And musicians come to hear the age-old songs with fifteen-syllable lines and themes of migration and survival.
Melisma is the musical art of creating a run of many notes from one syllable.
If Macbeth talked about the "last syllable of recorded time", the proto-Elamites were there for the first.
Ms. DENCH: (As M): Utter one more syllable and I'll have you killed.
He tapped the index card on the table as he pronounced each syllable.
Rickman (Severus Snape) is delicious, here, reduced to just a handful of lines but savoring each and every syllable.
Oh, and if one of your eight syllable industry specific words slips out, just define it immediately and move on.
Aside from one-syllable takes on the name Joseph, Guardiola and Heynckes don't have much in common, at least on the surface.
She runs out of breath, and then settles, mysteriously, like an old Bible that italicizes ordinary words, on a single syllable.
At an average of three letters per syllable, that would allow about 47 syllables, far more than a Haiku, by any measure.
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Words, in her mouth, always seemed to have one syllable too many.
The most common metrical form is the iambic fifteen-syllable verse in a rhyming couplet, although a poet may use eight-syllable, six-syllable or even nine-syllable verses.
In our excerpts, Wilson paces a three-syllable melody (Mon-te-rey) at an allegro tempo, as a romantic ballad, and sets it to a Latin swing beat.
One can only imagine what Agnew would make of our political world today, in which a president's pronouncements are dissected syllable by syllable, tick-of-the-clock by tick-of-the-clock.
If that word looks as though it required extreme acts of tonsillar gymnastics to produce, it is because no sound or syllable is wasted in Ithkuil.
Justice Story, in the last century, stated in his famous commentaries that there is not a syllable in the Constitution which confines impeachment to official acts.
The aesthetic lesson for presenters is to end every phrase of your narrative by dropping your voice, the spoken equivalent of an accented syllable in writing.
In Britain people pronounce "borough" with a short second syllable.
She starts her sentences up high, then swoops inexorably downward to the period, banging with a sledgehammer on the second syllable of every word that has one ("a-verrr-sion, " "Cammm-bohh-dee-ahh").
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Mr. MELOY: It's a beautiful word, lovely three-syllable word.
Most are short, one-syllable nicknames that are quite common.
Finally, note that there are just 14 words in the revised sentence, compared with 19 in the original, and that nine of them are one-syllable, three are two-syllable and two are three-syllable.
As Peter Parker, lead Reeve Carney looks enough like a normal kid and managed one solid glory note, but for some reason he swallows every syllable of dialogue he utters before spitting it out.
If he were to dwell on the fact that every single syllable he utters is being dissected in real time, it would be understandable if he were unable to make it through a paragraph.
But for the men who make each syllable of "blockbuster" ring with jaw-cracking sound -- Powell, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, James Horner and others -- "It's not as easy as it seems, " Powell laments.
They range from one-syllable shots like the Ace, the Deuce, the Dot and the Dart to names with mythological, military and poetic associations: the Argus, the Homer, the Colonel, the Scout, Eureka and Black Beauty.
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Budget constraints probably account for Rome's surprisingly meager population and a Volsci army that seems to number about two dozen, but you can't argue with the talent in the foreground: Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain and Gerard Butler don't misplace a single syllable between them.
Bobby Calder's research showed that every extra syllable in a product's price decreases its chances of being remembered by 20%, something caused by the fact that a person's phonological loop -- a regulator of memory -- can only hold 1.5 to 2 seconds of spoken information.
By the time the soft spoken Dodgers manager sat behind the designated table for a 30 minute session with the baseball writers, a phalanx of microphones and television cameras were ready to capture every syllable and word that Mattingly uttered regarding the 2011 season and the future of his ball club.
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"The thing that struck me when I put together this list was that 90% of the top 100 words were one syllable, and that a large proportion were actually from Old English, meaning the basic words we use all the time in basic sentences are from before the Norman Conquest, " he said.
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