Word: dulcetly
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...answer to that question is decidedly split. While Morrison herself possessed all the "grace, the dignity, and the intellectual depth" that Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West '74 ascribed to her in his dulcet introduction, Paradise as a novel is, almost unprecedently for the Nobel Laureate, less than wholly compelling...
...quirky world of National Public Radio, dulcet-toned commentators provide long, thoughtful analyses of issues both momentous and amusing, their reports bookended by tinkling music. But all that soothing and high-minded chat masks discord at the Washington-based radio network, which in the past few years has been hit with a series of racial- and sexual-discrimination lawsuits. "They've got a free ride over the years because they have this public image of being diverse," says Lynne Bernabei, whose law firm has represented 14 NPR clients. But NPR president Delano Lewis, one of the network's few high...
...reporters, defends NPR's record, saying it "is an equal-opportunity abuser. I could sit down and write a litany of the times I have been paid less or slighted, but it's still a great place to work, and it's getting better." Perhaps she should add in dulcet tones, "all things considered...
Also worthy of esteem was the Autumn Adagio Molto, with the rich initial phrasing of the baroque guitar played with bravura by Olav Chris Henriksen. With Gibbon's rhythmic, plucking continuo, the music lulled guests into imaginary dulcet slumber. During the Allegro, the orchestra, which had been struggling a bit at first with dynamics and synchronicity, finally gelled and the harpsichord rocked along, tying the ends together splendidly...
...combative diva, 45, is the darling of a huge public, a glamorous former schoolteacher from Portsmouth, Ohio, who possesses one of the loveliest voices in opera today. Thanks to her supple, dulcet soprano and winning stage personality -- and with the powerful patronage of Met artistic director James Levine -- she has risen to worldwide fame in secondary roles that ordinarily do not make stars, parts like Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Battle's presence in a cast or with an orchestra practically guarantees a sold-out house; her albums, whether art songs...