She modulates her performance through each of the songs, trying on and shedding character after character, investing in the stories of Irish women.
She modulates so finely between comedy and pathos, between psychology and physicality, that she conveys a sense of the richness of lived experience, compared to which most other novelists appear to work in broad strokes... Her new novel is her most mature yet".
What intrigues viewers of both videos is how Ms. Mcdonald manages to transform herself so completely into a variety of personas, and how cleverly she modulates her expressions and gazes to match — and thereby send up — those of her digital partners.
Mostly she has emphasized the way in which she has modulated her idealism, and how much difference the intervening decades have made.
Sarah Godfrey for The Washington Post was critical of Aguilera's vocal performance, writing that although the singer's strength is her voice, she sounds "modulated beyond recognition".
The soloist, Esther Heideman, a soprano with a gleaming voice, showed that she can modulate her sizable sound beautifully to accommodate Mr. Kernis's lyrical phrases, especially in the harmonically lush and ruminative setting of Psalm 1 and the wistfully Mahlerian epilogue, a setting of Psalm 131.
Maia Desanti is less effective as the Angel, she could modulate her voice more effectively, but her physicality is great.
So when the judges said that an intervention was allowed but an abortion was not, she said, they "modulated the terminology they used in the ruling to say the same thing without referencing the same word".
As tears streamed down her cheeks, she continued to modulate her tone, as if she had been injected with some sort of emotional Botox, causing her mind to lag behind her body in its ability to express genuine feeling, rather than the other way around.
"It was a strange and fragile time," she says now, her impeccably modulated English delivered in a soft, almost whispered French accent punctuated by long pauses while she pursues the right word.
