Word: shrill
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...Basel concert opened, Mlle. Ginette Martenot, sister of the instrument's builder, started off with the Ondes Martenot. With remarkable technique, she coaxed from the instrument a synthetic cascade of notes, often shrill, occasionally pleasant, accompanied by a wildly modernistic orchestral background. She got a big hand from the audience. After intermission, Oskar Sala sat down before his Mixturtrautonium. To a tape-recorded background of shrill whistles, gongs, rattles and electronic drum sounds, he compounded the cacophony with his wildly incoherent themes. A third of the audience left before the end; those who stayed filled the hall with whistles...
...lighthearted spirit of the operetta perfectly. She sings as usual, with a full, beautiful voice, but this is the first time I have seen her completely relax in her acting--and the result is most charming. Her sister is played by Linda Latter, whose singing is clear without being shrill, and who is perhaps best described as pert. Their gondolier lovers are Paul Sperry and James Greene; both sing with energy and clarity, combining amazingly well on the difficult duets...
...called "saxophone" came into being. By blowing one's breath into the smaller aperture of said instrument, thence through a wood or plastic sliver called a "reed," it is possible to make a most magnificent array of nearly organic sounds. Probably the most frequently imitated sounds are animal grunts, shrill screams of pleasure, and all variety of passionate outcries. Needless to say, a mere finger-tapper has become a man representative of the crudest sensibilities. It is now necessary to writhe or "rock" or wriggle one's whole body in a number of strange contortions, and to accompany this motion...
...General Weygand, then 73, France's CinC, a defeatist of another stamp. Active, shrill, offensive in argument, Weygand believed, like "French professional officers generally," that "their army alone excelled in war, that fundamentally [the British] were not soldiers." It followed that only a lunatic could believe that the British could win against an enemy who had already beaten the French...
...government, Pérez Jiménez watched the speedometer needle of the Mercedes-Benz tremble around 160 kilometers (100 m.p.h.). He flashed by goats, banana plantations, royal palms and startled girls in magenta dresses; he hurried dustily on through villages where school children lined the streets for shrill vivas, through towns that tried to attract official attention to their rustic needs with crude banners impossible to read at high speed. After nine hours he coasted into San Cristobal, 18 miles from the Colombian border and 650 miles from Caracas. "Sports, swimming, high speeds," he mused, "all are fine ways...