All 12 Uses of
cadence
in
The Lords of Discipline
- After a long childhood with an unbenign father and four years at the Institute, I was looking forward to that day of release when I would no longer be subject to the fixed, irresistible tenets of martial law, that hour when I would be presented with my discharge papers and could walk without cadences for the first time.†
Chpt 1.1
- "Do you think we can go all the way this year, Mr. McLean?" the General said, his soft, lethargic voice brushed by the sweet cadences and slurred elisions of the upcountry.†
Chpt 1.5
- By 1000 hours, sophomore corporals swollen with the joy of calling cadence for the first time expertly marched squads of freshmen to Durrell Hall for the ritual haircuts.†
Chpt 1.7
- The air filled up with the rhythm of cadence.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- He had a marvelous voice for cadence, for the issuance of command.†
Chpt 1.14
- The fifteen of us hit the gallery and began pumping out the fifty pushups in unison, matching our voices and cadences.†
Chpt 2.20
- Then we were lifted out of our chairs as if an indiscernible cadre had begun barking orders, and I found myself walking with the Corps, the entire Corps, moving without cadence and in silence, with an awesome, unspeakable purpose.†
Chpt 3.28
- They were the only ones who did not laugh at our uniforms on road trips, did not call cadence as we walked to the locker room, and did not blameus for every death in the Vietnam War.†
Chpt 3.30
- Bowing to each other and grinning beneath the cloth masks, they began a slow cadenced march toward Pearce, the candles held like swords in front of them as they made their long approach.†
Chpt 4.38
- I remember the battalions beginning to move out, the call of cadence, the shape of the dark chapel, the fecund smell of the Corps's trampled grass, the shadows of missiles and tanks, the flag illuminated high above second battalion, above the clock, the pavement, the sound of my footsteps on the pavement; but I do not remember the act of running.†
Chpt 4.41
- I would gladly have left R Company, walked over to where the General was standing, and beat out his dentures with the stock of my M—I, but the astonishing power of the group had seized me again, and I marched as one with the Corps, congruent with the multilimbed kinetics of the regiment, obedient to the cadence of drums as two thousand heels struck low-country dirt at the same time.†
Chpt 4.44
- It sets you up with the banality of common events, camouflages the danger signals, positions you with kind and mothering hands, whispers graceful cadences and cunning lullabies, and leads you blithely to terrifying reckoning, perhaps to extinction, but always to banality again.†
Chpt 4.46
Definition:
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(cadence) rhythm or recurring pattern of sounds or movements