Word: lilts
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...forgettable that it’s hard to even remember what made the disc so terrible. Throughout, Collett sings in a voice reminiscent of Bob Dylan and occasionally even channels the folk legend through harmonica riffs. But while he’s got the sound and the lilt down, Collett possesses only a tiny fraction of Dylan’s songwriting talent. He seemingly lacks the ability to create anything inventive, interesting, or meaningful. From time to time, Collett throws in a couple of different instruments and marginally varies a tune or two, but overall he fails to break...
...architect responsible for the first piece of Harvard’s new campus revealed his philosophy for green design to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences last night—and how it will extend to his designs for Allston. With a slight staccato lilt that hints at his German origins, architect Stefan Behnisch, known for his environmentally-sound designs, explained that for him sustainability does not simply refer to numerical measures of energy consumption. “It’s more than that. It has a qualitative aspect,” he said...
...Tony Barriteau, the director of athletics at Arlington’s Oakridge School, which Akpan attended all the way from K-12, speaks with a distinctive Caribbean lilt (he is a native of Trinidad) when he calls the town “a very diverse community...
...slurping of homemade pasta, the soft pop of a cork from a bottle of Pinot Grigio and the lilt of Italian conversation are not typically heard off the coast of West Sumatra. But then the coast of West Sumatra is not, as a rule, home to people like Nanni Casalegno. The 62-year-old Italian quit his job and left his home in Turin in 1991, after finding his heaven on earth in Indonesia. In the 15 years since, the former insurance broker and his wife, Federica, have turned 0.9 km of pristine beach on the remote island of Cubadak...
...basement had been decorated with "One Tough Grandma" bumper stickers, lawn signs and T-shirts from the independent gubernatorial campaign of McClellan's mother, Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn. In her folksy lilt, Strayhorn had recorded a farewell greeting in which she said she had an urgent assignment...