His paintings have the truth to nature, the delicately modulated outline, and the facile grace of the most perfect bass-reliefs or frescos.
In a voice well-modulated and even, he selected his words with care, sometimes pausing for the precise expression, which he brought out with a quiet emphasis that made its exactness impressive.
There was not a voice there, save perhaps Austin Page's unstudied tones, which was not carefully modulated in a variety of rhythm and pitch which made each sentence a work of art.
She had a well-modulated voice, but that is because she is evidently an actress as well as dancer; but there is something in her mode of speech that made me feel she was not exactly the same class as the children with her.
I want to see the manager," said the woman in a well-modulated voice.
It is a strong, richly modulated whistle,--the finest sparrow note I have ever heard.
That richly modulated warble proceeding from the top of yonder birch, and which unpracticed ears would mistake for the voice of the scarlet tanager, comes from that rare visitant, the rose-breasted grosbeak.
I came down after you, Maude,' said he, in a voice ingeniously modulated between the tone of old intimacy and a slight suspicion of emotion.
It had struck but twice, but in his spiritual ear the sounds had been modulated through many tones.
With gentle touch, she drew from the keys a plaintive prelude, which soon modulated itself into "The Light of other Days.
He had gone through some of the best passages of Racine and Corneille, and then had heard the echo of his own deep tones in the girl's voice, that modulated itself faithfully on his.
It would have been absolutely agreeable, except that her formal and self-important character modulated her strains, as it impressed her manners and moulded her countenance.
Round the southern door of the Florentine duomo runs a border of fig-leaves, each leaf modulated as if dew had just dried from off it--yet each alike, so as to secure the ordered symmetry of classical enrichment.
I reckon I'll not go up to your house to-night," Dave said in a carefully modulated voice.
It's respectable," she insisted her agreeable, modulated voice.
Even for you," repeated Guilder in his moderate and always modulated voice.
It also has a song, uttered both when resting and on the wing, composed of several agreeably modulated notes, and in that thick rolling intonation peculiar to our Swallows.
At intervals he repeats his remarkable little song, composed of a succession of sweetly modulated metallic trills uttered on the wing.
But Brown talked on, quite unconscious that the low-voiced questions and softly modulated replies were magic which incited him to a perfect ecstasy of self-revelation.
Also," she continued, "your voice is cultivated and modulated with just enough of the American accent to make it piquantly agreeable.
The phrase "acidulation of perversity" might do, for it is easily modulated to the metrical form.
The various ways in which the formal rhythms of verse combine with the infinitely modulated rhythms of natural prose produce a resultant which is complicated to the last degree and which almost precludes orderly exposition.
Then he said, with a clearlymodulated and rather mincing articulation: 'Would it discommode you to contribute elsewhere a coin with a somewhat different superscription?
But Father Brown had to tell himself sharply that one should be in charity even with those who wax their pointed beards, who have small gloved hands, and who speak with perfectly modulated voices.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modulated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
