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His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.
We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.
He swore so loudly at the top of his voice, that she didn't get any sleep all the next night.
But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.
at will, the voice of the auctioneer, the voices of the bidders, and finally the small boy who had been so interested in Mr. Podger's hammock purchase.
Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.
Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.
In a properly ordered society the massive force of public law performs the function which in natural law theory ineptly is left altogether to a small voice so often still.
In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.
Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.
`` You shouldn't smoke so much '', he said, unconsciously imitating Victoria's holier-than-thou voice.
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.
ATM broke up all packets, data, and voice streams into 48-byte chunks, adding a 5-byte routing header to each one so that they could be reassembled later.
In this view, prophets do not speak for God so much as they remind their audience of God's voice for the voiceless, the poor and oppressed.
In the middle of the stairway, all of a sudden we heard His … voice: ' Do not bring him in here ', and so they took me back ".
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 Dune, Herbert notes that the Baron possesses a " basso voice " and is so " grossly and immensely fat " that he requires anti-gravity devices known as suspensors to support his weight.
Compression of human speech is often performed with even more specialized techniques, so that " speech compression " or " voice coding " is sometimes distinguished as a separate discipline from " audio compression ".
Allegory was popular at the time, so " old Christmas " was given a voice to protest his exclusion, along with the form of a rambunctious, jolly old man.
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.
After affirming that he had no intention of taking up arms Fox was able to speak with Cromwell for most of the morning about the Friends and advised him to listen to God's voice and obey it so that, as Fox left, Cromwell " with tears in his eyes said, ' Come again to my house ; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other '; adding that he wished no more ill than he did to his own soul.
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.

voice and frightened
In the mid 1970s, Penthouse magazine described Garner Ted as providing " late night companionship to thousands of truckers, the voice of the morning to millions of farmers, the living room preacher to a subculture of lonely, frightened, disoriented Americans.
A terrible storm had blown up in the waters opposite Positano and the frightened sailors heard a voice on board saying " Posa, posa!
After her first voice role as a frightened woman in a radio commercial for a small home security company on a local station in 1986 and a few more radio spots in 1989, Bergman was not making enough to earn a living, so she was worked part-time at Robinsons department store.
As impressive as his guitar playing was his voice: at times comically bawling, other times mumbling and imperceptible ; in the course of a verse, Carter could sound righteously indignant, or suddenly frightened and confused '.

voice and seem
Though they used the original Japanese show as the medium for the dub, some of the voices seem to sound like the U. S. version ( e. g., Taichi having an adolescent's voice instead of a kid's ) or completely original to the dubbing crew ( e. g., Gabumon's deep, grumbly voice ).
With cohort Dominique, he operates and is the onscreen voice of Big Time television, " All day every day, making tomorrow seem like yesterday.
My voice and energy still seem to be in decent shape, so maybe I can pull these gigs off after all.
Tree's voice was described as thin, and he was sometimes criticized for struggling to project it in a manner that made his performance seem unnatural.
Most sources in condemning the practice seem to be referring to a wide, slow, perceptible oscillation in pitch, usually associated with intense emotion, whereas the ideal for modern vibrato, and possibly in earlier times as well, was to imitate the natural timbre of the adult singing voice, from which a measure of vibrato ( it has since been shown ) is rarely absent.
She regularly read to soldiers in the military hospitals and on the front line ; indeed, her later pieces seem to be the voice of those who had struggled and the many she has outlived.
In classical antiquity, it is usually performed by a chorus, but some examples seem intended for an individual voice ( monody ).
The best preventive steps seem to be wrapped up in the study of vocology, the science and practice of voice habilitation.
The accusation would seem to rest upon the belief that in modern liberal societies and especially in the USA philosophers are free to voice their philosophical views in public without being accused of impropriety.
The voices of the graveyard ghosts minus the deaf old man, the singing busts, and the mummy were re-recorded with new singers ( the mummy has since been replaced with a new voice ), and the audio tracks now seem to come from the singer when near them.
It's a remarkable song, the rhythmic structure, the voice of Levon and the bass line with the drum accents and then the heavy close harmony of Levon, Richard and Rick in the theme, make it seem impossible that this isn't some traditional material handed down from father to son straight from that winter of 1865 to today.
Humans seem to make the same immediate connection between the tone of voice and other vocal expressions and inner feeling.
They are small, matted and dirty enough to sprout fungi and grasses on their hides ( and seem to relate to soil as trolls relate to rock ), and act as street-cleaners in cities like Ankh-Morpork ; as Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson puts it, they " pick up this, pick up that, maybe bang it against the wall until it stops struggling ..." In the case of at least Stoolie, if not every gnoll on the Discworld, there seems to be a tendency to drop the vowels in words, reflecting a croaking sort of voice.
The loss of many teeth in a 1932 accident, rapidly thinning hair, thin build, and gravelly voice all made him seem older than he really was.
The technique of deliberately looking for and declaring these initial images aloud, however trivial or irrelevant they may seem to the conscious mind, is done with the intent of deepening the trance state, in this trance the scryer hears his own disassociated voice affirming what is seen within the concentrated state in a kind of feedback loop.
Throat cancer usually begins with symptoms that seem harmless enough, like an enlarged lymph node on the outside of the neck, a sore throat or a hoarse sounding voice.
However, most striking was the high-pitched, rasping voice Collins employed for both roles, which made the characters always seem duplicitous and conniving regardless of what they were saying, as well as adding an element of a running gag when they inevitably threw a tantrum or when they were humiliated by their superiors ( Starscream getting slapped around by Megatron for his disobedience and Cobra Commander getting himself routinely countermanded by Serpentor ).
He is one of the few Transformers depicted to visibly age, both in terms of physical appearance and in the sound of his voice, something that is largely untrue of the majority of Transformers, who seem to be ageless.
* Tilson's Manual advises against the use of seconds, stating, " It would seem that nothing could be more nearly useless and unnecessary than for some identified voice from the midst of the assembly to boom out, ' I second it '.
When singing songs like " Alone at a Table for Two " he would allow his voice to tremble, and seem nearly to break into tears-he was caricatured in Warner Brothers cartoons as " Cryman " Lombardo.
" We have identified a number of phonetic characteristics that seem to make a man ’ s voice sound gay ," says Rogers.
Steve Sabol, son of Ed, claimed that " John may have made a game seem more important than it was because he read lines with a dramatic directness " Bob Costas called Facenda's voice " one of the most remarkable instruments in the history of broadcasting.
Jerry Belson ( who was also an uncredited co-writer ), Joe Flood, Keith Singleton and Cullen Chambers seem to be the only actors in Student Bodies that have ever made another film ( along with comedian Richard Belzer, who was the off-screen voice of " The Breather ").

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