Sentence examples for poised voice from inspiring English sources

A reflective, poised voice appropriate for its subject matter.

Milika Amasio sits upright, fingers poised, voice ready.

And with a voice poised between sympathy and amusement, he finds a kindly twinkle for everyone.

Ms. Merchant sang Mr. Shabalala's "Rain Rain Beautiful Rain" and her own "Kind and Generous" with her voice poised above Ladysmith's harmonies.

But Sorey's voice, poised between jazz and contemporary-classical traditions, requires space to build, and carries a potent message in a time of chaos and distraction.

Instead, she selected recordings from the early jazz singer Annette Hanshaw, whose voice, poised between heartbreak and soigné resignation, sets a mood of longing for this multilayered tale of love gone wrong.

The first was Lizzy Straus '09CC, '14SOA, who began by saying, "I never read and I'm really nervous," and then, in a voice poised and knowing, declaimed: "I'm only watching shows / Where the serial killer is hot / So don't try to tempt me / With the daytime lineup.

She chronicles her relationship in The Road to Middlemarch (published in the US as My Life in Middlemarch), a delightful book filled with sharp observations and told in a voice poised between chatty confidant and brilliant teacher.

Yet it is the conflict between Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge that drives the film, with Crawford deep-voiced and poised, and McCambridge taut, her voice thin with tension.

This well-poised voice, to be heard on May 3 in Newark, glories in musical line rather than mouthfuls of patter.

Along with Naomi Wolf, whose best-selling "Beauty Myth" took aim at an image-obsessed culture, she seemed poised to become a voice of change.