Word: whine
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...Hollywood history, a darkly tragic group. Worse, the film falsifies many of the known facts about Fields in an attempt to create a conventional rags-to-riches show-biz saga. Even Steiger finally goes soft, hinting that a pagliaccio was hiding behind the bulbous nose and the rasping whine-an insight neither Fields nor his friends are on record as entertaining...
...behind, and the rest gets distilled into a rarified fraction of reality, before it can enter The Kitchen. One-dimensional ribbons of a tune impossible to reproduce with human voices emanate from the portholes of insulated swing doors and from silver smoke flues--or is the sound just the whine from staggered rows of fluorescent lamps...
...produced by the plane would be perceived by people outdoors as being twice as loud as that made by a Boeing 707 and four times as great as that of a DC-10. U.S. opponents describe the Concorde's noise, a low rumble rather than a high-pitched whine, as "devastating." A British cleric from a community near Heathrow who appeared at last week's hearing put it more poetically. "Concorde's noise is unbearable, above the threshold of pain," testified the Rev. Hugh Montifiore. "It is not hell, because hell goes on forever. It is more...
Eternal Juvenile. The applause brought little joy. "I have imagined so much and had so little," Andersen noted in his diary. That complaint sounds like the whine of a child - and, in fact, Andersen remained an eternal juvenile...
...mortal Strephon. One always sympathizes with actors condemned to boring straight roles while others are allowed to bring down the house. But Morgan can't be forgiven so easily--he approaches his role with a set of two or three facial contortions and speaks his lines in a grating whine...