Sentence examples for startling voice from inspiring English sources

"When she first began you were very aware of her fresh, startling voice.

'Nibari' is well placed as track one, its comfortable, shuffling rhythm contrasting with Sofia Blanco's startling voice.

His first novel, "L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte" -- curtly renamed "Whatever" in its English translation -- gave startling voice to a new sort of Frenchman, a 21st-century version of the old-style Russian superfluous man, overeducated, overpaid and bored rancid by his nonexistent love life.

Still, in the second act, when the taxi-driver arrives and begins the narrative of Moss's manic last hours, the play hits a satisfying stride... Shepard's work is a kind of verbal and visual jazz, which surprises you with its penetrating leaps of association and its startling voices.

A year after Mrs Dalloway (No 50 in this series), a startling literary voice with Bloomsbury connections appeared on the London scene with a highly original satire on postwar England.

Right at the end of 1967, as new LPs like Steve Reich's Come Out and Gordon Mumma's Mesa for Cybersonic Bandoneon – oh yes – hit the racks, Lucier's startling Extended Voices was revealed to the world.

And with it, that most startling of voices, the countertenor — a grown man who sings like a turbo-charged choirboy, performing the roles of heroes or saints that were originally written for a castrato and that are often sung by a female mezzo-soprano.

There is usually more to Arena than meets the eye – her startling, full-blown voice for starters.

Pergolesi achieved a striking effect in "Vidit suum dulcem natum" ("She saw her sweet son"), where note values grow longer to suggest vitality ebbing; Ms. Sampson made this a startling sensation, her voice dipping to a pained mutter.

Still, its voice was startling — raw, close.

Her voice is startling, with its dark, bronzed tone and formidable agility.