{"id":1558,"date":"2021-09-08T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2021-09-08T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:31:25","slug":"metaphor-of-the-month-stentorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/2021\/09\/08\/metaphor-of-the-month-stentorian\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphor of the Month! Stentorian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2021\/09\/us-senator-the-honorable-john-warner-r-va-foreground-left-stands-with-us-navy-26d4d7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1560 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2021\/09\/us-senator-the-honorable-john-warner-r-va-foreground-left-stands-with-us-navy-26d4d7-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Senator Warner on USS Wisconsin\" width=\"389\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2021\/09\/us-senator-the-honorable-john-warner-r-va-foreground-left-stands-with-us-navy-26d4d7-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2021\/09\/us-senator-the-honorable-john-warner-r-va-foreground-left-stands-with-us-navy-26d4d7.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;d planned this one when mentioning <a href=\"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/2021\/08\/19\/word-of-the-week-comity\/\">the late Senator John Warner recently<\/a>. His voice often got called stentorian, and I&#8217;d figured it might be a metaphor. And so says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oed.com\/view\/Entry\/189827?redirectedFrom=stentorian&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The OED<\/a>, noting it means to be as loud as Stentor, &#8220;The name of a Greek warrior in the Trojan war, \u2018whose voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our word has a positive connotation that the definition does not denote. Warner&#8217;s voice was never annoyingly loud. He spoke clearly and his voice carried across a room (while carrying the day in many debates) or the deck of a battleship. He sounded senatorial in a way that added dignity we don&#8217;t often associate with national politicians any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Joe Hoyle nominated this word, long a favorite of mine. I would like to possess a stentorian voice. I&#8217;d also like the word to enjoy more use. It scores only three of eight on The OED&#8217;s usage frequency. That seems nearly as big a pity as the loss of urbane, civil, and stentorian voices in our politics.<\/p>\n<p>If you have words or metaphors to share, contact me by e-mail (jessid -at- richmond -dot- edu) or leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n<p>See all of our Metaphors of the Month\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/tag\/metaphor-of-the-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0and Words of the Week\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/tag\/word-of-the-week\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Creative-Commons image courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/nara.getarchive.net\/media\/us-senator-the-honorable-john-warner-r-va-foreground-left-stands-with-us-navy-26d4d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US National Archives<\/a>. You have to be stentorian to be heard on the deck of the USS Wisconsin!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d planned this one when mentioning the late Senator John Warner recently. His voice often got called stentorian, and I&#8217;d figured it might be a metaphor. And so says The OED, noting it means to be as loud as Stentor, &#8220;The name of a Greek warrior in the Trojan war, \u2018whose voice was as powerful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/2021\/09\/08\/metaphor-of-the-month-stentorian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Metaphor of the Month! Stentorian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2516,87405,87399,40197],"tags":[87401],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-writing","category-etymology","category-metaphor","category-vocabulary","tag-metaphor-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}