What's the difference between resounding and sonorous?

Resounding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resound

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
  • (2) Nor – despite today's declaration that the three-day meeting had been a resounding success – was there more than patchy progress.
  • (3) Promising to tear up bailout agreements that had created a “humanitarian crisis”, Syriza surged to a resounding victory .
  • (4) 10.03am: This from Hiraldo_TIFC, one of the Guardian Fans' Network members: Jürgen Klinsmann speaking about the process of Germany's revival in the last 6 years , worthwhile read #worldcup #GER 10.13am: Below the line, ChuckSchick asks: "Would a resounding German World Cup win, coupled with an impressive CL run by Bayern lead to greater Bundesliga coverage on UK television?
  • (5) This case resoundingly illustrates that the strength of our Program is not limited only to testing.
  • (6) He used a set of figures purporting to show high weekend death-rates that have since been resoundingly rubbished by health statisticians.
  • (7) A Guardian poll in August 2013 produced a resounding no vote on quotas for UK parliamentarians .
  • (8) That is a resounding rebuke for Berlusconi -- whose efforts to unseat Letta appear to have turned sour.
  • (9) At the end of the night guests voted a resounding 'yes' to supporting the campaign.
  • (10) Feed-in tariffs for solar panels – where the government pays people for creating their own renewable energy – have been a resounding success, but the government now intends to cut them back, a decision that has led to legal action from solar companies.
  • (11) The almost certain resounding no to the alternative vote shows clearly that the voters think otherwise.
  • (12) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
  • (13) Our current answer is not a resounding “No!” It’s a slightly interrogatively inflected “Probably not”, which is hardly a ringing endorsement of the health of American civilisation.
  • (14) But his resounding 4,091 majority delivered David Cameron a key marginal.
  • (15) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
  • (16) The astonishing popularity of the “rock-star economist ” is itself a resounding testament to our concern for inequality.
  • (17) Jubilant Republicans declared the US election race back on Thursday, calling Mitt Romney's resounding victory over Barack Obama in the first of the presidential debates a "game changer".
  • (18) Lionel Messi scored within three minutes of returning to action for the first time in more than three weeks to help fire Barcelona to a resounding 4-0 home win over Deportivo La Coruña .
  • (19) There is much evidence to suggest voters will resoundingly reject Corbynism in its current form if he makes it to the next election.
  • (20) As the Tory cheers resounded at the end of the budget speech, standing at the back was the diminished figure of Boris Johnson, wearing the look of a man that knew his future rival had set the bar somewhere he has never been in politics.

Sonorous


Definition:

  • (a.) Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
  • (a.) Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.
  • (a.) Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.
  • (a.) Impressive in sound; high-sounding.
  • (a.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
  • (2) The value of sonor biparietal cephalometry and serum oxytocinase that we have obtained with weekly simultaneous determinations in 14 females with normal pregnancy and in 5 with pathological pregnancy, from 24th to 39th week, show a statical positive relation.
  • (3) And Matthew McConaughey will do a sonorous voice over about the evolution of human endeavour on the trailer.
  • (4) And the winner of the £25,000 prize – Glaswegian Susan Philipsz , whose piece consisted of a recording of her soft and sonorous voice singing a traditional Scottish lament over the River Clyde – remembered it the morning after just as an artist who works in sound ought: "It was a surreal experience.
  • (5) But the voice is a deep sonorous thing that crackles like dry leather, and he can still draw blood with one deadpan line.
  • (6) Sonorant and voicing features were transmitted well for the A condition, but features related to high-frequency and place cues were not.
  • (7) The author has conducted 95 subtotal reconstructive laryngectomies in the period of 1976 to 1984, with the following effects: decannulation, with the mean time of 6 weeks in 82%; deglutition without difficulties, after the third postoperative month in 90% of operated patients; the restoration of phonetics with sonorous-understandable speech in 11%.
  • (8) It all began at two minutes to six on May Day last year, when the sonorous tones of Sir David Attenborough combined with the equally unmistakable call of the cuckoo, heralding the start of Tweet of the Day .
  • (9) My eldest son dropped his dummy like a stone when warned by our Italian dentist, in a sonorous baritone: "You don't give up your dummy, you look like this …" (pantomiming horrible buck teeth).
  • (10) It has also been argued that the sonority (or vowel-likeness) of the consonant closest to the peak, which is a function of its phonetic class, may have an effect on the strength of boundaries determined by the hierarchical division of the syllable (e.g., Treiman, 1984).
  • (11) Prefiguring attitudes now associated with John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman, Robinson succeeded in breaking through what he called the "sonorous drivel" of politicians, of whom he once said: "It's impossible to make the bastards reply to a straight question."
  • (12) Salient features in the auditory mode for the CI group were duration, sonorancy, and some manner attributes, while the HA subjects used these features as well as sibilancy and voicing.
  • (13) Velopharyngeal sonorous snoring is best treated with uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP).
  • (14) In May, it hosts Nuits Sonores , a five-day (and night) festival of electronic music and art, which sees hundreds of locations across the city transformed into creative stages (13-17 May).
  • (15) In a slow but sonorous voice, the biblical cadences rolled out, and the crowd would sway with them, and punctuate them with the answering calls that are the special feature of Negro churches.
  • (16) A high court judge has sonorously intoned that Putin is not very nice.
  • (17) What's excruciating is seeing your father lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying in a pool of blood.” Charles Ryan, director of Arizona’s department of corrections, said in a statement: “Once the inmate was sedated, other than sonorous respiration, or snoring, he did not grimace or make any further movement.
  • (18) These values confirm the fact that, although the new voice achieved through reconstructive laryngectomy surgery is less sonorous, it allows for perfectly understandable, socially acceptable speech.
  • (19) Other times it is groups of young men who improvise platforms upon the irregular surfaces of the rooftop and talk and laugh with sonorous cries, feeling perhaps, at this height, somewhat liberated from the burdensome human environment, and whose demeanour is tinged with familiarity by their moving around in shirtsleeves – as on a rooftop no one is ashamed of exhibiting themselves dressed like this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest View from the rooftop of Brasil 42 today.
  • (20) Not according to some Obama administration voices and rather too many sonorous broadcasters and upmarket commentators.