Those top notes still cause trouble, but his wide-boy swagger and fine declamation prove wonderfully engaging.
Scotland's first minister claimed the referendum campaign was "a wonderfully engaging, empowering experience with some of our fellow citizens, some of whom have never given a stuff about any politician or any political party but are engaging in this process, queuing to register to vote.
It's a wonderfully engaging piece, despite its brow-furrowing key.
The people have always been wonderfully engaging, and they seem to be flourishing as tension gives way to peace.
Dawn Reid's production begins on a decibel-high with a competitive audience sing-off conducted by Gemma Salter's wonderfully engaging Lucy, a schoolgirl amateur sleuth.
But to everybody else this was a fairy-tale result for the sport and made better with each subsequent utterance of the wonderfully engaging Payne, whose post-race victory comments contained a strong sense of vindication.
The midfield of Munich is powered by a combination of Bastian Schweinsteiger and the Spaniard Javi Martínez, and the wings belong to two wonderfully engaging characters, Arjen Robben from the Netherlands and Franck Ribéry of France.
This circumnavigation of waters both tidal and metaphorical (a chapter on "The Inland Sea" concerns London) is a passionate, wonderfully engaging book, packed with closely observed descriptions of the natural world and its finned and feathered inhabitants.
Once funds had been secured for his project ("The Committee thought that this was a wonderfully engaging idea," the trust replied), Thwaites began to consider what kind of animal he'd like to be.
A wonderfully engaging and genuinely interesting career profile of Rush, those most derided of prog-rock shriekers, tracing their path from anonymous Toronto suburbia to self-effacing power-trio legends.
You meet Mr. Paskowitz, or Doc, straight away in the documentary "Surfwise," Doug Pray's wonderfully engaging look at love and family and the relentless pursuit of happiness, personal meaning and perfect waves.
