"Now when I think about the iPhone, my mind rings with SNL's dumb voices".
Dumb voices, dramatic gestures.
"I know that," replies he in an aren't-some-people-dumb voice.
Vladimer said she continued to rebuke the senator as he played dumb, his voice "a little higher pitched" as he continuously, innocently asked, "What?
It's fucking something!' " Stone said, in a dumb-guy voice.
Advent for Daisy or Milo Antony Dunn O little child, o child to come knocking at the world's door, for whom, still, your small universe of womb is all there is to know, strike dumb the voices of our worldly gloom; no room, no room, no room.
Daft Punk, the only successors to Kraftwerk as ranking man-machines, succeeded by focussing on a robotic, pounding style that bore fruit repeatedly: the Ed Banger label, Justice, almost every band with a synthesizer and some dumb-ass voice-altering machine, and one of the most delightful YouTube memes ever.
With the loud shirts, wild hair, dumb grins, dead voice, staring eyes – and with his bad jokes especially – he is less a standup comedian than a parody of one.
When they came back from their honeymoon, I remember seeing the two of them walk through the door as Linda cooed in her dumb, slightly masculine voice, "We've got presents!" She was decked out in head-to-toe Disney, as was my father.
It is used to marginalise and persecute independent voices, dumb down debate, and support the mythological notion of a Russia alone and besieged in a hostile world.
