Word: mutter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like lira for euros. We approve whole-heartedly of this Bacchanalian excess and hope that each of the next four days and nights prove wilder than the one before. Nonetheless, it's impossible to wade through all this raucous merriment without sensing tension when well-wishers turn sullen and mutter under their breath as arch-enemies pass by, or when two friends stand aloof because one is moving to New York and the other to Sydney...
...Fuck you," our spokesperson announces. The delivery van shuts its doors. We all mutter our approval. We're too cold to applaud...
...leaning swing voters. His brutally efficient success in reducing crime, paring welfare rolls, fighting smut and ending vagrancy has endeared him to middle-class white ethnics outside Manhattan; his pro-choice, pro-immigrant, opera-friendly moderation on social issues makes him palatable to soccer moms. While hardened city dwellers mutter about Giuliani's safer, duller New York, suburbanites love it. In the TIME/CNN survey, Giuliani received a favorability rating of 40% among New York City voters but outpolled Hillary 52% to 41% in the suburbs...
...exposed writing in the upper register is more indicative than anything else of what the solo part in this concerto is about." As the pitches began to stretch the bound of Human aural tolerability, one was truly thankful that it was in the hands of such an accomplished violinist. Mutter handled these delicate passages with grace and finesse, never allowing emotion to overtake the intricacy of the music, her timbre unfaltering. Though Mutter's rendition of the concerto was very bright in tone, it was by no means what you would call a "risky performance" or a "quirky interpretation." Though...
...celebration of Seiji Ozawa's 25th Anniversary Season as the music director of the BSO, internationally renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was invited to play her first engagement with the symphony since November 1993. You may know Ms. Mutter more for her interpretations of 20th century music or perhaps for her provocative personal style, but judging from her performance last Tuesday she should be equally well known for her superb technical abilities...