Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five days after the story broke, in a painful moment, the President shifted from a weak denial to a blustering one, demanding the nation listen to him this time (as if we had not been last week when he gave us a non-denial denial). The voice was stronger, but the tap-dance continued: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky." Define the ambiguous "sexual relations." Note the Ciceronian use of the perjorative as well as demonstrative pronoun, "that." He then left the room, taking no questions. We are told he won't do so until...
...thought his teaching at that point was remarkable," Mrs. Perry said. Her husband was hearing impaired, but it "was astonishing in the way he could listen to the students," she said...
...never can recall having met many problem students," Perry wrote. "I think I shall take up the words of a colleague who became exasperated at the comment, 'I just don't see how you can sit there day after day listening to people's problems,' and replied, 'I don't listen to problems: I listen to courage in action...
Sonny is a composite of preachers from rural Texas, Virginia and Tennessee. "I listened to the way they whoop," he says, "then hold the note and cut it with a cadence." If you expect a Jimmy Swaggart-style spellbinder, who coaxes near operatic melodrama from his rich baritone, E.F. will disappoint you. The narrow range of Duvall's voice can convey muscle and danger; the music is lacking. His whoop is a thing of will, not an expression of soulful exuberance. For that, listen to the real preachers Duvall hired for small roles. Black or white, they'll have...
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