Most of the wine that's sold is monotone, and the wine that claims not to be monotone is, Grahm believes, pretty monotone, too, made in the style of the one-dimensional "fruit bomb" wines that he associates with the reign of the wine critic Robert Parker.
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"Everyone will die," the voice said in a calm monotone.
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The judge, in a deep monotone voice, repeated the script.
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"I wish I dressed better," she says in her distinctive monotone.
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"I don't like my jokes," she says in her distinctive monotone.
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Between sips of green tea, Matsumoto speaks in a soft monotone.
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Those qualities become the optical equivalent of speaking in a monotone.
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"It's very similar to mine: pretty easygoing and monotone," he said.
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"I don't want to be just a little nice monotone character."
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He answered most questions in a monotone, rarely meeting Fisher's eye.
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"Trade rumors don't bother me," he said in his deep monotone.
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"I've been keeping a journal," Elliott explains, in his trademark monotone.
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The woman read the other character's line in a bored monotone.
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The super-wide leg, the monotone wash, the awkward length...hi, Dad.
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Diagnosis "I can't breathe," the woman panted, her voice a husky monotone.
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In a monotone, she appealed to European values of reason, democracy, civilization.
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On " M : FANS ," his delivery remains monotone, but he sounds nearly earnest.
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"Oh, I don't do anything," he joked in a deadpan, monotone voice.
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The voice was familiar to me by now—a clear monotone, always a
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" You know, the usual [monotone voice] "I trained really hard for this fight.
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Raymond Holt (Andre Baugher) is monotone and strait-laced to a laughable degree.
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Will's voice is a deep monotone drawl, adding contrast to his pounding production.
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I'm a pretty monotone voice, and I think that's why I landed Daria.
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In a quiet, monotone courthouse not known for abundant color, he stands out.
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But monotone anger, a moment when you're so upset and down on yourself.
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"The keyboard they have is trash," he said in his typical low monotone.
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He's been trying to get that across to voters with his calm monotone.
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After all, what would KUWTK even be without the oldest Kardashian's monotone sarcasm?
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He speaks in an affectless monotone, mournfully crosses his arms and rarely smiles.
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We cut to the review boldly, yet calmly establishing the stakes in confident monotone.
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The sky looked lighter than I had imagined, a monotone canvas of gray clouds.
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"We ain't got no other store to go to," Scott says in a monotone.
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He occasionally gestures with his hands but his voice -- deep and monotone -- betrays no emotion.
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He delivered his scripts in a staccato monotone that sounded cribbed from the nightly news.
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Lucky for Malek, his current gig allows him to speak in a drugged-out monotone.
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His voice monotone and barely audible, he told Vargas he had had thoughts of suicide.
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Mr. Jones's voice — deep, monotone and raspy — gets most of the attention for the role.
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It soon goes back to monotone, however, and the music shifts back to eerie, unsettling noise.
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The beat has a dizzying quality, and Amrit's monotone voice adds an extra layer of intrigue.
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Crestfallen, Williams's post-match news conference wrapped up quickly, with short responses and a sombre monotone.
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To most of us, it might all look like a monotone apocalyptic smudge on the horizon.
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"I blew the boy and everybody else to bits," he says in his dry British monotone.
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She looks about twice her 20 years and speaks in a monotone, rarely making eye contact.
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He spoke in a rapid monotone as though reading from a text printed on the ceiling.
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McCabe is a nuts-and-bolts narrator; he speaks in an earnest monotone, clear but unchanging.
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Sometimes he spoke in a distracted monotone; other times he displayed an easy, self-deprecating wit.
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He spoke in a low, halting monotone, as if he had something else on his mind.
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In the next-door classroom, 3A recited times tables under the priestly monotone of Mr. Graham.
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Chunky pixels and a monotone palette also mean that artistic detail is sparing—but never lacking, either.
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I couldn't look at either one of them, and I just said in monotone, 'Thanks for coming.
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Ask Alexa about the weather, and it'll tell you it's sunny and 75 in a pleasant monotone.
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"It&aposs his clothes," she answers in a monotone before heading down the hallway in a daze.
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That was the line of recycled abstraction out of your budget; it was monotone and pretentiously boring.
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I want to make pop music that's a protest against the drab, gray, depressed monotone of neoliberalism.
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"Many of the leather goods that we see today are superclean and monotone," du Petit Thouars says.
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Thunberg's terse and sombre monotone makes tangible the emotional significance of the deepening crisis facing her generation.
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According to the rule book, I should stick to monotone looks, sleek fabrics, and loads of black.
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"The first day was really tough," he said, speaking in monotone and often looking at the ground.
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Now a law professor at Brandeis University, Professor Hill spoke in measured terms, almost in a monotone.
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"We're concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country," they monotone.
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Other times, it's Ben Stein's monotone voice — "Bueller… Bueller..." — in the background, as corporate execs shuffle in.
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The previously monotone virtual assistant&aposs developer, Amazon, announced the news in a blog post published Tuesday.
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Despite what initially felt like a stifling, monotone place, this is a vast world created by Ferrante.
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"I can't describe how excited I am," Anisimova said, though her typical monotone betrayed little such emotion.
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If Kaz isn't whining, he's going on in a monotone voice about how it sucks that he's rich.
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"I don't want to be just a little nice monotone character, and in many cases I will be."
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Triplefins sit relatively motionless most of the time while looking around at their exceptionally bland, monotone marine environment.
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Meghan's monotone look also included a coordinating clutch and heels, simple stud earrings and her signature messy bun.
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The first iteration was hardly perfect; it was monotone and robotic — but it sounded like (a robotic) me.
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"I'm just really stiff and talk in a monotone and have a very tiny range emotionally," she replies.
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Until now, answers have been monotone and lacked proper emphasis, and pronunciation mistakes have fueled many funny Tweets.
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Starchy and monotone, Mr Corbyn's public speaking has improved in recent months, but only from terrible to mediocre.
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"I strongly condemn this type of behavior," Ms. Wang says in a monotone, sitting inside a featureless room.
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Its climactic moments possess zero emotional depth and its supposedly tense exchanges play out in a heated monotone.
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For trained actors, the couple doesn't seem to really be interested in emoting, reciting their lines in monotone.
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"Racism is evil," he said in a terse speech delivered off a Teleprompter in a tight-jawed monotone.
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As Moore studied his shorthand notes, then delivered a monotone précis, Sorrentino tapped ash on the traffic below.
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The greatest, most counterintuitive way to look confident is to speak the way he does, in a monotone.
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No wonder most Lanthimos characters speak in a flat, affected monotone cadence, as if they've been through hell.
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And Kerr spoke with the hoarse monotone of someone who sounded as if he had been gargling sand.
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"They talked very monotone and robotic and they talked at the same time, saying the same thing," Clifford said.
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It's a very monotone, low moan that sounds like it could turn into a growl if not properly treated.
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"The founder of their cult was himself a paedophile and kept sex slaves," he continues in a near monotone.
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That's exactly what obvious sadomasochist Monotone Tim tried, when he modified the instrument to work as a game controller.
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The negative side of this change lies in the supposed reduction of once diverse neighborhoods to monotone yuppie dormitories.
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"Mariotti added that even though Mueller's monotone answers may not have made for dramatic TV, "they weren't without effect.
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She spoke in a monotone, eyes glazed, describing every detail mechanically as if trying to avoid reliving the moment.
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Over quiet, burbling, sunbaked guitar arpeggios, he recites gnostic puzzles and surreal rustic parables in a deep, gentle monotone.
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Sure, the synth-children that Daft Punk rounded up for this Homework cut are excited, if a little monotone.
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He spoke to me with a kind of pro forma monotone and a hint of boredom, which he acknowledged.
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"It's not just about winning the championship," he said after Monday's game, his voice firmly returned to the monotone.
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The singsong sounds of English, Italian, and Spanish float down the street in place of the usual French monotone.
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The answer lies in one sentence uttered on January 21 - in his oddly avuncular monotone - by ECB President Mario Draghi.
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Maisie Williams' Arya Stark is transformed into an animated, monotone, moody teen in Arya, a toss to the iconic Daria.
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You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from on high at 23:210.
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Avoid turning statements into questions, but also avoid the dreaded "vocal fry," where your voice sounds monotone with no emotion.
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He speaks in a monotone voice and explains that he climbed Trump Tower to get the Republican presidential nominee's attention.
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It was just too old or obscure to pass as journalism, too relentlessly monotone to be presented as a documentary.
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The singer's tone is a bit monotone at times which may be the only ASMR-positive stimulus I can note.
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McConnell's reaction McConnell rarely moves above the level of monotone English 101 professor when he speaks on the Senate floor.
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Our favorite funny woman Kristen Wiig is usually noticed for her monotone quips and impressions of Target check-out cashiers.
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In simple terms he's that typical lazy, still lives with his mom, monotone fuckboy that we have all been warned about.
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By far the biggest contrast is between the often sanitized and monotone mainstream and the multifaceted and intrepid underground music scenes.
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The sparkle in his eye as he landed his jabs contrasted nicely with Pence's monotone delivery and occasional flashes of annoyance.
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I had to teach myself to talk in a more monotone voice in order to get anyone to call me back.
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In the 15-second video, Ana and Christian are getting hitched — Christian (in his classic monotone) recites his vows in voiceover.
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Tall and gray-haired, he speaks in a soft monotone and rarely strays too far from the script in public appearances.
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Aside from the Disick drama, her chill attitude, monotone voice, and dry humor is 100% me at my core — and surface.
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It's much more monotone, things repeat, it's kind of incantatory like it's a spell or a hymn or psalm or something.
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Mr. Farrell adopted a monotone for the part similar to that of his "Lobster" role, but the characters' similarity ends there.
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"The most lesbian thing just happened to me," said the host of the "Jeffrey Jay & Friends" show, in a dry monotone.
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"We have splash," said one of the controllers in a monotone as a huge plume of smoke engulfed the video screen.
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Speaking in his trademark creepy monotone, he told Blitzer on Tuesday that he didn't want to distract Americans from the president.
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Mitchell F. Chan's sound piece "Infinite Newsfeed" turns New York Times headlines into monotone chants that reverberate through his new exhibition.
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He says, "I hope you don't mind if I take a little detour"—again, totally monotone and with no eye contact.
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And of course, that man turns out to be Scott, whose monotone rambling isn't suspicious at all, nuh-uh, not one bit.
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But the connections between the two albums are clear, especially in the fuzzy, monotone pictures of creepy dummies that grace their covers.
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Kyle spoke in a monotone, in a voice that was thin, high, and slightly whiny, with a hint of a Midwestern accent.
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Toward the end, when I speak about my three-year relapse and 19 attempts to stop using heroin, my voice becomes monotone.
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After the administration All-Lives-Matter'ed the Holocaust, Trump condemning anti-Semitism in a monotone voice counts as a comparatively good day.
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"I want to say I've really enjoyed our time together," Jibo announces in a monotone that belies the gravity of the situation.
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Trump delivered his words in a relentless monotone, boring even those of us who had to pay close attention for professional reasons.
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BEIJING — When President Xi Jinping of China meets foreign leaders, he tends to recite talking points in a dutiful monotone, diplomats say.
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Brandon Flowers's voice evolves, over the decade, from arch monotone to soulful cry, as it did on their albums throughout the period.
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But placed tightly together, Birnbaum reliquaries more so resemble a dense copse of naked trees or a group of stark, monotone totems.
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Recurring characters have become a rarity in the past couple seasons, but Davidson has brought back his monotone bro character for several episodes.
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It may not have been the funniest sketch — despite Davidson's perfect monotone impersonation — but it was nice to see some vindication for Jones.
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Addressing voters in Nashua early Monday, Rubio was surprisingly subdued, speaking in almost a monotone before a low-energy crowd at BAE Systems.
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This was somewhat of a Ronsin ritual, as Yves Klein had done much the same with the "Monotone-Silence Symphony" the year before.
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While the sweetness of white sugar is monotone, dark brown sugar is rich in molasses, which contributes the nutty, butterscotch notes of caramelization.
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He's a scuba artist, deep-diving into Ocean's art and emerging with little bits of treasure, which he delivers in a congested monotone.
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More than a few times, they've drawn compliments from coworkers, despite the fact that a monotone polo is not necessarily a new invention.
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After using some items in the office, you find yourself — through rather surreal means — inside a monotone painting of a remote desert diner.
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Salman, like all the candidates, has been jetting around the world meeting voters, and he appeared tired as he read a dry, monotone speech.
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Plemons plays the perfect creep with his monotone delivery, unbreakable eye contact, and a steady intense presence no matter what shocking twist is happening.
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Since the show's debut in 2015, it has presented bi-weekly tales of folklore and mystery, narrated by Mahnke in his calm, reserved monotone.
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In my decade following the trails of North Korea, I was always confronted with these images of monotone buildings and Great Leader-themed slogans.
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Chad Recurring characters have become a rarity in the past couple seasons, but Davidson has brought back his monotone bro character for several episodes.
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Amid dramatic, swooping shots, a monotone male narrator tells the poetic story of enlisting a drone operator named Hercules (another mythic character, also displaced).
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The track itself is rich, immersive, and full of choral depths, with Harvey's voice spread over a hypnotic, monotone guitar riff and rumbling drums.
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His characteristic monotone is traded for a guttural scream—the release of anxieties past and present, one not afforded by any combination of drugs.
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This is in part due to Grammer's gung-ho performance, which has expanded Summer's initial bored monotone into something far more freewheeling and manic.
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One voice on the recording was unmistakable, though—the soft, monotone tenor of Warren Jeffs, the deranged leader of North America's largest polygamist sect.
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"I talk very quietly in a monotone voice where there's almost zero performance in there, to see if the material holds up," she said.
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In lieu, we decided to prepare presentations that rid of us of monotone tableside readings; they made calls more interactive and increased their spontaneity.
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Grandstaff: They'd have me do ten takes in a row just to get it a little flatter, a little more even, a little more monotone.
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All in all, DSTLD is a great one-stop shop for high-quality classics done in the urban uniform's monotone of black, grey, and white.
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In Star Trek: The Original Series, set in the 23rd century but aired from 1966 to 1969, its onboard computer has a stilted, monotone voice.
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Despite the touchy-feely song title and music, Heather keeps her skeptical monotone throughout the entire track, staring at viewers with an incredulous "WTF?" expression.
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I couldn't look at either of them [Mueller or his girlfriend at the time, Shannon Melcher], and I just said in monotone, 'Thanks for coming.
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For instance, sad stories are much more likely to be monotone, include long pauses, fidgeting, and have the storyteller put their hands on their face.
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After Betty Draper receives confirmation of her husband's infidelity, she moves as though in water, her face expressionless, her voice never rising above a monotone.
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We have to address his three worst:"Meet Joe Black" (1998), in which Pitt plays Death, has the actor going full monotone for his performance.
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And while cauliflower stew sounds pretty monotone, adding pickled and grilled cauliflower gives it the high and low notes you need to make it sing.
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In just two minutes of near-monotone sing-song about feeling like Ja Rule, Adamn Killa convinced me he had an ear for the future.
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Anchoring it all is Toledo's voice, a groggy monotone freed from reverb and capable of breaking into a nuanced baritone, full-throated screams, and falsetto.
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Throughout the performance, she continues this abstract but harrowing narration, speaking in monotone and offering the odd death metal growl as she traipses the stage.
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IBM's Jeopardy-winning supercomputer Watson talks to us in his automated monotone about all the great things we can expect from our technology-driven future.
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Boothman, unlike Rowley's affable real-life demeanor, is a monotone conductor of urgent-feeling rhythms, a dark element on top of an already moody album.
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If it's Lil Pump rattling off monotone chants for 90 seconds or these nerds going at it cause they're bored, it's all real hip-hop.
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Melania likes monotone matching coats and beige dresses, but that hair will always be flying once she goes down the stairs of Air Force One.
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A few years ago, Valleywag described his voice as "the stilted monotone of a man reading his own obituary," but he's become much smoother of late.
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I am obsessed with the way she travels up the scale only to drop back down and sing "okay okay okay" in a lower, monotone range.
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The great problem with fatalism as a form of entertainment is that its monotone palette quickly turns monotonous unless it's generously spiced with suspense and empathy.
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Bieber's monotone narration could not sound less enthusiastic, and the whole concept is actually a bit ironic given how anti-celebratory dance the NFL can be.
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"I've given up on being with the person I have three kids with," Kourt tells her mom Kris Jenner with her signature monotone in the promo.
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Thousands tried, but no one could successfully imitate the P. He issued fatwas in a disturbed monotone, calmly smoking a Newport and wearing a bulletproof vest.
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I kind of liked hearing the texts spoken with different characters' inflections, because when I read texts in my mind, it's just in a dull monotone.
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James Halliday, the would-be Willy Wonka played by Mark Rylance in Steven Spielberg's frustrating adaptation of Ready Player One, speaks very quietly, a hushed monotone.
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"Saweetie so monotone / Saweetie look like so and so," she raps on "Pissed," which she released with a Game of Thrones-inspired music video last December.
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Her voice is a pained monotone, one you'll recognize as the voice of someone deep in the well of despair in which they just can't escape.
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We seek to align ourselves with what I think of as the "control voice" — whatever piped-in monotone is dictating a given narrative at the moment.
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The machine argued in favor, delivering three brief speeches in a digitally created monotone and — at least in small ways — responding to Ms. Ovadia's human opinions.
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This was 1990, the height of Japanese minimalism, an era defined by monotone, cerebral fashion, avant-garde ideas and the sculptural silhouettes of Yamamoto and Miyake.
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"Ladies and gentlemen of Texas," he then droned in a sleep-inducing staccato monotone the way he imagined most of the other 44 presidents had done.
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Pockets of it, according to Kushner, who delivered most of the stats in an unemotional monotone, are using systems that are between 503 and 56 years old.
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There's a strange atmosphere about the place though, a kind of emptiness in the air that's amplified by the monotone clouds overhead—perhaps it's the seasonal flux.
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Exploring the legacies of the British Empire, Evans's deliberate use of flat, monotone craft paper silhouettes form a wall installation that reveals how disposable migrants have become.
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We've seen her in everything from head-to-toe monotone looks and breastplate-baring deep V-neck bodysuits to nude leather leggings and ultra revealing one-pieces.
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Tracy Grandstaff (and her unforgettable monotone) spent five years as the voice of Daria, the angsty role model of both 90s girls and their Tumblr-blogging disciples.
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And for good reason too: in a musical landscape where everything's sort of edging towards the monotone and monochrome, UK Funky is a breath of fresh air.
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She told me in an interview that she was also struck by the fact that "he didn't sound sympathetic" and was instead talking in a flat monotone.
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At the start of this season, Ken is so beaten that all he can do is repeat in monotone whatever his dad's lackeys tell him to say.
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It was delivered in a flat monotone, the rallying cry of Kelly, a teenage girl whose parents and brother simply don't understand her unending drive for footwear.
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Written for use in an actual service, the Liturgy has parts for a deacon, typically leading long litanies in a monotone chant, and freer parts for the celebrant.
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We first meet his character, Grigor Andolov, at a hockey rink, where the monotone, cold-blooded, probably murderous character is fresh off checking an opponent on the ice.
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Even an overflow room was packed when he delivered, in his usual dour manner, a speech laced with literary references—rendered through bulky headsets into equally monotone translations.
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The tour guides, reading banal scripts in a flat monotone, list off numbers and figures about how many people were killed, but their language is impersonal and blank.
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Some warning signs that things are heading downhill is that they shift from being sweet and bubbly to speaking with a flat, monotone voice and an expressionless face.
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That's why so many White House press secretaries of the past spoke in monotone, didn't look overly flashy, and generally made the daily press room briefings relatively boring.
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It proved to be an effective shift from his earlier work in which his voice would fluctuate from a high-pitched yelp to his now signature monotone drawl.
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Skittles also is also showing its support for pride by exchanging their rainbow colors in for a monotone palette because you can't have one rainbow upstage the other.
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One example is the 2012 cotton blanket from the Index Collection that fabulously illustrates the tonal gradations of color printing — monotone, duotone and multitoned — from pale to intense.
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One example is the 2708 cotton blanket by the Index Collection that fabulously illustrates the tonal gradations of color printing — monotone, duotone and multitone — from pale to intense.
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"The families that have been hit all have one thing in common: They work for a living," he said in the cadenced monotone of a disgruntled football coach.
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One example is the 2012 cotton blanket by the Index Collection that fabulously illustrates the tonal gradations of color printing — monotone, duotone and multitone — from pale to intense.
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But The Favourite injects a bit of color into the monotone, since it's the early 18th century, and people still speak in flowery language, at least at court.
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For 10 minutes and 29 seconds, Lord, a former security officer at Yahoo who joined the DNC last year, narrates the video in a soft, at times dry monotone.
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"The doctor on staff came into the little room we were waiting in and said in a monotone voice: 'Well, you my dear, had a stroke,'" Leigh told SWNS.
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But the lifeless monotone he uses to describe his five-year ordeal betrays an inner struggle to move on from one of India's most prevalent forms of human trafficking.
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The scene by itself is kind of drab, Riseborough directed to say the lines in an impartial monotone as the camera slowly zooms in on her subtly haunted face.
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In a low monotone, Ms. Strong motioned toward a large pile of official-looking papers in various folders that she said proved Mr. Trump was divesting from his companies.
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For months, each of them tried — and failed — to drill the accent out of me and get me to mimic the Seoul accent: clipped, with a steady, almost monotone texture.
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Stuck behind a teleprompter, reading in a slow monotone, he could not truly rouse the crowd, who gave low-energy cheers and boos in response to his taunts and attacks.
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Sitting very still and speaking in a monotone, Lamiya recounted her captivity, describing how she was passed from one ISIS follower to another, all of whom beat and violated her.
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Whereas Hereditary was dark, set in a world of monotone colors and rainy nights, Midsommar is sunny and saturated, like it's perpetually daytime—because, well, that's exactly what's going on.
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As a diehard Drake fan, it pains me to write this, but the critics were right for panning Views because of its whine-y lyrics and monotone, same-sounding tracklist.
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Even in those off-camera briefings, Spicer seemed unwilling to engage with reporters -- speaking in a monotone and referring almost every question to some other part of the federal bureaucracy.
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Ele A El Dominio - No Te Atiende The deathly monotone flow expected from this contentious Ñengo Flow associate perfectly suits his frequent production partner Yecko's understated yet grim trap beat.
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Last night, the country watched President Trump deliver a monotone Oval Office address, only to have various administration officials quickly step in to correct several policies that he had announced.
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Once during each 11-minute cycle, all 12 screens align, showing Ms. Blanchett's face in immense close-up as she speaks in rapid monotone, a bit like Philip Glass's music.
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"I had convinced myself that kind of optimism served no useful purpose in the world where I existed," he explains, in an underwater monotone, as the protesters look on, baffled.
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The voice-commanded AI bot that turns on lights and delivers the morning headlines in the same monotone, transactional fashion may soon respond to orders with a hint of compassion.
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In Discolored, you play what seems to be some sort of secret agent working to return color to a world that has mostly become monotone due to some strange force.
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After a joke, she turned her back to the audience and in a flat monotone, gave voice to her inner monologue: "It doesn't matter who is here," she scolded herself.
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The best of that bunch arguably shine a bit brighter than the original master, exposing Voigt as just a touch monotone—though perhaps by design—when held up to the light.
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Her monotone delivery lets her words become the star of the track, showing off one hell of a sense of humor and the kind of spark that celebrates, well, Leo season.
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" Finally, then there was the time Jim Belushi was caught talking when he shouldn't have been, as recalled by Tim Roth in Lynch's monotone, slightly hard-of-hearing tone: "Mister Belushi!
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So, what we usually get are long stretches of monotone bars leaving Lil B and completely loyal Raptors fan Drake to pick up the slack when soundtracking NBA 2K loading screens.
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The wildly successful dog revenge fantasy franchise John Wick is coming to premium cable, and expanding the film's universe beyond the steely gaze and monotone voice of Keanu Reeves' titular character.
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In a video filmed by the company, a monotone-voiced narrator explains how the walnut-sized silicone speaker works, which connects to your smartphone or headphones by a thin white cord.
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It is easy enough now to forget that, during Barack Obama's two terms in office, his monotone suits were never permitted to interfere with his message or distract from his presence.
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Awed reports of what he went through, on the set of "The Revenant," cannot disguise the fact that his character is a moral monotone, who suffers great afflictions but no change.
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The flashing lights paired with this music and the near-monotone vibe of the music and her voice, which stays in the same key and mostly the same signature, is eerie.
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" After the briefest pause from reflection, Taylor replies, in that maddening monotone: "No, I'm pretty sure there's only money, and it can buy all those things, or at least the same result.
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He returns to the same subject here on "Lemon," and we instead are greeted by the Fat Lady again while the Edge and Brian Eno chant in a monotone through the chorus.
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"You know, I bet with that dress nine out of ten men would let you get away with anything," Batman whispers to Diana in his signature detached monotone, as he stands behind her.
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The two-tone color schemes that you can pull off are really striking, especially in a world where most smartphone designs are flat, monotone metal that then gets hidden away in a case.
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Some data suggests that touch (massage, hair touching, and physical examination) and sound (monotone whispering, scratching, and tapping) are the strongest triggers of ASMR, because those are the ones most present in infancy.
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He is smaller and his hair is grayer, but they both have the narrow nose and push-broom mustache, and their voices—the thin timbre, the accent, even the monotone—are uncannily similar.
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Originally conceived as a fresh wake-up call, paired with some would-be encouraging progress reports, it features a more fiery and emotional Gore than the monotone figure parodied over the past decade.
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Wilson is pale and thin, with glasses and a dark beard; he speaks in a low monotone, and gives the sense of someone who is more comfortable interacting with screens than with people.
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It was the combination of her voice—a kind of chipper monotone—and the patriotic theme music that gave the lie to the words that were actually coming out of Kayleigh McEnany's mouth.
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Using computer vision technology — a robot analogue of human vision, in which computers analyze visual information on video — it identifies objects it "sees" through the camera lens and describes them in robotic monotone.
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Multiple people likened the experience to church: strangers squashed together in wooden benches, standing and sitting at the behest of a man in robes and listening to hours of monotone call and response.
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There's something so simple about this song — the music is stripped back to compliment her voice, which is in the lower end of the feminine registers and not quite monotone but certainly relaxed.
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The video examines a range of gifts presented from one international state to another, with historical background on each narrated by Kiwanga in the monotone, somewhat robotic style of an old-fashioned radio reporter.
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In I'm Poppy, singer and social media star Poppy is getting her own TV show — which, she explains in her typical falsetto monotone, will let her spread high-quality content to the whole world.
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The album's last track, "We Hide," recalls some of the more robotic machinations of bands like Preoccupations, showcasing hip-hop hand claps, Fribourg's monotone delivery, and the interplay of probing guitars with atmospheric synths.
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Ruby reckons her repeated failure on dates and in dating is down to her monotone voice, which makes men think she is uninterested, but I think it's also down to her being very uninterested.
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While the entire first half is fairly monotone, with pleasant and optimistic production, the second half sees Joey Bada$$ getting back to flexing his rap chops and experimenting with varied inflections and flow patterns.
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Daisy: Listen, Harry Styles could release a song where he just repeats "egg, egg, egg, egg, egg, egg, egg" in a monotone and his solo career would still be more successful than anybody else's.
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As the orchestra roils, with restless spiraling figures, bursts of percussion and slashing brass, the characters asking the emperor for action intone their lines in stentorian, almost monotone declamations, enforced by a large chorus.
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In a perfect world, I'd dress more sassily, like Nancy Pelosi, but because of my lack of creativity, I just buy clothes in dark, monotone colors — kind of like an adult version of Garanimals.
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Photo courtesy of The By Gods Have you ever wished that, in a different universe, Weezer didn't change very much after the Blue album, with Rivers singing in his perfect, monotone, sad boy voice?
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As the judge, Aleksei Vtyurin, droned through the familiar decision in a barely audible monotone, reading from nearly the same verdict as four years ago, Mr. Navalny took to Twitter to mock the proceedings.
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"Perplexing Pegasus," which wins points on its title alone, is a perfect union of Swae Lee's detached, haughty monotone ("Jump in the pegasus") and the glassy synth surface of Mike Will Made It's beat.
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The photos are colorless, grainy, and sometimes inscrutable: tangled and twisted branches are set against a monotone sky, a lone grave marker emerges from the ground in an empty clearing, blank hills roll into oblivion.
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As a producer reads the stage directions in a terse monotone — "Henry is on the computer playing a game; Philip and Paige watch Reagan's March 1983 SDI speech on TV" — I glance around the table.
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The interior is also notable for the available contrasting color schemes that allow the front seats to be upholstered in a different color leather to the rear seats (a monotone upholstery scheme is also available).
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US rappers are mainly about flow and not so heavy on lyrics, but UK rappers put all their work into lyrics and do not work on having a good flow and just speak in monotone.
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They're full on blaring when you're three car lengths away from a parked car and have gone into a solid monotone wail when you could still lie down between your car and the other vehicle.
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According to Ben, the monotone host of Detoxify's 'Back2School' YouTube series, which teaches viewers how to best utilize their products, after three to four initial pees, you should test clean for up to five hours.
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A hastily drafted initial statement to the news media contained typos — "president" was misspelled — and he delivered it in a harried monotone, staring down at his text, to reporters gathered at the National Press Club.
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" Then, on June 5, to signal that sabotage efforts should begin, the next three lines were sent: Blessent mon coeur D'une langueur Monotone Symons: "My heart is drowned / In the slow sound / Languorous and long.
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The song never breaks out into the full roar Portrayal of Guilt is capable of, but instead produces a dark and brooding rumble, as guttural growls overlap with monotone chants before ending abruptly in pure calamity.
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Starting with simple bells and piano and moving into a spare, near-monotone dirge, this cover of "Polly" crescendoes into a cacophony of screaming echoes that add an extra layer of ominous edge to Nirvana's original.
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"He spoke in a quiet monotone as we sweltered in tropical sunshine that flooded the room and brushed away the flies that buzzed around the orange juice," Mr. Dudman wrote in The Post-Dispatch in 2015.
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Snaking and surging through the chilly and lopsided footpath, one passes through a sequence of monotone ochre panoramas bereft of motion, a psychic no-go zone just as forbidding as a seething wall of curled barbwire.
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Chillon says that throughout production, he and his director of photography, Luis Fuentes, thought of the film as a crime thriller, and went with the monotone look to inject a sense of noir in to the story.
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He made a few good jokes but otherwise was monotone; he reeled off endless statistics (usually including the decimal point); and unlike his predecessor, George Osborne, he resisted the urge to pull rabbits out of his hat.
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Kubrick had Mr. Rain sing the 1892 love song "Daisy Bell" ("I'm half crazy, all for the love of you") almost 50 times, in uneven tempos, in monotone, at different pitches and even just by humming it.
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Then you can say "Hey Boomerang, brief me," and in a very monotone voice, the AI assistant will show your next three meetings, and several numbers indicating how many minutes it will take to get through your emails.
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"I'd cry, but I can't because of my antidepressant" is my running joke, the line I put forth in a dry monotone to elicit a laugh from whomever I'm with, but also to explain: I want to cry.
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Dry, monotone, and oozing with sarcasm, Daria owed the most essential aspect of her character to Tracy Grandstaff, a writer at MTV who stumbled into the gig by virtue of being the only woman around at the time.
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Tall and gray-haired, with the physique of a former body builder who no longer hits the gym that often, Díaz-Canel speaks in a soft monotone and rarely strays too far from the script in public appearances.
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In various scenes where she's brought in for tune-ups, Evan Rachel Wood gets to go from weeping terror, to completely non-emotional affect, to full monotone (even sans her Wild West accent) in a matter of seconds.
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In conversation, he will sometimes stretch on the floor in yoga poses; he'll slip into the exaggerated voices of famous colleagues — the adenoidal clip of the "Star Wars" creator George Lucas or the disaffected monotone of Mr. Ford.
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Up until now, the female-sounding voice maintained an even, monotone cadence whenever speaking, but with Amazon's new Speech Synthesis Markup Language that the company introduced this week, Alexa can whisper, vary its speaking speed, and bleep out words.
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He may not have declared a national emergency to secure funding for the border wall, but he did manage to rattle off a bunch of his usual false and misleading immigration lines, all in a bafflingly low-energy monotone.
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Holtby was sitting to the right of Ovechkin, his monotone as flat as it was after Game 13 in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, when he sat at a table and explained how he had stopped an unstoppable puck.
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As he stood next to Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the White House, he went from a monotone delivery as the pair read off their prepared statements to combative and energized as they took questions from the assembled reporters.
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Everything about it is wrong: Ford speaks in a dull monotone, the dialogue is written out of sync with the way the character speaks and acts, and it seems to be slotted in wherever the producers felt they could squeeze it.
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You might have your own fave, but I reckon "POISON" is the best of them all, retrofitting Vann's monotone delivery with haunting organs, a steamy bass tone, and a sinewy guitar solo that recalls the psychedelic soul of Isaac Hayes.
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While some of the dialogue in the videos is heard directly, much of it is spoken in a deadpan monotone by Mr. Blow or Mr. McElroy, whose faces are covered in gold makeup and who wear short white Asian-style robes.
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EBONY AND IVY — Sometimes when I'm hanging out with a group of people, we hit this stride and these chords grow spontaneously out of the different voices saying the same words in this really strong, rhythmic kind of monotone way.
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Minna's keen observation and lack of a filter means that she ends up providing a monotone running commentary on everything that's happening, making Selina uncomfortable by pointing out her cosmetic surgery, her menopause and her casual cruelty to her only child.
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That new figure is the ultra-rational poker genius Taylor, a shaved-headed, Tai Chi-practicing, nonbinary tech-savvy millennial, a former member of Occupy Wall Street who uses the pronouns "they" and "their" and speaks in a dry-humored monotone.
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There are so many highlights in this short video—the reporter reaching into Tim's bag to grab his weed in which Tim says "oh no, he's stealing my weed" in the flattest monotone voice you could imagine is a good one.
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D.) Using a moody, noirish monochrome palette (punctuated with garish swatches of color video) and mordant, monotone voice-over narration (interrupted by stretches of deadpan dialogue), Huang Hsin-yao composes a dark satire of corruption and class resentment in Taiwan.
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"I agree with the president's lawyers that Bob Mueller should be allowed to finish his job," he said in his patented monotone, but he added that he did not believe Congress should pass a law to protect the special counsel.
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It's more complicated than that; she is a skilled soprano with a three-octave range who chooses to sing in a flat, breathy monotone, as if clumsily attempting to sound sensual — or even parodying the conventions of sensual pop singing.
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If there's a monotone quality to her performance here — as there is to that of Rodrigo Santoro ("Westworld"), who plays the most thoughtful of the Brawlers — it's probably because the show doesn't take their characters anywhere we can't see coming.
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The narrator, Kathleen McInerney, is adept at finding the warm pulse beneath Roz's monotone delivery, and the array of old-school radio sound effects — clicks and squeaks and moos and honks — gives "The Wild Robot Escapes" a texture beyond words.
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"Bartier Cardi" swerves every which way over droning keyboards and sparsely arranged adlib whoops, as Cardi rattles off a series of rapid-fire rhymebursts to complement the beat's compressed energy, and 21 Savage's monotone on his guest verse fits the meter.
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And their heightened profile, along with an imaginative, on-the-ground social media army, has managed to push the issue of Asian-American representation — long relegated to the back burner — into the current heated debate about Hollywood's monotone vision of the world.
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Charleston, West Virginia (CNN)When Don Blankenship took to the stage hours after polls closed to concede the West Virginia GOP Senate primary in his trademark soft-spoken, monotone cadence, the long exhale coming from Washington could almost be heard here in Charleston.
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Raikkonen has become notorious in Formula One for his dislike of the many ancillary activities, such as media duties and sponsor commitments; his blunt responses to questions, often delivered in a monotone; and his abrupt comments to his team on the car radio.
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Although many people in the courtroom had already heard Mr. Roof's flat, Southern-inflected monotone during the guilt phase, when prosecutors played a video recording of his post-arrest confession to F.B.I. agents, his statement on Wednesday was his first to the jury.
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Scenes like these, jarringly morose and delivered in his throaty monotone, once again rerouted the genre's devotees toward Queensbridge, where Jones came of age: shortly after its release, "Illmatic" was praised as a benchmark début, and Jones gained clout as a prodigious writer.
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Ele A El Dominio featuring Myke Towers, Jamby El Favo, and Juanka, "Raspo Y Endeco" Perhaps best known for his tiraeras, here the eerily monotone Puerto Rican rapper and his pals offer an unflinching look at the trap house experience and its violent underpinnings.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand officially ended a year of mourning for its late King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Monday, marking a return to colors for some after a monotone year during which many wore black from head-to-toe out of respect for their revered monarch.
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When Democrats pressed him to answer "yes" or "no" to questions about his political views, he tended to arch his right eyebrow, mark his notebook with a thick black sharpie, and recite anodyne facts about legal decisions in an authoritative monotone, effectively swerving their questions.
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The imagery is arresting — shots of made-up women posing in colorful tableaus recall glossy fashion magazine photography — but as the film progresses, things feel increasingly off, as Cwynar, seen onscreen, hangs upside-down and the monotone voiceover builds a vague sensation of claustrophobia.
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For the first half, a monotone male voice instructed me to let go, an attempt to induce a trance-like state, which was admittedly difficult for an uptight, clinically OCD, BDD, ADD, anxious, and depressed thirtysomething such as myself (I swear I'm really fun IRL).
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One senator told The Hill at the time there was concern that it would make for boring television and that network and cable television would tune out as the House managers spent hours looking down at briefing books and reciting dry arguments in a monotone.
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Compare his dull, monotone presentation — a "they made me say this" tone — with the bellicose, unequivocal, in-your-face threats to Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, and you'll get a clear picture of what he sounds like when something's sparked his interest.
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This made Dorsey appear nervous at times or at least overly cautious when compared to the relaxed Sandberg at the other end of the room, according to our experts, who also point out that he seemed to speak in a monotone, almost machine-like way.
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On Comedy At a sleepy show last month in the grim basement of the Broadway Comedy Club, a Midtown spot that feels frozen in time from the 1980s comedy boom, Julio Torres looked at his feet, speaking to a small crowd in a near monotone.
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Between the lines: The shock factor has mostly worn off — including for the president himself, who was expressionless and spoke in monotone for most of the speech — but Trump's decision to once again use the world's biggest diplomatic gathering to promote nationalism is notable.
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Armisen — a non-black man cast in the role of our first black president — strained so hard to capture Obama's voice that he usually ended up reading cue cards in a monotone with wide, vaguely panicked eyes, like he knew things weren't going his way.
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The awkward combination of puberty, crushing insecurity, and monotone beige classrooms means, for most people, school is nothing but a petri dish of humiliation and shame—each new embarrassment building upon the ones before it until the sweet release of graduation sets us free.
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"It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent," McConnell said in his flat monotone, like a lawyer stating the facts of a case.
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Jackson writes wonderful political history, but social history does not sneak into his work very often or very well: the larger world of literature and commentary in which French political life is always entangled is not dramatized with any relish, giving the biography a slightly dutiful monotone.
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Drake goes on like this, rapping in a monotone through the 12 tracks that make up side A of Scorpion, hitting his toxic male talking points as hard as he hits on boasts about how much he's worth and how dangerous life in the rap game can be.
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Willmott tells the history the of Confederate States of America through a TV history program in Ken Burns' recognizable style, with slow-moving old photos (of scenes like Abraham Lincoln escaping with the help of Harriet Tubman), monotone narration, and satirical commercials (for things like high-tech electronic shackles).
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If you're bored of the same old monotone/metallic smartphone color choices, Chinese mobile maker Huawei has been thinking a little differently for its just announced P21457241 and P145714572413 Plus flagship handsets — and is offering a spectrum of shades, including a striking deep blue option and a pale green.
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The Conversations are most interesting when the artists directly interact, such as Brenna Murphy and Sabrina Ratté at Laffy Maffei Gallery, mixing video projection and prints to build a continuously morphing environment, or Renato D'Agostin's moody monotone work surrounded by Gianluca Quaglia's black confetti at the booth of mc2gallery.
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"Now you have a very monotone, ideological, left-leaning government, and they've dramatically moved against all the real estate interests," said Gary Barnett, the head of Extell Development, whose portfolio features a number of controversial buildings, including the supertall One22017, where a penthouse apartment recently sold for $22019 million.
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Where most of her songs maintain a minimalist approach to sound, this diverges from that, beginning with airy, peaceful guitars and backing violin and near-monotone vocals that build, with help of a constant warning of a drumbeat, into a thunderous array before going out just as quietly as it came it.
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While men tend to speak in a monotone fashion, women generally have more highs and lows, something Ms. Marat mastered during about a year of group and one-on-one lessons and practice at N.Y.U. Her fundamental pitch is consistently elevated in the feminine range at about 185 hertz, up from 147 hertz.
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In previous debates, Clinton spoke in a honeyed monotone, calmly defending her positions and professing comity with her opponents, but, hoarse from a week of tough campaigning, she spent the better part of Sunday night near-shouting, attacking Sanders just as she did Barack Obama during the bad old days of early 2008.
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And I remember being surprised that the grimy, lo-fi riffs and monotone vocals that were shaking out of those speakers weren't a riot grrrl band that I'd never heard of, but Shampoo's first ever release; a small collection of innuendo-filled punk tracks that they'd written and recorded while they were still at school.
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Nor can your personal 'sense of fairness' and/or 'facts/logic' shield you from causing wider offense if you also lack the ability to see beyond your own monotone boundaries (also known as having a 'limited perspective' — a typical human state that can be ameliorated by empathizing with people other than and different to yourself).
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Though Mongillo's lilt comes back out when Kaworu sacrifices himself for Shinji's sake—a glint of the "true self" Kaworu always saw in him—you can hear the dissociation again after Shinji deals the final death blow, their voice returning to the same monotone inflection we heard during Shinji's target practice moment in Episode 3.
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While there were a lot of likable, well-coiffed guys this season who'd make a fine leading man, Bachelor nation has made it abundantly clear who it wants to be handing out the roses next season and that man is Luke Pell, a smoldering-eyed war veteran with a big heart and sexily monotone voice.
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A recent episode about The Golden Girls evades simple explanations for the show's grip on the queer imagination—it explores the historical and cultural forces driving its appeal in a way that's anything but NPR monotone, and ends with a heart-wrenching story from Rufus Wainwright about meeting Bea Arthur at a gay bear resort.
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While this is all useful and sensible data, in actuality, this is the guy who sat blankly in a frozen courtyard for weeks on end, staring blandly through his sister Sansa when she hugs him hello after not seeing him for years and barely talking to people except to deliver cryptic information in a creepy monotone.
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Meanwhile, the congressional investigations not only turned up other evidence of abuses of government power by the White House but lead to the granting of immunity to Nixon's ally in the cover-up John Dean who, in a dramatic monotone, would be the first member of the Nixon team to accuse the President of participation in the cover up.
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My mom was calling 911, and my dad was trying to get his gun, but he couldn't load it, so instead he called me, and said in a monotone voice, "He's killing them, he's killing them," and I could hear screaming in the background—I guess it was my other daughter, screaming like you could never imagine.
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Rivette purposely reminds us that this is a fiction, and that his actors are actors delivering "lines," often permitting them to utter overly-long monologues in the kind of flat monotone of voice that we might associate with the New York School poets of the 1960s and 70s, when it seemed "uncool" to show too much emotion.
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There would be no walk of shame as this version of the Berlin nightclub sat behind the dull glare of my laptop screen, yet if the well-rounded shape of my face and the monotone nature of my voice can't appease even the most artificial security guards, then what chance do I have in real life?
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In contrast on Thursday, with just as little external display, Mr. de Leeuw traced the shifting moods of the lieder program closely, from the ironically playful chattering of Zemlinsky's "Tiefe Sehnsucht" ("Deep Longing") to the Chopin-esque lead-in to Alma Mahler's "Ich wandle unter Blumen" ("I Wander Among the Flowers"), where he provided a luxurious cushion for Ms. Hannigan's monotone opening.
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Early in the song, speaking almost in monotone over a repetitive acoustic guitar, Kozelek says that he and his band were in a studio when the news broke: Kozelek then drifts elsewhere before returning to the subject around the 8:15-mark, describing in graphic detail what he would do to the man who committed the attack: You can download "Day in America" for free here.
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A song like "Teratoma," for example, where Thompson-King's opera-trained voice seems restricted to a specific octave and forced to maintain a monotone voice in between each choral refrain feels restricted to the theme instead of enhanced by it, whereas her cover of Dolly Parton's "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You" probably would have run wild and free with that treatment.
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" The United Nations was founded in 1945 to foster international cooperation and to "take effective collective measures" to keep the peace after the nationalist fervor that had plunged the globe into World War II. But Mr. Trump, who spoke in an unusually flat monotone as he read from a teleprompter, stressed the value of national identity and argued that governments must defend their "history, culture and heritage.
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More interesting than the lyrical interplay telling the story of a couple on an adventure is what Del Rey does for BØRNS' voice; her monotone, lower register seems to give him permission to not only hit the high notes he's known for but to let his voice dance in the melody in a more animated manner than usual (note it in the second verse, as well as the final bridge).
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Instead, Alice — who narrates in a voice that vacillates between irresistible charm and grating cutesiness — finds herself charged with overseeing Frank, who speaks in a "weird monotone," can neither be touched nor allow anyone to lay a hand on his belongings, regularly spends time "wrapped in his comforter, rolling on the floor and muttering to himself" to calm down, and copes with frustration by bashing his head into glass doors and metal poles.
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Most of the representations of cloning that we've seen in popular culture have been harrowing; for instance, Never Let Me Go, in which the human race raises clone children to adulthood, only to eventually harvest their organs, then kill them; Blade Runner, which has a similar plot, but in a cooler setting with more neon lights and monotone dialogue; The 6th Day, wherein Arnold Schwarzenegger must fight an evil corporation that's illegally cloning people for nefarious purposes; and of course, the aforementioned Splice, wherein two horny scientists create an animal-human clone that wreaks utter havoc on their lab, their relationship, and their lives.
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