Sentence examples for a cutting voice from inspiring English sources

In "Bella Ci Dormi" ("Sleeping Beauty"), a troubadour serenaded the closed window of his beloved, vowing to die for love; Maria Mazzotta sang it with a cutting voice and rising drama, growing more distraught as the window never opened.

His band, the Garifuna Collective, played electrified Garifuna music, with a guest appearance by a 78-year-old Garifuna patriarch, Paul Nabor, who had a cutting voice and some sly dance moves.

Novalima, a band from Peru that shared Wednesday's bill at Central Park, reached back to old Afro-Peruvian music — tales of hard work and slave uprisings sung with quasi-African modes and a cutting voice — and merged it with funk and dance-floor electronics.

White Denim, the Austin band that was the supercharged finale for my own SXSW — a power trio with a rocketing, punk-speed take on twangy Texas garage-rock — played seven shows from March 11 to 15. Lykke Li, a Swedish singer who delivered pop love songs with a cutting voice and wily acoustic arrangments, performed in four places on Friday alone.

She rattles off rhymes at top speed in a high, cutting voice, punctuated now and then with a singsong hook; her producers rev up analog electro sounds, and they looked excited onstage, playing synthesizers and percussion.

LUCILLE BOGAN -- The songs on "Shave 'Em Dry: The Best of Lucille Bogan" (Columbia Legacy), were recorded from 1933 to 1935, and most of them are piano-backed blues in a style akin to Bessie Smith; Bogan had a forthrightly cutting voice of her own, and she pushes her pianist to romp behind her.

Flo Brown, who raps in a high, cutting voice, tore into gangsta machismo and compared the flow of her rap to cosmic forces.

Mr. Lee uses his high, cutting voice to sing philosophical lyrics, calling for heroic honesty in a corrupt and shallow world: cultish conviction to defy scoffers.

And of course, this is one of the goals of this Iscol lecture, to mix it up among scientists, politicians, celebrities, and a lot of those cross cutting voices, to help communicate.

Mr. Stuart, with a cutting tenor voice that could hold its own against the brasses, pulled off some impressive, adventurous turns in his improvisations.

Carried away by this ambition, she tried to cultivate a cutting edge to her voice to match the breastplates she might one day wear as Brünnhilde.