Afterward, he might sing us the prettiest melodies.

The words did speak to my mood and my situation, and it was a pretty melody.

When a pianist fails to bring a sensitive touch to his instrument, all the pretty melodies and lush chords in the world cannot compensate for a sound that in some fundamental way is nonmusical.

Only those in the business know of the aggravation involved behind a pretty melody.

A new four-CD retrospective of Mr. Newman's work, "Guilty: 30 Years" (Reprise), includes some of the pretty melodies Hollywood has gotten out of him.

The three, playing lovely iridium flutes together, generated quite pretty and intricate melodies.

Larry Flick of Billboard gave the song a positive review: "The pretty melody and sentimental lyrics should prove popular with country radio listeners."

Her sound is large and velvety, and she rarely passes up a chance to linger over a pretty melody.

The music came automatically, for it was inherent in this entity's nature; still it was a pretty melody.

So we sang, my pretty melody and Threnody's deep, resonating accompaniment.