But his voice weakens in just the upper mid- range he must call upon for dramatic climaxes.
His voice weakens and breaks as he speaks of "my beautiful, my loving, my loyal wife, Christine," as well as his children and his grandson.
When his voice weakened to the point that he could no longer be heard in large lecture rooms, he simply started using a microphone.
For the previous four years, ever since cancer was found in his chest, Don Brawley Jr. had gone through periods when his voice weakened, when its baritone clenched into a hoarse rasp.
With his Glaswegian accent strong but his voice weakened after the chest infections which laid him low for months last year, he showed off an impressive vocabulary and notable disdain for the psychiatric profession.
I cut his food so he wouldn't choke, relayed my observations when his voice weakened, researched whatever clinical trials or various therapy regimens might stave off the disease.
"People are dying in slow motion," said Louay, a social worker from the town told the Guardian in a phone interview, his voice weakened by months of abject hunger.
Two Mets who witnessed Randolph's five-minute speech said his eyes became moist and his voice weakened when he talked about what the team had destroyed by playing listlessly for two and a half weeks.
"If Stanford can do this, you know, you can do anything too," said the 59-year-old general, speaking by telephone in a raspy voice, weakened by treatments he is undergoing for myelogenous leukemia, a type of blood cancer, that was diagnosed this past spring like a bolt from the blue.
With his Gorbals accent strong but his voice weakened after the chest infections which laid him low for months last year, he frequently harked back to what he saw as the "good old days in prison", boasting of all the famous names he had met.
