The Sanskrit of its title means (roughly) "Song of Love," but although it uses Indian rhythmic cycles, its principal Asian musical accent is Balinese: the rhythmic, melodic and timbral influence of the gamelan is felt throughout, and the penultimate movement, "Turangalila III," is almost entirely a gamelan meditation.
He was one of the boys who had gone to the college principal to complain that my accent was so strange that they couldn't understand a word I was saying.
"We've got to believe he will succeed," says Tim Crocker, the lower school principal in his warm British accent.
Confronted about her accent by her school principal several years ago, Ms. Aguayo took a college acting class, saw a speech pathologist and consulted with an accent reduction specialist, none of which transformed her speech.
I'd never done any real acting before - so why not go on the West End stage, learn an entire book, play a principal character and do a fucking accent that nobody is going to believe?
Unlike Liebling, however, Principal Victoria spoke with a thick Minnesotan accent; the voice was chosen simply because it was an accent voice actress Mary Kay Bergman could do particularly well.
Of the three principals, only Daniel Day-Lewis, flattening his British accent and pinning down his Mohican good looks with a thin white bow tie, seems, in the role of Newland Archer, to belong to the last century.
Still essential to countless canonical French recipes, these enhancements represented a move away from old culinary practices in that they served "to accent the natural characteristics of principal ingredients, not to transform them chemically, nutritionally or aesthetically".
The Niger mines' principal owner, Areva, may have a French accent, but the Obama administration would know Areva as the US nuclear power industry's number one supplier.
It was Ms. Aguayo's principal and not the state monitors who first questioned her accent and suggested that she join Mr. Krieger's class, Ms. Aguayo said.
