Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Measured; rhythmical; regular; expressed or executed with measured regularity: as, a cadenced step; cadenced sound; “the cadenced surges of an unseen ocean,”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective music Having a
regular ,rhythmic cadence . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cadence . (verb)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by a rhythmical cadence
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Examples
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The result, Messrs. Jones and Meyer say, was a "clean, easy - flowing, and pleasantly cadenced piece of writing."
One Nation, Indivisible Melanie Kirkpatrick 2010
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It's a psychologized style that is in many ways indebted to the work of the filmmaker Ross McElwee, whose self-deprecatingly cadenced voice-overs sound almost like a model for Mr. Block's.
Parental Guidance Is Advised Nicolas Rapold 2010
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"Quindlen is in classic form, with strong characters and precisely cadenced prose that builds in intensity."
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Lush, cadenced and often disconcerting, this is an accomplished first effort.
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Book summary 2010
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Bernard-Henri Lévy sounds high and mighty, his speech cadenced and emphatic.
Claire Devarrieux: Public Enemies: The "Principal Whipping Boys" of France Claire Devarrieux 2011
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It came with a slurring rush upward, swelling to a great heart-breaking burst of sound, and dying away in sadly cadenced woe -- then the next rush upward, octave upon octave; the bursting heart; and the infinite sorrow and misery, fainting, fading, falling, and dying slowly away.
BÂTARD 2010
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Surely this passage is just as cadenced, just as precise and as evocatively creepy as it was when O'Connor wrote it.
December 2009 2009
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Surely this passage is just as cadenced, just as precise and as evocatively creepy as it was when O'Connor wrote it.
Style in Fiction 2009
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The Observer praised "the sheer delight of his style – that sustained, lucid, precise and subtly cadenced prose that can keep you inside the dynamic thoughts of one of his characters for as many pages as he wants".
Philip Roth: Still fascinated by himself | Observer profile 2011
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With its warm and sympathetic heroines and its finely cadenced prose, this collection demonstrates that [Adichie] is keeping faith with her talent and with her country.
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