Ms. Jones was christened "The Duchess of Coolsville" in 1979 by Time magazine's Jay Cocks, who described her music as "a dash of scat, a hipster backbeat and a lyric that truly glides, laid down in a voice of sweet rough-and-tumble".
Martin West conducted buoyantly, drawing playing both sweet and rough from the New York City Opera Orchestra.
Her film, though, like her heroine, is rough, sweet and a bit lost.
Cooke's rough, sweet voice — blues-born and church-bred, beat down but up again and marching — still rings.
Cooke's rough, sweet voice blues-born and church-bred, beat down but up again and marching—still rings.
The eighteen critical non-presented words used (and their corresponding fifteen wordlists) were: window, sleep, smell, doctor, sweet, chair, smoke, rough, needle, anger, trash, soft, city, cup, cold, mountain, slow, river (Stadler et al., 1999).
Mild and sweet, but sometimes also rough and scary.
Men still share sweet clove cigarettes under rough pavilions hidden from the noonday sun.
It's an eternal search for the gold amongst the rubble, the diamonds in the rough, the sweet sweetcorn in the shit.
This isn't some sweet pop song he roughed up; "Happy Together" is explosive at the chorus.
My sweet, sweet, sweetness.
