His face is placid, his voice mild with a transatlantic accent, his body language passive.
Pretty webs of acoustic picking are blotched with static and ratchety clatter or punctuated with arbitrary spoken-word samples, while placid, smoky voices offer thoughts like "We sing as the sky collapses".
Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m.; Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $60 to $95. BRANTLEY ++ 'FIDDLER ON THE ROOFromrom the moment it sounds its first word in David Leveaux's placid revival, the voice of Harvey Fierstein (who has replaced Alfred Molina in the central role of Tevye) makes the audience to prick up its ears.
Her voice is friendly, somewhat placid, but it's clear Romero is not thrilled with having to answer questions about her political alliance with the Koch brothers and other wealthy supporters of Proposition 32, and she conspicuously avoids bringing up their names.
Poleaxed by recession and still unable to speak with anything resembling a unified voice, though, Europeans remain as placid and passive about their defense as always.
Suddenly, throughout a placid, sunny Sderot, a woman's tinny voice echoes on loudspeakers, intoning, "Tseva Adom, Tseva Adom," or "Color Red".
With an aggressive voice at odds with his usually placid demeanour, Roman Abramovich was sworn into the witness box at London's Commercial Court yesterday – and, in Russian, denounced the claim for $6bn £3.5bnn) of his money as "wholly without merit".
What we put in our piscine, Is called polymethyl hexabiguanide, It acts with the aid of hydrogen peroxide, To keep our piscine quite pristine... .. Hearing John sing this one night in his pleasant tenor voice, as the moonlight glinted off a perfectly placid and primped pool, was one of the great musical experiences of my life.
The usually placid Senator Daschle starts chopping the air for emphasis, and his voice rises in anger.
