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.
She runs out of breath, and then settles, mysteriously, like an old Bible that italicizes ordinary words, on a single syllable.
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.
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.
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 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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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.
"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.
Melisma is the musical art of creating a run of many notes from one syllable.
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.
Mr. MELOY: It's a beautiful word, lovely three-syllable word.
Rickman (Severus Snape) is delicious, here, reduced to just a handful of lines but savoring each and every syllable.
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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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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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.
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