"You got me wrapped up/ Around your finger," he bellows, his stentorian tones barely suited to Murs's song, filling the tiny bistro in south London with ease.
Though Lyle was a Midwestern optimist, he was so anxious about his audition that he greeted his agent at the station in tones barely above a whisper.
The American embassy in Baghdad released an unprompted statement stressing its backing for a unified Iraq.Although relations between Kurds and Arabs are rarely sunny in Iraq, Mr Barzani's bitter tone and barely veiled threats to pull out of the government are new.
But some Democratic policies would slightly discommode the ultra-wealthy, and conservative forces have been shrewd enough to trumpet that fact far and wide in a tone of barely suppressed hysteria.
Ms. Halvorson uses a fragile electric guitar tone — it sounds barely amplified, and it's quieter than Jim Hall's — that bursts into a ball of aggressive noise every once a while.
The program, which was already in place before Ornstein's death, will include his "Danse Sauvage" from 1913, music of bracing tone clusters and barely controlled sonic violence, and the Sonata No. 8, which Ornstein wrote in 1990 when he was almost 100.
But it found a way to make his "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" (1942), a mature, 12-tone work, seem barely a stone's throw from late Beethoven.
"Please could I have some homework?" I asked in wobbly tones, the plea barely audible above the eternal commotion of combine harvesters and caterwauling kids.
