Example Sentences

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A range of emotions came in between, a continuum between tonality and atonality, between tune and tunelessness, between wistfulness and ferocity, between memory and forgetting.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2018

It's worse than merely "tuneless": It's broadway-constructed tunelessness that is intended to be that way for sophisticated showgoers.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2014

And if there is much that is withering in his contempt, there is also something bracing in the loony tunelessness of this hymn to human dispirit.

From Time Magazine Archive

So, whistling with moist tunelessness, he rounded the Point, Kobuk trotting on ahead.

From Where the Sun Swings North by Willoughby, Barrett

In those coming days, history may perceive in Mr. Cawein the golden link that bound the music of the past to the music of the future through an interval of comparative tunelessness.

From Kentucky Poems by Cawein, Madison J.