The film grasps for credibility with scenes of a support group (featuring some real veterans) and cryptic voice-overs that strive for profundity but achieve only pretentiousness.
Beyond the watchers within the novel is the brilliantly invoked presence of the watchers outside: the cryptic narrative voices, not to mention the author and her readers, whom she buttonholes now and then to good effect.
It achieves moments of clarity and urgency without losing Mr. Pettibon's own cryptic, punk-noir voice, and should definitely be experienced in tandem with his experiments on Twitter.
These are men who have laid bare their emotions in song; even when their lyrics are cryptic, their unique voices have exposed their feelings.
An instrumental EP entitled Cryptic Sounds: No Voices in Your Head was released in Japan, Argentina and as a bonus disc to the album in Korea.
Electrocardiographs, infusion pumps, and ventilators hum and beep incessantly, punctuated every few minutes by a ringing phone, followed by a nurse's voice repeating the cryptic snippets of information relayed by emergency services — GSW face, arrest in the field, blood levels at thirty-nine — as colleagues take notes and ready the next bay.
The company's reps related cryptic plans to acquire the voice transcribing company Yap, where Adams was vice-president.
Of particular interest to the group is a clip that, to my untrained ears sounds like a stomach growling, but which NPI claims is a voice saying the cryptic phrase "Becky saw it".
Otherwise, it belongs to the genre of cryptic videos -- guided by the voice of a calm, slightly fatalistic, usually female narrator -- that reached critical mass at Documenta XI last summer and is best exemplified by the work of the young Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila. Eija-Liisa Ahtila
The calm voice on earth guiding a cryptic, staticky voice in the heavens.
