A retired instructor of computer applications, Ms. Griswold speaks with a schoolteacher's practiced patience and sounds as enthusiastic parsing the imperialist nature of the United States' involvement in World War II, not to mention the war in Iraq, as discussing where to find good granola on the Internet.
It made being a practiced nappie-swapper sound sort of like having a security clearance.
We encouraged all participants to arrive early and followed a practiced protocol for resolving sound problems (headset, to computer controls, to Second Life sound preferences).
With a cochlear implant to capture sound and a practiced skill at reading lips, translating the random noise into words, he had since learned to converse face to face, particularly in quiet settings like his tutoring room.
An expert will have slowly practiced breathing whilst beatboxing each sound independently (see previous step), thus separating their breathing from the beat, allowing several kinds of bass sounds, snare sounds, and even some hi-hat sounds to continue without pause.
And before they dropped out of the race, Mr. Perry and Representative Michele Bachmann were both practiced enough in the art of the television sound bite that they could occasionally deliver a zinger even if it did not always roll off the tongue.
Their hostess gave the set a practiced thump with the heel of her hand, renewing the sound, and said.
Tercek, who is fifty-seven, is a practiced listener: during his decades as an investment banker, he has sounded out a lot of executives.
Like any practiced sadist, he delivered the next blow quickly and precisely: its sound firebox, functioning chimney and central location rendered it an ideal candidate for a cast-iron insert that would transform it into a veritable furnace with 30,000 B.T.U.'s capable of heating the entire house for a fraction of what we were spending.
Certainly, the candidates stride out of the booths with practiced zeal, the curtains shot back, other voters perhaps startled by the sound, by the brisk ceremony, the sense of a duty discharged.
