On Saturday night, D'Angelo was in full voice, or, to be more precise, voices: the silken falsetto, the funk yowl, the love-man tenor, the full-throated shout.
We miss her, and the narrative suffers – a compliment to the strength of Mazie's presence more than a criticism of Attenberg's supporting cast, who all have distinct, precise voices.
The third-person narrator in The Radetzky March has a cool, precise voice which adds to the tension and mystery.
He spoke in a drawling but precise voice and resembled a Chekhovian intellectual, with glasses, a close-shaved beard and mustache, and a slightly sallow complexion.
But she has a gentle, precise voice that helps balance the wordiness, and her lyrics are often memorable, although almost never catchy.
There remained something almost pre-war about her looks, demeanour and that distinctive and precise voice, speaking in what was once dubbed "Tutinese".
This underground rapper delivers her clever, dense rhymes in a gentle, precise voice, mocking her own grand ambitions without forsaking them.
In fact, the novel features one of the more extravagantly unreliable narrators of recent memory — his calm, precise voice masking something quite other.
But more than likely, the gorgeous and eerily precise voice of Ms. Smith, a country-inflected singer-songwriter, will help it outlive the season.
"Today a white page opens in front of us, white like the white of our flag, symbol of hope and peace," Mr. Ouattara said in his flat, precise voice.
The sweep of her transparent and precise voice has earned her a dependable audience — that, and a single called "Rolling in the Deep," which pivots on a simple construction.
