Word: shriek
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...voice dives, soares and trembles with his role. On the throne, his voice is deep, yet forced and cracked like Lear's authority. At Regan's castle, Lear mutters and sputters in tone anger. As he rages against the storm the voice nears a shriek. At the end it is a quavering sigh...
...cowards"). When his book was published in France last year, Paris' two top literary monthlies hailed him as "one of the great writers of our time." But Selves is too agonized and too labored. Intended as a critique of the inner man, it comes out as a shriek...
...came when each Congo charged that the other was plotting a coup. Issuing a "last warning," Tshombe put his press aide on the air with the message: "If Moise Tshombe wants to take Brazzaville, it would only be a question of two hours." From across the river came a shriek of rage addressed to "The Hitler of Africa...
...only disappointment of the concert, though Marx's sprightly staccato attacks of the first movement, and a regal unison with Wuorinen which opened the third, were among the evening's most exciting moments. The piece is too long, however, and redundant; too frequently Marx seemed to shriek in the high register or growl in the vulgar buzzsaw sound for which he has been criticized...
...would be caught dead studying for exams earlier than exam week (at which time he may exert veritably superhuman efforts), chances are the spectre of examinations is never completely absent from his thoughts. Engaged in casual poker marathons, putting on faces of nonchalance to the world, he may perhaps shriek in his night-mares "The system is evil, unfair, stupid...