Rich, as a voice

Usage examples of orotund.

It may, of course, vary in pitch, but tones of low pitch that are intended to be impressive are most suitably rendered in orotund quality.

With the orotund, as well as with the natural quality, all the voice modes previously described may be conjoined.

Once a week, on Sunday, he makes a practice of reading aloud his progress, in a tiny, orotund voice.

The orotund gentleman downstairs left me in no doubt of it, but would not tell me what it was.

Susannah, whose health had been weak, was delighted with the grand orotund lady who asked for a goblet of brandy after dinner, lighted a cigar and read her slight, fragile poetry so absurdly different from the bearer.

Living Stone that hummed with the same mellow, orotund vibration of the sonorous earth all around them.

To be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle, yet in a slower, more orotund fashion.

The voice came again, this time uncoupled from whatever mechanisms made it so orotund, and it seemed to falter and become human.

Brakhage was charismatic and orotund and evoked Orson Welles on television.

Three years of English life evidently turned his head, for he returned to Wheaton in 1913 wearing an Inverness cape, smoking a pipe, and talking with a peculiarly orotund accent—.