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Перевод: stentorian
[прилагательное] громовой; громоподобный; зычный
Тезаурус:
- Stentorian and off-key, the few opponents dutifully raised their chorus.
- In Coles's book, the poets are described in much the same terms as "The Warkton Strong Man", "The Stentorian Voiced Crier, Of Northampton", and "The Astonishing Reaper, of Great Doddington".
- "It is your duty, girls, to make your new colleagues feel at home here," ' Portia suddenly said in stentorian tones which made Marie-Hlne burst out in giggles.
- The fighting cocks lived in the house with us, sleeping under their owners sarongs, and periodically exploded, at all hours, with stentorian cock-a-doodle-doos - or, rather, their Indonesian equivalent, for here, of course, the animals speak differently.
- The best new Cash here is "Going By The Book" where Biblical storied and Gulf War reports collide, weighty concerns that match his stentorian, testifying tones.
- This led the pope to commission the bishop of Lucca, who was endowed with a stentorian voice, to read out the decrees of the Council.
- Markby hurriedly opened his hymnbook and burst into a stentorian "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", considerably disconcerting the old lady in front of him.
- I expected him to be with me, his stentorian ubiety transmogrifying the spacious library into somewhere shabby and small.
- While there's some of that in "Weird Nightmare", Willner has fashioned an altogether darker ride, placing the shocking, brutal stream-of-consciousness prose from Mingus' Beneath The Underground autobiography in the mouths of a droll, disembodied Leonard Cohen, a stentorian, harassing Chuck D and Doctor Joh, the latter back in a setting that recalls the Bacchanalian exotica of his classic "Gris Gris" psychedelic gumbo album.
- Amy, Amy - this in a stentorian roar, because Mrs Abercrombie is very deaf - Amy, I've told the lady on you, she says she'll have the police round if you don't watch out .
- A bulky round-faced woman in a huge hat was holding forth in stentorian tones.
- Perhaps Harriet had been roused by Pringle's stentorian cry.
- The aloofly anachronistic style of the bar, the stentorian joshing, the minor public-school humour remain the common coin, and even those who started life as the children of railway porters soon assume the mannerisms of the people whose bags their fathers carried.
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