Word: sotto
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...movie in the Dominican Republic"--Andy Garcia's directorial debut, The Lost City, due out in late 2005--"the first time we've worked together in 20 years, and I'm really looking forward to having him as my seatmate. As we sit down, he leans over and says sotto voce, 'Hope you're not the chatty type.' Then he puts on earmuffs, a blindfold and gives me his ass for the next six hours." Hoffman laughs wildly as he tells the story...
...bagpiper paused, and someone asked us to all observe a moment of silence. There was a lot of throat-clearing and jostling. Someone giggled. My candle blew out and someone else, sotto voce, offered to relight it. After a while the bagpiper started up again. He was wheezing “America the Beautiful” in a stumbling meter. It is a song that was played ad nauseum in the weeks after Sept. 11—a song that was substituted for “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the seventh inning stretch...
...Disneyland castle. ?Stand here and you can see both the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building,? I would say, civic pride mingling with aesthetic awe as we indicated the world?s tallest glamorous building and its downtown elder brother, Cass Gilbert?s neo-Gothic Cathedral of Commerce. Then, sotto voce, I?d add with a dismissive wave, ?And the World Trade Center.? In our glittering family of commercial monuments, the towers were the hulking twins who could aspire to nothing more lofty than playing right and left tackle for the Jets...
...rhetorical question. "What would you do," Haggett began, "if we put a married priest in your parish?" The bishop replied gravely, "Well, I?d have to put an end to it, I suppose." Haggett pressed on. "But what if no one complained?" she asked. The bishop paused before answering sotto voce. "Then I?d just look the other...
...Hell, and pointed out that "the reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it." Just like me, you can hear him adding sotto voce. Blake could and did draw monstrous demons, but Milton's beautiful Lucifer, son of the morning, was never far from his mind. Lucifer's greatest manifestation is as the idealized Apollo-like form of Isaac Newton, emblem of the cold reason Blake abhorred as against divinely granted perception, seated naked...