Word: nasality
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Rightly or wrongly, the transplanted whites from Algeria are identified with the plastic bombings and brutal murders of the S.A.O. The average Frenchman also dislikes them on personal grounds. The Algerian accent, which combines a throaty Arab intonation with a nasal drawl, falls unpleasantly on French ears. The pieds-noirs are considered pushy, noisy, boastful and vulgar. A Nice restaurateur says: "You cannot spend ten minutes with them before the subject of their sexual prowess comes up. Their language and gestures are so raw that it's not surprising that no one, from high society to workers, invites pieds...
...Robert J. Huebner, head of PHS's laboratory for infectious diseases, said: "We have to define the problem as 'acute respiratory disease, upper and lower.' The 'upper' refers to disease at the level of the larynx or above, such as laryngitis, nasal pharyngitis and simple rhinitis. 'Lower' covers tracheitis, bronchitis and pneumonitis. Then we have to identify them further as mild, moderate or severe, and as with fever or without...
...Blues for Rampart Street (Coleman Hawkins Quintet; Riverside). The storied 1920s blues singer was around 70 when she came out of retirement to record this album last spring-and her dragging tempo and uncertainty of pitch give her away. But her voice-more nasal and corrugated than ever-is still an impressive instrument in Fogyism and Wild Women Don't Have the Blues, as Ida sells her message with a conviction that singers a third her age cannot muster...
...Worry!" Brother J. Charles Jessup of Gulfport, Miss., specializes in high-pitched nasal prayer for whatever his listeners suggest, and he prides himself on his gift: "The angel appeared unto me in a dream and commissioned me to give myself to prayer.'' He also has a gift for extracting folding money from his slack-jawed listeners: "Friends, is it not right that I should ask you to help support our work? You don't owe us anything. You write me whether you've got any money or not to send. But if you have something that...
...Stetson hats, they scramble frantically through Foggy Mountain Special, Randy Lynn Rag, Polka on the Banjo, Shuckin' The Corn, giving each piece the knuckle-cracking momentum and the curiously high-pitched, pinging tone that is the mark of bluegrass style. For a dramatic finisher, Flatt may lift his nasal, sowbelly voice in an enduring country hit named Give Me Flowers While I'm Living...