Sentence examples for rising lilt from inspiring English sources

Arriving at the designer Simon Spurr's men's show, a staffer greeted him with the same solicitous tone that Mr. Goreski himself employs on "The Rachel Zoe Project" when speaking with a celebrity: a rising lilt that one might use to coax a cat off a tree limb, or perhaps Elizabeth Taylor out of her dressing room on the set of "Cleopatra," circa 1961.

They're in their early 20s though are mistakable in manner for people much older, as long as you allow the odd generational giveaway, like Sim's reference to Pokémon trading cards, or Croft's habit of making statements with the rising lilt of a question, or the fact that millennial popstar Daniel Bedingfield was a young hero of Smith's.

To an American ear there is already something whimsical and winsome about the New Zealand accent; with its rising lilt, it sounds a hopeful note.

But then she spoke in perfect American English, even ending her declarative sentences in that rising questioning lilt characteristic of many young Californians.

"I like my vegan food to be sexy, dirty fun," Ms. Silverstone chirped, her voice rising with the girlish lilt so memorable from her best-known role, the matchmaking high school princess Cher Horowitz in the 1995 movie "Clueless".

Still, Salvant's version of Cole Porter's "So in Love" was a tour de force with her voice rising from a husky purr to an airy lilt as pianist Aaron Diehl flickered in her wake like passing streetlights.

"I am not afraid to tell you, I hit rock bottom," he managed in a velvety lilt before the sobs rose up and tangled his speech.

Crystal's own voice, precise and steady and with a lilt that is suggestive of his youth in Liverpool, rises through it as though through a din of students waiting for a lecture.

I listened, not so much to the content as to the lilt in my wife's voice, the English phrasing in some of her sentences, a strange cadence that rose up, seeming to free itself, now and then, from her flat Michigan accent.

Cooper's not the only one working on his deep-south lilt; Joe Gilgun of This Is England fame plays an Irish vampire named Cassidy who becomes Jesse's best friend; English rose Lucy Griffiths plays Emily, the deacon at Jesse's church and a possible love interest, while Ireland's Ruth Negga, known for Misfits, is Jesse's old flame and former partner-in-crime Tulip.

And it still has a lilting Swedish lilt to it.