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Definition of tremulous in English: tremulousadjective ˈtrɛmjʊləsˈtrɛmjələs 1Shaking or quivering slightly. Barbara's voice was tremulous Example sentencesExamples - I suspect that it can only break the perfection of the story, particularly its tremulous, precarious existence on the edge of my world.
- No, whether they're writing tremulous lo-fi acoustica or clashing pop symphonies, their lyrically exploratory heart of darkness is at least as important to the Delgados' ethic.
- Back they come with the sublimely melodic ‘On The Chin’, led by one of those Ennio Morricone-style, tremulous guitar lines that have become a Tortoise trademark.
- Album opener ‘Petrified Possessions’ is guided by a plodding piano line that's backed by a tremulous guitar adorned with tines of feedback.
- It was in the muted laughter from dark alleys and the half caught lyrics from dance and jazz halls where women with tremulous voices sang about love and death, in such a way as to make one seem like torture, and the other almost jolly.
- Just remember as you hear the tremulous reporter, voice quaking in empathy, why the farmer is crying.
- But while he shares some of Young's tremulous vocal ability, this is someone with a unique perspective on the America terrain.
- In silhouette, Grant also looked the part, with gravity-defying, ironic quiff and long tremulous limbs.
- These largely acoustic songs reacquaint us with his tremulous, soulful vocals and cutting lyrical style.
- But if you close your eyes, it is suddenly so clear how young he is, how high and tremulous is his voice.
- By publicizing their private lives, they make us question the tremulous line between life and art.
- Among tremulous flora and fauna are tremandra plants, with their shaking anthers, the gelatinous tremella fungi, and treron pigeons.
- He lowered it slightly and said in a tremulous voice as he gazed at the snow covered ground, ‘I pity you.’
- Bring back to your slow, tremulous simmer, and cook for 4-5 hours minimum, ideally 6 or 7.
- His voice softens and opens up, threading a tremulous quaver through its easy melody.
- I drove all over York looking for her,’ says Geoff in a voice still tremulous with anxiety despite having Tessa back by his side in the cosy Cygnet pub in Price Street.
- And then he could hear a smile and a tremulous quality in her voice.
Synonyms shaky, trembling, shaking, unsteady, quavering, wavering, quivering, quivery, quaking nervous, weak informal trembly, all of a tremble - 1.1 Timid; nervous.
he gave a tremulous smile Example sentencesExamples - The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice.
- Sara inclined her head, offering a tremulous smile between quick glances.
- She meets his surprised gaze, her wide lips giving him a tremulous smile that makes his chest tighten with emotion.
- I'm plodding on with the street scene painting and it's beginning to come to life in spite of my tremulous incompetence.
- At the bottom of the carriage step, she turned and sent Christopher a slightly tremulous smile.
- 'My life is hard enough as it is,’ she offered with a tremulous smile his direction.
- It's a film where work, good and bad, is done by men, with women getting to play the tremulous wives or daughters.
- Her throat tightened and she released a tremulous smile.
- She took a slow step toward him and offered a tremulous smile.
- We see her tremulous schoolgirl self auditioning for the band along with a trio of equally improbable hopefuls: a ukulele-playing nun, an upper-crust saxophonist and a male drummer ready to don a frock to dodge the draft.
- A population without a balanced attitude to risk leads to extremes, with tremulous individuals cowering away from sausages while others seek out risk and self destruction through drugs.
- Sara blinked back the tears of hope and happiness and fear and relief before lifting her eyes to offer him a small and tremulous smile.
- The voice on the phone from New York is tremulous, unfailingly polite, marked by hesitations and bursts of nervous laughter.
- On a timid, tremulous performance of REM's Everybody Hurts, she sounds like a reticent schoolgirl suddenly asked to perform at Live Aid.
- It's all beautifully acted, but I didn't care about Susan and John and their tremulous relationship, laden with supercilious, middlebrow significance.
- He still felt slightly tremulous as he left the Yard and began to pass the small shops and restaurants that lined the street leading to Harvard Square.
- ‘I guess we've both been trying to keep things under wraps,’ she suggested with a tremulous smile.
- Sara felt Christopher's firmer squeeze and forced a tremulous smile.
- Surprisingly, I hear his voice, weak and tremulous, at the base of my neck.
- And a tremulous smile haunts her lips as she realizes that the audition is only partly to blame.
Synonyms timid, diffident, shy, hesitant, uncertain, timorous, unconfident, fearful, frightened, scared nervous, anxious, apprehensive
Derivatives adverb ˈtrɛmjʊləsliˈtrɛmjələsli The adults are smiling - bravely, tremulously - towards the camera; the child is looking the other way. Example sentencesExamples - Her increasing tendresse for the handsomest young officer leads to some regulation song and dance numbers, crooning, scurrying in formation around and about the countryside and melting tremulously into each other's arms.
- ‘His race,’ Nichols wrote tremulously this spring, ‘is being read as a measure of the potency of progressive politics in America.’
- Small butterflies tremble in the intricately plaited hair of the women, and a beaten trembling man tremulously offers a bundle of delicate paper to a gamine seller of paper butterflies.
- We watched local farmers slowly make their way through rice terraces, and a baby goat - umbilical cord still attached - bleat for its mother while tremulously attempting to walk.
noun ˈtrɛmjʊləsnəsˈtrɛmjələsnəs This is no time to listen to the voices of tremulousness, indecision, compromise and fear. Example sentencesExamples - The patient experienced muscle weakness, tremulousness, ‘hot and cold’ feelings, paresthesias, diaphoresis, shivering, and frontal lobe headache starting 24 hours after discontinuation.
- A shiver or shudder accompanies each: tremulousness characterizes the momentary awareness, as brief as it is unrepeatable.
- In addition, autonomic instability (i.e., increased heart rate and blood pressure level, tremulousness, diaphoresis), insomnia and sensory hypersensitivity are common.
- The result includes anything from dry mouth, nausea, and fatigue to dizziness, headache, diarrhea, and my personal favourite, tremulousness.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin tremulus (from tremere 'tremble') + -ous. Definition of tremulous in US English: tremulousadjectiveˈtremyələsˈtrɛmjələs 1Shaking or quivering slightly. Barbara's voice was tremulous Example sentencesExamples - Back they come with the sublimely melodic ‘On The Chin’, led by one of those Ennio Morricone-style, tremulous guitar lines that have become a Tortoise trademark.
- I drove all over York looking for her,’ says Geoff in a voice still tremulous with anxiety despite having Tessa back by his side in the cosy Cygnet pub in Price Street.
- These largely acoustic songs reacquaint us with his tremulous, soulful vocals and cutting lyrical style.
- It was in the muted laughter from dark alleys and the half caught lyrics from dance and jazz halls where women with tremulous voices sang about love and death, in such a way as to make one seem like torture, and the other almost jolly.
- Bring back to your slow, tremulous simmer, and cook for 4-5 hours minimum, ideally 6 or 7.
- But while he shares some of Young's tremulous vocal ability, this is someone with a unique perspective on the America terrain.
- No, whether they're writing tremulous lo-fi acoustica or clashing pop symphonies, their lyrically exploratory heart of darkness is at least as important to the Delgados' ethic.
- In silhouette, Grant also looked the part, with gravity-defying, ironic quiff and long tremulous limbs.
- Album opener ‘Petrified Possessions’ is guided by a plodding piano line that's backed by a tremulous guitar adorned with tines of feedback.
- Just remember as you hear the tremulous reporter, voice quaking in empathy, why the farmer is crying.
- His voice softens and opens up, threading a tremulous quaver through its easy melody.
- But if you close your eyes, it is suddenly so clear how young he is, how high and tremulous is his voice.
- I suspect that it can only break the perfection of the story, particularly its tremulous, precarious existence on the edge of my world.
- And then he could hear a smile and a tremulous quality in her voice.
- By publicizing their private lives, they make us question the tremulous line between life and art.
- He lowered it slightly and said in a tremulous voice as he gazed at the snow covered ground, ‘I pity you.’
- Among tremulous flora and fauna are tremandra plants, with their shaking anthers, the gelatinous tremella fungi, and treron pigeons.
- 1.1 Timid; nervous.
he gave a tremulous smile Example sentencesExamples - Sara felt Christopher's firmer squeeze and forced a tremulous smile.
- At the bottom of the carriage step, she turned and sent Christopher a slightly tremulous smile.
- Her throat tightened and she released a tremulous smile.
- Sara inclined her head, offering a tremulous smile between quick glances.
- The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice.
- A population without a balanced attitude to risk leads to extremes, with tremulous individuals cowering away from sausages while others seek out risk and self destruction through drugs.
- It's a film where work, good and bad, is done by men, with women getting to play the tremulous wives or daughters.
- He still felt slightly tremulous as he left the Yard and began to pass the small shops and restaurants that lined the street leading to Harvard Square.
- ‘I guess we've both been trying to keep things under wraps,’ she suggested with a tremulous smile.
- On a timid, tremulous performance of REM's Everybody Hurts, she sounds like a reticent schoolgirl suddenly asked to perform at Live Aid.
- 'My life is hard enough as it is,’ she offered with a tremulous smile his direction.
- The voice on the phone from New York is tremulous, unfailingly polite, marked by hesitations and bursts of nervous laughter.
- She took a slow step toward him and offered a tremulous smile.
- We see her tremulous schoolgirl self auditioning for the band along with a trio of equally improbable hopefuls: a ukulele-playing nun, an upper-crust saxophonist and a male drummer ready to don a frock to dodge the draft.
- Sara blinked back the tears of hope and happiness and fear and relief before lifting her eyes to offer him a small and tremulous smile.
- And a tremulous smile haunts her lips as she realizes that the audition is only partly to blame.
- She meets his surprised gaze, her wide lips giving him a tremulous smile that makes his chest tighten with emotion.
- It's all beautifully acted, but I didn't care about Susan and John and their tremulous relationship, laden with supercilious, middlebrow significance.
- I'm plodding on with the street scene painting and it's beginning to come to life in spite of my tremulous incompetence.
- Surprisingly, I hear his voice, weak and tremulous, at the base of my neck.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin tremulus (from tremere ‘tremble’) + -ous. |