Mellifluous

Then again, he did use the word "mellifluous" just for flare -- maybe saying, "amen" is just some literary device we don't understand yet ... ❋ Unknown (2008)

I was pleased to see the word "mellifluous" in today's post, especially as your use of it was so apt. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Then there were words which were beautiful to hear, which had a rich sound -- words like "mellifluous" and "brocade" and "Cleopatra." ❋ Dana Gatlin (N/A)

Smokey Robinson coined the term "quiet storm" to describe a certain kind of mellifluous R&B back in the mid-70s, and the four-times-platinum Diamond Life, which won the BRIT Award for Best Album in 1985, and its attendant four singles, helped give that gently turbulent music a wide, even international audience. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Senator John McCain, who has not known as a mellifluous orator, is already playing the political game of lowering expectations for his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis next month – particularly since Senator Barack Obama will deliver his speech before the Democrats at the Denver Broncos’ football stadium. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Marian Evans with her long, weird, dreamy face; Lewes, with his big brow and keen thoughtful eyes; Browning, pale and spruce, his eye like a skipper's cocked-up at the weather; Peacock, with his round, mellifluous speech of the old Greeks; David Gray, great-eyed and beautiful, like Shelley’s ghost; Lord Houghton, with his warm worldly smile and easy-fitting enthusiasm. ❋ Various (N/A)

Seek ye then, fair daughters, the possession of that inward grace, whose essence shall permeate and vitalize the affections, adorn the countenance, make mellifluous the voice, and impart a hallowed beauty even to your motions. ❋ B.G. Jefferis (N/A)

The leader of the LDK, the forever silk scarfed and mellifluous Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, compared himself openly and blushlessly to Vaclav Havel and the Kosovar struggle to the Velvet Revolution. ❋ Samuel Vaknin (N/A)

To its musical murmur may be traced the mellifluous cadences of the statesman's voice employed so effectually in his appeals to Labour and the Paris Conference. ❋ Various (N/A)

The words mellifluous (honey-flowing) and melody (honey-sound) are themselves standing witnesses in behalf of the existence of the same perception. ❋ Various (N/A)

As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras: so the sweete wittie soule of Ovid lives in mellifluous and hony-tongued Shakespeare; witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends &c. ❋ William Allan Nielson (N/A)

Now, list to two men carrying a large deep tub of honey between them, and bellowing in rapid alternation, "Miele, miele," and say if their accents are mellifluous! ❋ Various (N/A)

The voice on the Route-8 bus pronounces the names of each bus stop in perfect, mellifluous native Hawaiian: "Kuhio and Lili'uokalani," the recording says as the bus approaches a stop on the way to Waikiki Beach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At a press conference in June, the mellifluous one said he felt that "as a general proposition, companies need to have the freedom to relocate." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tougher than Romance languages and not nearly as mellifluous to the ear, learning German is a labor of love for most people. ❋ Dr. Ali Binazir (2011)

There was no other word for it: I felt mellifluous. ❋ Terri Cheney (2011)

A videographer posted a clip of his mellifluous baritone, leading to job offers, an appearance on Today and a reunion with his mother. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The mellifluous [blah blah blah] [whatever]. ❋ Larstait (2003)

Young listeners had [forgotten] that music could be [mellifluous] and still have [depth]. ❋ Α (2022)

Person 1: [The music] in this [elevator] is [mellifluous]. Person 2: IKR. ❋ DepressedCow (2021)

Person 1: Hey, [the music] in this [elevator] is [mellifluous]! Person 2: IKR. ❋ DepressedCow (2021)

[Kim Taehyung] aka V from [BTS] has a [mellifluous] voice which soothes listeners soul. ❋ SpeakingFact (2022)