Arenas said he sang the same cadences when he was a cadet more than 20 years ago.

CNN: Chilean navy chant offends neighboring countries

So give yourself some time to learn it and appreciate the city's lilting cadences, its harmonies of excess and restraint.

BBC: Mumbai: India's Tinseltown

When he takes on the cadences of a black preacher you know he is fired up and ready to go.

BBC: Obama victorious, but not yet the master politician

Once musicologist offered a detailed account with notation of how James Brown funkified(ph) the regular cadences of Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power" chant.

NPR: A Tribute to James Brown

It begins as a prehistoric adventure (a popular genre at the time), and is related in the solemn, archaic cadences of a fable.

NEWYORKER: The Cosmic Menagerie

The mayor is a charming man in private, but as a public speaker he makes you long for the glorious cadences of Al Gore.

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As King works up to the mighty peroration of the greatest American speech of the 20th century, his cadences continue to rise and fall, going higher each time to signal his passion for the subject.

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Every piece of visual information is presented head-on, with empty spaces at the side of the frame where, you can be certain, a character will soon step in and start blathering on in the kind of halting cadences usually reserved for small-town dinner theater.

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