Word: whisperingly
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...very best parts of Barnett's work come in the italicized sections that break up the academic discourse and recall, in whisper-quick fragments, the scenes he has experienced on the streets of Lhasa, then and now. Like many a romantic tourist, Barnett knew little about Tibet when he arrived in Lhasa in October 1987 and suddenly found himself witness and even party to a violent uprising against Chinese rule. Eager to help a wounded Tibetan at one point, he bangs on the doors of the compound where the man is hiding?and realizes, too late, that he has thus...
...blank." Bakr says al-Zarqawi led him into another room, with prayer mats and copies of the Koran. "Come, let us pray," al-Zarqawi said. Bakr says they prayed for about three hours, with al-Zarqawi reciting from memory several long surahs, or chapters from the Koran, in a whisper. From time to time, he broke into sobs and moans, babbling incoherently, as if in a trance. Afterward, Bakr was asked to join al-Zarqawi and some of his closest aides in a discussion on the life of the Prophet Muhammad that went on until dawn. It wasn't until...
...vowels out languidly, and sometimes chopping her words short—creating a gentle sense of syncopation above the simple pulse and layered guitar. The album is further enriched by the tonalities of her voice, occasionally bringing in a slight nasal inflection or dropping to a barely audible whisper. Her guitar style is reminiscent of the late folk-pop great Nick Drake, and her songs evoke dreamy landscapes that will sound familiar to Drake’s fans. She plays slowly and easily, occasionally drifting into the bossa nova territory of Joao Gilberto. She never attempts anything fancy...
...Back then, Bettie Page was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged...
...Cuchi, smiled at me from behind yellow-tinted indoor sunglasses and served me two colorful sampler drinks. The green one was supposedly flavored with green tea essential oil, while the pink one had…a raspberry on the rim. Both tasted super, despite one bartender’s whisper to me that they were keeping ‘em weak so the journos wouldn’t embarrass themselves.The food was unique as well, or at least the appetizers were. There were playful, brown-sugar-encrusted lumps of tuna tartare, amazing little shrimps on toasts...