(a.) Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Led by the redoubtable Frances O'Grady, the TUC's stentorian No 2, a succession of union leaders and VIPs addressed the throng in time-honoured fashion.
(2) No doubt she would have been suitably scathing of the few less stentorian, more appeasing notes.
(3) Russell Crowe looks on stentorian form as the pre-flood patriarch, reeling from portents of the apocalypse and determined to protect his wife (Jennifer Connelly), his adopted daughter (Emma Watson) and the animals of the world.
(4) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.
(5) That stentorian gravitas has served Cheney well, but I don't believe it's an accurate reflection of his personality.
(6) Stentorian snoring and diurnal somnolence are the cardinal manifestations and should always lead to an examination during sleep.
(7) From Sinn Féin’s point of view, the stentorian attitude of Foster, refusing to stand aside, and the growing feeling among their own supporters that they have been weak and pushed around, has made it necessary for them to take a tough line.
(8) A stentorian American voice would utter the legend: “This election meets the highest standards of Scottish democratic excellence.” But the big Benjamins would assuredly accrue from the dodgier democracies such as Russia and China.
(9) Ludus played a fretful and subsequently jazz-inflected post-punk, their singer's playfully stentorian vocals (which Morrissey admired, and in part mimicked a few years later) describing vignettes charged with the sexual politics of the time and occasionally veering into ecstatic screeches.
(10) The best part was hitchhiking up to London for a night out (her brilliantly posh and stentorian voice meant that her lifts tended to keep their hands to themselves, fearing serious consequences if they didn't).
(11) We like the way the riff decelerates to a sludgy pace, and the booming, stentorian singing, which is of the Peter Murphy-announcing-that-Bela-Lugosi-is-dead school of portentous vocalese.
(12) Tuck got progressively drunker as the night went on, and Roberts dealt with it in a kind of disapproving stentorian way.
Vociferous
Definition:
(a.) Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds.
Example Sentences:
(1) But now they have a bullish and vociferous spokesperson in Guatemala's president, Otto Pérez Molina.
(2) Mourinho has been vociferous in his complaints about the scheduling of key domestic fixtures around European ties this season and reiterated his dissatisfaction after Tuesday's goalless draw in Madrid, claiming to be baffled as to why the match at Anfield could not be played on Friday or Saturday to assist the last English club involved in European competition.
(3) "For us he is persona non grata," said Panos Kammenos, leader of the vociferously anti-austerity Independent Greeks party as the 300-seat house debated the job losses.
(4) The cardinal consistently condemned homosexuality during his reign, vociferously opposing gay adoption and same-sex marriage.
(5) Her husband would also have been "outrageous and vociferous" in resisting it, she said. "
(6) In the three months since the 14 December shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA has been lobbying vociferously against President Obama's attempt to tighten gun controls.
(7) The PLA would be reinforcing recent Chinese foreign ministry warnings against North Korea conducting a fourth nuclear test and “causing turmoil at China’s doorstep” – but in a way that the foreign ministry can still vociferously deny the existence of such documents.
(8) On the ground in Crimea, meanwhile, what is particularly odd is that the most vociferous defenders of Russian bases against supposed fascists appear to hold far-right views themselves.
(9) Thirdly, Pakistan at present has – thanks in part to reforms effected by the previous military dictator Musharraf – an extremely vociferous media.
(10) Tearing up US deal with Iran would be disastrous, says CIA chief Read more Trump’s transition so far has not been encouraging to Tehran: Michael Flynn, named as his national security adviser, and Mike Pompeo, his choice for the head of the CIA, have been vociferous in their opposition to Iran .
(11) So, I hope this doesn’t preside some kind of understanding about preferences in House of Representatives elections between the Coalition and the Greens.” On Tuesday Labor’s leader in the senate, Penny Wong, spoke vociferously against the changes.
(12) The sort of person who, despite having a framed Keep Calm and Carry On poster on their wall, gets vociferously morally outraged by 25 different things over the course of the average morning on Twitter, eg Daily Mail headlines, anything Jeremy Clarkson says, people who post Homeland spoilers, Parcelforce delivery slots, etc.
(13) Twenty-year-old Jasmin Stone of Focus E15, who continues to campaign vociferously on housing issues , is disillusioned by the lot.
(14) The "Holyland affair" forced Olmert to resign as prime minister in 2009, although he vociferously denied any wrongdoing.
(15) Glaring by virtue of its almost complete omission is digital piracy , a topic of vociferous debate during the debate about the digital economy bill just weeks ago – it gets just seven words, to "take further action to tackle online piracy", in Labour's manifesto.
(16) However, you want to describe it, the affair (by which I mean "matter", I've been advised by a lawyer, these words are all filtered and combed before you are allowed to see them) supposed to have caused Murdoch to give his former blood-brother the cold shoulder, hardly surprising after he got Blair elected and supported his unpopular, illegal war so vociferously.
(17) There was a much warmer welcome from John Sauven, executive director of the vociferous anti-coal campaign group Greenpeace: "In the last decade it was coal that posed the great threat to our CO 2 emissions targets.
(18) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
(19) Patel, vociferous about his recent treatment by England, in particular bemoaning his exclusion from recent one-day sides, gave a hint of his much debated fitness after every dismissal.
(20) Here is the Daily Mail : "The Guardian continues to be vociferous in its demands for police to pursue tabloid journalists suspected of acting illegally.