When he sang "O Death" at Wolf Trap in 2006 as part of the Great High Mountain Tour, Stanley's scratchy high tenor made the Grim Reaper sound like an acquaintance of long standing.
Dispatches they sent to acquaintances sounded hellish and exciting, in that young-man-meets-failed-state sort of way, with reports of land mines, military checkpoints, handguns, machine guns, coup attempts, cratered streets, opiates and amputee teen prostitutes.
Sound like a familiar fictional acquaintance?
In his early days at Barcelona, when he was struggling to find his rhythm in this new environment, one evening he bumped into some old acquaintances and sounded somewhat jaded when talking over his situation.
In fact, after an hour and a half's acquaintance with those dreams, it just sounds like a threat.
Most New Yorkers, conditioned as we are to the modes and key systems of Western European music, know the sound of Byzantine chant more by reputation than by direct acquaintance.
I don't have nearly as broad an acquaintance with this stuff as I should have to sound off this way.
Their conversations, studded with hefty pauses, sound sluggish and adult, and only when Owen takes his new acquaintance to buy candy ("It's really, really good") do we hear the authentic tones of youth.
It was a little scam an acquaintance of mine had started up and it sounded good at the time.
He made an important acquaintance in 1959: Tony Williams, a 13-year-old drummer who already sounded like an innovator.
