Word: voce
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Because of the human voice's limited range and flexibility, Haussermann decided to lay most stress on variety of color. In one of the four movements the voice is used in a hushed, introspective mezzo voce; in another, in light coloratura vein. There are runs, trills, even a cadenza. Commented Conductor Goossens...
...exciting than it promises to be. For Director Lewis Milestone has forsaken action for a series of static scenes bowed down under too much talk. The talk is sometimes funny, seldom convincing. But oldtime Actor Colman, now a greying 50, turns in a neat performance in his offhand, sotto voce manner, and England's Anna Lee (in her first big-time U.S. cinema role) is a first-rate Caroline...
...bill appropriating money for the U. S. farmers could be passed viva voce in the Senate the minute it is introduced, but the Senate would never consider doing it that way. The "orderly process" is to study a House-passed bill, such as this year's $714,000,000 farm measure, find places to drape on added gifts, then pass it, with every Senator given his chance to roar devotion to U. S. agriculture...
...came immediately, spread throughout the U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose dark red eyebrows are ranked third in Washington below Lewis' and Garner's, had a reporter reread Lewis' statement to him, chuckled heartily, said aloud: "That's too eloquent for comment," then sotto voce to a nearby reporter: "It's a sinful world." (Mr. Murphy and the entire press section of the Justice Department spent the rest of that day and evening, in hasty afterthought, insisting he had not correctly understood the statement...
Since the Axis treaty, Italians refer to Adolf Hitler as La Voce del Padrone ("The Master's Voice"), the Victor phonograph trademark whose secondary meaning is understood by everyone. Too many Gestapo men are around to mention the word "Hitler or "Adolf," but when Italians say "We were better off under our own padrone," the inference is that they believe Il Duce to have lost his hold on Italy and that the Führer is really the boss...