His blithely satisfied voice-overs drip with chuckling, kingpin condescension.
The jacket over the puddle soon became one of several examples of chivalry that began with his pantomiming opening a door after asking the audience: "Does it detract from chivalry if, when opening a car door for a lady, I say, 'Chivaaalry!' " He dragged out the last word in the self-satisfied voice of a magician introducing his assistant.
The Road's theoretical inclusion is a purely vindictive response to the self-satisfied tone of voice invariably adopted by the kind of men who consider it a masterpiece, and might easily prove as misguided as those notional misgivings about Queen of Denmark (which turns out to be a classic of the AOR revenge genre – four parts Karen Carpenter to one part John Carpenter).
Laboriously seeking out box five, threading up spool three, he is thrown into a rage by the plummy and self-satisfied echo of his voice at age 39, 30 disillusioning years ago.
Media work has included training Kenyan journalists to report accurately on the science behind VMMC ; use of radio magazine broadcasts in Zambia incorporating key messaging on VMMC ; and radio spots and print materials tailored to different regions of Tanzania, featuring the voices of "satisfied customers" and local health experts.
With their economic wants more or less satisfied, they now crave a voice, and respect.
And realising as she talked that, all those years ago, I'd got it all wrong - every single detail, from the polished pumps, to the remembered stiffness in the voice, to the self-satisfied hauteur.
When Dinesh confirmed this in the same strangled voice as before, Sahib appeared satisfied and said nothing more.
But he arrives in power at that point in history where the victims of boom and bust, rather than its perennially self-satisfied authors, have become the dominant political voice.
It has been found that persons who positively voice their concerns are generally more satisfied with their workplace and exhibit more discretionary efforts to speak up [ 29, 39].
There was no doubt, judging by the unmistakable frustration in Arsène Wenger's voice, which team could be the more satisfied with the result.
