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.

At the same time, his voice betrayed uncertainty about their being here, and conveyed an appeal to whatever is reasonable, peace-loving, and dependable in everybody.

`` Your voice is delightful '', he approved with a warm smile.

It is a matter of deep personal satisfaction for me to add my voice to the great and distinguished chorus of my colleagues in this paean of praise, respect, and affection for Speaker Sam Rayburn.

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.

Pimen is an old man, weak in body -- his voice rarely rises to a full forte -- but firm and clear of mind.

The elegiac tone is Hardy's natural tone of voice, and it is not surprising that the 1912 - 13 poems are consistently and unmistakably his.

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

I think everybody is agreed that we need to hear some voice on the national level that would make some sense and in which we would have some confidence in following.

The Senate ( by voice vote ) and the House ( by 224-170 ) passed and sent to the White House the compromise farm bill which the President is expected to sign, not too unhappily.

The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

If the voice is just a shade less glorious than it used to be, it is still a beautiful instrument, controlled and flexible.

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 ''.

Once programmed, it is able to choreograph its motions and gestures with its voice.

With this, the perspective of the author is removed from the text, and the limits formerly imposed by the idea of one authorial voice, one ultimate and universal meaning, are destroyed.

Miss Marple's voice is provided by Kaoru Yachigusa.

A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.

"--- 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.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

His esoteric chartings of the voice alert the therapist to areas where deeper probing may bring to light underlying psychological difficulties, making them apparent first to the therapist and eventually to the patient.

As with other influential inventions such as radio, television, the light bulb, and the computer, there were several inventors who did pioneering experimental work on voice transmission over a wire and improved on each other's ideas.

In light of Bach's responsibility to provide music to four churches and be able to perform double choir compositions with a substitute for each voice, Joshua Rifkin concludes that Bach's music was normally written with one voice per part in mind.

The modulation of the transmitted light beam was done by a mirror made to vibrate by a person's voice: the thin mirror would alternate between concave and convex forms, thus focusing or dispersing the light from the light source.

Although he possessed a light voice, he was admired for his lyricism, diction and phrasing — the grace and elegance so prized in his dancing seemed to be reflected in his singing, a capacity for synthesis which led Burton Lane to describe him as " The world's greatest musical performer.

Instead of the next-show teaser, Ken Roberts's voice could be heard, saying, " And now, the last word ," and the trademark light bulb would be shut off by a hand doing whatever the last word was.

* Lyric coloratura soprano — A very agile light voice with a high upper extension, capable of fast vocal coloratura.

A soubrette voice is light with a bright, sweet timbre, a tessitura in the mid-range, and with no extensive coloratura.

Many young singers start out as soubrettes but as they grow older and the voice matures more physically they may be reclassified as another voice type, usually either a light lyric soprano, a lyric coloratura soprano, or a coloratura mezzo-soprano.

This voice is light, agile, and capable of executing difficult passages of fioritura.

Robby's speaking " mouth " was a monochromatic blue light organ, synchronized to his synthetic voice, its band of curved tubes located directly below his transparent conical " face " dome.

The November 1970 issue of Popular Electronics featured the Opticom, a kit from MITS that would send voice over an LED light beam.

Her role in the series is often to prepare meals, tend the garden and help with light construction, while adding a voice of compassion.

He intersperses the comedy with occasional songs, both serious and humorous, in an incongruously fine light baritone voice.

The girls are blinded by a flash of light and hear a voice calling for the Legendary Magic Knights to save Cephiro.

Commonly used metaphors for conscience include the " voice within " and the " inner light ".

* small voice coils ( 3 / 4 inch is typical ) and light ( thin ) wire, which also helps the tweeter cone move rapidly.

The first half of the album is " light and optimistic " musically, with a heavier emphasis on the use of keyboards than guitar, and the sampling of Jónsi's voice.

Auber soon developed his own voice, however: light, vivacious, graceful, and melodious — characteristically French.

He was the entity created when a voice said that light should be born, and he was the fourth child of the characters Albion and Vala.

Listeners often compare its warm, dark, reedy timbre to that of a male baritone voice.

As with any gas with differing density from air, inhaling a small volume of helium temporarily changes the timbre and quality of the human voice.

Singers and the roles they play are classified by voice type, based on the tessitura, agility, power and timbre of their voices.

A 4. 6-minute voice recording, which preserves Roosevelt's lower timbre ranges particularly well for its time, is among those available from the Michigan State University libraries.

However the unique timbre of Durham's voice was missing from their sound and the group split again.

Men, generally speaking, have a larger vocal tract, which essentially gives the resultant voice a lower-sounding timbre.

In much African music, " human voice and instruments assume a kind of musical parity " and are " at times so close in timbre and so inextricably interwoven within the music ’ s fabric as to be nearly indistinguishable ".

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.

In opera, the tessitura, vocal weight, and timbre of soprano voices, and the roles they sing, are commonly categorized into voice types, often called (, from German or, " vocal category ").

A singer's tessitura is where the voice has the best timbre, easy volume, and most comfort.

The voice however has a lighter vocal weight than other soprano voices with a brighter timbre.

A warm voice with a bright, full timbre, which can be heard over a big orchestra.

This voice has the brightness and height of a lyric soprano, but can be " pushed " to dramatic climaxes without strain, and may have a somewhat darker timbre.

Usually ( but not always ) this voice has a lower tessitura than other sopranos, and a darker timbre.

The latter type of head voice is, in terms of the vocal cord vibration, actually more similar to " chest voice " than to falsetto, since it uses the same " speaking voice " production ( referred to as " modal " by voice scientists ), and this is reflected in the timbre.

Although some women who sing alto in a choir are contraltos, many would be more accurately called mezzo-sopranos ( a voice of somewhat higher range and different timbre ), and many male countertenors ( this latter term is a source of considerable controversy, some authorities preferring the usage of the term " male alto " for those countertenors who use a predominantly falsetto voice production ).

The contralto voice is a matter of vocal timbre and tessitura as well as range, and a classically-trained solo contralto would usually have a range greater than that of a normal choral alto part in both the upper and lower ranges.

Within classical solo singing, however, a person is classified as a tenor through the identification of several vocal traits, including range, vocal timbre, vocal weight, vocal tessitura, vocal resonance, and vocal transition points ( lifts or " passaggio ") within the singer's voice.

A warm graceful voice with a bright, full timbre that is strong but not heavy and can be heard over an orchestra.