nasality
- a word derived from nasal.
Example Sentences
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The ensemble played these pieces with brisker transparency and perhaps more varied colors; Nézet-Séguin’s textures in “Don Carlos,” airier than Levine’s, felt of a piece with the elegant nasality of French.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2022
He added, “It definitely does have some of the Sinatra characteristics, but there’s a little nasality in there, and it’s when the singer becomes nasal that I start to hear that it’s not Frank.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2020
Oliver is a plainly gripping singer, his nasality helping him cut through the clatter.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2011
Yet the two are instantly doing dueling Michael Caines: Coogan emphasizing Caine's nasality, Brydon the lower, slower diction that comes from decades of "all the cigars and brandy."
From Time • Jun. 10, 2011
Of these the first, which is Yankee also, comes nearest to the nasality of concombre.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
