But at a surreal moment, when much of live TV was stuttering and stumbling, Toobin's voice was both authoritative and riveting.
Usher was brought up to succeed in pop music the way some kids are brought up to compete in the Olympics — very different from an artist stumbling on his own voice by dint of involuntary, obsessive experiment.
Step foot in any city around the MENA region, at any moment and you won't be able to go more than a day without stumbling onto her melancholic voice or a graphic version of her legendary looks, hanging on a wall somewhere.
But every now and then you stumble across a voice from the past who intended for you to hear it.
The women back in Poland are able to telephone the men at their encampments, and the narrator, nagged and abashed by his wife's voice, ends up stumbling toward a frozen death that Shepard evokes in one of the lyrical closings he often favors.
A Los Angeles Times journalist noted Conservapedia's critics voiced concern that children stumbling on the site may assume Conservapedia's scientific content is accurate.
It was a very solid finale, with both performers in great voice and neither one really stumbling.
Your mind starts connecting the speaker's struggling voice, which recalls an episode of stumbling into a hedge, to the blockages and confusion implied by the pictures.
I can still remember his angry Hungarian voice on the phone, as I uttered stumbling apologies.
At 71, his hair is whiter, his face more creased, his voice even slower than that of the stumbling detective he has played for so long.
It is a play that is rich in language: prayer, debate, ecstatic meetings, the stumbling attempts of the newly empowered to find a voice.
