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But Obama will make a melifluous, eloguent, dishonest speech about how great the reform will be, even without a robust, well-funded public option available to all.
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And his voice makes Truman Capote's sound melifluous.
The Olympics: "weirdly unsexy." Ann Althouse 2008
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: The best sports in all show business, George Takei, is in the studio as announcer with is most melifluous voice and with the revelation that he lost his virginity at Boy Scout camp.
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Obama's strategy now is, IMHO, to mollify the middle, melifluous don't you think.
McCain and Obama both criticized the Supreme Court for rejecting the death penalty for the rape of a child, but McCain points to the real distinction. Ann Althouse 2008
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Or, am Ilets have some brackets, just talking, a load of old, embunctorial and melifluous grammar!
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As those melifluous sentences dropped from the lip, and the speaker passed from point to point of his address, it was highly interesting to note the reception of those advanced ideas by the cultured, critical assemblage, constituting one of our finest metropolitan audiences.
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As those melifluous sentences dropped from the lip, and the speaker passed from point to point of his address, it was highly interesting to note the reception of those advanced ideas by the cultured, critical assemblage, constituting one of our finest metropolitan audiences.
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As those melifluous sentences dropped from the lip, and the speaker passed from point to point of his address, it was highly interesting to note the reception of those advanced ideas by the cultured, critical assemblage, constituting one of our finest metropolitan audiences.
THE WOMAN'S ADVOCATE 1869
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As the one has often rung with the melifluous tones of Tully, the copious and sparkling diction of Hortensius; so the other has echoed "sentiments as they flowed from the lips of youthful and fervid eloquence" that would have done no discredit even to the great Cicero himself.
"Desultory Reflections—No. II. The College Campus," The North Carolina University Magazine I, No. IV (June 1844): 159-161 No Author 1844
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So what we need is even more exposure to his melifluous voice and vague platitudes.
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