percussiveness
- a word derived from percussive.
Example Sentences
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Soulive’s brand of crackling funk can be casually irresistible: It’s in the nonchalant, flick-of-the-wrist percussiveness, and the way its grooves linger tantalizingly close to liftoff.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2018
Horowitz, the work’s greatest exponent, made sparks fly with his brittle percussiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2016
His rugged percussiveness bears strong traces of Queens legend Kool G Rap, while his fixations on uneven rhyme schemes recall the Bronx’s own lunatic laureate, Kool Keith.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2015
The themes often move in unexpected directions, and Escreet peremptorily adds a Thelonious Monkish, note-prodding percussiveness to lines that seem at first to be unfolding with a methodically interweaving nu-jazz deliberation.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2010
Admirers of De Larrocha undoubtedly will want her performance, but others may be disturbed by the percussiveness both of her style and the recorded sound.
From Time Magazine Archive
