"You know," he says, his voice dropping to a theatrical, intense whisper, "Colin Firth wants to be fucking great.
As he later described the scene in a letter to a friend: I said, "Is that you, boy?" He said in a very intense whisper and a tone all his own, "Father!" and then after a pause, "Forgive me!" I said, "There was never anything to forgive.
Watching the series the way I did, I tended to notice annoying repetitions; it seemed to me that Jack whispered "We'll get through this" to his daughter, Kim (Elisha Cuthbert), at least five times in every episode she was in, and that almost every bit of Jack's dialogue was rendered first in an intense whisper and then in an angry shout, as in "Where is the bomb?
Indeed, there has been such intense whispering in the capital about who the nominee will be that Mr. Rumsfeld's name surfaced this week, prompting urgent disclaimed from Victoria Clarke, the Pentagon spokeswoman.
Hoult and Stewart certainly give it their all, and both deliver sensitive, nuanced performances – but Doremus never really manages to solve the problem the afflicts the first half of the film: with everything and everyone moving at half speed, there's an inbuilt dramatic inertness to proceedings that no amount of intense whispering and tremulous handholding can overcome.
Average level (dB sound pressure level) across frequency, average level across all utterances (dB A) and within/across-digit deviation (dB A) for experiment 1. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of WVT for experiment 2. In experiment 1, OE whisperers were 8 10 dB more intense than inexperienced whisperers across all whispered utterances.
His scripts are sometimes mawkish, sometimes pretentious, but he has a knack for genuine "jump" moments and whispered, intense conversations that raise a chill, and he mostly gets outstanding performances (The Happening has good work from Zooey Deschanel).
Later, Ali was chatting up a dancer wearing a neon green slingshot, while Strap lurked in a corner, a naked woman pressed up against him with intense familiarity as he whispered in her ear.
Like a glassed-in Biosphere on Mars, the four-story dome encloses a cool, fresh world of carpets and comfort, of whispers and intense concentration, where the most brilliant minds of chess compete for diamond crowns.
The city had not changed much in the 13 years since I'd last been here, except that the sense of illicit energy, of movement, of underground whispering was more intense.
"I Miss You", with its "layers of atmospheric keyboards", ambient synthesizers and tinny 808 drums was sung in a half-whisper to exhibit intense emotion.
