Ms. Brussell, who has diligently worked her way up the New York cabaret ladder, has an utterly distinctive voice: medium-size, with a cottony texture and a quickening vibrato.
She said Thursday that they voiced medium to high confidence in their assessment, which officials said was based on the testing of soil samples and blood drawn from people who had been wounded.
Sorkin's characters don't get into pickles in the usual TV ways: breaking the law to help a victim ("Law & Order: SVU"); obeying unseen voices ("Medium"; "Ghost Whisperer"); having sex with the wrong person ("Desperate Housewives"); or burying a goombah in a landfill ("The Sopranos").
Part medium, part mediator, she began doing readings that gave voice to the needs of the Weber family's dogs.
Singing with a voice of medium weight, the bass-baritone James Rutherford is an articulate, sympathetic Sachs.
As Lieutenant Pinkerton, her American skunk of a lover, Raúl Melo offered a tenor voice of medium size and perfectly respectable accomplishment.
In nature, willow trees and slow, steady rain exemplify iki; in the human body a slight relaxation, a voice of medium rather than high pitch, a face that is long rather than round, a certain tension and relaxation together of the eyes, mouth, and cheeks, the hand curved or slightly bent back.
One crucial ingredient, of course, is the voice, a medium-light baritone that conveys an innate homeyness, familiarity and a likable mixture of pride and self-deprecation.
In the other direction, "Shake It Up" could have ventured farther down the corridors of the digital age to explore how the Internet has changed music writing, and the explosion of new voices the medium has given rise to.
The proposed Constitution was designed to shift the balance of power away from major political parties and give a greater voice to medium-size parties under a new formula for awarding seats in Parliament.
