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Such beauty lies in the mind of the beholder, musick.If you insist.  For myself, I would say "birth" or "laughter" or "sunset" because of memories which I associate with these particular words....
Beautiful is what these things are, but they are not "beautiful" apart from my experience of them.
It occurs to me that the words we choose as the "most beautiful" are a mirror into our very soul.We all experience things based upon "within the course of personal, human events", and even if a majority consensus can be reached, it cannot truthfully/accurately define beauty. I believe we'd all be alot better off if it was that easy... yet rather bored. Of course the concept is a purely subjective one, but when the subject is presented as a mirror, one must present the shape of the mirror as subjective, as well. I've not experienced "birth" (other than my own) but I'd agree, it is a beautiful thing... but I base that on the befores and afters. Laughter can be beautiful but when occurring with a certain deviousness... not so beautiful (per se) anymore... and "sunsets".... OK, you got me there!  I could say that your choice of "birth", "laughter" and "sunset" as beautiful things reflect a soul that is "death", "sorrow" and "sunrise" but I know not enough about the person that is you to make any *sense of it. Is the beholder, then, solely responsible for beauty, or does it take at least one other to acknowlege *it?
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your choice of "birth", "laughter" and "sunset" as beautiful things reflect a soul that is "death", "sorrow" and "sunrise"
Sounds very Orwellian, musick, as in "War is Peace".
I would have thought the more obvious interpretation is the concommitant, not the converse.
If one believes in epiphanies, it doesn't take the presence of another to experience singular beauty, even in the most ordinary of things.
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Velvet.
Just my first, instantaneous response when I read your thread starter, AnnaS.
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I agree with Faldage--I think the writer is referring to the concept the word stands for, not the word itself. In this sense, I strongly disagree with 'birth'--it's nasty and disgusting. (I'd have been a good candidate to be an adoptive mom.) Ew.
If we're talking about sound, I'd still vote for mellifluous. We had a thread or two here some time ago on this kind of thing.
If we're talking about the way a word looks, my first thought was 'mellow' because it is tall only in the middle; but I think most palindromes would be better, as they are perfectly balanced.
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I strongly disagree with 'birth'Sometimes there is more beauty in the eye of a bystander than there is in the eye of a beholder.  Women bear the weight of birth ... so true. For a man the bounty comes as a gift ... without strings attached.
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Gossamer. I like the sound as well as the concept. It's not onomatopoeia ( is that correct? I tried spell check but it gave me Onondaga  ) because it does not describe a sound but to me it sounds like what it describes. Firmer outlines, g and r, with just a susseration (sp) in between. Is there a word for this effect? (other than silly) Corruscate is another one with it's flat surfaces of vowel alternating with the hard consonant edges.
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I went many years ago to an ice capades show that was performed outdoors on the shore of frozen Lake Michigan. Unfortunately all the backup singers got too close together and fell through. Just another example of corruscating on thin ice.
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Oh, Ted!! Your puns coruscate (sense 2) through this Board.
cor·us·cate (kôr'ə-skāt', kŏr'-)
intr.v., -cat·ed, -cat·ing, -cates.
1. To give forth flashes of light; sparkle and glitter: diamonds coruscating in the candlelight.
2. To exhibit sparkling virtuosity: a flutist whose music coruscated throughout the concert hall.
[Latin coruscāre, coruscāt-, to flash.] (Gurunet)
Zed, I love your examples! Hadn't thought of things that way, but it works.
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"The most beautiful sound I ever heard
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word -
Maria ...
"Suddenly I found How wonderful a sound Can be -
Maria -
Say it loud and there's music playing,
Say it soft and it's almost like praying."
Truth is nothing - perception is everything.
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all the backup singers got too close together and fell through. Just another example of corruscating on thin ice
It's also an example of choruscating on thin ice, TEd Rem.
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