"Summertime, and the living is good," she sang, in a quavery voice.
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The album barely clicks — but it does, and the quavery chaos throughout is riveting.
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I don't speak Japanese, but I attempt to follow along in a quavery, thin voice.
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When recited in his high, quavery voice, his lines wriggled like living things in the air.
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Dynamics are generally subdued, and the singer keeps stretching syllables over repeated notes, to quavery effect.
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Sumney sings in a quavery drawn-out falsetto whose sweet, awkward quirkiness might better befit a backup singer.
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The beat is sparse and sputtery, while dissonant keyboards and quavery strings emerge to swarm around his voice.
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Khalid's debut album, American Teen, suggests a way: 15 lithe, electronic R&B burners, immersed in warm synthesizer splash and quavery vulnerability.
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The music unites fragility and majesty, placing Jason Lytle's high, quavery voice atop a piano hymn that swells into a vastly reverberant processional, like Neil Young leading Pink Floyd.
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On "A Morning Song," rumbling power chords accentuate the chime of a higher, shinier riff with a countryish feel, but Lilitri's blunt, quavery voice undercuts the song's momentum, as if he's stumbling over himself.
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Charlotte Rae, the quavery-voiced redhead who started out on Broadway but was best known as a warmhearted, wisecracking housemother in two hit 1980s sitcoms, died on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles.
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At surface level, it was a special-effects demonstration, a bonanza of texture and timbre: quavery drones, like an oscillating synthesizer; delicate ghost tones, hovering in flute range; sharp, plosive rivets of percussive airflow.
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" The production, like nearly the entire album, uses layers of keyboards with improvisational tendrils and puffy, quavery, analog-sounding tones that hark back to 1970s Stevie Wonder, particularly "Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants.
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RUSSONELLO Working toward self-forgiveness after a divorce, "Moral of the Story" seesaws between fragility and pomp: from Ashe's quavery high voice and parlor-song piano tinkling to a hefty, lurching beat and a massed chorus.
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There's Jason Isaacs playing Georgy Zhukov like a returning-from-a-suspension jerk of a football coach, or Jeffrey Tambor playing Georgy Malenkov as a quavery-jowled narcissist, or Andrea Riseborough as the brokenhearted but side-eyeing Svetlana Stalina.
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And the spot where the Agnes Martin work now hangs was, not long ago, they said, occupied by a prized Navajo chief's blanket, whose slightly quavery horizontal stripes, punctuated by insect-dye red, look like something Martin might have painted.
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This is the voice made inevitable by years of gimmicky pop-rap vocoder, a streamlined electronic howl swooping through melody lines in a graceful diver's arc, its quavery pitch defining the intersection between anguish and glee – except when he mimics gunfire or chews consonants into a moist hash or ties two words into a knot with his tongue or coughs up a hairball that unravels into a pretty tune or does his best impression of how Harambe the gorilla would sing if Harambe could sing.
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The call of the tiny hawk is a shrill, high-pitched, somewhat quavery series of 20-30 notes of uneven pitch. After an initial few accelerating notes, the call settles into a steady rhythm, variously transcribed as caucau-ca-ca-ca, keer-keer-keer or kree-ree- ree-ree.
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