Word: shrill
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...Fernandel's honorable lad comes home from Algeria on leave and marries the girl, setting the villagers off on a grand, hatchet-burying celebration. Unfortunately and predictably, the era of goodwill is likely to last only until the next movie in the cycle sends them, with shrill Gallic cries, at each other's throats again...
...Morning and night, that was all they talked about in the little frame house in the California poor-town where Norma Jeane Baker lived in the early years of the Depression. "You're wicked, Norma Jeane," the old woman used to shrill at the little girl. "You better be careful, or you know where you'll go." Norma Jeane was careful, especially not to talk back. If she did, she got whaled with a razor strop and told that a homeless girl should be more grateful to folks who had put a roof above her head. One night...
...other singers display considerable versatility. Jo Sullivan, as Rosabella the sometime bride, is rather shrill in attempting to combine vivacity with shame. Morley Meredith, the well-meaning, and over-masculine hired hand, is strapping, restless, and insensitive, as he should be. The strength of the cast comes mostly from a huge roster of chorus and incidental players, all in good voice and enthusiasm...
When Eden rose to reply after dinner, the Tories boosted him on his way with a sustained, vehement "Hear, hear." But the Prime Minister began badly. Discomfited by Labor heckling from the front bench opposite, Eden lost his usual urbanity. His voice was almost shrill as he complained that Labor was not giving him time to speak. Shouting that he had spoken "for 30 years in this House." Eden had to appeal to the Speaker to quiet the ridicule. A Churchill would have met the hecklers with confident abuse...
...outstanding Italian dramatic tenor of our day, too much forcing has taken its toll on his voice and he can no longer sustain the line as well as he should. He is still effective in declamatory passages, but the many lyric moments are sung roughly. Tebaldi tends to be shrill as Leonora, although parts of her performance are controlled and lovely. The opera itself is uneven, so the singers must sometimes surpass their material. They have only partial success: contralto Giulia Simionato is fine, but basso Cesare Siepi is a disappointment. The best performance comes from baritone Bastianini, making...