This key scene is written with chilling restraint: in the unspeakable moment, that crisp voice is devastating.
In particular, the title track, about a dying relationship, was devastating, with Ms. Ortega's voice desperate and liquid over a melancholic arrangement.
Delivered in a near-whisper, her first line ("Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over") is quietly devastating, and the way her voice rises to a shout on the title phrase as ominous military drums appear brilliantly captures the dynamics of an argument.
So when people lose access to their voice, it's devastating, says Nima Mesgarani, a neuroscientist at Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
At first, the loss of my voice was beyond devastating... the very singers that filled my ears with life became tormenting reminders of my loss.
Local media is becoming increasingly regionally based, so communities, councils and parishes are fighting in a bigger pool to get their voices heard – with devastating impacts on community news.
Like this, from "The River": I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company But lately there ain't been much work, on account of the economy Springsteen is equally adept at voicing disparity — the devastating chasm between those who have and those who merely look on from afar.
Losing her voice must have been devastating.
Larkin's wearily ironic voice is an utterly devastating medium with which to deliver such a bleak and hopeless meditation on death, as terrible and beautiful and banal as mortality itself.
Sting's creative block actually lasted for eight years, something we can all make hilarious jokes about but which to him was devastating, and you could hear that devastation in his voice.
