Many of the role's vocal highlights take place while the heroine is sleepwalking, and Dessay actually shaded her voice to sound asleep, adding an ever-so-slight touch of pale huskiness to her slender, colorful vocal line.
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When Wells recorded her vocal she sang over the song's outro with a huskiness evoking the line delivery of Mae West : Wells would recall : " I was only joking but the producers said'Keep it going, keep it going'."
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His son Toby, currently winning acclaim in the title role of " Coriolanus " for the R . S . C . in Stratford, has his own view on matters vocal, even if he shares his father's theatrical huskiness and his fondness for cigarettes:
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Shields has a serviceable alto that acquires winning personality when lowered in sardonic self-mockery for " One Hundred Easy Ways, " Ruth's catalog of how to lose a man, or when softened to sentimental huskiness for " Ohio " and " A Quiet Girl ."
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Single " Ain't No Little Girl " is gratifyingly dramatic, rattling with a huskiness that mixes Sia and Martha Wainwright . " Giuffre also praised " the gorgeous, tight harmonies of " Jonestown ", the rumbling of " Dragonfly " and sliding melancholy of " Annabelle ".
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As for his recognizable voice quality, " It's a natural quality of huskiness in the midrange of my voice that I call'garbage,'" he stated to " The New York Times " . " It's not a clear-toned announcer's voice.
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Her voice has been called " husky, sultry, elegant and sexy . " Due to the huskiness of her voice, Braxton often used male singers such as R & B audiences, but smooth enough for adult contemporary; sophisticated enough for adults, but sultry enough for younger listeners; strong enough in the face of heartbreak to appeal to women, but ravishing enough to nab the fellas ."
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Andrew Grant Jackson features " Dark Horse " in his book " Still the Greatest : The Essential Solo Beatles Songs ", and considers that " the huskiness of his voice threatens to distract ", but " the strength of the composition, the uplifting chorus, the'Stairway to Heaven'- esque flute by Tom Scott, and the subtly funk keys by Preston nudge it into Harrison's top tier, though just by a nose ."
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David Crystal also describes gay male speech as effeminate . He describes the use of a " simpering " voice, for instance, a characteristic that for him is largely attributable to the use of a wider tones ( e . g . the fall-rise and the rise-fall ), the use of breathiness and huskiness in the voice, and switching to a higher ( falsetto ) register from time to time . " These characteristics are not often portrayed as positive or indicative of a neutral identification of gay men with women, rather mimicking women's speech and using female pronouns has often been judged as derogatory and as trivializing women.
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Ludovic Hunter-Tilsley in " The Financial Times " warns that despite " slow eddies of piano chords and gentle percussion & wintry piano, atmospheric orchestral arrangements and an intimate, torch-lit vocal from Bush, who, at 53, has acquired a warm huskiness to her voice & the album wobbles with the hammy Elton John duet " Snowed In at Wheeler St ", and topples over on the title track in which Bush invites Stephen Fry to dream up 50 terms for snow & 50 Words for Snow elucidates its wintry theme with flashes of brilliance but the odd treacherous icy patch too "; Vivascene's Marin Nelson has trouble with the songs'long running times and Bush's " forced whimsicality "; she declares that " Bush was going for snowy surrealism, but we re left feeling cold ."
