Word: tenorizing
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...candidates of all ilks are distancing themselves from President Bush’s policies. The President has made clear his aversion for timetables for withdrawal from Iraq. But even if he continues to wield his veto and Congress lacks the votes to override him, he must realize, from the tenor of the current campaigns and debate in Congress, that it’s high time to scale back the number of American troops in the region. Even if he is averse to withdrawal on Congress’s terms, he should do so on his own. Although Bush claims that...
...last night in jail was a Sunday. I was falling asleep on the floor when I felt a low harmony echoing up through the concrete of the cell next door. There was bass, tenor and rhythm. For two hours, prisoners filled the jail with music. These were songs of suffering and acceptance, of beauty and soul undiminished...
...share of the seducing. (It’s worth the price of admission, by the way, just to hear how much fun Munson has pronouncing his name.) Strutting around in uniform with a charismatic squint and a terrifically nasal speaking voice, Klyce’s strong, clear tenor plays second fiddle only to his great comic timing. There’s a joke involving the hilt of his sword and an erection that is much funnier than it has any business being, and that’s entirely to Klyce’s credit...
...mindless tenor of Housing Day “spirit” itself testifies to the dearth of real local attachment among House residents. Deprived of any enduring points of pride—or even the assurance of living with more than seven of one’s friends—upperclassmen resort to the most banal and vulgar praises of their Houses...
...enterprising young American persuaded a "short, fat and ugly" tenor to record 10 arias in a Milan hotel room for 100 pounds. The singer was Enrico Caruso, and the album, a huge hit, gave rise to the classical recording industry. In The Life and Death of Classical Music the smart, crusty, blustery critic Norman Lebrecht frog-marches readers, prestissimo, through the glory days of Toscanini and Glenn Gould to the bloated collapse of the early 2000s, brought on by inflated contracts, corporate mismanagement, mindless rerecordings of the warhorses and a welter of weak-minded classical-lite crossover acts. The book...