deceptive cadence

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noun Music.

a cadence consisting of a dominant harmony followed by a resolution to a harmony other than the tonic.

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Denton, who speaks in the clipped cadence of the Oxford-educated Brit he is, has built quite a castle.
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He knows he was lucky that way; but also that appearances can be deceptive.
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One song interweaves adult themes into nursery rhyme cadence.
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He states them with a musical cadence and then brings them out one by one to be examined, dissected and reveled in.
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“The language on the ballot is deceptive and deliberately so,” says Herron.
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Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter, it is deceptive.
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In connection with this comes the consideration of slides and the finer modulations of tone-color, movement, and cadence.
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All passions are deceptive; they conceal themselves as much as possible from others and from themselves as well.
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Below him for a hundred and fifty feet the gravel was of the same hard, deceptive consistency.
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The boys now realized how deceptive wind and water viewed from a distance always are.
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