Sentences with diapason
di·a·pa·son
D d - 1934: the piano curving like a conch, corollas giving out diapasons of light — Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1961: he could hear nothing except the rattle of the crickets and the swelling diapason of the frogs — Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case
- 1818: 2 to 1, which is a duple ratio, forms the [symphony] diapason — Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras Tr. Thomas Taylor (page 328)
- Here is an author in full command of the English language; invective is not beyond him; he ranges across the full diapason of human passion.
- For 45 minutes he spoke, sometimes allowing his voice to swell in a sonorous diapason, sometimes letting it sink low as he leaned forward confidentially over the desk.
- The entire diapason of pro-war liberal opinion-formers has indulged in this revolting ad hominem habit, ad infinitum and ad nauseam.
- Etherington adopts an apt change in registration, giving vent to the diapasons that would have been the lynchpin of organs in Handel's own time.
- But the organ basically has one foundational stop which you use, I wouldn't say all the time, but most of the time if you are regularly playing, and that is the diapason or the principal, they have different names.