathy to high, piercing screams that slid easily into the ultrasonic.†   (source)
  • I awoke at dawn to a loud, driving beat resonating through the mattress.†   (source)
  • She begins to tap her finger against it in a repetitive motion, resonating the sound of a heartbeat.†   (source)
  • His voice sounding with strange resonance, as if it were an order to be obeyed.†   (source)
  • I was like a temple bell that resonates long after it has been struck.†   (source)
  • Not until the early hours of the next day was the silence broken by a loud and resonant noise, the last sound I had expected.†   (source)
  • I recognized Billy's resonant voice easily, despite the years.†   (source)
  • How could I turn this academic talk into something that would resonate with our kids a decade or more up the road?†   (source)
  • The street resonated with the wheeze of handsaws.†   (source)
  • Yet the resonance in such names as England, France, or Germany is the very same boundless deep we call the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • 'Her heart, she cannot live,' I said, the words taking on for me a peculiar power, a disturbing resonance.†   (source)
  • His voice was resonant, and strangely familiar.†   (source)
  • Within the reactor vessel, these pressure waves were approaching the frequency at which a piece of equipment resonated.†   (source)
  • Behind her, an explosive crash sounds, resonating in her gut, as the minivan slides sideways into the gravestone.†   (source)
  • Suddenly an image came, one from a dream his conscious mind had already forgotten, which thus gained the delphic resonance of d,j, vu.†   (source)
  • He took over as head coach for the Valiants in 2003, and drew on his own life experience, emphasizing confidence building and discipline, a style that resonated with both players and parents.†   (source)
  • Just like the magnetic resonance imagery picks up electronic signals, this picks up radioactive signals and translates them into images.†   (source)
  • Nothing on the list resonated with me.†   (source)
  • One of his favored spots was the paupers' cemetery, exposed to the sun and the rain on an indigent hill, where turkey buzzards dozed and the music achieved a supernatural resonance.†   (source)
  • His voice was noticeably resonant, masculine, warm.†   (source)
  • The water swallowed it with a resonant plop.†   (source)
  • His tone is mild, but there is, and always has been, something a little deeper and more resonant about his voice.†   (source)
  • Resonant booming shook the sand around them.†   (source)
  • His voice was resonant, familiar, and knowledgeable, like that of an English teacher Ruth had once had.†   (source)
  • The air resonated with the boy's low laughter.†   (source)
  • She would never have heard Vivian's story, with all its resonance to her own.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, accounts of the 1963 epic on Everest resonated loud and long in my preadolescent imagination.†   (source)
  • She had not moved, and consequently she was obliged to raise her voice slightly in addressing me, so that it resonated rather oddly in the cavernous spaces of the dark and empty kitchen.†   (source)
  • But, as most women are not gentle, nor most men strong, it was a face which suggested, resonantly, in the depths, the truth about our natures.†   (source)
  • When I tapped with my bunched fingers above his right nipple it was dull, quite unlike the boxy, resonant note on the left.†   (source)
  • and one arm came clear of one coil and that made it a bit less of a chore to fight free of the second coil and that meant he could take that arm and bring it to the aid of the other arm and now he was yelling it out, "You're not going anywhere until I know those rhymes" and the sound of his own voice was really very impressive, deep and resonant, and who was this snake anyway, getting in the path of Fezzik when there were rhymes to learn, and by this time not only were both arms free of the bottom three coils but he was furious at the interruption and his hands grabbed toward the snake breath, and he didn't know if snakes had necks or not but whatever it was that you called the part tha†   (source)
  • The deep, booming sound resonated in my chest.†   (source)
  • Kristy had told me to live, whatever that meant in all its variations, and her words were still resonating.†   (source)
  • As he searches and learns more in classes and discussions about the country's immigrant past, the phrase "a hope in the unseen" continues to resonate.†   (source)
  • haze of pollen that hung in the sun like powdered gold and they ran he and the horses out along the high mesas where the ground resounded under their running hooves and they flowed and changed and ran and their manes and tails blew off of them like spume and there was nothing else at all in that high world and they moved all of them in a resonance that was like a music among them and they were none of them afraid horse nor colt nor mare and they ran in that resonance which is the world itself and which cannot be spoken but only praised.†   (source)
  • I might call it Heraclitus' ( You can't step twice into the same river ) riverbed: the bowler hat was a bed through which each time Sabina saw another river flow, anothersemantic river: each time the same object would give rise to a new meaning, though all former meanings would resonate (like an echo, like a parade of echoes) together with the new one.†   (source)
  • Billy opened his mouth, and out came a deep, resonant tone.†   (source)
  • The remark had a resonance that seemed to travel on our voices, caroming off the facing walls of the space we shared.†   (source)
  • Glancing neither left nor right, he strode indomitably up to the steam counter and, in a clear, full-bodied voice that was gruff with age and resonant with ancient eminence and authority, said: 'Gimme eat.'†   (source)
  • In deep, resonant tones, the vicar tells us of Pippa's beauty and her unfailing goodness.†   (source)
  • Nigel's appeal resonated more powerfully than anything Ms.†   (source)
  • Some flashing name resonating with a culpability even the families didn't recognize.†   (source)
  • Jake had taken Carl Lee Hailey's case, worked like a dog for peanuts, dodged bullets, ignored real threats, and lost almost everything before delivering a not-guilty verdict that still resonated in Ford County.†   (source)
  • His words resonate like a psalm.†   (source)
  • And finally, I wanted to start off the adventure in a place that had a mysterious resonance of its own.†   (source)
  • "Lord God Almighty," he cried, his voice resonating through the Delf, "as it once pleased You to accept hurnt offerings from Your children in Israel, so may it please You to accept these things from us, Your suffering flock.†   (source)
  • His voice, when he spoke, had an actor's resonance.†   (source)
  • The song reached into Tom's heart and amplified the resonance of each chord a thousandfold so that he thought his heart might explode.†   (source)
  • One aspect of the hip-hop phenomenon that now resonates across the culture is its cross-racial appeal.†   (source)
  • I couldn't believe those words had come out of my mouth, but as soon as they were spoken I felt the truth of them, resonating in me loud as a bell.†   (source)
  • And there on the platform I too had stridden and debated, a student leader directing my voice at the highest beams and farthest rafters, ringing them, the accents staccato upon the ridgepole and echoing back with a tinkling, like words hurled to the trees of a wilderness, or into a well of slate-gray water; more sound than sense, a play upon the resonances of buildings, an assault upon the temples of the ear: Ha!†   (source)
  • While the Rivonia Trial still resonated in people's minds, the government was eager to show the international community that we were being treated properly.†   (source)
  • Authority started test drills and resonance exploration in a cubic adjacent to L.City which could be converted into a warren.†   (source)
  • "I think maybe that Renault kid's got the right idea, after all," Kevin said, his mouth thick with peanut butter which, he wished he could explain to his mother, gave his words more resonance, like a disc jockey's.†   (source)
  • Nothing to disturb the deep breaths resonating throughout the house.†   (source)
  • For that reason, Alessandro was disappointed that they had set out with such glory all around them, everywhere-in the trees that swayed lightly, like ocean waves; in the rich colors of late afternoon as the retreating sun made the east a shadowless perfection of evenly throbbing light; in the slightly dusty haze that came with the approach of evening, dry and cool; in the wheat as the wind traveled through it as slowly as a boat in the thick of polar seas; and in all the memories summoned by these beauties to resonate and sing, until, in their ecstatic multiplication, they closed themselves off to mortal view by virtue of the light that is too bright to see.†   (source)
  • At last he spoke, and his voice though resonant was higher and clearer than Treebeard's.†   (source)
  • "The orders which you are about to receive have come from me," she said, standing above them on the iron stairs, speaking with resonant clarity.†   (source)
  • Many women—like my mother and grandmother—never learn the writing, but they still know some of the songs and stories, many of which resonate with a ta dum, ta dum, ta dum rhythm.†   (source)
  • The event organizers may not have been thinking about four boys from a ghetto high school, but the words resonated.†   (source)
  • After a silence, a new beat begins, slow and resonant.†   (source)
  • Essayists can be imagined speaking to one another, their beliefs resonating across the pages, sometimes contradicting, sometimes confirming one another.†   (source)
  • She realizes that eventually she will have to consult with 21-21 to pick a permanent name—which, considering the singular historical importance of this child's life, should be a name that resonates.†   (source)
  • There was always one photo that resonated above the others, and I'd point it out and she'd make me a copy.†   (source)
  • He had a surprisingly resonant voice, which had literally moved her, quite against her will, to the door.†   (source)
  • Years later, when we started making our hunting movies, some of the Eastwood phrases and gritty realism still resonated with me.†   (source)
  • Gravitic resonance imaging.†   (source)
  • He spoke slowly and resonantly.†   (source)
  • "Who are you?" asked a voice of shocking strength and resonance.†   (source)
  • We could pick up the names of neighbours being spoken in the local accents of our parents, and in the resonant English tones of the newsreader the names of bombers and of cities bombed, of war fronts and army divisions, the numbers of planes lost and of prisoners taken, of casualties suffered and advances made; and always, of course, we would pick up too those other, solemn and oddly bracing words, "the enemy" and "the allies".†   (source)
  • My name reverberated off the four barracks walls with an astonishing resonance.†   (source)
  • The airport reminded Leamas of the war: machines, half hidden in the fog, waiting patiently for their masters; the resonant voices and their echoes, the sudden shout and the incongruous clip of a girl's heels on a stone floor; the roar of an engine that might have been at your elbow.†   (source)
  • "I do thank you, worthy priest," he said, in a voice rich and resonant, and altogether larger than his person.†   (source)
  • Then there was a moment's silence, resonant, baffling.†   (source)
  • Coming from behind you, her deep, resonant voice reached you without being a word at all, but a sort of purr.†   (source)
  • All the Hodges had beautiful voices, deep and resonant as their father's, and they looked on a platform as if they'd been born there.†   (source)
  • Its depth and resonance gave the single clue that existed in Karellen's physical nature, fbr it left an overwhelming impression of sheer size.†   (source)
  • It seemed that he ended every lurid verse with, "Alas, Babylon!" in a voice so resonant you could feel it, if you rested your fingertips gently on the warped pine boards of the church.†   (source)
  • ROPER You belittle yourself, sir, this was not practical; (Resonantly) this was moral!†   (source)
  • Distant sounds reach us in a state of frozen resonance, separately and clearly.†   (source)
  • His voice is remarkably fine, resonant and flexible, and he takes great pride in it.†   (source)
  • She felt as odd, alone in the bed, as if a jaw-tooth had just been pulled, and the whole house seemed larger than it really was, hollow and resonant.†   (source)
  • A voice, very resonant, said the one word, "Prophesy!"†   (source)
  • The entire floor took up the resonance, and the strange relationship of sight and sound made the colors flare up brilliantly.†   (source)
  • Ten resonant clanging beats that was the signal that the houseboy was wanted.†   (source)
  • ...and at ten forty-seven and a half it was the deep, resonant voice of Mustapha Mond himself that sounded in his ears.   (source)
  • "Yes," and his voice suddenly took on a new resonance, he turned with a proud squaring of the shoulders, a proud, defiant lifting of the chin "to show that I'm a man…"   (source)
    resonance = deep, rich sound
  • Thud, thud, thud, came the drum with a vibrating resonance, and for the moment I did not notice two urchins stopping at the railings by me.   (source)
    resonance = deep richness (of sound)
  • Resonant yaw meant that, even though a missile was only slightly unstable off the pad, it was hopeless.†   (source)
  • The hadrosaur trumpeted in alarm, a loud resonant honk that so startled Lex that she nearly fell out of the tree.†   (source)
  • I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full and resonant.†   (source)
  • It resonates best with Celestial bronze.†   (source)
  • The shock of that moment still resonated within him.†   (source)
  • A thrumming hum resonated in this throat.†   (source)
  • There was the resonating quiet that seems the sole property of business quarters after hours.†   (source)
  • The killer's voice resonated in Langdon's mind.†   (source)
  • The high-frequency waves resonated through both vessels.†   (source)
  • Vittoria read it twice and then fell silent, as if letting the ancient words resonate on their own.†   (source)
  • Langdon's deep voice resonated against her chest, comforting her somehow.†   (source)
  • As it sliced through the air, the sound of the wind was deep and resonant.†   (source)
  • Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.†   (source)
  • It was in the heart of Rome and was richly furnished, with a grand staircase and resonant halls.†   (source)
  • The deep, resonant voice that haunts my dreams begins to speak.†   (source)
  • "It's over here," Langdon's deep voice resonated from across the room.†   (source)
  • It had an emotional resonance, if not a legal one.†   (source)
  • "Yes?" he said in a clear voice, resonant even in this room, "what can I do for you?"†   (source)
  • A man's powerful, resonant voice said: "Me-me-me-me-me-me-meme!"†   (source)
  • I tapped the bowl with a finger and it gave off a resonant hum.†   (source)
  • What feature of the plight of these young people most resonates for you?†   (source)
  • Or perhaps it was that his voice held a certain resonance.†   (source)
  • And those harmonies are where a sense of depth, solidity, resonance comes from.†   (source)
  • Mortati's voice bellowed now with a resonance he had never known.†   (source)
  • A handful of scientists moved briskly about, their footsteps echoing in the resonant space.†   (source)
  • There's no weight, no resonance, no sense of something larger at work.†   (source)
  • I use something I think of as the "resonance test."†   (source)
  • His voice was a quivery hum that resonated along his front blade.†   (source)
  • I went hunting this morning, he said, his mental voice resonating throughout Eragon's being.†   (source)
  • The call resonates in the blue-tinged forest.†   (source)
  • And when he speaks, leaning into the microphone, his voice is resonant and firm.†   (source)
  • "You called?" he asked, making his voice deep and resonant so that he sounded like Count Dracula.†   (source)
  • I just...had no idea it had resonated with you both so much.†   (source)
  • Her voice resonated across the landscape, shaking the bedrock under Jason's feet.†   (source)
  • "You want one thing," Piper said soothingly, her voice resonating through Jason's bones.†   (source)
  • He chuckled mellifluously with resonant disdain and authority.†   (source)
  • Such resonant and carefully crafted terms.†   (source)
  • As Eragon spoke, an idea occurred to him, one that resonated within him too strongly to ignore.†   (source)
  • And as much as I wanted to deny it, Randolph's words resonated with me.†   (source)
  • That resonated, and Leticia reluctantly gave her approval.†   (source)
  • Her voice was that of a man's, deep, resonant and filled with fluid.†   (source)
  • Its voice—resonant and long accustomed to command—spoke down to the imp.†   (source)
  • He had a DJ's voice, deep and resonant, which did not at all match his appearance.†   (source)
  • A howl erupted, so hideous and resonant it could not have been human.†   (source)
  • Its empty holds were resonant, made the song of the engines rich and loud.†   (source)
  • Was ugly job, vandalized mainly out of a resonance prospector used in project's early stages.†   (source)
  • That distant quality also gave the voices a ghostly resonance, like someone calling from the grave.†   (source)
  • Resonating up the blade, all the way to my ears, was a faint hum like a car engine turning over.†   (source)
  • Max's eyes filled with tears as the chimes resonated across the broad campus.†   (source)
  • She uttered a resonant trumpet, leaped off the rise, and flapped downward.†   (source)
  • His voice was deep and resonant, his accent vaguely German or Scandinavian.†   (source)
  • The kids loved the resonant, stirring quality of the phrase You are there.†   (source)
  • "Thank you, milady," he said cheerfully, his voice resonant and virile.†   (source)
  • Karellen gave that rich, deep laugh of his, just too resonant, to be altogether human.†   (source)
  • Most of its theatrical resonance had left it, and all of its dominance.†   (source)
  • At last they were all shouting, their eyes resonant in the wet, stonewalled room.†   (source)
  • The garden resonated with melancholy and shame, with betrayal and sin.†   (source)
  • Reciting, her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with the old fervor, with ferocity even.†   (source)
  • The only thing he succeeded in doing was to unearth a suit of fifteenth-century armor which had all of its pieces soldered together with rust and inside of which there was the hollow resonance of an enormous stone-filled gourd.†   (source)
  • Based on the most recent scientific observations, it suggested the multidimensional universe was made up not of three ....but rather of ten dimensions, which all interacted like vibrating strings, similar to resonating violin strings.†   (source)
  • Don't ask me how a demon could scream with a corkscrew head—but the sound resonated up the screw like it was a massive tuning fork.†   (source)
  • But deep down she was nevertheless convinced that Hermes had spoken, and in a deep resonant bass voice.†   (source)
  • In a POW camp network that would resonate across history as a supreme example of cruelty, Naoetsu had won a special place as one of the blackest holes in the Japanese Empire.†   (source)
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