Word: whisperer
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...doesn't take much exposure to the residents of Fayette County to discern the profound social conservatism that permeates the mountain communities. One elderly woman at the church lowered her voice to a whisper to say "I hope they ain't any dope at Harvard." I suspect that the most hated phrase in southern West Virginia is "gun control...
...film's center lies in the bond between Julia Roberts as the young woman serenely accepting the risk of childbirth and Sally Field as her tightly wound mother, wanting to scream warnings at her daughter but only able to whisper despairing support for her -- right through the final coma. Their characters are fully and finely realized, and their work is supported, not subverted, by the style and mood of a film that cries more easily, and more persuasively, than it laughs...
...surprising burst of honesty, agreed to count them as part of the budget deficit. Though New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan asserted that the relief money will have to be made up by cuts in other programs, that is most unlikely, and no one in Washington will even whisper the T word. Most likely, the $3 billion, and more that California lawmakers warned they will request later, will be financed by simply running the money- printing presses a bit faster and making the budget deficit larger and more intractable...
...protection," he said, lowering his voice to a whisper. "Disk condoms...
...memories, some to be relished, others to be expunged: the glory of Jamaica, where he hammered Smokin' Joe for the title in '73. Then, the next year, the nightmare of Africa at 4 in the morning, and the specter of Ali in the ropes, taunting him with a whisper, "Is that all you got, George?" before knocking him out in the eighth. Says his friend Norm Henry, a California fight promoter: "He looks at Tyson, and he sees Frazier all over again...