TV debates are to real debate what The Voice is to likeable talent.
Highly likeable, she has a big Northern voice that probably comes into its own in pubs.
When recording the part of "Jell-O Man" for a Jell-O commercial, he was told to make the voice he offered "more likeable and friendly so that children like him".
Sometimes being "likeable" – apologizing for "nothing", making our voices higher, not asking for too much at work – is a survival technique for living in a culture that punishes us when we get out of line.
Now, via appearances on The Thick of It, Twenty Twelve (she played Siobhan's minion at Perfect Curve, Coco Lomax) and numerous television panel shows, she has found her voice and a natural, extremely likeable groove on stage.
One report noted: "He is altogether likeable, for he always speaks without raising his voice and never protests a decision.
Meanwhile, Poe samples another of America's decrepit institutions: its prison system.In this section A sense of dread Argentine soldier, American hero The old boys' network Philipp Meyer's "American Rust" A likeable rogue Lord of the dance ReprintsMr Meyer's voice is assured, and the story crackles with narrative tension.
Little Voice is a shy girl who, in Cartwright's likeable if overlong Lancastrian fairy tale, reveals the power to imitate showbiz icons of song.
And she is just fine, with that Lamborghini-growl of a voice allied to still spectacular hair and an indomitable, likeable stage presence - she does (sigh) almost make you believe she'd have collected all those fridge magnets.
They look you straight in the eye and, in voices that never strain for effect, tell you likeable truths about lives that are, if you're honest, probably not unlike your own.
