Word: nasality
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...newborn star quite conforms to the clichés of stardom. Her profile might have come from an ancient bas-relief found in the valley of the Nile, but her tongue is asphalt-coated in the speech patterns of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her voice is too nasal to be winningly melodic, but she uses it like a jazz instrument, improvising a jumping rhetoric of sound. She can bring a song phrase to a growling halt, or let it drift lyrically like a ribbon of smoke. Her lyrics seem not to have been learned by rote, but branded...
When Wilson's flat, nasal voice reached the end of his speech, the wildly cheering delegates gave him a standing ovation that lasted nearly two minutes. It was the most successful oration that Wilson had ever made, and one of the most important for the future of the Labor Party...
...indestructibility of blood-group markers is shown daily by forensic pathologists who solve a crime by analyzing a single spot of months-old blood. Less commonly known, said Dr. Sussman, is that 80% of people have similar substances, from which ABO grouping can be determined, in their sputum, saliva, nasal secretions, urine and seminal fluid. To prove it in his laboratory, Dr. Sussman got an assistant to lick a postage stamp and stick it on a piece of paper. This was left on the lab table, exposed to air, sun and dust. At the end of a month, one-quarter...
...want to say," said the man with the famed ski-nose and nasal voice, "that I played in the South Pacific while the President was out there. The President was a very gay and carefree young man at the time. Of course, all he had to worry about then was the enemy...
...Frank Sinatra Jr. has gone summer-touring with the Tommy Dorsey band, and with his nasal intonation and easy delivery almost convinces listeners that they are back at the Paramount Theater, circa...