Sentence examples for proverbial voice from inspiring English sources

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It made him famous — the proverbial "voice of a generation" (always a problematic title) — and a Pied Piper to disaffected American kids.

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One of the more curious aspects of oil development in North Dakota is that the people making arguments against rampant growth, environmental degradation and the messy business of extracting oil are somewhat few and far between, proverbial voices in the wilderness.

Adding to the proverbial cauldron, his own voice plays a prominent role across most of Love Over Will's tracks.

Even Shimon Peres, Israel's former prime minister whose advocacy for a "new Middle East" has been defined as a naive quest for the proverbial Holy Grail, was moved to voice an admonition of the Arab League, "In all my life, I've never heard of a country which wants to put an end to an occupation being threatened".

If finding my voice was raising the proverbial ship's sail, I still needed mates who would stand, create and perform with me.

In one collective pull of the proverbial voting lever, we can speak in a clear, unified voice and let those who aspire to serve our country know that we do not tolerate hatred or fearmongering or sexism or racism.

Money talks, and those good people in the proverbial trenches often don't have the money to buy a voice.

(He wasn't a Zuni, but, God damn it, he should have been one!) As he continued talking, his voice trapped in the car, she searched the landscape for the proverbial trees and tried to tune out his voice, to reduce his words to background noise, like the slipstreamed air coming through the open window.

Henley, in typically fine voice -- he seems to have been pacing himself for the proverbial long run since the beginning -- offered the iconic lyrics that have captivated generations.

The first element in that design is usually a system known as Interactive Voice Response, which fields your call and hands it off to the proverbial next available agent.

For even as the fiction writer tells humane stories about behavior and motive and family relations — what one might think of as a sympathetic skill — so he or she is also a little like the proverbial choirboy at the funeral: coldly observing, carefully pillaging, rearranging, impersonating, and re-voicing the very material that constitutes "family".

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