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"My Woman" is Olsen's most immediate album; some of her earlier work, like "Strange Cacti," an EP she released in 2011, is inscrutable — her voice lilting, buried, barely in tandem with her skeletal arrangements.
Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice 2003 "Brilliant, inscrutable and wildly entertaining by turns, he is at once a ballet purist and the high priest of post-structural contemporary dance".
But there was a deep sense of discomfort, and it was the inscrutable and unpredictable JM Coetzee, in his quiet, soft voice, who provided the fireworks which ignited one of the most electric encounters in literary South Africa.
In that gulf of silence between the cessation of the applause and the scratching commencement of his won voice, it confronts him like an enemy - inscrutable, devious, treasonous.
"Pli Selon Pli" (1957-62), an orchestral cycle on texts of Mallarmé, was his most formidable creation: voice and instruments give flesh and blood to an allegedly inscrutable poet.
Perceiving threat everywhere, the entire government is becoming a new sacred cow, inscrutable and unquestionable even to the most established and unimpeachable critical voices.
Alan Rickman as Le Vicomte, with that drawling voice steeped in languor, and that impassive countenance, slips sly and inscrutable through the action like a cat who knows the way to the cream.
