Word: lilt
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...immutably comic character, so caught up in her moral strictures she has not sense enough to see her husband's basic good will, and freights Lady Windemere with melancholy. Her lines make her seem flighty and naive, but Amendola spaces them, pausing between delivery so that rather meaningless observations lilt in her mouth with undo contemplation. From her opening scenes with Lord Darlington, one expects a tragic conclusion based simply on Amendola's tone of voice...
...point she says she believes in fairies. At another she says her green wrinkly dress, which is fastened at the shoulder with a safety pin, is made of something called "Belgian envelope paper." She is a delightfully luminous presence. Maybe it's her accent. Her voice has a musical lilt, and her statements often end with an upward lift, as if she were asking a question. Then again, maybe her otherworldliness has something to do with Iceland. Her ex-husband is named Thor (her current boyfriend, a British songwriter and performer, is named Tricky). She says Icelanders, partly because they...
Eastwood behaves; Streep acts. He relaxes into a role; she wills herself into it, like a woman determined to make a dress two sizes too small look stunning on her. This time she tries on a southern Italian accent, with the weary, knowing lilt of an Anna Magnani. Soon she is Francesca -- or some rarefied version of her -- aching but not expecting to find someone who can tap her gift for love. Before she commits to the affair, you understand her tension, her indecision. In a medley of bold and subtle gestures, Streep tells Francesca's plaintive story. Through...
When asked about where I go to school by someone back home, after exhausting the evasive replies ("Massachusetts," "Boston," etc.), I finally say: "Um, Harvard?" I sound like an idiot when I say the name of this fine institution with an interrogative lilt and a tone of muttered apology. From conversations with friends and classmates, I know that I'm not the only one who plays this game...
...there with the innocent lilt of that riddle format, now didn't we? We bet you expected that the answer would be some sort of pun, as we'll admit we are wont to make--some petty witticism, with which you could chuckle your ennuiaway. Instead, though, you were shocked with a hideous hypothetical...