Word: whisperingly
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...like cricket-sounds, and “The Last Hour” work like red-pencil corrections to secret diary entries: ”I’ve been thinking of the things that I missed / Situations that I passed up for this /... / Make it over” he whisper-sings in the latter. In “Shooting Star,” reserved anger manifests itself through a screeching, treble-heavy and flanged guitar-line intro: ”You’ll make the scene like you always do / Going up stream down the avenue / To fuck some...
...weeks that British engineer Ken Bigley was held captive in Iraq, I prayed that the gang that held him would listen to the voice of their conscience, even if that voice had become just a whisper, and spare Bigley’s life. But my prayers weren’t answered...
...Bush, a lifelong New Hampshire, New Haven, Boston, Washington and Texas suburbanite, and with nary a whisper of rebuttal from his political opponents, has even managed to persuade most Americans that he’s lived on that ranch in Crawford his entire adult life, when he bought it in 1999 and only for use as a “summer White House.” Can you imagine how loud the cries of “phony” would have come had John Kerry attempted a similar real estate acquisition last year...
...what he had to do to get the beating to stop and anyone would have done that.” Kaufman said, adding in a whisper, “anyone...
Finally, Hart asked what advice they would whisper in the next President's ear. "My opinion doesn't have to count," said John Kenny, a Bush voter. It took a second before I realized that Kenny was delivering a revolutionary message, undermining the very purpose of the focus group: Don't listen to me! The next President, he said, has to "stand up on his own and do what he thinks is right...