Sentence examples for parched sound from inspiring English sources

It's a yearning, furious, parched sound: the howl of history.

The accomplished players of the all-female Cassatt Quartet performed this extended episode with what seemed intentionally parched sound.

During one selection Ms. Bijma evoked both the parched sound of Billie Holiday's later years and a warm, sympathetic muted-trombone obbligato.

Those songs hint at this band's fixation on a parched country sound, echoed in its choice for the B-side of a recent seven-inch single: a cover of Chris Isaak's mope-abilly ballad "Wicked Game" that makes the original sound like it was brimming with hope.

Where the group's ground-breaking anthems - exuberant bursts of polyrhythmic rock'n'soul such as 'Dance to the Music', 'Everyday People' and 'I Want to Take You Higher' - had been recorded with the emphasis on live feel and big-room ambience, now Sly was overdubbing instruments one at a time and plugging them directly into the board for a parched, almost claustrophobic sound.

Especially in the softer passages of Act III his sound was parched.

And when he sings, what comes out sounds strained and parched, drained of its usual power, but with a different, rather more difficult kind of potency in its place.

To sound like a pirate, you have to sound at least little bit parched and raspy.

On it, Holiday's cracked, parched old-woman's timbre (she was only 42 but sounds 70-something) adds an extra layer of pathos to self-lacerating ballads like "I'm a Fool to Want You," "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "You've Changed".

One mike is a faithful reproducer of Linkous's parched, Neil Young-ish voice; the other - the Sparklemike, perhaps - makes him sound like he's broadcasting from a bathysphere.

The fresh breeze that fills the air with the fragrance of Damascene rose, the sound of the trickle of water in the bed of the parched Barada river, and the colourful blossom on the trees all herald the start of Spring in the Syrian capital.