To you, what are the most beautiful/harsh sounding words?

I'm not sure if this thread has been done before, I didn't see one... but here you go. List the three most beautiful-sounding words or 2-3 word phrases, and the three most harsh-sounding words or 2-3 word phrases in your opionion. Now... this is strictly on how they sound, not what feeling is attatched to the word.

Beautiful:
Grievous tyranny
Wisteria
Gasoline

Harsh:
Crass
Shining
Brittle

 

Beautiful:

Sincere
Coral
Fluid

Harsh:
Abolish
Chicken, Chick Peas, Other words with that "chick" sound...lol
Tangle

 

Beautiful:

Cream
Dramatic
Thespian

Harsh:

Irony
Vulgar
End

 

Beautiful:

hysteria
solidify
fluid

Harsh:
Dish
crisp
indigestion

 

Beautiful

Whimsical
Ocean
Capricious

Harsh

Putrid
Clang
Hack

 

hmmm....
beautiful : 1. humble 2. sneak 3. lascivious

Harsh: 1. **** (sorry if that offends anyone) 2. harsh 3. bite

 

Too tough for me! Meaning and resonance are so inextricably intertwined and I can't undo the knots.

 

Beautiful:

Derelict (all annunciated)
umm... Forlorn.
Couture
Menagerie

Harsh:
Truth
Chaos

and others that i cant think.

 

Beautiful:

svelte -sp?
mist
luxurious
unimaginable

Harsh:

Grating
Fragment

 

the first that come to mind are:

beautiful:
raindrop

harsh:
lusty


some of the harsh sounding words on this list actually sound beautiful to me. i think i agree with kidder though; the meanings of the words play a huge part in how they sound to me.

 

Beutiful:

Lucid
Aqua
Mysterious
Beutiful
BooBah (dont know if that one counts)

Harsh:
Strike
Slake
Fickel (most likely misspelled)
Fangoreous (another misspelling)
and of course.. Varnack

 

I agree Ganja. For example, I think indigestion is a beautiful word. To me it seems that even though it represents an unsoothing feeling, the word sounds warm and comforting.

 

beautiful

clarity
shadow
forlorn
forsaken
musical
many more..

harsh

battery
permanent
scepticism
swear words..odd that..

that was actually really hard..

 

beautiful:

landing
shore
purple
sibil
anyway
death

Harsh:
strikeing
burden
corrosive
joder...
bin

 

Beautiful:

- resonate
- elemental
- insidious

harsh:

- aesthetic (weird, that..)
- agenda
- ennui (need a better word for that state of mind)
- panties

I love the sound/feel of certain harsh words in certain circumstances and phrases... Hmm, trying to think of some words I simply don't like, but none are coming to mind. I just love words... wanna just wrap myself up in them all cozy... which, I guess, is what I'm doing right now, lol...

Weird aside: anyone remember the "cellar door" bit in "Donnie Darko"? I loved that...

 

beautiful:
whisper
caress
colliquial

ugly:
raunchy
last
cart ( or anything with a "t")

 

beautiful:
joe
frenetic
omnipotent
bien sur
hack

ugly:
gertrude
bonjour
quiche

 

Donnie Darko is actually what inspired this thread. I do not think that "cellar door" is the most beautiful phrase in the English language, so I thought I'd see what others would come up with.

I still think "grievous tyranny" is amazing both in it's structural sense, and in it's implied meaning.

 

Beautiful:
Remember

Interesting:
Inflict

Harsh:
Text

 

Yum: Ischial, elysium, tripsis, tmesis (love that one), sciolism, circumvent, mummer, tumescent, umbilici, supine.

Yuck: Scut, moribund, bile, cuneform, ululate, mons, and of course: cunt. Lots of glands, basically.