Word: shrillings
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...suggestion of decency or honor in her money-crazed and lecherous characters, Miss Stead deprives herself of all possibilities for moral contrasts and dramatic conflicts; the total absence of white makes it impossible to recognize the black in the dark. The novel soon assumes the quality of a very shrill feminine nightmare...
...darkness announced the passage of the village priest coming to perform the last rites of the church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice: "She's sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have our saint." Rumors continued to flash through the dark like scratched matches: Maria was dying, she felt neither burns nor pinpricks, she was dead but her heart continued miraculously to beat...
...photographers can be a hell of a nuisance. At the few exciting moments, a human wall of cameramen lined the edge of the speakers' platform. Some reporters in the press section were cut off from a view of the delegates on the floor, while the endless flashbulbs and shrill, insistent cries for "one more!" distracted the speakers...
...little trouble at first: besides the roar of planes and auto traffic that plagues all stadium concerts, she got too close to the mike, which turned her tone into a shrill whine. But midway through Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D, audience and critics alike knew they were listening to as powerful and fiery fiddling as they had heard all season. They let famed Violinist Erica Morini know...
Puccini: La Bohème (Bidu Sayao, Richard Tucker, and others with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Giuseppe Antonicelli conducting; Columbia, 26 sides). No mistaking this for the Met; some nice singing, and a great deal that is ordinary, uneven and sometimes shrill. Recording: good...