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voice and called
`` I called the station at three this morning '', Killpath's nasal voice pronounced.
Then, as their grokking made them ever closer and Mike felt himself almost ready to discorporate her voice called him back: `` Oh!!
Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace.
Breathy voice ( also called murmured voice, soughing, or susurration ) is a phonation in which the vocal cords vibrate, as they do in normal ( modal ) voicing, but are held further apart, so that a larger volume of air escapes between them.
In the narrative, a voice from heaven called Jesus " My Son ".
Increasingly, the voice and data pathways into the centre are linked through a set of new technologies called computer telephony integration ( CTI ).
In linguistics, creaky voice ( sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry ), is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together ; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact.
A slight degree of laryngealisation, occurring in some Korean consonants for example, is called " stiff voice ".
Other colourful nicknames are found in other languages ; in Hungarian, for instance, the double bass is sometimes called nagy bőgő, which roughly translates as " big crier ," referring to its large voice.
In 1788 he published a collection of 8 songs dedicated to his friend George Washington and his daughter called " Seven Songs for the Harpsichord " and voice.
While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".
As the vocal folds vibrate, the resulting vibration produces a " buzzing " quality to the speech, called voice or voicing or pronunciation.
" When Beria left the room, he broke the somber atmosphere by shouting loudly for his driver, his voice echoing with what Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva called " the ring of triumph unconcealed.
According to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, Innocent was the son of a man called Innocens of Albano, but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I ( 399 – 401 ), whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed ( he had been born before his father's entry to the clergy ).
The author of this article called the device a " phonographe ", but Cros himself favored the word " paleophone ", sometimes rendered in French as " voix du passé " ( voice of the past ) but more literally meaning " ancient sound ", which accorded well with his vision of his invention's potential for creating an archive of sound recordings that would be available to listeners in the distant future.
In one case, an ephor dreamed that some of his colleagues ' chairs were removed from the agora, and that a voice called out " this is better for Sparta "; inspired by this, King Cleomenes acted to consolidate royal power.
In contrast, a sentence in which the subject has the agent role is called an active sentence, and its verb is expressed in active voice.
For example, Gujarati has vowels with a partially lax phonation called breathy voice or murmured, while Burmese has vowels with a partially tense phonation called creaky voice or laryngealized.

voice and what
He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.
His own inner voice, which should tell him what not to do, has not developed.
He imagined Sam's voice: `` George, what the hell goes on ''??
`` Why, what a lovely voice you have '', said one of the female visitors.
He spoke through the public address box built into the cabin, and his gigantic voice roared out over the empty plain, so that the pink herd of talking people stirred gently in their happiness and wondered what their friend B'dikkat might be wanting to tell them.
"--- what Jesus ’ immortal spirit did after His death and before His Resurrection is a mystery to all but the Latter-day Saints ---" ( Elder Spencer J. Condie, Liahona ,-Church magazine – July, 2003 ) "--- unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant-- his voice was not raised.
After several rounds of debate between Job and his friends, in a divine voice, described as coming from a " cloud " or " whirlwind ", God describes, in evocative and lyrical language, what the experience of being the creator of the world is like, and rhetorically asks if Job has ever had the experiences or the authority that God has had.
His writing was remarkable in its time for its directness ( he frequently uses a strange second-person voice, telling you — the reader — what you are seeing and smelling as you follow a recipe ) and for his general disdain for upper-class elaborate French cuisine.
And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, " There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition "; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy.
:" And when Jesus came to the Jordan, and being supposed to be the son of Joseph the carpenter ..., the Holy Spirit, and for man's sake, as I said before, fluttered down upon Him, and a voice came at the time out of the heavens-which was spoken also by David, when he said, impersonating Christ, what the Father was going to say to Him-' You are My Son, this day I have begotten you '.
" In 1945 the Union of Orthodox Rabbis " formally assembled to excommunicate from Judaism what it deemed to be the community's most heretical voice: Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the man who eventually would become the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism.
At the toilet, the second most important star of the show, Harry, is feeling ill and asks himself what is happening to his body when he hears a voice from the toilet asking him if he does not feel well: It is the paparazzi F. W.
The rollickingly malicious undertone of these folk verbalizations constitutes what might be labeled a ‘ paremiological revolt .’ To avoid openly criticizing a given authority or cultural pattern, folk take recourse to proverbial expressions which voice personal tensions in a tone of generalized consent.
The term voice recognition refers to finding the identity of " who " is speaking, rather than what they are saying.
Let the heart within confess what the mouth utters, let the soul feel what the voice speaks.
Jean Martin had a doctor friend called Marthe Gautier, who was working at the Salpêtrière Hospital, and he said to her: "' Listen, Marthe, what could I find that would provide some kind of physiological explanation for a voice like the one written in the text?
It cannot be summarized with either Lester's or Ricky's philosophical statements about what life is or how one should live ..." He argues that the problem of interpreting the film is tied with that of finding its center — a controlling voice who " all of the choices ".
As a boy Demosthenes had a speech impediment: Plutarch refers to a weakness in his voice of " a perplexed and indistinct utterance and a shortness of breath, which, by breaking and disjointing his sentences much obscured the sense and meaning of what he spoke.
* the inherence factors: Something the user is or does ( e. g., fingerprint, retinal pattern, DNA sequence ( there are assorted definitions of what is sufficient ), signature, face, voice, unique bio-electric signals, or other biometric identifier ).
While singing with Gillespie, Fitzgerald recalled, " I just tried to do my voice what I heard the horns in the band doing.
In criticizing The Elements of Style, Geoffrey Pullum, professor of linguistics at Edinburgh University, and co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ( 2002 ), said that: Pullum noted, for example, that the authors misunderstood what constitutes the passive voice, and he criticized their proscription of established and unproblematic English usages, such as the split infinitive and the use of which in a restrictive relative clause.

voice and made
A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.
The great, crushing ice masses coming into view made him sound like the voice of pure reason.
He made the mistake of answering in an offhand way, and instantly realized that his skepticism must have showed in his face or voice.
As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".
When Peter objects, the voice replies, " Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.
When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.
:" When the day for the assembly which was held in the town of Birka drew near, in accordance with their national custom the king caused a proclamation to be made to the people by the voice of a herald, in order that they might be informed concerning the object of their mission.
He has since made voice appearances in animated films, including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Cars 2.
Roosevelt made his request to Congress on March 21, 1933 ; the legislation was submitted to Congress the same day ; Congress passed it by voice vote on the 31st ; Roosevelt signed it the same day, then issued an executive order on April 5 creating the agency, appointing its director ( Fechner ), and assigning War Department corps area commanders the task to commence enrollment.
* Only encoding sounds that could be made by a single human voice.
The song was made famous by Paul Robeson whose voice, deep and resonant as it was, was said by some to have attained the status of the voice of God.
Such a statement on her part, however, worked to her advantage because it made her statements that all of her writings and music came from visions of the Divine more believable, therefore giving Hildegard the authority to speak in a time and place where few women were permitted a voice.
After 1940, Hitler made few public appearances, and even his broadcasts became less frequent, so Goebbels increasingly became the face and the voice of the Nazi regime for the German people.
Joey Ramone's image, voice and tenure as front man of the Ramones made him a countercultural icon.
His signature cracks, hiccups, snarls, crooning and youthful voice made his one of punk rock's most recognizable voices.
" When talking about the poem on its own, Hunt claimed it " is a voice and a vision, an everlasting tune in our mouths, a dream fit for Cambuscan and all his poets, a dance of pictures such as Giotto or Cimabue, revived and re-inspired, would have made for a Storie of Old Tartarie, a piece of the invisible world made visible by a sun at midnight and sliding before our eyes ...
In essence, Puerto Rican rap became the voice of Puerto Rican youth like dancehall and rap music are methods of expression for their Jamaican and lower-class U. S. youth counterparts as they made it in France too since 2003 " 1492 Army ".
While Lex Jr. and his impostor manage to get their hands on a recording of the elder Luthor ( Shea's voice ) made before his death.
His appearance, including his friendly mutton chops, prominent facial moles, and gravelly voice, has made him a cult icon.
Disadvantages of this set-up included an inability to back the vessel astern, limited maneuverability and the deafening noise of the engines which would have made voice commands problematic.

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