(At times he resembled a singer he may never have heard: Aaron Neville from New Orleans, who similarly rushes into a phrase, pauses unexpectedly or sustains an aching note, at once tense and angelic).
A diaphanous account of the "Träumerei" movement threatened to disappear altogether, and the bold silences and aching sustained notes of the concluding "Der Dichter Spricht" had an almost daredevil feel.
And then, when all our hands were aching with note-taking and the ink in our own pens was drying up, he'd stop, and in his soft burr inform us, "But you don't need to know that," before telling us what we did did need to know to pass this section of our Biochemistry Part I.
And, while the orchestra strikes fresh in each performance the bold notes and aching melodic beauty of Leonard Bernstein's score, above and on either side of the stage, surtitles provide the Sondheim lyrics and Arthur Laurents libretto in French.
But the bulk of the songs by Elton John and Tim Rice belong to the western tradition with its note of aching romantic yearning.
Perhaps the Patsy faithful are responding to the been-there intimations of struggle and heartbreak in her voice, the note of aching resilience that she came by honestly.
I take a few thoughtful deep breaths, letting the oxygen pour through my aching body -- taking note of each muscle and just how stiff my lungs feel today.
Ms. Netrebko sang an elegantly sad aria with lustrous warmth, aching vulnerability and floating high notes.
"Ms. Netrebko sang an elegantly sad aria with lustrous warmth, aching vulnerability and floating high notes," Mr. Tommasini said, and she "dispatched Donizetti's cabaletta, all fiery coloratura runs and vehement phrases, with a defiance that brought down the house".
The next morning Ms. Peerenboom — a Los Angeles personal trainer who is so hyperactive she has a computer power button symbol tattooed on her inner left wrist ("it's a pressure point," she noted) — had such aching abs and legs she could barely stand up from a friend's sofa, her temporary home (see "romantic drama").
Take note of any sharp, aching or excruciating pain in the abdomen.
