Word: nasalities
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...which it was written, a great part of the work's charm lies in seeing its technical hazards overcome. Mr. Wenzinger did so not only with ease but with bravura. The viola da gamba is a seven stringed instrument resembling the 'cello, yet the remarkable freedom and slightly nasal sweetness of its tone make it much more appropriate than the 'cello for Baroque music. Harvard is fortunate in having this opportunity to hear Mr. Wenzinger, one of the foremost performers on the instrument and an expert in the performance of styles of Baroque music...
...quavery voice? Or were you referring to the mode of expression and pronunciation? If this last is the case, then I venture to say that the British accent, be it Scots, Lancashire, Cockney or merely Mayfair, has more vitality, variety and general caress to the ear than the flat, nasal monotone that passes for speech...
Divorcement was an unexpected success. The nation's moviegoers took to the nasal voice, the angular face, the Bryn Mawr accent. Kate's second film, Christopher Strong, was a flop. But then she won an Oscar for her acting of the stagestruck girl in Morning Glory. As Jo in Little Women, her performance was so moving that Tallulah Bankhead knelt to congratulate...
...body vibrate. A man standing in a sound field of 120 decibels (common near the tail pipe of a jet) feels the waves in surprising ways. If he holds out his hand, his fingers get painfully hot whenever they touch one another. If he partially opens his mouth, his nasal cavities may resonate like organ pipes. Sometimes his lower jaw vibrates so strongly that he has to grit his teeth to quiet it down. His ears get hot as they ride the waves; his nostrils get hot too. He may see only vague blurs as his eyeballs dance, and individual...
...oven, and weighed them again. FTC ruled this test out. Philip Morris cut holes in rabbits' tracheas to pump smoke into their lungs (five of the rabbits died, but Philip Morris says they were smoking rival brands). Competitors pumped smoke through the noses of dogs to see if nasal passages were irritated enough to cause obstruction...