What is "resonant"

Usage examples of "resonant".

A green and smoldering painting of an ancient ruin overgrown with writhing plants that seemed to have eyes and purpose and a malevolently jolly life of their own, as they swarmed and slithered and overran the stone vaults and altars of the twisted, disturbingly resonant sepulcher.

Occasionally, mahogany tables and chairs interrupted the monophonic atmosphere, their dark, resonant tones adding harmony and a sense of structure.

But of greatest interest is her remarkable control over the muscles which regulate the division and modification of the resonant cavities, the laryngeal, pharyngeal, oral, and nasal, and upon this depends the quality of her voice.

The epiglottis during the production of the highest notes rises upward and backward against the posterior pharyngeal wall in such a way as almost entirely to separate the pharyngeal cavities, at the same time that it gives an unusual conformation to those resonant chambers.

In that dead, pulseless silence he could distinctly hear the distant voices of Levi and his companion, sounding loud and resonant in the hollow of the woods.

The way in which that knotty-featured, savage old man would bring out the word irritation--with rattling and rolling reduplication of the resonant letter r--might have taught a lesson in articulation to Salvini.

The spacious chords had been augmented by a soloist who was playing slow cascades of notes on an instrument something like an oud, but more resonant.

For him it was the note of the Roman trumpet, tuba mirum spargens sonum, filling all the hollow valley with its command, reverberated in dark places in the far forest, and resonant in the old graveyards without the walls.

The two women heard the deep resonant voice of Baron Tourment laughing quietly.

His deep, resonant voice was contemplative, his eyes staring out into some unseeable distance.

Tom, though this scenario has been well built up over three novels, and it could have been the true and most resonant thematic resolution of the whole sequence, a characterological resolution, a political resolution, a mighty aesthetic resolution.

There were other aspects he could use, including voice from his direction, simply by talking aloud and letting the resonant bone of his skull carry the sound to the tap, but such contacts were rare.

The customhouse entry-hall echoed with the resonant sound of the seal impressing the wax.

These sounds and scents had neither the dreamlike insubstantiality nor the hyperrealistic intensity that she might have expected of hallucinations, but were of a vividness precisely matched to the elements of the night that she knew to be real: neither more nor less resonant than the grumble and swish of passing traffic, neither more nor less sweet-smelling than the traffic fumes were odorous.

Danlo chose a door at random, glanced at Tamara, and then rapped his knuckles across the gleaming, resonant wood.