Both Uses of
sonorous
in
Black Boy
- It was possible that the sweetly sonorous hymns stimulated me sexually, and it might have been that my fleshy fantasies, in turn, having as their foundation my already inflated sensibility, made me love the masochistic prayers.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost," he pronounced sonorously as he shook the wet branch.†
Chpt 1.6
Definition:
full and deep sounding