He remembered his mother gossiping with her neighborhood women friends, lowering her voice to a penetrating hoarseness which might be trusted to carry to the head of the stairs, where he crouched listening.

" Slant Magazine also gave the album three out of five stars, saying " It's Marianne Faithfull's substance-ravaged voice that comes to mind most often while listening to songs like " Honey " and " For Once in Your Life.

Then only, when the voice of duty takes the place of physical impulses and right of appetite, does man, who so far had considered only himself, find that he is forced to act on different principles, and to consult his reason before listening to his inclinations.

At length Vane rose to remonstrate, and call him to his senses ; but Cromwell, instead of listening to him, drowned his voice, repeating with great vehemence, and as though with the desperate excitement of the moment, " Sir Harry Vane!

The effect of hormonal changes in voice is clearly seen when hearing male and female voices, or when listening to a teenage voice changing during puberty.

They performed formal listening tests to verify the 24kbit / s Delta Modulator achieved full voice quality with no discernable degradation as compared to a high quality phone line or the standard 64kbit / s µ-law Companded PCM.

Henry Pleasants, an American classical-music critic, wrote this about her: She has a lovely voice, one of the warmest and most radiant in its natural range that I have heard in a lifetime of listening to singers in every category.

It ’ s always good to know that we have some fine people out there listening to the most powerful commercial voice in the world ... From alongside the beautiful Rio Grande, this is XERF, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico.

According to several biographies of Earhart, Putnam investigated this rumor personally but after listening to many recordings of numerous Tokyo Roses, he did not recognize her voice among them.

After listening to David Ruffin and Levi Stubbs, Gaye said he started to develop what he called his " tough man voice " stating " I developed a growl ".

“ Whitelaw ’ s deep brooding voice caught so many inflections that Beckett found himself at times listening to her instead of rehearsing the play .”

However, Douglas had been listening to Tyler's voice as she recorded her part, and was able to imitate her so successfully that she was allowed to speak the line on camera herself.

She wrote to the World Service " Waveguide " program complaining that her listening had been spoiled by a female voice reading out numbers in English and she asked the announcer what this interference was.

FBI agent Michael Waguespack, listening to the tape, recognized the voice as familiar but could not remember who it was.

Detailed information about the radio frequencies used by the spacecraft were made public before Titov's flight ; listening posts around the world picked up voice and telemetry signals from Vostok 2, allaying suspicions that the spaceflight might have been faked.

Charlotte Temple is a seduction tale, written in the third person, which warns against listening to the voice of love and counsels resistance.

Years later he met the producer of the Orchestra Expressions, who discovered David singing, and after listening to and discovering his vocal quality, offered him employment as the main voice of the orchestra.

The removal of privacy screens in the Galactic Senate, which allow senators to discuss issues before the Senate in private, resulted in many senators afraid to voice their response to a vote because of the installed surveillance hovercams listening in on every word and reporting to the Senate Security Chief.

Occasionally, " Donna " can be heard voicing a few products, and the original " Paul " or " Harry " voice usually announces the current local time, some river warnings and in some WFO's, the station identity as required by the FCC ( example: " Station KEC-55, serving the Dallas / Fort Worth listening area ").

Both Houses may determine motions by voice vote: the presiding officer puts the question, and, after listening to shouts of " Aye " and " No " from the members, announces the result.

He was hosting an audience-participation radio show on KNX ( AM ) in Los Angeles when game show producer Ralph Edwards happened to be listening and liked Barker's voice and style.

The persona may also be schizophrenic ; he may be listening for a voice in his head, which he mistakes for the voice of God.

She honed her technique by listening to other sopranos, reading old singing-method books, and doing piano exercises with her voice instead of using a keyboard.

In the Winter Project, Chaikin proposed and participated in explorations of the boundary between life and death, the actor as storyteller, listening, found dialogue and more.

Lumet cast Treat Williams after spending three weeks talking to him and listening to the actor read the script and then reading it again with 50 other cast members.

The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) told MacCorkindale that he was not an " eight o ' clock actor ", which he took to mean that " at that time of night they didn't want viewers watching someone who sounded intellectual or who had an accent that was alien to their ears and, therefore, hard work when it came to listening.

# A Word in your Ear-a DJ is plagued by calls from those he has wronged until he cannot bear to go on listening ... It featured Kerry Shale as DJ Rick O ' Shea, Jane Whittenshaw as Tracey, Adjoa Andoh as Donna, Mark Straker as Keith and Clarence Smith as Sparks.

Co-founder Clarence W. Jones is on the far right with his trombone. HCJB's original programming has ranged from programs completely in Quichua ( the primary language of the people of the Andes ), Andean-music programs, Christian music programming, talk and mail-reading programs featuring mail received from listeners around the world, Bible study and teaching programs, and programming featuring information about shortwave radio listening.

Grateful Dead member Jerry Garcia frequently performed Appalachian songs such as " Shady Grove " and " Wind and Rain ", and claimed to have learned the clawhammer banjo style from " listening to Clarence Ashley ".

So they stayed quiet and hung not on what he said but on how he said it, not listening exactly, but rather, feeling.

`` Uhhu '', she said, hardly listening as she studied her left eyelid.

Day said: " During this long, boring period, I used to while away a lot of time listening to the radio, sometimes singing along with the likes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller [...].

Pete Johnson, writing in the Los Angeles Times in 1968, said, " The LP ... can survive endless listening with no diminishing either of power or of freshness.

Starr later said, " In Glasgow, we were all backstage listening to the tremendous applause he was getting.

In other words, children learned their mother tongue by simple imitation, listening to and repeating what adults said.

" We … were amazed, angry, morose, and bewildered ," Rex Stewart, Fletcher's lead trumpeter, said of listening to Beiderbecke and his colleagues play.

Morrison's father had what was at the time one of the largest record collections in Ulster ( acquired during his sojourn in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950s ), and the young Morrison grew up listening to artists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, and Solomon Burke ; of whom Morrison later said, " If it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon, I wouldn't be where I am today.

After a decade without taking time off, he said in an interview, he needed to get away from music completely and ceased listening to it for several months.

He experienced an epiphany attending a War Resisters League conference at Haverford College in August 1969, listening to a speech given by a draft resister named Randy Kehler, who said he was " very excited " that he would soon be able to join his friends in prison.

While staying with Jim's brother in Chicago in 1924, the family was listening to the radio ; Jim said that he and Marian could do better than the musical act currently on the air.

" Selector Dick Jones weighed in with the observation that it was " good to watch him talking to an old player, listening attentively to everything that is said and then replying with a modest ' thank you '.

At a rally, Hawke said " You don't want to be listening to me ; you want to be listening to the real Prime Minister ", forcing Eddington to improvise.

" I left home at 16 ", he said " and I started my real education musically, moving from group to group, furthering my knowledge of the blues and of other music which had weight and was worth listening to.

Francis Barraud said: “ It is difficult to say how the idea came to me beyond that fact that it suddenly occurred to me that to have my dog listening to the phonograph, with an intelligent and rather puzzled expression, and call it “ His Master ’ s Voice ” would make an excellent subject.

He ruled out ( for the time being ) reopening of the controversial resolution 1. 10 on human sexuality from the previous Lambeth Conference, but emphasised the " listening process " in which diverse views and experiences of human sexuality were being collected and collated in accordance with that resolution and said it " will be important to allow time for this to be presented and reflected upon in 2008 ".

Rundstedt refused to go, because, he said, he hated listening to Hitler's monologues.

Erasmus said of Colet: “ When I listen to Colet it seems to me that I am listening to Plato himself ”.

One of Albert Victor's instructors said he learnt by listening rather than reading or writing and had no difficulty remembering information, but Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, had a less favourable opinion of him, calling him " an inveterate and incurable dawdler ".

When asked how they spent their leisure time, 80 percent of a sample of men and women surveyed by the government in 1986 said they averaged about two and a half hours per weekday watching television, listening to the radio, and reading newspapers or magazines.

At the end of the performance Stephen Colbert said " I hope they're listening in D. C ." This appearance came days after North Korea conducted an underground test of a nuclear weapon.

Pierce said, " Early on, we were listening to The Stooges, then came Suicide, then we ’ d start listening to Sun Ra, and pick up on all these lateral threads that ran between them ".