It was the voice of contentment and in stark contrast to that of the young pretender whose day, surely, will come.
He has that wonderful problem with the DreamWorks crowd, who voice their contentment in public but emit signals of something less.
Kenny Chesney became a reigning 21st-century country star by making himself the voice of sheer contentment.
"You touched her perfect body with your mind," sighs Cohen, and though there's longing in his voice there's contentment too – because he knows that consummating the relationship would just stain its purity.
No one before or since the heyday of Como, whose death in May at 88 deprived American pop of its last genuinely serene voice, made an easygoing contentment appear to be everyone's natural birthright.
"Come April, we are going to be watching first-quarter results very closely," said Steve Westly, a vice president for business development at the profitable online auction site eBay, his voice purring with the contentment of a predator about to be well fed.
I persuaded colleagues to leave messages on his voice mail testifying to their contentment with my work.
The sound of Ms. Jones's piano is amiability itself, and in her voice there lurks a plaintive contentment.
For example, people can easily identify relaxed, stressed, boredom, contentment, and confidence from tone of voice.
As a result of the president's dogged inclusiveness, as well as economic contentment, there are no angry minority voices in this race.
Part of that consistency comes from contentment.
