Sentence examples for brisk voice from inspiring English sources

Downey has the authority, his own brisk voice, and a controlled desperation that suggests a Sherlock with many bad habits.

Everyone knew him as an accomplished and personable sports presenter, with trim moustache, brisk voice and the most neatly knotted necktie ever beheld.

Mistry, though he has descriptive gifts, is sparing with them; Kapur's avaricious wife, for instance, is given no face or physical particulars at all, just a cool, brisk voice.

Dizzyingly, McCain's image jerked back and forth, and his brisk voice spoke normally and in reverse, as she adjusted the new clip to fit near the end of the advertisement.

By H. Swift and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, April 17 , 1954P. 25 A Fairfield county matron was chatting on her upstairs telephone when a brisk voice broke in with "May I have this line, please?

The New Yorker, April 17 , 1954P. 25 A Fairfield county matron was chatting on her upstairs telephone when a brisk voice broke in with "May I have this line, please?

These arguments will be familiar to readers of Wood's first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, as will his tone, that curious double-act of a mature critical voice, severe and stately, and a younger, brisker voice that is unable to stop itself snickering at bad writing: Leavis and Butthead.

Levy's greatest achievement is in the narrator's brisk, comic voice.

Even without dementia, it takes a brisk inner voice saying it's for our own good to get most of us into the dentist's chair.

Intelligent, brisk, firm, with voice and eye of command.

So who, she wants to know impatiently, with that brisk, still throaty voice, is Auer?