She was also skeptical of Lewis's emotive abilities, writing "Either she knows that quiet-to-loud arrangements and whispered vocals can simulate gravitas pretty well regardless of whether you're thinking of pain or grocery lists, or she's genuinely feeling something that comes out in her voice".
Harriet let out a small sigh, and we got busy with all the things that come after someone says it out loud: the phone calls; the arrangements; the death notice; the food for shiva, the ritual week of mourning.
But Uefa and Euro 2016 organisers will also face tough questions over the policing and security arrangements, amid increasingly loud demands to know why the match was played in Marseille in the first place.
Loud and fairly traditional, its arrangements for booming horn sections mix influences from postwar Count Basie and Duke Ellington, as well as Thad Jones; it's also music of a different temperature and mood, accommodating more slow tempos, along with some old-fashioned, take-your-time, knock-it-out-of-the-park solos.
The audience response was warm, but it was hard for even the loudest of the recorded string arrangements to fill the big space.
Low also played with the space between loud and soft in spare but hardly straightforward arrangements.
As you might expect, the loudest objections to the arrangement are coming from Germany.
When Mr. McCartney sang Beatles songs, in arrangements that nearly replicated the studio versions, there were loud, fond sing-alongs.
Trump regularly criticized U.S. postwar defense arrangements and their costs, and was one of the loudest critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal for which Japan strongly advocated.
With its full-band soul arrangements that hark back to disco and before, "Blurred Lines" is a loud reminder of the fundamental conservatism of white soul.
Hancock's arrangements are harmonically inventive, as always, but the drums are never louder than a murmur and the singers - including Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, Tina Turner and Mitchell herself - give restrained, sensitive performances.
