"Great, great," I said, in a closing voice.
James Earl Jones has the closest voice I can think of to it.
As the film's closing voice asks: "Why can't 'run like a girl' also mean win the race?" It is cheesy, to be sure, but no less powerful.
Viewers of the Republican debates will be accustomed to his toned-down performances – eyes half closed, voice soft, head bowed – but on stage, talking to a crowd of about 1,000 people, he seems even lower-energy.
He works his magic, eyes closed, voice bright.
A closing voice over explains that Dean and Crystal "escape together", and they are shown kissing.
Chanticleer's albums and tours are an essential soundtrack to the festive season in the States, and there's something as comforting as new socks, roasting chestnuts, and woolly jumpers about the dulcet chiming of close-voice male choirs at this time of year.
The movie's determination to be offbeat is established in opening and closing voice-over monologues describing the elaborate courtship rituals of bowerbirds.
In verses, the guitarist Johnny Smith played in slowly articulated chords, moving easily from one impossible close-voicing to another; in choruses he played leaping eighth notes like a smoothed-out Charlie Christian.
(In the closing voice-over monologue in "Pearl Harbor," for instance, the American nurse played by Ms. Beckinsale talks about the impact of the attack on "us"; this is changed to "Americans" in the Japanese version).
But what continues is the close, internal voice of an abused narrator.
