There are few, if any, Jackson imitators on today's TV talent shows, but every other contestant is a Whitney wannabe, desperately attempting to emulate that wondrous combination of vocal effects – the flowing melisma, the soaring mezzo-soprano confidence, the tremulous fluttering that carried the ends of lines into realms of higher yearning.
High and yearning, incredibly fragile, this delicate voice also conveyed a steady, girded force.
Stretching out on sheep-cropped turf I listened to a high, fluted, yearning bird-call that drifted up from slopes above Llyn y Fedw and brought to mind a line of Burns, from an extraordinary early lyric that's both tender love song and anti-blood sports tirade: "The Plover lo'es the mountains".
Indeed, the high oboe's yearning, descending triplet figure in "Fragrances of the Night" is unforgettable.
"Maybe they should change the inscription on the Statue of Liberty to, 'give me your computer engineers and your high-paid professionals yearning to increase their rate of return,'" said Mark Silverman, an attorney with the Immigration Legal Resource Center, a San Francisco-based advocacy organization.
The ninth of Av is a day to feel that brokenness and to yearn for something higher, and to give our yearning up to God, until we experience a wholeness beyond the brokenness, or as Rebbe Nachman of Breslov says, "There is nothing more whole than a broken heart".
"My short reply is that you can yearn for higher as much as you like, but what you're yearning for ain't there.
He explains the world amusingly; it's a place where progress is triggered by basic human desires (better food, higher social status, the yearning to visit an Exxon restroom without touching a single hard surface) and carried out by clever people in entertaining historical anecdotes.
Rather than blaming his decisive defeat on far-right opposition to his candidacy, his little-concealed yearning for higher office, or his lackluster campaign, he held the media liable for "kicking him around".
The findings are relevant to MakCHS and other higher institutions of learning yearning to broaden their support base rather than largely depending on public funding.
de la Bigne's high-ruffed collar and yearning, pale-blue eyes.
