Its magic lay in its marriage of brass and piano, of rasping percussion, of the warmth of Ferrer's voice.
Hegarty listens to these croaking, rasping excuses with blank-faced politeness, before saying firmly at the end: "No, yours definitely sounds like an infection," adding more kindly, with a tap to his throat: "Perhaps a bit of asthma in there?" It's a "closed" rehearsal for The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, but I'm briefly allowed to watch Antony and the cast.
With a rasping voice, a well-known love of manga comics and a notorious tendency to outspokenness, Mr Aso is popular with voters, including the young.
One of the geriatric drives in question actually gave a few rasping gasps before giving up the ghost.
A pair of boat-billed flycatchers, exchanging loud, rasping calls, perch on a lamp-post.
Many decapods and amphipods produce sound by striking (percussion) or rasping (stridulating) or by internal mechanisms.
His recordings, most of which were produced in New York City, incorporated gospel-derived vocal techniques shouted interjections, an exhortatory recitation, melisma, and rasping timbre.
A few flies related to the housefly have a spongy proboscis equipped with small teeth for rasping skin around wounds and sores to increase the flow of blood and lymph.
A hurricane lamp guttering under his hollow, bearded face, he murmurs deliriously in Russian and lies down on his deathbed, breath rasping.
The critic in question denies this, saying that if Fieri will venerate honest grub for Joe Patriot, he should cook it right, asking: "When you cruise around the country for your show… rasping out slangy odes to the unfancy places where Americans like to get down and greasy, do you really mean it?" That can't be good.
