Sentence examples for wondrous voice from inspiring English sources

Butler will be seventy next year, but he still speaks with the boyish, wondrous voice of a mind-blown surfer, enriched by a trace of the clipped, singsong accent that, in Hawaii, provides a form of local cred.

Yes, he was a bit unsteady, he was somewhat gaunt, and, as he sang "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata," from Verdi's "Rigoletto the searing, pleading, give-me-back-my-daughter aria the wondrous voice wavered at moments; midway through, Hvorostovsky's breath control, which was always astonishing in its smoothness and capacity, began to falter.

In the five years since he last sang lieder in London, the tenor Jonas Kaufmann has become an international star, gaining a reputation as the Wagnerian of the moment, so his appearance at the Wigmore Hall was eagerly awaited, not just because he has a wondrous voice but because a recital is the supreme test of any artist; stripped of operatic trappings, a singer is totally exposed.

Opera singers work terribly hard to cultivate these wondrous voices.

They are bestowed with wondrous voices capable of mastering many musical genres.

"Stay on this wondrous, dreamy side," the unseen voice tells Ms. Balibar.

But then the voice of the wondrous Robert De Niro comes on, and the story becomes about immigration, and our humanity.

We plunk down $4, and within minutes are listening to Professor Adam Gertsacov, every bit the fantastical impresario, in his purple top hat and cash-register voice, introducing us to the wondrous insects itching (sorry) to perform.

There were riveting passages that combined choralelike harmonies with unhinged rhythms; a bleakly comic episode in which the brass players from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra evoked a wondrous gaggle of squawking, whining and pleading human voices.

The work begins with the voices alone, repeatedly singing the word "Wondrous" to music of eerily shimmering and astringently beautiful sustained harmonies run through with fidgety riffs and skittish outbursts.

Mike Scott possesses one of the great rock voices and has been responsible for a wondrous, sky-scraping catalogue of music over the years; therefore we're well within our rights to expect brilliance from the Waterboys.