It is deplorable in conjunction with an orchestra, for its harsh, hard, unmalleable tone never blends with other instruments.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Bach, in fact, soon realised that, while the unaltered hymn-stanza, with its uniform metre and balanced rhyme, was appropriate to the simple Choral or elaborate Fantasia, it was unmalleable for use as an Aria or Recitative.
"Johann Sebastian Bach"
Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Charles Sanford Terry
She had been at Paradise only two weeks, but they had been weeks of sun and soft winds and sweet smells, and the impressionable surface of her mind, that beneath was so shallow and so unmalleable, was gradually responding to the influences around her.
"Secret Bread"
F. Tennyson Jesse