Word: dulcetly
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After the performance, Chicago's critics were amiable indeed. Glowed Critic Claudia Cassidy of the Tribune: "Her Juliet is breathtakingly beautiful to the eye and dulcet to the ear ... an exquisite performance within her vocal limitations, and considering the way she looks, not many are going to quibble about a few notes here and there." Said the Sun's learned Felix Borowski: "The singer has the small, almost the adolescent voice, which gave her vocalism the girlish timbre at least, which some other Juliets of operatic history-most of them fair, fat and forty-generally have lacked...
Unlike the students in the classroom, the animal became enamoured of the instructor's voice and whenever the dulcet tones reached his ears he proceeded to give vent to a sound which vaguely resembled a mating call. This was, to say the least, unusual, particularly since this was a class in electronics, a subject as far removed from biology as anything...
...Road to Zanzibar, and its principal assets were two recruits from radio who bounced gaily through its inanities like a pair of playful puppies. For one of them, Bob Hope, it was the tenth film in a new and rapidly rising movie career; for the other, Bing Crosby, a dulcet, broken-toned singer who has confounded all the rules of show business for more than ten years, it was his 24th feature-length picture...
Meanwhile the Disney lot rang with the sound of classical music. Patient engineers who had never been to a concert in their lives listened to 35 to 710 performances of each composition, ended up whistling Bach. Beethoven and even Stravinsky at breakfast. Idea men, working on the dulcet strains of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, winced at the bedlam of Stravinsky's Rite which other technicians were playing next door. (The Rite finally had to be quarantined in a special corner of the lot, where its boom-lay-booms could be studied without disturbing the whole studio...
Under the guise of a dulcet French nomenclature, the Dining Halls continue to serve food of the better drugstore variety. This is not to say anything against that venerable American institution, the drugstore; but there is a growing feeling among Harvard men that for Liggett's food they should pay Liggett's prices...