The pin-drop hush buoying up the fragile arrangements is such that when Williams really lets rip - a brutal, lonely almost-howl in the closing moments of a take on Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah so intuitive it makes you forget the countless other interpretations - the effect is devastating.
The first cadenza produced one of those you-could-hear-a-pin-drop hushes in the sold-out hall.
Her voice drops to a hush, "It's the virus".
Each group that makes it, lifted from hysteria and uncertainty, drops into reverential hush.
The ballroom dropped to a hush as the jumbotrons flashed to nighttime Chicago.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The girl's voice dropped to a hush as she remembered the bright, sunny afternoon when she stepped out of her hut and saw her best friend buried in the sand, up to her neck.
"I like food, you know, but I really enjoy people who like to make really fine food," he said later, his voice dropping in an awed hush.
I think the speech hit all those marks, but the problems can be summed up by the fact that its greatest applause line was the pregnant hush Mitt dropped after referencing Obama's promise to "raise the oceans".
She even…' and here Mukti's voice dropped to a reverent hush, awed as he was by his own therapeutic skill, '…stops talking on her invisible mobile.' 'Astonishing,' Busner remarked dryly.
"Sometimes I buy something that isn't black, and I put it on and I am so sorry," says Ms. Finneran, her voice dropping to a desperate hush on the last two words.
— Harvey Nelson glanced around a diner here on Monday, then dropped his voice to a hush to talk about politics.
