Sentence examples for if sung from inspiring English sources

The Swiss anthem glides between the four speakers as if sung by alien invaders in a flying saucer.

Vocal music often needs time in which to unfold, if sung words are to be understood and their emotional points are to register.

The character's signature number, Send in the Clowns (still Sondheim's most widely known and recorded), works much better in near-sprechgesang than if sung full out, as many usually unimpeachable singers have demonstrated.

At 33, the oldest first-team all-N.B.A. player by six years, Bryant showed how secure his hard-won, oft-lost and occasionally forfeited esteem has become, as a new nickname burst forth, as if sung by a choir of sports anchors — the Masked Mamba! — saluting his 102-point, three-game run after Dwyane Wade broke his nose in the All-Star Game.

To hear Rebecca Kilgore sing it as a bouncy jazz number in her wonderful show "Some Like It Hot — The Music of Marilyn Monroe" on Tuesday evening at Feinstein's at Loews Regency was to hear a mature woman's touch affectionately applied to lyrics that could bite, if sung with an accusatory edge.

Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On might come up in many lists, with its swelling lift-style music with wistful emotional implant Irish whistles, and yet others might think it to be a good tune, if sung by someone else.

The display was a rousing success, if singing commercials and skywriting is a success.

In the tender Canzonetta, with its quietly sobbing accompaniment, Batiashivili played as if singing an aria.

In the background, though, she throws in subtle ad-libs, as if singing along to the radio.

Further proof that if singing sad songs is Janet Devlin's forte, remembering the words to them is her debole.

Funk licks and boundless energy prove a winning formula, even if singing a cappella they're no barbershop.