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"raspy" Definitions
  1. (of somebody’s voice) having a rough sound, as if the person has a sore throat (= a painful throat because of an infection)

325 Sentences With "raspy"

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His deep, raspy voice is on the bookstore's answering machine.
My throat remained raspy until only a few months ago.
"Something sweet and low," she said in a raspy voice.
While the hysteric shrieks, the chill girl speaks slowly, raspy.
He heard a familiar raspy voice on the other end.
He regularly hocks phlegm and has an almost impossibly raspy laugh.
Many also employed a panoply of scratching sounds and raspy chords.
A few months later, his voice took on a raspy edge.
In his raspy voice, Conti criticized or praised each pitcher's form.
"Hop on in," said a raspy voice from inside the car.
In fact, it was an old woman's voice, raspy and faint.
Liu speaks in a raspy voice, and his demeanor is brusque.
She looked at the ground and spoke slowly, in subdued, raspy tones.
"I felt fine," he said, a raspy voice partly belying his statement.
His voice grew raspy as he said it again into the phone: Colorado.
I like your voice and the low/raspy thing you have going on.
Her voice was raspy, asthmatic, and it made her tone hard to interpret.
"My throat hurts every game," Aviles said late Friday night, his voice raspy.
Mam is produced far back in the mouth and comes out softly raspy.
Thus, my breathing, which is supposed to drive my focus, sounds raspy and uneven.
Lean in and say your name with a slow, raspy sway to your voice.
"I think about buying property by the beach," she says with a raspy laugh.
He jabbed at Trump as often as possible, with a voice that sounded raspy.
Bass is deep and rich but easily discernible from raspy to high-pitched vocals.
His voice was a suggestive murmur, both musical and raspy from smoking too much.
Her voice was raspy, like a scratched record; her eyes roved around the room.
"Well, there's some nice walks up Beachy Head," she said with a raspy chuckle.
"Even when I was a little kid, I always had this raspy voice," she says.
The girl's voice, still raspy and thick through numb lips, changed to a sweet singsong.
How else are you going to understand those raspy old Thai geezers at the gym?
He gets that raspy side of his voice here much more than the other songs.
The project was a perfect blend of Thugger's otherwordly wails and Future Hendrix's raspy harmonies.
She rubs against walls and visitors can hear her raspy purr from quite a distance.
She wore a hoodie, has short platinum hair, and speaks in a raspy, authoritative voice.
Outside, the only sound is the Pacific Ocean, two miles away, deep, raspy and constant.
Mr. Jones's voice — deep, monotone and raspy — gets most of the attention for the role.
There's something inexplicably soothing about a raspy, soulful voice and Lily Moore has that in spades.
" Their de facto leader even gave a raspy speech before leading a fervent chant of "Encore!
Later that year, her Sex Hormone'd Druggie mixtape displayed her hypnotizing raspy voice and varied deliveries.
Hecinia had to speak slowly in her low, raspy voice, but always chose her words correctly.
"The sheep are as confused as the goats," Robinson said in his raspy, New York accent.
Would Bradley Cooper take the stage beside Ally Gaga with his raspy voice and dirty cowboy hair?
Today, the raspy-voiced nationalist is suddenly rolling out the red carpet for Mr Erdogan's pet project.
With McShane's raspy voice doing the heavy lifting and a sly sense of humor, the sequence works.
Her hands were blistered and blackened and her voice was a raspy from shouting and breathing smoke.
The Rodriguez family JoAnna's dad, Jesus Rodriguez, is a broad-shouldered mechanic with a soft, raspy voice.
But her raspy voice proved perfect, and "The Middle" was one of the biggest songs of 2017.
Throughout the season, the 19-year-old heartthrob received praise for his Southern charm and raspy vocals.
"Sex is one of the most fascinating things in the world," she responds in a raspy voice.
He filters politically charged work through a raspy and psychedelic aesthetic akin to Ed Roth's Rat Fink.
Mr. Morgan's ragged, raspy line readings match the soil his character is desperate to call his own.
She tried again to produce the forgotten raspy echo of the Haida k', and again she failed.
The bog crickets were doing a raspy ventriloquy of the stars; perhaps she recognized their tiny voices.
Mimi and Roger's raspy voices deliberately catch on high notes to sell the emotion pulsing behind them.
In fact, she couldn't give less of a damn about Jake's hometown visit or his sexy raspy voice.
"We aren't the ones who are afraid, they (the Turks) are afraid," she said in a raspy voice.
His voice has been torn to raspy shreds by a yeast infection he recently developed in his throat.
Fortunately, the singer still has that soulful, raspy voice, and it soars over the bass, drums, and congas.
At one point Nyong'o even asks for direction from Peele, while speaking in Red's terrifying and raspy voice.
It can't replicate the raspy frog in my throat as I fumble to figure out what to say.
"We score a lot of points for the team," said Lillard, his voice raspy from a chest cold.
Michael V. Gazzo earned an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor for his raspy-voiced depiction of Pentangeli.
Captain Naples has a raspy, nautical voice, still refers to ships as "she," and is sixty years old.
They're the same raspy juggernauts they were on classics like Fuck with Fire and Up in Them Guts.
It's low-pitched and alternately smooth and raspy (the Marlboro Reds might have something to do with that).
Just the memory of those legs paired with Julian Glover's raspy voice is enough to give us chills.
"I can always tell you all apart," Mr. Stewart recalled Mr. Davis as saying, imitating his raspy voice.
"As long as I'm feeling good on the court, that's the most important thing," a raspy-voiced Wawrinka said.
"Your mother created our world," Keira Knightley, the film's Sugar Plum Fairy, tells Clara in a hushed, raspy tone.
His voice was soft but raspy, and every time he swallowed, his lips tightened in a grimace of pain.
The descriptions of the attacker often sounded similar: a husky, short man with a mask and a raspy voice.
Before her sentencing, she'd earned a reputation as a sharp-tongued lyricist with a raspy lilt and blond bangs.
"Change can't wait!" she shouted, echoing her campaign slogan, her voice raspy as it took on speed and urgency.
The final dance allowed Mr. Frost to display his penchant for raspy, wheezing tone when the music turned frenetic.
Mr. Keil provided the voice, the raspy sound of a detective who had just finished a long, sleepless stakeout.
At 215-foot-53 and 25 pounds, with a white goatee and raspy baritone, Straub cuts an imposing figure.
He made good use of his compelling, slightly raspy voice as well, providing narration for television shows and commercials.
"The triggering has been insane," she said, pausing frequently and her voice growing raspy, as if holding back tears.
"Am I going to get a writing credit for being your secretary?" she blurts out in a raspy voice.
This is the catchiest song here, lively and buzzy and held up by Corinne's raspy (if familiar) vocal attack.
Her gorgeous, raspy voice lingers and drags on all the right moments in this song lamenting a missing father figure.
I knew he had a raspy, knowing scruff of a voice that rattled out like Satan on a cigarette break.
She said, in her raspy voice, that the network is interested in me for a recurring role in season three.
Photo via Columbia Records With her sweet, raspy vocals and blue-green hair, Phoebe Ryan is essentially a musical mermaid.
And for me, Bruce is this raspy-voiced dude that talks about growing up in a small town in Jersey.
His writing voice is much like his speaking voice; there's a big, raspy laugh on at least every other page.
The highs continue on the funky "Eternal" where Smino guests with a silky and soulful verse complimenting Chance's raspy bars.
His raspy voice and occasional coughing fits betray a decades-long chain-smoking habit that he has not yet kicked.
Mr. Arcángel, with a raspy voice and easy, cartoonish smile, says he has never been robbed by his overnight guests.
"I can adjust the pain based on my posturing," said Ms. Suleman, who has a raspy voice, clearing her throat.
Mr. Ruddell, a charismatic captain with a worn face and raspy voice, kept telling the team to expect the worst.
"I'm old," she yells over and over in a raspy voice, demanding that we look at her hands, her legs.
"That tells you how much I liked it," Mr. Juersivich, of Akron, Ohio, said with a raspy voice on Tuesday.
From all of the clues to the raspy by sweet voice itself, there's no way that Woods isn't the kangaroo.
And yet the most memorable sound is the raspy buzzer of Howard's shop, which serves as the film's irregular heartbeat.
Their tracheal anatomy suggests that they were capable of language and probably had high-pitched, raspy voices, like Julia Child.
In "Danny Boy," her voice was raspy and not completely at ease in the lower range of the opening verse.
Cleo's voice is rich and raspy, particularly in its upper reaches, and there's even a serpentine guitar solo at the end.
Elliott plays Cooper's older brother in the drama, with Cooper largely adopting a voice that mimics Elliott's deep and raspy tone.
Narrated in her signature raspy voice, Cox solemnly commands viewers to bring their attention to human mandalas floating across the screen.
" Kidder sounded rough, very raspy -- and, even though she was in good spirits, she said the flu battle was "not fun.
Turner, an uproarious woman with a raspy voice, didn't immediately remind me of Cather's weathered heroine, but she exuded elemental force.
While many of the comments expressed support for the star, others included criticisms of her raspy voice and candy-colored outfit.
I asked for "Louise," and a minute later I was almost speechless when I heard her raspy, ancient-sounding French voice.
Grant's voice has always been raspy but over the track it sounds especially hoarse as the song reaches its boiling point.
With his face obscured behind the character's deformity, Hurt's performance rested largely on the expression of the actor's signature raspy voice.
Then the groove kicks in: fast and funky, as an urgently raspy vocal rides a jabbing modal desert-blues guitar line.
He spoke with a curious affect, his voice sounding raspy and his delivery lacking the passion typically evident in his speeches.
CreditCreditAkasha Rabut for The New York Times NEW ORLEANS — Linda Hamilton laughs the way Courtney Love sings, with great raspy bravado.
You'll probably need to practice making your voice all raspy to really bring this costume home, but it'll be worth it.
Abrams' powerful and raspy voice, accompanied by the PMJ band will certainly take Guns 'n' Roses fan on a wild ride.
She also taught Ward some protips for surviving life on tour, like using a face steamer to preserve her naturally raspy voice.
That said, it definitely sounds like Styles' deep, raspy speaking voice that we all love, even if the accept is slightly off.
With the turbo whine and a raspy exhaust, it sounds a bit like an asthmatic badger — but in the best possible way.
She has big, hopeful eyes that are just dying to see the best in you, and a raspy, almost child-like voice.
On DJ Maphorisa's gqom hit "Midnight Starring," her modulated-sounding voice backs up house singer Busiswa's raspy delivery on the song's hook.
"Fernand," a Jacques Brel song, was a raspy, witchy incantation, with its oom-pah-pah speeding and slowing to wring out drama.
He was barely moving, his breathing raspy and his complexion sallow, with the particular look the team knew from other dying children.
As rappers, Timeless Truth are true to their influences: Solace is a surly bruiser, and Oprime39 is a raspy-voiced smooth talker.
There was hardly a person in his life whom Miles didn't berate at one time or another in his distinctive raspy voice.
This particular class was led by a frizzy-haired woman with a raspy voice that belied countless cigarettes at beachside dive bars.
"Ruby," released this year, shows that she hasn't changed her formula much; her raspy, mischievous singing and earnest songwriting still bear charms.
Before his emergency surgery, Sanders kept a breakneck campaign schedule and bristled at questions about his formerly raspy voice and his stamina.
"Raspy and tinny," he might say, or "base, with an ejaculated thrum," as if he were describing a vintage bottle of Bordeaux.
With his penchant for menacing productions and a voice so raspy it seemed unreal, he was on track to shake the world.
In her raspy, quiet voice, she sang out, "Chobe chickens," whenever we passed them, laughing heartily each time at their hectic scampering.
It could be a raspy shout, a sob, a nuanced tease, a model of long-breathed purity or an invitation to dance.
She wore oversized red framed glasses and unflattering clothes, and her voice was raspy in a swallowed-a-frog kind of way.
Across the field, I hear Marco Wanda of Austrian indie pop band Wanda sing "Gib mir alles, baby" in his raspy voice.
A raspy voice rambles over a grainy phone call on FreeJAH's opener, and even through mumbled words you can make out Jah's charisma.
In a previous interview with PEOPLE, Nyong'o revealed that she developed Red's terrifying and raspy voice after studying a real-life speech condition.
He fidgets around the stage, gesticulating madly and repeatedly interrupting himself, his raspy, stuttering sentences building momentum before ending in a pointed fizzle.
Biden worked his way slowly down the line, his voice, as it had been throughout his speech, soft and raspy: He had laryngitis.
His voice was strained and raspy; though he was strong, he did not appear as powerful or as forceful as he usually does.
These songs took hardcore's chugging rhythms and softened them, allowing Shevchuk to show he could carry a tune without losing his raspy edge.
The caramel of her skin, the almond shape of her eyes, her perfect figure and raspy voice was everything you looked up to.
Known for her raspy voice, large stature and love of plastic surgery, she quickly became a popular member of the "Mob Wives" cast.
By now, the Florida icons have notched over two dozen releases—19 of which have featured Fisher's signature raspy, pile-driving death growls.
The SDK brand has since become synonymous with aggressive rap and raspy-voiced MCs like Snak the Ripper, who owns Stealth Bomb Records.
The playful song found a raspy-voiced YG in the back of a club, acting more like a flirt than like a menace.
Miley had that raspy voice, a country twang, and her character—both on Hannah Montana and her celebrity—were inedible to my heart.
This also gave me the opportunity to discover the Argentine stage veteran María Rosa Fugazot, whose raspy voice is a thing of wonder.
One day earlier this month, pediatrician Kim Mukerjee's first appointment of the day was a six-month-old with a loud, raspy cough.
To me, all the coughs sounded exactly the same, but I'd play along—"Raspy, yes"—like an anxious impostor at a wine tasting.
The phrase "Brad Pitt at war" typically brings to mind the raspy southern drawl and maniacally violent drive of Inglorious Basterds' Lieutenant Aldo Raine.
Throughout, a faceless narrator with a raspy voice paraphrases — and eventually recites in full — monologues from Shakespeare's Henry V and John Milton's Paradise Lost.
All the voices were his own, undeviatingly raspy and off-key; at least he got the words right, as far as we could tell.
The title serves as more than an ironic battle cry, as Dingo's ambitions to break out are as bold as his raspy voice delivery.
For all his brusque qualities, Icahn is an engaging interlocutor, his voice a raspy staccato, his accent a time capsule of old New York.
Jeezy's rise in the mid-2000s would have likely gone differently if his raspy, extended ad libs did not back his motivational street anthems.
"Where are we gonna go now that our twenties are over?" singer Greg Barnett asks in his signature raspy growl on the album's opener.
She seemed peaceful, and in the dim light of the morning, we stood at different points around the bed, listening to her raspy breathing.
But when it came time to rank the band's albums, Nichols phoned last-minute with a hint of defeat in his signature raspy voice.
"There is a long tradition of artists withdrawing art [from exhibits] for moral reasons," she said in a voice that was raspy with cold.
She uses the raspy but still commanding state of her voice to hurl songs about abuse and abusers, poverty and history, lust and violence.
He's a raspy, percussive rapper who understands how to slip alongside a beat, spitting slick pitter-patter while more exciting things erupt around him.
But, unlike those versions of the story, Joker doesn't have a raspy-voiced billionaire superhero waiting in the wings to swoop in and save Gotham.
"We are very anti-rooksack," Gilbert spits, his accent still thick with the Italian of his birth and his voice raspy from a sore throat.
In the shadow of real life, the raspy, carefree funk of "What's the Use?" now feels aspirational, the bluesy pride of "Self Care" somehow insufficient.
And as long as the welcoming, raspy, hard-working, down-to-earth, people of Astoria continue to visit Workers Tavern, it will always be great.
Cochran had a nasty cough: Nearly every time Cochran appeared in Season 3, he had a raspy cough that appeared to only be getting worse.
"Pro wrestling was really the thing that took me out of the darkness," Mr. Dunn said in the raspy, rapid cadence of a carnival barker.
"Park right here so I can wash it for you," a car washer said in her raspy voice to a car that had pulled up.
YOUNG M. A. Raspy-voiced, tattooed, ready to party or fight or insult haters, Young M. A. is in some ways a typical young rapper.
Compare this to Bounce Pass Lambs A La Cousy, where you can almost hear Bob Cousy's thick, raspy Blue Chips–era Queens accent in his introduction.
It was there, at the age of 6903, that Lum created the brash, raspy-voiced Awkwafina persona, as a way of coping with her natural shyness.
It's a raspy, slithering, half-head-shaped arc — purple into red into pink into a yellow or two into charcoal gray — against a tar-black ground.
The nation's first black president — his voice raspy and at times faint — connected the current political climate to the struggles of the civil rights era. Rep.
The duo also debuted the sensual music video on Friday, accentuating their complimentary raspy vocals as Smith takes to the streets of London with her friends.
"People ask me all the time if they can have a few," said Mr. Filbert, a man with a raspy voice and a silver-streaked beard.
From her early days in Savannah's Rogues Gallery (with Phillip Cope of DAMAD, and later, Kylesa), she commanded attention with her guttural growls and raspy screams.
"Within My Reach" perfectly demonstrates how the band blends Andrew's aggressive and raspy vocals with a contrasting, subtle and bright singing over equally contrasting guitar tones.
Wolf Weston's powerful alto, which contains shades of both Lizzo's playful bossiness and Macy Gray's raspy melancholy, shapes the group's debut, "First Bloom," released in November.
As the breakout performer in Ocean's 8 and Crazy Rich Asians, her trademark raspy-voiced deadpans and fast-paced quips have made her a household name.
Apparently suffering from a bad cold, she spoke in a halting, raspy voice, saying the case's tangled procedural history "does not bar retrial of the defendants."
On my fourth visit to Bradford, the last time I saw him, his voice was raspy, but he told me more than he ever had before.
Between the effervescent synths, rumbling low end, and the multihypenate performer's raspy, can't-tell-me-nothing boasts, no 2016 house party playlist is complete without it.
While his voice was a little raspy, he sounded no less indignant about Mr. Trump or the prospect that he could run away with the Republican nomination.
He also shared that he drinks vodka for a "raspy" effect and puts boiling hot water on the back of his tongue to "shock my body."—Noisey
The utterly minimalist box is smarter than it looks, giving your poor old beleaguered landline another last raspy breath before it continues its slow crawl to obsolescence.
Over songs like "Stamina" and " Smooth Operator," Lean's signature raspy tone traverses through aggressive rap barbs to Patois-laden dancehall tunes, and sneaky interpolations of Sade hooks.
That day's show began with a cold open: a raspy-voiced inspector at Boeing, nicknamed Swampy, recalling his journey from pride to embarrassment over his employer's conduct.
Cyrus, clad in a black minidress, held tight to the microphone stand as she belted the break-up track, and leaned in to her signature raspy vocals.
Miley, clad in a black minidress, held tight to the microphone stand as she belted the break-up track, and leaned in to her signature raspy vocals.
Over simple backing tracks, Wayne — an Oscar-winning actor and already a fixture in the American mythos — lends his raspy gravitas to 10 poems by John Mitchum.
In 2013, I received a phone call from a raspy-voiced reader who promised the "wrath of god" for an article I had written about same-sex marriage.
The principal twist here is casting Kidman, who adopts a raspy voice to go with the sunken-in eyes of someone who has clearly seen too much darkness.
Orgeron's raspy voice is similar to bayou voices they have heard their entire lives but more gravelly, like the sound of tires on an oyster shell parking lot.
A bunch of percussion instruments sneak into the mix and mesh — check the stereo cowbells — while its raspy singer, Jhon Primera, gathers a rowdy chorus to answer him.
Mr. Lampkin, a former Republican aide on Capitol Hill, had fielded so many phone calls on Wednesday from his clients that his voice had turned raspy with fatigue.
Her latest album, "Stripped," from 2016, finds her in a raspy repartee with an expert quartet of New York jazz musicians, revisiting some highlights from her back catalog.
The first time the demon spoke through 12-year-old Regan in that raspy voice, I ran out of the room in tears and refused to go back in.
And whether in the raspy, broken lo-fi pop of "Pink Sunglasses" or the warm spark of excitement that propels the ballad "Pushin' Time," everything finds ways to stick.
Songs were cleaner and slicker, with Barnett using his raspy voice as a means to scream about the political upheaval swirling around Richmond—a cue clearly taken from Barry.
Joe Ligon, whose raspy, throbbing vocals and preaching style helped make the Mighty Clouds of Joy one of the most successful gospel quartets of all time, died on Sunday.
Aoife Nessa Frances "Here in the Dark" Frances reminds me of the unique vocal delivery of artists like Françoise Hardy or Nico with her traditionally feminine but raspy voice.
The main rapper in Ratking, he's pure texture: His voice is raspy and nasal, and he clusters his syllables tight, as if huddling under a large coat in cold weather.
But for those who were smart enough to catch on to Planes' raspy style of filth-rock, and awaited the day they might rise again, Prey is their just reward.
When we start talking about whether women in the surprisingly still male-dominated music industry support one another, her raspy Oakland accent quickens; pink stiletto manicured nails punctuate each point.
But unlike several colleagues in the same situation, the raspy-voiced populist has moved far ahead of Republican challenger Jim Renacci in polls assessing his bid for a third term.
After weeks of him sitting silently at a table in front of the hundred observers who've packed into the courtroom, his raspy baritone filled the courtroom for the first time.
Merging the underdog spirit of Meek's now infamous intro with the raspy authenticity of Tee Grizzley's "First Day Out," Southwe$t Mook picks up the baton where they've left off.
Flanked by his lawyers and deputy United States marshals, he nodded and replied to procedural questions in a raspy voice that many in the crowded courtroom's gallery strained to hear.
The Stockpiling Haul A raspy voice with a Spanish accent says: "It's corona time!" and a beat plays in the background as TikTokers, mostly across America, chronicle their stockpiling journeys.
Closing out the show, the kangaroo delivered a heartfelt performance of Robyn's "Dancing On My Own," and the singer's low, raspy tone was very reminiscent of Woods' natural speaking voice.
She sounds tired, her voice slightly raspy with age, as she recalls taking out a second mortgage on her home to pay for the lawyer to appeal her son's sentence.
But she tends to keep a low profile when it comes to her romantic life, letting her raspy-voiced songs on her new album Norman Fucking Rockwell speak for themselves.
With looping equipment, she layers guitar and keyboard lines, beats and vocal parts that can be sweetly melodic, raspy and untamed or speedy enough to reach the verge of rapping.
"It was intolerable and it seemed like maybe something worse was happening," he said, talking in a weak, raspy voice with a tube in his nose and monitors beeping nearby.
When we took our seats, our instructor, Mary (name changed, as privacy is a major tenet of the notary code), introduced herself, and her raspy smoker's voice portended to frequent breaks.
Nyong'o, 36, who plays two characters — a traumatized mother Adelaide Wilson and her deadly doppelgänger Red — recently opened up about how she came up with Red's raspy, choppy-like sounding voice.
Compared to the Libertarian who pledged to abolish all income tax and the raspy-voiced and largely incoherent Independent, Stein emerged as the most reasonable member of the third-party crew.
From his raspy auto-tune harmonies to his larger-than-life, mind-twisting production to his interpolation of his hometown's sound, you know a Travis Scott song when you hear one.
This is also the first Mission: Impossible movie to (kind of) have the same villain as a previous entry, with Sean Harris reappearing as the raspy-voiced international terrorist Solomon Lane.
We were watching Scarface, it was pretty dark and we were really hyper, I remember having this tight raspy chest which I get when I'm over excited because of my asthma.
On the palate they could seem austere, yet they were intense, energetic and full of life, with light, raspy tannins; pure, complex aromas, and flavors of pressed flowers and dried fruits.
While his voice was a little raspy, he sounded no less indignant about Mr. Trump or the prospect that his opponent could run away with the Republican nomination after Tuesday's voting.
The stakes feel even higher over rest of the album's 11 tracks with Grote's once-raspy and slightly-twangy howl transformed to a less throaty but more dynamic and powerful bellow.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's gaudy spectacle and Harvey Fierstein's raspy cry from the heart had nothing to do with each other, though they had everything to do with early 1980s New York.
Clients such as ad agencies and production companies contact me when they need a woman with a French accent, say, or a man whose voice is deep and a little raspy.
If I wanted to hear actress-turned-frontwoman Taylor Momsen's raspy, raw vocals — she ditched Gossip Girl for music, after all — I needed to catch a cab, like, 20173 minutes ago.
"God ain't through with me and sometimes you need to see the skinny Eddie and the big Eddie and all that," he said, his once-powerful voice reduced to a raspy whisper.
One plays a swooshing, churning recording of the Great Pacific garbage patch, the other the raspy breath of a person with black lung disease, both echoing a human impact on the Earth.
Her signature vocal runs are sleek and improbably effortless (the chorus of "Better" is spellbinding), and when her delivery is raw and raspy, it feels like a swift kick to the chest.
Taylor's raspy vocals blend perfectly with the soulful R&B beats, while Combs' adds his own laid back flow in his verse — sounding almost exactly like his father while he's at it.
He seemed almost visibly to unclench once he was settled into a chair with a Martini, singing along in a raspy Sprechstimme as the pianist played: Is your figure less than Greek?
Half of them start with melancholy adjacent piano chords and flow into the singer's raspy, strong voice (see the swooning, and similarly titled, tracks "Underneath the Christmas Lights" and "Underneath the Mistletoe").
Her voice — deep, velvety, slightly raspy — is instantly recognizable, and she brings a welcome level of sophistication to Duras's allusive style, which she has tackled in multiple stage productions over the years.
On yoga mats, in expensive athletic apparel—one of the students, the supermodel Christy Turlington, wore hot-pink Nikes—they did everything Toomey's deep, raspy voice commanded: squats, hip bridges, jumping jacks.
Warner, a tall, raspy-voiced businessman who earned a fortune in telecommunications and venture capital, served as the Democratic governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006, when Kaine was his lieutenant governor.
Mr. Alvarez, the father of three sons, including two teenagers, delivered a raspy appeal before a House Judiciary subcommittee in Washington on June 93 to replenish the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
He confronted Trump once again, baiting the business mogul by calling him names, attacking his business ventures and accusing him of knowing nothing about policy -- even though he struggled with a raspy voice.
With his raspy voice, reptilian face, trademark Buddha amulet necklace and clammy hands, Klaew Thanikul wasn't just some rich guy who owned a Muay Thai boxing gym and dabbled in the odd promotion.
She was working her shift on the night of November 2 when a man — described as six feet tall with a raspy voice by the Dallas Morning News — opened fire in the store.
Over her career, Zaz, born Isabelle Geffroy, has released four albums' worth of music ranging from Manouche-style jazz to electro-pop, all colored by her raspy yet powerful vocals and effusive delivery.
Margot Kidder, who with a raspy voice and snappy delivery brought Lois Lane to life in the hit 1978 film "Superman" and three sequels, died on Sunday at her home in Livingston, Mont.
That could cause "lipoid pneumonia" where fat particles bombard the lungs and trigger inflammation, an ailment typically seen in elderly patients who inhale petroleum jelly or mineral oils to deal with raspy throats.
Andra Day Andra Day's similarities to Amy Winehouse are unmistakable: She dresses in a vintage '60s style, her voice is bold and sometimes raspy, and her songs could all fit in Winehouse's wheelhouse.
Kilmer's two-year fight with throat cancer has "taken its toll," according to the article, which notes that a procedure on his trachea has made his voice raspy and left him short of breath.
It is written in the raspy, clacking language of the local Khasi people, which is more closely related to Khmer, Cambodia's main language, than it is to the most widely spoken languages in India.
Legendary radio DJ Wolfman Jack's iconic raspy voice can now be yours with just a few hits off his custom water pipe, which is now up for auction ... but this ain't no cheap high.
Their names, however, are erased from the forefront because sexism and anti-black racism would have you believe that rock 'n' roll was created by a down-on-his-luck, raspy-voiced white man.
He favored tracks full of grand, gothic keyboard lines, and he made his words memorable by using fewer of them, drawing out his raspy syllables, or taking a few beats off for added emphasis.
Her speech in public, described as everything from a "raspy yawp" to a foghorn, was deceptive, friends said: When alone with them, she was perfectly capable of less stylized enunciation and enjoyed serious conversation.
Their names, however, are erased from the forefront because sexism and anti-black racism would have you believe that rock 'n' roll was created by a down on his luck, raspy-voiced white man.
In my head, I remember the upbeat youthfulness of Lohan as Cady Heron in Mean Girls, and then the later, raspy voice of the Lohan who often spoke barely above a whisper on OWN's Lindsay.
The trailer opens on 15 seconds of Sansa walking through the Godswood at Winterfell looking shook, with Littlefinger's raspy voiceover giving the impression that he's whispering his particular brand of twisted wisdom in her ear.
" The cabbie, who has the gelled hair, tinted aviator glasses and raspy voice of a low-level mafioso from New Jersey, staggers backwards as though he's been shot: "I've been coming here for ten years!
The nuances of tone Gold achieves are exquisite, trading on the equivalence in value of a brush heavy with thinned, watery ink, and stronger, darker ink on a drier brush that leaves a raspy trace.
Jessica Jacobs, a longtime office assistant in my practice—mid-forties, dedicated, with a smoker's raspy voice—said that each new software system reduced her role and shifted more of her responsibilities onto the doctors.
"The musicians will get it a week before the first rehearsal, which should be plenty of time," he said in a phone interview, his voice a raspy whisper because of a lingering case of laryngitis.
Now, on his last day as the leader of Signature, Mr. Houghton — his voice raspy from recent chemotherapy but still suffused with passion — sat down to reflect on the origins and evolution of his theater.
Short, trenchant, raspy-voiced, constantly puffing on harsh Gauloises cigarettes, Mr. Rocard was considered a rare intellectual in French politics, a voracious reader at home with ideas, but with a keen sense of the practical.
Well, there are grandmas present, but they are of the raucous, booze-swilling variety, the kind with raspy voices who spend many nights (and some mornings) sipping liquor and spinning yarns at a dive bar.
In an interview afterward, Ms. Pressley, her voice raspy from pollen in the air, said she was inspired by the stunning success of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday in a New York Democratic House primary.
A prolific musician known for his intense guitar solos and his raspy but strong singing voice, Mr. Brooks told The Chicago Tribune in 1992 that the blues did not come naturally to him at first.
But it was Ms. Raiola's raspy voice; tall, buxom appearance (she was said to stand 5-foot-10); and ability to add comic relief and common sense to tense situations that made her a fan favorite.
They had this real raspy quality that I'm glad people dig, but it's really hard for me to listen to it because all I remember is how much of a struggle it was to get done.
He poured us mezcal Negronis from a dented plastic water bottle that he'd brought from home, and in a raspy voice instructed me to stir my drink fifteen times in each direction to unleash its energy.
Jeffery Lewis and Mr. Harris are young Blue and adult Blue; Mr. Lewis shows his range in "I'm Going to Soar," while Mr. Harris comfortably embodies his raspy-voiced narrator without reaching for the musical heights.
That makes them all the more proud of When My Heart Felt Volcanic, which features mostly Cristal's floating, raspy voice over a fusion of alternative rock-pop and lyrics that muse about love, growing pains, and heartbreak.
These topics were at the core of the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders -- the raspy, populist Vermont senator who proved to be formidable challenger to Clinton as he overwhelmingly won the support of young people and liberals.
It's a rhythmically dense song, full of snaps, thuds, and rattling sub-bass; the melody drips like a leaky faucet; Beyoncé's voice is raspy and fluttering before it turns on a dime, becoming full-throated and fierce.
Khan develops the last minute of the song beyond the constraints that Lee's voice would allow, bursting into a scat section until she hits a raspy register, holding the last note for as long as she can.
The movie's gimlet-eyed mise-en-scène is exceeded only by the flamboyance of John Heard's career performance as a raspy-voiced madman who lost an arm, a leg, an eye and possibly his mind in Vietnam.
" Schultz responded the next day on her Facebook page that, while she thought Todd's imitation of her husband's raspy voice was funny, "his insisting that Sherrod is at the top of Clinton's VP list wasn't as amusing.
But the main perk of all of this is that you can hear Manson's Bieber imitation in which he basically nails the "slightly raspy to make it sensual" quality that Bieber puts on in his singing voice.
On winter nights, the white-noise app on my phone is tuned to Air Conditioner: a raspy, metallic whir that sounds like the mechanical noise that might echo deep inside the ductwork of a huge commercial building.
CARAMANICA The raspy-voiced Algerian-French songwriter Rachid Taha, who grew up in France, used musical fusions as cross-cultural lessons and provocations, insisting on his rights to meld African, Middle Eastern, European, rock and electronic music.
It all went down at the media event for their big fight later this year -- and after Bisping showed up super late and raspy-voiced, GSP accused him of going way too hard in Vegas last night.
Nyong'o's character Red has a particularly spooky way of speaking — a raspy, choppy-like sound as if her voice was stolen from her — which the Black Panther star says she developed after studying a real-life speech condition.
Onstage at a gerontology summit in San Francisco last summer, he deftly impersonated the strained, raspy voice of an elderly man talking to a CareCoach pet while Brittany stealthily cued the replies from her laptop in the audience.
His third season at the coaching helm of St. John's, where he was counseled by the raspy-voiced musings of Lou Carnesecca in the 1980s, began with the expectant fruition of a program rebuild, with N.C.A.A. tournament ambition.
I had never considered merely being blind would prevent me from doing anything, but the tumors were slowly paralyzing my vocal cords and most of my tongue, sending my voice into a raspy spiral and making speech laborious.
Nyong'o's character Red has a particularly spooky way of speaking — a raspy, choppy-like sound as if her voice was stolen from her — which the Black Panther star says she developed after studying a real-life speech condition.
"Excuse me, my voice is a little raspy," apologizes Ski Mask at the beginning of "Child's Play," and, indeed, of all the surreal noises burling throughout this album, the very strangest are those coming out of his mouth.
"We see a flux of buyers from people outside of Zhengzhou, especially those from smaller cities in the same province," Xu said, who apologized for his raspy voice, which he said was due to one too many sales pitches.
Paul Owens, who was also the general manager, was nicknamed Pope for his resemblance to John Paul II. Jim Fregosi, a raspy-voiced former All-Star, was a baseball lifer who stayed at a Holiday Inn by Veterans Stadium.
"We see a flux of buyers from people outside of Zhengzhou, especially those from smaller cities in the same province," Xu said, who apologised for his raspy voice, which he said was due to one too many sales pitches.
With a resilient voice that was made to shout over the richter-scale-shaking bass he helped make famous 230 years ago, Campbell speaks in raspy, crooked monologues that are broken up every few minutes by a soft cough.
If you like bruising New York club comedy with contempt for conventional wisdom, definitely try Tim Dillon, a raspy-voiced stand-up who does pugnacious bits on the class structure of Instagram and the ethics of punching Richard Spencer.
Francesa, with an encyclopedic knowledge of sports and a baritone Long Island dialect, and Russo, a raspy and excitable fast-talking sports fanatic, unkempt in appearance and sometimes behavior, would appear on the radio dial every weekday at 245:26 p.m.
A decade later, in London, Ono collaborated with the experimental-jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, using her voice as an impulsive, expressionistic instrument, whose raspy, sensuous, guttural, excited sounds seamlessly integrated with the sputtering, sighing and explosions of the band.
Is it possible that the rant on the bus ride, the interrupting of Bibiana, the needle-dick comment, and the weird, raspy whisper-voice were all done out of a diligent and heartfelt attempt to follow the fabled life coach's teachings?
In the final homestretch of the 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton is making an aggressive push to win over millennial and liberal voters who shunned her during the primaries and aligned themselves, instead, with the famously raspy, populist senator from Vermont.
The pot of milk, the wooden spoon, and the general atmosphere remind me of a farm in Queyras, France, where my aunt would take us to buy milk, and where little calves would lick our hands with their raspy tongues.
I envied her for being what appeared to be an impenetrable rock god force: the leader of a pack, skirt to the floor, black lace-y, platinum blonde, raspy voice and red lipstick, the bride of Stevie Nicks gone punk.
Her excellent record from last year, "Ava Patrya Yndia Yracema," pulls on the creative energy of the current Rio scene, setting her raspy voice and a flexible band against a string quartet, woozy electronics, acoustic-guitar ballads and joyous noise.
When a reporter visited him recently, Mr. Darnell, who is five feet tall and weighs about 100 pounds, tossed himself onto the piano bench and said, in his raspy voice, "I'll play a song for you," before bursting into laughter.
He was a baggage handler for Greyhound in Manhattan and gave the public its first taste of his raspy voice when he started his job there as public address announcer, calling out the names of the stops for departing buses.
Strangely, he spoke in a posh British accent, so I assume that Benedict Cumberbatch was in a back room somewhere fielding our questions or that Chesty, who used to have a raspy, slick American voice, has been taking diction lessons from Madonna.
"I had a partner or two who, since I'm not a money counter — I let them take care of keeping track of the money we made," Mr. Lee said, as he sipped a bottle of mineral water to soothe his raspy voice.
It was the actor's idea to stuff tissues in his cheeks to give the character his famous underbite, and it was his idea to speak in a raspy voice, because he imagined the Don was shot in the throat when he was younger.
In her ABC News interview on Wednesday, in which she defended her use of a personal email server for White House business, people on Twitter noticed that her voice sounds more raspy than usual, adding yet another wrinkle to the voice mystery.
Dr. Dominy, also a father, raised the topic of "The Lorax," suggesting that the fuzzy, mustachioed protagonist of the book resembled the patas monkey, a fluffy, orange, real-life creature with a raspy alarm call that he had observed while working in Kenya.
DMX is a free man The raspy-voiced rapper was arrested in 2017 after federal prosecutors in New York say he concocted a multi-year scheme to hide millions in income from the IRS and skirt $1.7 million in existing tax liabilities.
He piles up samples — the title track of "Jewelry" juggles electric-piano jazz and pitched-up Hebrew-language pop — and slings polysyllables and puns with the raspy conviction he learned from Nas: "In elementary, my favorite subject was P.E. — Public Enemy," he raps.
Former singer Uta Plotkin left her with some pretty big shoes to fill, but Dixon proved that she was more than up to the task, casting a spell over audiences night after night on the road with her grandiose wails and raspy growls.
She said she had been treated for pneumonia, spoke in a barely audible, raspy voice and brought out a line of baby clothing that she said she had designed to augment the message in her "Healthy Holly" books -- promoting good nutrition and exercise among kids.
Three months before the album was even out, he found himself making his network television debut on The Late Show with David Letterman to perform "Violent Shiver," a thumping, raspy-voiced rock banger with a riff jammed into it that would make Chuck Berry smile.
While venue curfew concerns appeared to cut short Myers' closing set, which incidentally seemed to cut into Noriel's as well, he still managed to squeeze in "Tanta Falta," a summery cut so popwise that it threatens to eclipse his cred as raspy and guttural trapero.
Early last Wednesday evening, Timothy Holmes, a raspy-voiced city commissioner for Opa-Locka, Florida, was assuring about two dozen residents gathered in a village community center that their small municipal government was not under siege from all manner of bandits, crooks, and thieves.
She speaks in a raspy, two-packs-a day voice (although she no longer smokes), has an intense gaze and a disarmingly animated manner — as if Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her Supreme Court decisions, put a circle over the I instead of a dot.
Boring Connie's "Bad Vibes" sees her swoop from raspy low notes to almost talk-singing, punctuating a line about how "no more words could convince you how beautiful you are" that you can imagine her spitting out with a finger pointed in your face.
In a lengthy article by The New York Times about the struggling parish published in 2004, Mr. Serrano appears as a "raspy-voiced pastoral assistant" who took phone calls, promising one woman he would help her find her lease so she could avoid eviction.
The Speak & Spell's computerized voice was its most impressive feature, and it was so fascinating to me as a kid that I can still clearly hear its raspy, slightly incomprehensible pronunciations in my head; when I'd be hard-pressed to remember the voices of any of my childhood friends.
With a glowing resume (including being the subject of a short documentary with Fader), Lipa also stands out in the oversaturated world of pop music because of her instantly distinguishable low voice (which is sometimes raspy, but always alluring) and for those undeniably catchy "fuck you" break-up lyrics.
Now, Mr. Rangel is taking his raspy voice and his deep reservoir of voter loyalty into retirement, seemingly clearing a path for Mr. Espaillat, a state senator, to realize his ambition of becoming the first politician born in the Dominican Republic to be elected to the House of Representatives.
A small man with a tired, raspy voice that flips up an octave when he is exasperated, Abotaleb is a dynamo of energy — and he has to be, now that he has become perhaps the city's busiest trauma surgeon in addition to running the entire 850-bed facility.
Over the years, you could catch the two of them at Madison Square Garden, side by side in the lower stands, watching St. John's, Carnesecca leaning over and speaking with that familiar raspy voice to make the younger man with the sweet pug face break into a smile.
Vincenzo Capezzuto, a sweetly mellow alto (not exactly the raw, raspy, self-described "golden voice" of Cohen fame), led a performance of the song on Saturday evening, backed by mostly Baroque instruments, to close L'Arpeggiata's second program at Zankel Hall: as usual, a lighter and more varied affair.
Her gait, usually so graceful, is utterly transformed as she bow-leggedly clomps down hard on the ground; her shoulders are slumped, the picture of someone who's been wounded and can't bear to go through that again; and her speech is raspy and brusque — when it's not slurred from drink.
But even if this 30-minute video turns out to be a clever fake, it's hard not to wistfully imagine what could have been, the game's raspy bullet sounds, dumb enemies, and big red crosshair transporting me back to a time when games were simpler and Goldeneye was still brilliant.
A new series of "phone-sex hotline" (note the quotes) ads from L.A. comedian, writer, actor, and director Amber Schaefer aims to educate the public about Bernie Sanders policies such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal in the soothing, raspy, sexy voice of a 1990s phone-sex operator.
Calling after making bagel chips for her youngest's 17th birthday, Adlon slid in and out of celebrity impressions (she snared an Emmy for voicing Bobby on "King of the Hill") as she enthused in her raspy, salty way about 10 essentials that she, and now her kids, can't live without.
In humans, the toxins from these blooms, which are released into the air as waves crash on the beach, can have effects on the respiratory system, causing coughing and sneezing (in fact, one sea turtle expert from Collier County told the paper her voice became raspy after she was exposed to the outbreak).
He worked on an assembly line at an aircraft plant in New Jersey, was a baggage handler for Greyhound in Manhattan and gave the public its first taste of his raspy voice when he started his job there as public address announcer, calling out the names of the stops for departing buses.
Growing up, while other friends' parents might've had the raspy croon of Rod Stewart spinning on the record player or Cliff Richard's latest calendar hung by the kitchen sink, my mom would be making her way around the food market with Cooper, leather-clad and nursing a snake, printed across her canvas shopping bag.
They matched heavy guitar riffs and rough, raspy choruses with political critique: in Britain, the Sex Pistols lashed out at the monarchy's "fascist regime", Elvis Costello condemned the Falklands war and the Clash offered an apocalyptic vision of London where the "ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in / Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin' thin".
His second album The Heart Of Saturday Night, with its melancholy (near) title track about the ephemeral pleasures of weekend drinking, draws us closer to the raspy-throated barfly down-on-his-luck incarnation that began to resonate with music buyers, but 123's Small Change truly represents his first big transformation and his first real masterpiece.
Tracks five-six-seven—"Screwed" with its "You fucked the world up now / We'll fuck it all back down" brag, the raspy-rapped autobio "Django Jane," and the folds-of-your-vagina-to-folds-of-your-brain "Pynk"—are a "1999" for 2018 with lyrics that don't stop don't stop, the apex of an album that's designed to have one.
He's right: even on a quiet Wednesday afternoon, when much of nearby downtown is tethered to cubicles, the people straddling Elliott Street's barstools include a grizzled biker in a weathered Harley-Davidson t-shirt, a woman in smart business-casual, leather-skinned men in highlighter-yellow safety vests, and a raspy-voiced little old lady, all huddled around the cramped bar over cheap drinks and deli sandwiches.
It brings Globalfest, where 12 international performers are showcased in one building over five hours: among them this year, the New York debut of the Haitian group Lakou Mizik; deep Delta blues from the Music Maker Blues Revue; raspy-voiced and Arab-influenced Mexican cabaret from Astrid Hadad; the Arabic-flamenco-jazz reunion of the oud player Simon Shaheen's ensemble Zafir; and Fendika, with its own twist on Ethiopian funk.
"Hungry Ham" is the second track on Ferg's forthcoming sophomore release Always Strive and Prosper, with the rapper tell-taling about his childhood growing up in Harlem (according to an interview with Ferg for Complex, "Hungry Ham" is a nickname for Harlem's "Alexander Hamilton Playground," on 143rd Street.) Underneath Ferg's raspy raps, Skrillex keeps a tight leash on the beat with anxious trap claps and a discordant tone that underlines the tension throughout the track.
Produced by Ross Robinson (Korn, Slipknot, At The Drive In, Glassjaw), its percussive elements shaped by drummer Brad Wilk (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Prophets of Rage), and recorded at Valentine Studios on original 70s-era gear, the album is ultimately a backcountry nightmare, soundtracked by raspy, slightly unhinged vocals and an overall apocalyptic bent ("I Hope Your Husband Dies" is a standout, as is the absolutely miserable bluegrass ballad "Cocaine and Abel").

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