Sometimes I imagined her receiving a visit from dishonor, whom she knew so well, and hearing its confidence: it must have murmured in her ear, 'My hour is coming soon, my good Julie.
Ms. Hynes at times hears the choreographer murmuring accusingly in her ear about a costume imperfection.
Even if she doesn't respond, you can keep murmuring reassurances in her ear.
Lest the occasion go to the army commander's head, a slave would march behind the victor, murmuring in his ear, memento mori, "remember you're mortal".
Meanwhile, Brolin murmurs sweet nothings in her ear, like "I would wait another 20 years for another three days with you …" No contest!
Two or three nights earlier, I saw a video of Aerosmith's Steven Tyler on "American Idol" comforting a contestant's disabled fiancée in her wheelchair, rubbing her head and neck as he murmured kind words in her ear, and that's essentially what I found myself doing.
The woman holding the trapeze guided Grace's arms to it, murmured a few words in her ear, and then stood back.
Seizing the chance of a jest, I crept up behind him and murmured in his ear "That's a bit difficult for you, isn't it?" He swung round in alarm, and my first thought was that he had had cosmetic surgery.
"Relax every muscle in your body," she murmurs, in her Danish accent.
I don't mean having ten thousand "like" buttons clicked on a band: I mean the person who seems a little more knowledgeable and a little bit further inside, picking the best there is and convincing me to listen, murmuring in my ear as I drift off to sleep.
I'm not averse to Irishmen murmuring in my ear - so put me down for one of the new podcast audio guides to Dublin recorded by historian and artist Pat Liddy and downloadable free on to an iPod or MP3 player from the Dublin tourist office website.
