Word: twangs
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...congregation, he faced the Ark of the Covenant. On the lectern before him lay the great scrolls of the Torah, the book of the law of Moses. Rabbi Finkelstein's clenched right hand beat upon his breast in the traditional gesture of sorrow. Clear and strong, in the twang and guttural of the Hebrew chant, his voice rose...
...What are the sources, motives or unconscious origins of Anti-Americanism? First I would put British influences . . . [like] The New Statesman. [It is] the British Bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar school intellectual, the new technical school boys whose knowing twang you hear on every bus, every manic-depressive Orwellite, fissurated Koestlerite, prehistoric Fabian, antique Keir Hardyite, flaming anti-Roman Catholic, like . . . the editor himself, Mr. Kingsley Martin, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair, if not suicide, is a weekly injection of Kingsley Martin...
Vincent Auriol, who speaks French with a Toulouse twang and English hardly at all, and Harry Truman, who speaks English with a Missouri twang and French not at all, grinned broadly and shook hands warmly when they met in the vaulted State Room of Washington's Union Station. Five prodigious days of partygoing, personal appearances and stiff protocol failed to erase either presidential grin...
...that summit of craft where art appears to be artless. His oddly arresting similes and metaphors jut up like boulders deflecting the clear stream of his narratives. Many a sentence of Crane's is beaded with the sweat that went into its construction. Despite these deficiencies, his pages twang with an intense, nervous conviction of actuality...
Perhaps you were trying a new trend in speech description. May I add one or two-the pancake twang of Mr. Truman (flat and Midwestern), the lettuce phrases of General Eisenhower (crisp), and the doughnut charges of Senator McCarthy (full of holes...