For all the shrill noise of his scrawled marginalia, Mr Twombly's tone can often be very grand and stentorian.

ECONOMIST: The influence of Abstract Expressionism

My poker-faced host recited the day's dishes in stentorian tones while looking out at the street, and I scrambled to understand.

FORBES: Editor's Note

Excerpt: Oddly enough, the more tired you get as you write and rewrite, the more likely you are to abandon any self-conscious semi-stentorian writing and write more like yourself.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Eastwood and the screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have re-created that period in the nineteen-twenties and thirties when a righteous young man with a stentorian style could electrify a nation.

NEWYORKER: The Man in Charge