| 单词 | syllable |
| 例句 | She wrote other things too, words with smooth bell-like syllables, passages she wanted to memorize, but she always returned to the same sentence. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “The secret omen,” she said slowly, making every syllable heavy with significance. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Every language arts teacher in the world enjoys making kids use the dictionary: “Check your spelling. Check that definition. Check those syllable breaks.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was gray in his hair, though he was not old; three syllables, she thought, trying to categorize him in some way that would perhaps explain his presence. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Musicians say the rhythm syllables and then clap on the X, 2 and 3. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Thank you,” said he, in an accent of deep mortification, and not another syllable followed. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z If so, the writing could not be fundamentally pictographic or metaphorical; rather, most of the symbols must stand for letters or syllables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not like Mama Ya-Ya who calls my name, drawing out the third syllable, the ah sound. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I was sitting with the Council during syllables lessons when she walked by, slow and deliberate, sadness in her gait. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Instead I usually pretend not to hear or mumble something that has a few indistinct syllables. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z People who get what they deserve are getting their deserts—accent the second syllable. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her first actual unrehearsed syllable of the day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the only person in the Milky Way who called me by my full name, extra emphasis on the first syllable. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The stealing of her name, like a wind howling out of the north, whipping the syllables away into nothingness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z As an answer Jack dropped into the uncomprehending silence that followed it the one crude expressive syllable. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z With each syllable, the voice seems to burrow a bit deeper into his brain. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Right, Professor,” said Harry, with as much contempt as he could put into the last three syllables. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Perhaps Amos is suggesting,” said Mr. Crouch, cold anger in every syllable, “that I routinely teach my servants to conjure the Dark Mark?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Lazlo Strange,” she repeated, and the syllables were exotic on her tongue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And felt himself nourished by the plasma of letters and syllables that had come to denote a commitment to gallantry among the men with whom he had chosen to spend his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then her mouth opened again and let go its second syllable of the night: “No.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Her words were hammering at my brain, the horrible syllables were beating the air around me, the whole place was full of their sound. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a kind of poem the Japanese write. It never rhymes, but it always has seventeen syllables.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z This was a calm, deliberate world, a world where dreams were real and each syllable held the light like a pearl. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z For instance, in English it’s not obvious how to draw a picture of the common syllable -tion, but we could instead draw a picture illustrating the verb shun, which has the same pronunciation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “A syllable. It’s just a sound. Like this. The first line of a haiku always has five syllables.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “No, because you were already grown, already two syllables when you came here. But I was young; I was still Tom when I arrived,” he said. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But it sounded Congolese in the way it rolled out with equal weight on every syllable—a pig in a sack—as if no single word wanted to take over the whole sentence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in three lines of five syllables, then seven, then five. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A lightened ring in the leather around the first four syllables where someone had made several attempts to erase the writing looked like a halo. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I pulled up my screenshot of the Jade Key riddle and began to study it, syllable by syllable. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The beams may connect notes that are all in the same beat, or, in some vocal music, they may connect notes that are sung on the same text syllable. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But his grammar was worse than Trotter’s, and, to Gilly’s disgust, he’d stumble over words of more than one syllable whenever he read the Bible. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Finally, Sequoyah realized that words were made up of modest numbers of different sound bites that recurred in many different words—what we would call syllables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The day Rose left I had learned how to write "family" in syllables using ash on a creamy curl of birch bark. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The same two syllables, the same eight letters that I had been hearing all year, and suddenly the sound struck my ear with a ping of pure silver. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z His name, Jamison, was still three syllables, and his hair had not grayed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the fisherman stares at these men’s city suits, their clean hands, and their mouths, which exaggerate incomprehensible syllables. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My words come out too fast, my tongue tripping over syllables. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “No,” I said, noticing how that one syllable climbed at the end. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The extra syllable in orientate is ugly and unnecessary, though not a federal offense. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The syllable bounces around in my chest and I like it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Now came a roll call on the old monotone, with a break of register, a yodel, on the final syllable. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Now, as the chanting syllables came to an end, Mercy met Kit’s eyes across the room and smiled. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z They employed it to write syllables or letters constituting grammatical endings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet all I could concentrate on was the sound of the kids outside, the queer glittery syllables of their words. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She draws out the first syllable of futile for a second too long. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Just like the term solfege which is made up of the syllables “sol” and “fa,” sargam is comprised of the syllables sa re and ga, the first three pitches of the Indian scale. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “I am happy,” I say, every syllable perfectly even. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He cut the word into its three syllables and spat them out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z In terms of the song itself, explore the meaning of the music itself apart from the lyrics—sing the melody of the song on a neutral syllable. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Like when she says “baby,” it’s as if molasses seeped into the word and breaks it down into more syllables than it needs. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He stood still enchanted, while the sweet syllables of the elvish song fell like clear jewels of blended word and melody. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Voices singing and sighing, rising, straining, then surging, teeming with pleasure that burst syllables into fragments of laughter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aliens, yes,” Garret Charles continues, his accent growing thicker by the syllable, and bordering on German. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I had trouble saying it, so I broke it into syllables and repeated each sound slowly, followed by the whole word. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Like in Malayalam, the last syllable of one word attached itself to the first syllable of the next. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We wanted them to miss not a single syllable of the truths from Mr. Muhammad in person. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The others were still small, their names yet of one syllable: Dan and Mar. Perhaps I could care for them, Kira thought briefly, trying to find her own future within the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not make out the distinct syllables, but they made her heart ache, for they were all sounds of yearning—each being who cried out was crying out for freedom. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I did get down every syllable of the final few speeches, but that was small comfort. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z With one syllable Matthew disposed of the sacrifice, only a little less sharp than Grandfather’s loss, of the little African slave who had been her shadow for twelve years. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Railroad Tommy was trying to keep the noise down so he could hear the last syllable of the newscaster’s words. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is very frustrating,” Mrs. Sen apologized, with an emphasis on the second syllable of the word. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Light, light,” said an immense voice in vast syllables once or innumerable times. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z His lips were slow motion on each syllable. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The syllables Chen spoke were “IX” and “CHEN.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “My friends,” he said, his accents on the syllables of his words unlikely, melodic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, as Sandi tried reading the menu, with the help of her index finger, sounding out syllables, she did not recognize the names of dishes listed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He was watching the girl and the butterfly while repeating the name Jaja slowly, placing the stress on both syllables, then on the first, then on the second. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But no one has outright banned the word union and right now it’s the most potent couple of syllables at hand. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Jock responded in a garble of excited Glaswegian syllables. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But still she had lived to be four syllables and had acquired four generations of wisdom. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His tongue worked soundlessly, forming the opening syllables first of one word, then of the other, over and over again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The converter attachment, which had cost them one hundred dollars, automatically supplied her name whenever the announcer addressed his anonymous audience, leaving a blank where the proper syllables could be filled in. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z It was syllable for syllable a Coach O announcement at lunchtime. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I was on two. The first was the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth,” I say proudly, rolling each syllable off my tongue. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “You don’t know the gentlemen here? You have not exchanged a syllable with one of them? Will you say that of the master of the house!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He has a metrically organised rhythmic structure, able to support the shape of the words of a poem, successfully allowing important stress syllables or rhymes to fall at the appropriate point in the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Solfege corresponds to the notes of the major scale, using the syllables Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, and Ti. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “She’s four syllables, Thomas. Those who live to four syllables know all there is.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, they had to figure out how to decompose a continuous utterance into speech units, regardless of whether those units were taken as words, syllables, or phonemes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The extra syllable in preventative isn’t wrong, but it’s unnecessary. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She meant it for his ears alone but Hannah was close enough to him to hear every plaintive syllable. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The characters he created represented syllables rather than letter sounds, so it is called a syllabary rather than an alphabet. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Nod if you understand,” she whispered to Lazlo, and she hated every syllable, and hated herself for not resisting, but there was no resisting. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then he'd clear his throat and give a deeply intoned order, as though each syllable were pregnant with nuances of profoundly important meaning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I say it over and over until it disappears into its own syllables. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He responded to further attempts at conversation with even fewer syllables—which is to say, none—so finally I just gave up and followed him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “I want to go to the bathroom,” she said, pronouncing each syllable with difficulty with her swollen lips. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His real name has forty-seven syllables, and we have things to do. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “No, Hring-kaaalle. You have to hang on the last syllable a bit.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This has one syllable, except when it’s an adjective meaning “elderly.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "No, I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Phil’s making me spell it out one painful, humiliating syllable at a time. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It was one word, one syllable, which without thinking he spoke indistinctly, the ancient beginning and ending of all Brahmin prayers, the holy Om, which had the meaning of "the Perfect One” or "Perfection.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, only the first aged has two syllables: My aged grandmother, who aged gracefully, took a liking to aged cheese when she was a child aged ten. ally. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s only one syllable, but it speaks paragraphs. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Charlie steps close to him, and I swear he’s trying to make every syllable come out as perfectly as he can. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Often he was laughed at, and when this happened he held his stunted body very straight and spoke scornfully in words of many syllables. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I took a deep breath and tried again, forcing myself to sound out every syllable. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And when she says Isaac, she drags out the syllables and adds extra emphasis. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z His heart beat the syllables of her name. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The word articulation generally refers to how the pieces of something are joined together; for example, how bones are connected to make a skeleton or syllables are connected to make a word. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The second line of the table below indicates the vocal syllables for this particular 16-beat cycle. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The pitches of the scale have their own syllables called sargam—which is very similar to our solfege system. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Hunt,” Pet replied, and that one syllable shook the air around them, rolling through it with a deep rumble. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Wello memorized the letters solemnly, like the syllables of a spell. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She fills the syllables of my name with pride, triumph, and magic. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Hello,” I said, in English, trying out the syllables on my tongue. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Only they added an extra syllable to the word, making it “patteroller.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She said all four syllables very slowly; She could probably diagram each one if she wanted to. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He spoke slowly, deliberately, a slight, distant whistle in his voice accompanying some of his harder syllables. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Here was a person for whom the word pen had two syllables. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He addressed a few short sung syllables to the boys on the ground, and they both smiled up at him and waved their sticks in the air. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I'm on my feet and at the mouth of the cave in a flash, not wanting to miss a syllable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He enunciated every syllable, as if he were talking to someone mentally handicapped. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Once in a while she dropped by the dining hall, chanted for a short while with the most advanced group, not missing a syllable, yawned early, and said good-night. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilkerson ends a richly descriptive introductory chapter with a paragraph composed of exactly two syllables. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The first and last syllables are stressed, as in the phrase “Once in a way.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh—” I thought fast while drawing out the syllable. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to control the breathlessness of his voice, even for those two syllables. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The words were a jumble of lost syllables. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The two older boys flinched when they heard the shameful syllable. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They had to learn to do dances waving red kerchiefs; they had to sing nonsense syllables. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I had not uttered a single syllable in my five sessions as a student, and I had no intention of doing so. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There were many fewer of the former, again suggesting that the hieroglyphs were mainly letters and syllables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, too, the first syllable ends with an x sound, not an s sound. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s only one syllable, but I recognize the girl’s voice immediately. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z When he replied with her name, it sounded like a new word—the syllables remained the same, the meaning was different. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Since my first name is only one syllable, she has to throw my middle name in there to break it down. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z TO-mah-to, they'd called them in her village, with the accent on the first syllable, making no distinction between singular and plural. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I make a mistake,” she said, every syllable carefully enunciated. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The slash of the cat-o’-nine-tails punctuating every syllable, and a wail from the victim. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He spoke the name in a singsong manner, drawing out the syllables. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She pronounces each syllable carefully, then points to the milk on our counter. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She grunted several syllables that shall not be recorded here, then pushed the unicorn's mouth closed once more. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Clyde drew out each syllable like molasses dripping off a spoon. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z During high mass, her sister and father recited the Lord’s Prayer with loud precision and clung forever to the last syllables of the hymns. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I stretched his name into two syllables to make the lie more believable and smiled weakly. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Contempt drips off every syllable in my name. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Like foresee, it has an e in the first syllable. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The divining party again laid their heads together: apparently they could not agree about the word or syllable the scene illustrated. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She tears up on the second syllable of family. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z But he paused for half a second, as though Lazlo had earned this single, grudging syllable, and said, grimly, “No.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Poisonwood,” she added flatly, emphasizing the descending syllables as if she were equally tired of all three. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The syllables rolled through his head like a ripple of guitar chords. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Phonetically interpreted signs were also used to “spell out” longer words, as a series of pictures each depicting the sound of one syllable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had to struggle with the word since it was more than two syllables. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me, or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The way she said “boy”—silky and stretched out to two syllables—made him realize she had the hint of an accent. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She felt her tongue shaping the syllables of the person’s name, but she did not recognize what the name was until the rower turned to face her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Hospital?” said Ralph; and even before all the syllables were out of his mouth, the car lurched ahead, so responsive that Ralph was thrown against the seat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In the pronunciation advice below, accented syllables appear in capitals. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The three basic strategies underlying writing systems differ in the size of the speech unit denoted by one written sign: either a single basic sound, a whole syllable, or a whole word. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In Donders’s experiment, one participant uttered a syllable, then the other repeated it as quickly as possible. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The first syllable ends with an x sound, not an s sound. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In comparison, her English was as sharp as a blade, each syllable honed into a serrated edge. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The syllables float overhead, drifting into an icy blur of white. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Even better is one syllable and one vowel: Bush. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She actually said the letters B-T-W, which I wanted to point out required more syllables than just saying “by the way,” but she was clearly locked into something. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Accent whichever syllable you like, but the preference on this side of the Atlantic is to stress the second. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I stretched the word “binder” out to about twenty-two syllables. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A single stressed syllable, then a trochee, then a dactyl, for prosody nerds. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Miss Whitlow”! practiced the syllables several times until Father sighed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed about her age, not long into two syllables, and was a good-looking boy with clear skin and bright eyes. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet cosmonaut shares its last syllable with the American term. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “This isn’t about Negra, it’s about you,” Blanca said, raising her voice and poking a finger at my chest after every syllable. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The meaning of the skirt echoes in the single syllable. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Except I’ll make the “D” capital, so you have to, like, emphasize the second syllable, you know? The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I pounded on the side of the house to stop the tears, smashing out each syllable. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I practically see them and all seven of their syllables. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Richard spoke slowly, making sure to drag out the second syllable fully. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland always spoke so carefully that each syllable seemed to be filtered through his sullen, heavy lips. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He has a squeaky, inefficient voice that swallows syllables whole. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A mockingbird perched on the rusted gutter of the building spits out two syllables in response. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It was as if the C.O.’s words, the actual syllables he addressed to Milton, had been scrambled by the boys over in Intelligence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You know how many words in Jane Eyre have more syllables than any word has a right to? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The syllables of this illustrious name—one which the Corcorans invoked with very nearly as much respect as that of God Almighty—had when uttered aloud a miraculous effect of healing on Mr. Corcoran. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When I put my hand up that day, which I did every chance I had, teachers granted me the right to speak with a single syllable that was music to my ears. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He would not say my name right; like Father Benedict, he would place the emphasis on the second syllable rather than the first. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He looked at the subway map and announced that at some point during their stay, he'd maybe take her to the Louvre, which he pronounced as having two distinct syllables. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “You look like a beast-boy! What do you say, Kira? I think it’s time we showed Matt the bathroom! Shall we clean him up and wash his second syllable away?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He muddles his vowel sounds, drops some consonants and even whole syllables. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The line of phosphorescence bulged about the sand grains and little pebbles; it held them each in a dimple of tension, then suddenly accepted them with an inaudible syllable and moved on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She said it slowly, as two syllables, as if it hadn’t previously occurred to her. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Finch rolled out the last name in Maycomb County accents: long a’s, i s, and a pause between syllables. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Hello? It’s a haiku. Five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The last syllable is different in the verb and the noun. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the –ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A good example of slurring occurs when a vocalist sings more than one note on the same syllable of text. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z His voice, when he finally answered, sounded tinny and sluggish, the words drawled so that each syllable was stretched into two. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy’s meditated elopement. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z A voice, but not forming words or syllables or any other kind of intelligible sound. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shank,” he added, throwing all the sarcasm he could into the syllable. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “It just is. And the lines always have the same number of syllables.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The queen stretches out the syllables of her name. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Try saying the rhythm syllables and clapping on the 1st, 5th, and 13th beats, and waving on the 9th beat of the cycle. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z While the rest of the class is hanging on every syllable that comes out of Mr. Landau’s mouth, I’m looking at the false tongue poster and I’m kind of wishing it wasn’t wrong. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In the middle of all that beauty, it immediately became clear that it was an extremely distasteful syllable. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Some Sumerian syllables lacked any written signs; the same sign could be pronounced in different ways; and the same sign could variously be read as a word, a syllable, or a letter. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The words of their souls were the syllables of popular songs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s clear in our bleary eyes and sluggish movements and hesitant syllables. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He was never one of those backwoods ministers who urge the taking up of copperhead snakes, baby-flinging, or the shrieking of nonsense syllables. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His accent on its smooth syllables was like a patina on bronze. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In the adjective, hypnotic, the middle syllable is stressed: hip-NOT-ik. influence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Their sounds—all their sounds—had blended together and become a mush that he could not sort into syllables. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Great flaming blue-headed balls of Jesus,” she says, making an effort with the syllables. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Ib-ti-haj,” I said, pronouncing each syllable as slowly as possible. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But just the name, just the three syllables of “Levy Pants,” caused acid complications in his chest. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn’t tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Elongated and narrow, like pieces of blackened leather, the tongues were threaded along a length of copper wire, one tongue overlapping the next, the tips curled upward as if caught in a final shrill syllable. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He tilted his head, listening, and grinned when the droning syllables of a song-chant reached his ears. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Younger, one- syllable tykes were not allowed in the Field, so it was natural that Matt would be curious and a little in awe. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She wished she could remember how her grandfather had taught her the syllables and words. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “That last line was only four syllables,” Artemis said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Kira,” the white-haired chief guardian said, “as a two- syllable girl, you are not required to defend yourself.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man’s voice quavered the word into a whole flock of syllables. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Flow is the rhythm of the rhymes, and every word, every syllable, affects it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I keep looking in dictionaries under those syllables. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Five syllables,” Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Thanks, Sahil,” I said, wondering if he could hear the tears threatening, the pain and regret behind every syllable. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z With two syllables, not one like most people do, including my father. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, three syllables, about the same as Jamison; maybe the age of her mother’s brother, she decided. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, he chose the shapes D, R, b, h to represent the Cherokee syllables a, e, si, and ni, respectively, while the shape of the numeral 4 was borrowed for the syllable se. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When a word breaks off at the end of a line in your newspaper and continues on the next line, a hyphen is what links the syllables together. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Descants can have text, but are also sung on neutral syllables such as oh, or ah. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Every syllable is awkward, and every reaction feels wrong. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Now Westley knew that she meant to say “not a single syllable of it,” because a syllabub was something you ate, with cream and wine mixed in together to form the base. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The third strategy, least familiar to most readers of this book, uses a sign for each syllable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I took out my note pad and wrote the word down, breaking it into two syllables. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z And soon enough, that’s what he was doing, nailing those vowels on the button, riding them from consonant to consonant, syllable to syllable, word to word. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But she had never sent a syllable in reply. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Tata Ndu turned directly to Father and spoke to him in surprisingly careful English, rolling his r’s, placing every syllable like a stone in a hand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “That will not do for a compliment to Darcy, Caroline,” cried her brother, “because he does not write with ease. He studies too much for words of four syllables. Do not you, Darcy?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z She repeated after me, making the four syllables into four separate words. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But not every hieroglyph is a letter or syllable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Clyde drew out each syllable like molasses dripping off a spoon. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I repeat, louder this time, articulating every syllable, like he doesn’t speak the language. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He enunciated each syllable as if we were hard of hearing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She stood in front of the room, using a ruler for a baton, striking each syllable so hard it was as if she were making up for the times she had nothing to strike. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In speaking they rolled their “r’s” in Continental style, pronouncing “party” as “parrrtee,” stressing the last syllable, having picked up the habit from white Communists. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You won’t be two syllables for a long time, Matt,” she said. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stress either the first syllable or the second. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Singers in training spent a lot of time learning to improvise with these syllables. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I repeated the syllables like I didn’t trust them in my mouth. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But in the Kiangsu city where they now lived the people spoke in syllables which splintered from their lips and from the ends of their tongues. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I know you said,” I spoke in short, expressionless syllables, “that you ‘escaped.’ A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Tata Ndu held up his hand and declared in his deep, big-man’s voice, giving each syllable the exact same size and weight: “Now it is time for the people to have an election.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She peppered the conversation with words such as “whippersnapper” and “okey-dokey,” elongating her syllables for emphasis and uncorking a surprisingly throaty laugh. ‘Rock star’ Baltimore librarian makes history at Library of Congress 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The harmonically and rhythmically piquant lullabies are sung to syllables invented by the composer. Music Review: Ensemble Basiani?s Georgian Fare at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:40:00Z And in a Rolling Stone interview the pair expanded further: "In the early days we'd go back and forth note for note, syllable for syllable, word for word in the process of creating," Stoller explained. From Leiber and Stoller to Lennon and McCartney: the alchemy of the duo 2011-08-23T20:31:01Z And there are seven hundred and ninety-five waka—thirty-one syllable, haiku-like poems, written by characters to send to other characters—woven into the text. The Radiant Prince Comes to Fifth Avenue 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z That means poem submissions must take the form of a haiku — three lines with syllables in a five-seven-five pattern. KidsPost contest: Go nuts for poetry in the Squirrel Haiku Contest 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z “Innovator is a biiiiig word, OK? In – no – va –tor,” he says, parsing out the syllables and sweeping his hand through the air, as if he were reading them in neon lights. Rueben Martinez, winner of the Innovator's Award at the L.A. Times Book Prizes 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z It is haiku for loss, without the seven syllables of absolution. Newtown is my hometown 2012-12-19T17:29:00Z “He’ll take a line and insert or take out a syllable in a way that my brain cannot process,” McAnally says. Another country: Sam Hunt maps out Nashville’s bold new future He seemed certain about every syllable he released into the air, certain that the weighty messages they contained were reaching the right ears. The sound and the fury of Kendrick Lamar at the Kennedy Center 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Bryson Tiller sings with gymnastic verve, never letting the potential power of a lingering note get in the way of a slickly assembled cluster of syllables. Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Those grimaces and syllables are probably a legacy of Mr. Thompson’s time spent working with the inimitable Deborah Hay. Dance Review: An Otherworldly Wildness This Way Comes 2011-01-30T22:12:14Z As he breaks down the concept and chapters, his excitement builds, his syllables accelerate; you catch that alchemical symphony that buoyed those immemorial songs. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z In “God Herself,” Madison McFerrin — like her father, Bobby McFerrin — revels in all the music that can be made without instruments: vocals, breaths, percussive syllables, finger snaps. Chloë Tangles With Future, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z It is recreation with the emphasis on the last three syllables. Why play is important to us all 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Each piece of flash fiction requires the same faith that, after the last syllable, the words will add up into a greater and more pensive whole. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek If you speak French, you might insist that it be pronounced something like “ahvra de grah,” with no small degree of drama inflected on the syllable of your choosing. In Havre de Grace, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay, a rich maritime history — and ducks, lots of ducks 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Orotund syllables drip from the mouths of government ministers, military officers and property owners in private consultations. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Not sure if that's really code for "high most of the time" because she definitely has that extended syllable way of talking common to the stoned glass-blower. "American Idol" recap: The next Loretta Lynn? 2010-03-04T15:05:00Z Midway through, she’s still bouncing syllables off guitar strums, but the sound of the song comes into focus and Lorde realizes, “We both might have done some growing up.” Post Malone and the Weeknd’s Emo Synth-Pop, and 12 More New Songs 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Cardi B has a thick voice — she swells her syllables until they take up all available space, and moves on and off the beat stealthily. How Cardi B’s ‘Bodak Yellow’ Took Over the Summer 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Both are hyperdense, fluently assonant, working with car crashes of syllables and making them sound like regal skyscrapers. Run the Jewels, Still Insisting on Old Hip-Hop Values 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z During each attempt, Ms. Rodenburg leaned forward in her chair, chin in hand, seemingly taking in every syllable not just with her ears but also with large, pale, nearly unblinking eyes. A Voice Instructor for the Leads in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2013-09-12T16:20:05Z Four levels of “spiciness” are on offer — keeping in mind that in the portmanteau Chinese word mala, only the second syllable refers to heat. Sichuan Dry Pot, from Subtle to Scorching, at MaLa Project 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z In the slower numbers, she and Mr. Leonhart, 75, explored the spaces between phrases, building an emotional suspense that left you hanging on every syllable and vocal inflection. Review: Barbara Carroll Sustains a Profound Jazz Symbiosis 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Beyoncé performed “Drunk in Love” as a duet with Mr. Sheeran, who matched her syllable for quick syllable in the verses. Review: Global Citizen Festival, Including Beyoncé and Pearl Jam, Mixes Music and Activism 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z So I started there, and then, based on that, I analyzed the sound system, both what sounds I felt were represented in those words and how they fit together in the syllables and words. “You have to create the language of the misogynist”: Meet the man who invented Dothraki for “Game of Thrones” 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z In addition, Mr. Birtwistle invented a language made up of the component syllables of the names Orpheus and Eurydice. Past and Present, the Orpheus Myth Makes Us Rethink Music 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z At the end, once Soo had trilled the final ambivalent syllables, the audience leaped to its collective feet. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Do You Believe in Magic? 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z He is consistently inventive, pugnacious with syllables and prone to break into a husky, not-quite-steady singsong flow. Review: ASAP Ferg’s Big Heart Pulses on ‘Always Strive and Prosper’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Then she switched to Gaelic and the breakneck, tongue-twisting syllables of what’s called mouth music in a medley of Scottish songs. A Solo Spotlight for a Powerful Voice 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z As a vocalist, Post Malone excels in syllables with blurry edges and tightly controlled melodies that lull. Post Malone and Rae Sremmurd, Hip-Hop Impressionists Shaping the Stream 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z His rhymes take unanticipated turns, and he loves to hover over the same syllable, dropping it over and over from different angles. Gucci Mane, Buff, Sober, Out of the Pen and Ready to Flow 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Every syllable here is given the resonance of a note of music. Getting down to the basics in Peter Brook's 'Battlefield' 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z He courageously attempted to sing the iconic line about “teenage wasteland” but abandoned that effort after a few unintelligible syllables. Pete Townshend has a cold. But the Who still thrilled Verizon Center. 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Some have speculated that Yeats chose it because of the poetry in the syllables of its name, and the last syllable’s suggestion of freedom. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Then the two both broke into hammy Cosby impersonations, accenting their syllables as the famous TV dad once did in his Jell-o pudding commercials. Tina and Amy's Best Golden Globes Monologue Jokes 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The violins were replaced by women from the New York Choral Artists, who sang in wobbly microtonal quivers and chattered nonsense syllables to hallucinatory effect. Music Review: Three Master Composers and a Lingering Mystery 2011-03-25T22:44:44Z Their relationship maybe made the sex scenes slightly less uncomfortable, he agrees, but with every syllable he is withdrawing farther into himself. Michael Fassbender: ‘I was a bit of a worrywart. I’ve tried to work on that’ 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z She mostly vocalizes, sometimes on the syllable “ah,” sometimes on “mm” and sometimes — most memorably at the end — on “shh.” Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Let me just say at this point that the stereotype of the laconic farmer who speaks only when spoken to, in utterances no longer than a single syllable, is a complete and total myth. ‘Harvest’: A meander through America’s family farms 2012-12-27T20:07:55Z As if I were a baby, they fed me the words one soft, indecipherable syllable at a time. The Joy of Reading About Cooking 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z "Talk is Cheap" by Language Arts The other night in Capitol Hill, I closed my eyes and listened to Seattle rapper Language Arts lob punch line grenades over deadpan syllable napalm. Friday Favorites: Language Arts, Caribou, Gonjasufi 2010-05-21T18:48:00Z Newfoundland, a name with the promise of a fresh start built into its very syllables. I Lost My Job and My Husband. Then I Found Newfoundland. 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z First, using a pronouncing dictionary created at Carnegie Mellon, he built a program to count syllables and recognize meter. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z There is no talk of syllables or rhymes. Speaking Truth, Beautifully, to Shattered Young People 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z They are two syllables of rat-tat firing, evoking creepy animals, physical protrusions or uncanny powers. Museum Review: Mob Museum Opens in Las Vegas 2012-02-14T00:58:51Z “Oh,” said a woman sitting near me, conveying in one syllable a mix of disappointment, dismay, confusion and concern. Review: Celebrating Cecil Taylor, a Pianist of Endless Influence 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z I feel like you can hear the country in the back of his voice and the pronunciations, the way he splits syllables.” Texas Monthly: Norah Jones Lists Her Favorite Music 2012-01-01T01:20:07Z An hour after learning the syllables, he could remember around 40%. Spotify Wrapped and more: What do end of year music wrap-ups say about our listening habits? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z But in the original French an extra syllable has to be tucked in, irregularly and somewhat awkwardly, in every second bar. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z In Week 1301 we asked for Fibs, poems whose syllables per line follow the mathematical Fibonacci sequence of 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. Style Invitational Week 1305: Hits and Googles 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Tightly clustered syllables that landed like quick jabs. How Takeoff and the Migos Flow Changed Atlanta Rap 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z His rapping was more liquid than it was at the outset of his career, finding cleaner pockets and also utilizing the spaces between syllables as effectively as the syllables themselves. Rage Against the Machine Returns for Fresh Battles 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The offending syllable is right in the titles of two of the songs, deployed as an imperative by Cee Lo Green and as an adverbial participle by Pink. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z In many places the ways the syllables sound more important than the words being said. Critic’s Notebook: One Direction Rides Boy Band Wave With ‘Take Me Home’ 2012-11-14T17:42:27Z I learned to read by sounding out syllables in Kafka's "Trial" while watching the Army-McCarthy hearings on a 21-inch black and white tv. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Bending and extending notes in impossible ways, she also, surprisingly, called to mind Nicki Minaj, who is clearly indebted to her faculty for twisting syllables. Carleen Anderson – review 2013-01-09T18:25:40Z She pointed to the exuberant amount of melisma in the repertory, where a single syllable is stretched over multiple notes. How a Historian Stuffed Hagia Sophia’s Sound Into a Studio 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes the orchestra almost hugs the vocal lines, giving lift and support to every syllable, which can be very expressive. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z There’s an exacting attention to language — every sentence, every word, every syllable — that would seem exhausting if the works weren’t so mischievous, so exultant, so fun. Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The pills he takes a dozen times each day often steal his speech until he can only stutter; even on good days, the syllables blur together. The Remarkable, Resilient Loren Connors 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z He wanted to reserve the option to make tweaks up to the last minute and didn’t want a version out there that was even one syllable different from the remarks he delivered. A conservative judge helped stop Trump on Jan. 6. He wants to finish the job. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Rendell — the accent is on the first syllable, to rhyme with Kendall — was considered one of the foremost writers of crime fiction in recent decades, with more than 60 books to her credit. Ruth Rendell, prolific British crime novelist, dies at 85 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Every syllable — precise in meaning, sung with ambivalence — supports a narrative that, spoiler alert, is bound to lead to regrets. Billie Eilish’s Kiss-Off, and 14 More New Songs 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Then he barks a single syllable — “Cut!” — and leaves a dramatic pause before completing his sentence: ‘… the word ‘impossible’ out of your life! Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z Instead she bonded with Kami, Manjou's mum, who taught her cooking, in words of one syllable, and didn't create any hoo-ha about lying CVs. Rewind TV: Burton and Taylor; Why Don't You Speak English?; Notes from the Inside with James Rhodes – review 2013-07-27T17:00:01Z "No light, but rather darkness visible": in 10 syllables Milton conjures the paradox of Hell. Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z So disconnected was he from many of the songs he chose that it felt as if he was singing transliterations, making sure to get the syllables right but not the feeling that linked them together. ?American Idol? Crowns Its 9th Winner 2010-05-27T16:16:00Z Ms. Cosentino is a tidy, sharp writer, working from a place of disappointment with a slight underbelly of resentment, never wasting a syllable. Best Coast: Best Coast Performs at the Knitting Factory 2010-04-07T21:46:00Z It’s affected and strangely accented, with too much time on the L sound, and extra air in the second syllable. ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Brings Love, Canadian Style 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Then both partners ducked into brisk staccato cross talk — scatlike syllables, percussive tonguing — with the tension and convolution of a quarrel in a Robert Altman film. Pairings Fulfill ‘A Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z My name consists of only two syllables, so it is not that difficult to get it right. Perspective | Miss Manners: Repeatedly mispronouncing a name is disrespectful 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z You’d be surprised just how much hilarity and invective the playwright Lloyd Suh can work out of those two tiny syllables. Review: With ‘Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery,’ Lloyd Suh Takes on a Legacy 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z On "Somewhere Else," for perhaps the first time, he delivers syllables in quick, nimble fashion, in the style of Jason Mraz. Country crooner Toby Keith has a new CD, without the old attitude 2010-10-04T23:08:00Z Verdi had a lifetime of experience imagining melodies for lines of seven, eight or 10 syllables — but not nine syllables, which traditional Italian poetry did not use, and French did. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z He sings casually but precisely, stretching out syllables as if he’s forgetting to let them go. Playlist: Tumblr Soul, Rocker Country, Teenage Tartness 2011-03-11T15:35:16Z Known for his ability to talk to anyone about everything, he was suddenly stumbling over a single syllable. Stolen Bits of Time Turned Into a Lifetime Together 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Somehow, she refreshed the dusty tune "It Had to Be You," eliding phrases, lingering on key notes and pouring about as much meaning into every syllable as imaginable. Karen Mason delivers a pungent show for Valentines 2011-02-11T17:16:49Z But stressing the second syllable became so mainstream that dictionaries eventually validated the pronunciation. Eleven common words you're probably mispronouncing 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z That uncompleted syllable would have suggested so much: Barry’s ultimate inability to change, a series of self-deceptions and one last times stretching on forever. On That ‘Barry’ Finale and Why Some Shows Are So Good, They Need to End 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z But it took decades of social conditioning before “walk” became the operative syllable in sidewalk. The death of the sidewalk 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z His syllables land calmly and purposefully, if slowly. Music Review: Wiz Khalifa Raps Beyond His Years 2011-03-30T16:06:49Z Gelb’s heady, motored delivery is so quick that Borges’s language is often lost in a bramble of syllables and sounds; in the last section, he pivots to a singsong that similarly detracts from the performance. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z He was also unflappable, as long as you drop the first syllable off that word. The Amazing Treasure Trove of Bill Cunningham 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Jónsi’s not really singing any words; he’s just singing syllables, just babble. The Dark and Dreamy Rock of Sigur Rós 2013-06-18T15:18:52Z They also sang it, twice using the syllables “da-da-da, da-da, dun dun da,” and once with a falsetto floating across the top. George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Arden has a powerful voice, so fortunately when Quasimodo sings, the speech impediment evaporates and the syllables ring out clearly: We hear the sound of his wounded but pure heart. Review: ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ at Paper Mill Playhouse 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Nearly all of the vocals are pitch-shifted, chopped up or both, as if Mr. Blake isn't sure he should be undisguised for even a syllable. The Playlist: Drake Preps for a Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z "The first syllable of the winning show is 'Am,' " he says. Why the Emmys continue to ignore "Idol" 2010-05-27T01:03:00Z Perkins turns the second syllable of "homey" into a weird, bashful, gulping little laugh, with a vulnerable, boyish grin. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z “Be sure the last syllable of canone is eh not ee,” the conductor interrupted Ryan’s singing — gently — and appraised the next attempt: “There you go, good.” Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z “Nonsense syllables. No, she’s spent hours and hours and hours on what this sound feels like, what it evokes. And that creates the language of the piece.” Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Many fans best remember the moment when Paul's otherwise subtle vocals jump as they reach the title words, stretching out "Me" and "And" into multiple syllables and repeating "Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones." ‘Me and Mrs. Jones’ Singer Billy Paul Dead at Age 80 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The imagery is picked up in the image of the cairns, and glances back at the "stone syllables" which allowed death to cross the river in the first poem. Poem of the week: Peter Riley 2011-07-11T10:20:00Z Then, on that line, he simply exploded on the second syllable of the word “elsewhere” — and from that point was essentially a screaming maniac. Critic?s Notebook: On the Stage, Old Words Are Reborn 2010-12-31T22:25:35Z She gestured for the band to quiet down, and she called softly, pinching down her voice to a rustle, only the first syllable audible: “Je ...” Music Review: Improvising Concert Into Rousing Sermon 2011-01-15T00:00:10Z Among the singers, Ms. O’Hara maintained the surest balance between acting and singing and made every syllable count. Music Review: ?Best of Lerner and Loewe,? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-20T22:14:00Z The preposterous accent — Mr. Gill sounds as if he were clearing his throat every other syllable — and the booming basso voice combine to delightful effect. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z Getting back on top might mean ditching remake’s first syllable and remembering the important part. From 21 Jump Street to Baywatch and CHiPs: how Hollywood remade the remake 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Singer Jehnny Beth twitched as she bit off syllables or stretched her voice into a howl. Pitchfork Festival 2013: It's a wrap 2013-07-18T17:01:00Z President Trump is so self-absorbed, he thinks the word “meme” has two syllables. Style Invitational: Cast your Bred here — a new 4-line-poem contest 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z On the bright side, the album-length production by Blu-Ray is good, built from orchestral samples and live keys for a smooth, organic feel, and Language Arts' syllable clusters are often thrilling. Fall/winter album roundup: La, Cold Jungle, THEESatisfaction, Butts, DJ Nphared 2010-12-10T18:32:00Z At Saint Vitus, many of the lyrics were fed through a vibrating tremolo effect, and all were stretched into long syllables. Review: Ufomammut Slowly Glides From Riff to Riff, at Saint Vitus 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Moore just keeps putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable. Mark Rylance is the one reason to try on "The Outfit," a crime drama that looks better than it feels 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The translation, by the resourceful J. D. McClatchy, includes instances of genuinely clever wordplay, but also clusters of chewy syllables that fit Rossini’s chattering rhythms and nobly flowing lines uncomfortably. Music Review: ‘The Barber of Seville’ at the Met 2012-12-23T22:31:35Z I listened from the kitchen as he broke it into two syllables and made her repeat, again and again, “Yell-oh, yell-oh.” Sheryl Crow’s tumor damage control 2012-06-06T15:40:00Z She hunches at the keys dramatically, as if playing in a grand concert hall rather than at a crowded party, and meticulously stretches out the vocal syllables of the first verse. “Because it’s fear, after all, that kills us”: Tori Amos released “Little Earthquakes” 25 years ago today 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z “My grandma put al-monds in hers,” someone else said, pronouncing the first syllable so that it rhymed with “pal.” Pass the Pork Belly, and the Joint 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z In concert, Gibbs rapped like he was being paid by the syllable, as he flexed his verbal dexterity and ability to go a cappella or ratchet up the speed. Rapper Freddie Gibbs heats up the Fillmore Silver Spring with virtuosic craft 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Matra, in Sanskrit, denotes a small rhythmic unit in music, or a syllable in speech. Music Review: Oscar Bianchi’s ‘Matra’ Debuts at the MATA Festival 2014-04-20T20:25:50Z What she delivered, filtered through Auto-Tune, was a rush of tangled syllables and rat-a-tat repetition that somehow sounded familiar and was instantly hummable. Why Every Pop Star Wants a Piece of Starrah 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Walker has an equally elastic, if less gymnastic, voice, one that he moves through octaves, yowling and bellowing with emotion, carrying syllables across the bars like birds flying across stone walls. Ryley Walker explores a pastoral past with mesmerizing folk set at the Echo 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z I remember how the sound of the cloves, plunked into the pot, echoed the syllables of the dish’s name: Sam. Chicken Soup for the Weary Soul 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The performers dispersed, birdlike, to corners of the crowd as they sang sudden bursts of little melodic fragments on nonsense syllables. A Musical Solstice Spectacle Sprawls Across New York 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z “Wacoma il code,” she read, listening for an answer in the syllables. Veteran Post Hunt champions take the prize once again The word is present for the sake of an un-stressed syllable. Poem of the week: Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 2011-07-25T10:59:41Z Hopefully you will have been doing your ear-blocking exercises and your canal muscles will not let through a single syllable. A girl's guide to modern living 2013-04-20T08:00:00Z His delivery can feel staccato, and so can his lyrics, which on songs like “Part of the Plan” tend toward the non sequitur, rhyming syllables tacked onto jumbled thoughts. Rod Wave and Lil Tjay, Two Brands of Sing-Rap With Different Bite 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z In another, he phonetically sings a song syllable by syllable in a language he doesn’t understand. Nothing but boredom and snogging! Justin Bieber's back with the year's most tedious TV 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z With so little space, every syllable does at least double duty. Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z We ended up with Bean because it was a single syllable and began with a "b," and I think there's something always funny about that. Before and after 'Bean': A talk with Rowan Atkinson, continued 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Also, 'If the word has several syllables, use them. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z Slightly built, with glasses, he speaks in a brogue that gives the word "film" two syllables and talks longingly of getting back to Kilkenny to his wife, a ceramicist, and 18-year-old son. Animator Tomm Moore lives the dream with a 'Song' in his heart 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z On “Somewhere Else,” for perhaps the first time, he delivers syllables in quick, nimble fashion, in the style of Jason Mraz. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z As Lily, Lizzie Klemperer gorgeously sings the show’s long, haunting invitation — “Come to my garden” — with each syllable angelically sent heavenward. A spirited ‘Secret Garden’ blooms at Shakespeare Theatre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z SZA can race through syllables like a rapper, then land on a melodic phrase that soon turns into a hook. SZA Revels in Mixed Emotions on ‘SOS’ 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Harper's singing is subtle and serpentine: some times he stretches out syllables in complex patterns, at others he fires them out like a bullet. Jon Savage on song: Roy Harper serves up Hors D'Oeuvres 2011-01-26T12:58:35Z As he sings, Sledge phrases the lines with both passion and futility, embodying those emotions with every syllable. Percy Sledge's 'When a Man Loves a Woman,' a great American ballad 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z He credits the word with three syllables with the emphasis on the last. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z The syllables she sings, basically, are express lanes to intensity. 10 Fall Pop and Jazz Albums (and One Festival) You Shouldn’t Miss 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Though it doesn't recur again, the rays of its four lovely syllables seem to envelop the whole poem. Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z “A lot of syllables were used in Japanese,” Mr. Loo said, “and to match the mouth flaps, he filled in the English dialogue with as many words as were needed.” Peter Fernandez, Voice of Speed Racer, Dies at 83 2010-07-17T06:18:00Z The tiny space filled with perky stabs of high notes, mellow wails, cascades of “bum” and “baa” syllables. Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z If they match our strong and weak inflections on the syllables, they basically boost our sound, and our diction carries over. After a Decade, a Monteverdi Masterpiece Flies Free 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z His fastidious diction is unmistakable: he picks up words as if with sugar tongs – as if each syllable needed personal attention. Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' – interview 2013-03-17T00:15:00Z When he sings, his syllables are mealy and noncommittal. Review: Tobias Jesso Jr., Puppyish and Playful, Plays the Mercury Lounge 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z That the second syllable of "conversation" is extended to fill the line suggests that writing songs might not be as much of a doddle as he thinks. Josh Kumra: Good Things Come to Those Who Don't Wait – review 2013-04-18T21:00:03Z Both actors read a little haltingly, sometimes emphasizing the wrong syllable and then backtracking, as though the material is new to them. Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, 45 years later: 'Love Letters' loaded with nostalgia 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The syllables of the lyrics begin to scramble at random, and the familiar melody slowly disintegrates. Review: ‘Yesterday Tomorrow,’ a Meeting of Songs About Time 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It began as an innocuous argument over vacation time, or lack thereof, but it somehow unleashed long-brewing resentments that escalated and culminated into two harsh, staccato syllables. Modern Love: The Hard-Won Lessons of the Solitary Years 2014-01-02T21:25:22Z Did you notice that odd song with the nonsense syllables that Margene was singing with the kids? Jennifer Lawrence and "The Hunger Games"? 2011-03-14T17:11:09Z As for the rhymes, often stressed on the wrong syllable, one can only assume they are designed to make you cringe. Review: In ‘Fairycakes,’ the Woods Are Campy, Dark and Daft 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z As a rapper, Big Boi is as polished as ever, his rapid-fire syllables punctuated with dragged-out words, as if he were quickly applying the brakes, then just as quickly releasing them. Music Review: An Outkast Out There by Himself 2010-09-07T21:50:00Z For all of the precision and sophistication in her storytelling, here’s the surprising thing: A song’s narrative arc often follows the sound of whichever syllables happen to materialize in her mouth. How Lori McKenna writes the most devastating ballads in country music 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “When my father said daay bort, pronouncing the word ‘deport’ by breaking it into syllables that creaked like a door opening and shutting,” she writes, “I felt its decree.” Two Memoirs of Chinese American Hunger, Three Decades Apart 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z She was rapping about frustrations and pushing back, in an articulate rush of syllables that sometimes switched to peppy sung choruses. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Wild Girls in Control 2012-06-08T00:45:55Z With his voice echoing throughout downtown, the masterful lyricist, rapper and producer snapped syllables and punched his lines like they were part of a massive drum kit. Made in America: Kanye West declares intentions, executes perfectly 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z As a consequence, we students hung on every syllable. Seattle-area community members pay tribute to some of the cultural figures we lost in 2020 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z It works best when Dickinson seizes on a cluster of phrases and repeats them with varying expression, using and reusing the words until they seem to disintegrate into nonsense syllables. Haunting look at mental illness, laid bare on the streets 2013-05-08T18:38:25Z Like Judi Dench, she defies time and knows how to weight every syllable to communicate meaning: when she cries "Give me my Romeo" it is with the intensity of a woman enslaved by love. Juliet and Her Romeo | Theatre review 2010-03-17T22:20:00Z “We reexamined every syllable of the show,” said Russell. At Kennedy Center, ‘Side Show’ takes another turn around the midway NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Buddy Miller says these days it's not unusual for duet partners to cut their love songs syllable by syllable while never even seeing each other: "In this town especially that's what happens." Songs take starring role in TV drama 'Nashville' 2012-12-11T15:45:18Z Call it self-consciousness, call it self-absorption, call it self-defence, but every gesture seems carefully designed, and every syllable weighed and measured for the ripples it will produce when lobbed into the pond. Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z She’s both a tomboy and a sullen teen who responds to her mother’s every request by flopping on the nearest piece of furniture and whining, in two harsh syllables, “Mah-ahm!” Brave: The Princess and Her Unbearable Mom 2012-06-21T15:06:48Z While insisting on the Sproggian 32 syllables in iambic meter, the Empress allowed real modern English along with the fake Middle, and for four longer lines as well as eight little ones. Style Invitational: Washington Post again seeks to mislead public! 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Each verse is four short lines, rhyming AA/BB, with four accented syllables in each line, as in Matt’s example above as well as the original. Style Invitational Week 1372: Trash talk, 1880-style 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z It let up at Smith’s final syllable, and the panel wheeled around to Lalas, who said nothing in particular in a genial fashion. The England vs. Croatia World Cup Match Made for Some Awkward Television 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z And in all the mayhem, with syllables flying at machine-gun speed, Mr. Lamar had rewritten his lyrics so there would be no silences or bleeps from CBS — so everything he wanted to say got through. The Best and Worst of the Grammys 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z In Week 1095 we asked for a poem relating to events in the news, in a form something like the Japanese tanka: five lines with a syllable count of 5-7-5-7-7. Style Invitational Week 1099: Yours for the asking — it’s Questionable Journalism Yo-Yo Ma: three short syllables that guarantee a performance to remember. A perfect storm: Yo-Yo Ma, Haydn and Bach with Seattle Symphony 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Heavy on parallels and antitheses, they’re even heavier on abstractions, the words just a syllable or two, on rare occasions three, almost never four: Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z That the “s” wasn’t a “5” but a syllable of vernacular disdain brought me into a world that I didn’t want to leave. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z For those of you who weren’t around this time last year, this is just like a normal liveblog but louder and with more unnecessary syllables in it. The Voice final 2013: live blog 2013-06-22T18:14:07Z But with an ideal production of “Long’s Day Journey,” you shouldn’t feel that a syllable is inessential. Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Is a Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z I've listened to the album so many times I know every note and syllable, even the ones in Zulu. My favourite album: Graceland by Paul Simon 2011-08-15T12:35:11Z The result is startlingly good — an excellent showing from Jay-Z, still shaking loose of the twisty syllables he leaned on in his earliest recordings. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z “I would say, ‘There’s too many syllables in this line; I just can’t fit it in,’” Stokes said in a video interview. Dispatch Has Rereleased ‘The General’ in Russian to Support Ukraine 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z He's talking a mile a minute with every syllable screaming egocentricity and dripping with sarcasm and defensive insecurity. "Social Network" a mesmerizing, must-see movie 2010-09-21T23:39:00Z When May speaks — offering her mother an injection, remembering a stint of nocturnal pacing at a church — the words can be so unemotional that the syllables barely hold together, as if language itself were disintegrating. Review | One actress commands the stage in Scena Theatre’s ‘The Beckett Trio’ 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z There are so many more syllables to words, and it just takes longer when you want to say something than it does in English. Straddling the Border, Eccentrically 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z They started with some experiments — making animal sounds, practicing nonsense syllables. Solving the 6 Biggest Mysteries of This Broadway Season 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The outstanding feature of this Azerbaijani music is its vocal lines, all of which feature complex melismas: a single syllable is decorated with rapid flourishes, slow trills and firm downward slurs. Review: From Mark Morris, a Tale of Love Refracted and Multiplied 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Two other women joined her in shared chords or cascading counterpoint, often harmonizing through nonsense syllables and reveling in sheer musicality. Music Review: Frankie Rose at the Knitting Factory 2012-02-23T23:17:43Z Its midtempo groove, deliberate bass line and informal backup vocals hark back to Sly and the Family Stone, while Syd doles out her come-ons just a few syllables at a time. The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z As in a haiku, no syllable of the design was wasted. Donna Karan 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z “I am very obsessed with language at the level of the syllable,” she said. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z She already tends to use language that is most suited to Twitter, preferring anglo-saxon words of one syllable. Lydia Davis hints at move to microblogging fiction 2013-05-25T12:22:23Z Every syllable and gesture was choreographed down to the tiniest detail. Music Review: Lucie Arnaz Performs at Café Carlyle 2014-04-16T21:17:28Z The other half was stuffed with shiny, preening Disney Channel moppets in unbuttoned shirts blurting out scenes one phonetically memorized syllable at a time. Reboot regrets: the TV revivals that should never have happened 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The words boil down to a line, often the title, of between three and five syllables. Off! Sings of Unfairness and Treachery in Asbury Park 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z As she pronounces it, with a confidence that is almost cosmic, that single syllable summons one truly scary eternity. Review: A Long Night as Tony Kushner Revisits ‘The Visit’ 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z She speaks slowly, stretching the syllables of each word so far they could reach from the theater, in Chelsea, to the East River. Review: In Clare Barron’s ‘Shhhh,’ Staging a Memoir of the Body 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Seven singers become their voices on occasion, but mostly they sing Dada-esque nonsense syllables. Worlds meet and worlds beyond at Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z A guest appearance by the actor and clown Bill Irwin brought out the vaudevillian side of the show with scatting wordplay that involved layering syllables and some hat choreography, too. Review: Lindy Hopping Into the Present With Caleb Teicher and Co. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z There's a brilliant effect when Stevenson adds an extra syllable in line 21, evoking the tumbled sound of church-bells rung "with a mighty jovial cheer." Poem of the week: Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 2012-12-24T09:00:14Z But there was one constant: the closing tag line, “His prices are ins-a-a-a-ane!,” with the last word drawn out over several syllables. Remembering Crazy Eddie: His Prices Were Insane 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z You can hear the heroic work of the dialect coaches, especially when the word “dog” threatens to add a second syllable. ‘The Drop’ Unfolds in a Brooklyn Underworld 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z At each syllable, she nods her head for emphasis. 'I feel joy': how Bisha K Ali went from struggling standup to Marvel maestro 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Expertly deploying pauses and stretching out syllables, Shaw is a virtuoso of intonation. Dry Cleaning: It’s Spoken Rock ’n’ Roll, but We Like It 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z He drew his syllables out wildly — “That’ll be the day when you make me cry-y-y” — and played his Gibson guitar with a ferocity that few have been able to match. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Many fans best remember the moment when Mr. Paul’s otherwise subtle vocals jump as they reach the title words, stretching out “Me” and “and” into multiple syllables and repeating “Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones.” Billy Paul, singer who found hit with ‘Me and Mrs. Jones,’ dies at 81 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The use of “pretty” as a repeated modifier, with a protracted first syllable and palate-tapping t’s, is a signature catch phrase of Larry David, the beloved comic television writer and actor. Review: ‘Fish in the Dark,’ Larry David’s Antic Broadway Debut 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z But the music in Spider-Man is deadening in its mediocrity, tuneless and forgettable, with rhymes that rarely employ words of more than one syllable. Not kerCHING, just thud 2011-02-14T21:35:14Z Pushing syncope to the limit, he swallows half the syllables and he spits the rest in his opponent's face. Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Princess of Cleves 2011-03-23T09:30:01Z Ben Brantley, the New York Times theater critic, recently described it as “deep and dank and baleful, an exotic cousin of Vincent Price’s from-the-crypt baritone,” but with a diction that “stretches syllables into fluttering shadows.” Edgar Oliver, Actor and Raconteur, Hews to His East Village Past 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Why, on Fidelity, does the word "heart" require so many syllables? Regina Spektor – review 2012-07-07T23:05:38Z The live version, with Sullivan accompanied only by electric guitar and backup singers, matches virtuosity to vehemence as she switches among long swoops, cascading runs, quick jazzy syllables and wide leaps. Jazmine Sullivan Ponders Love and Materialism on ‘Heaux Tales’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Standing in the midst of the ensemble, he was alternately frisky and malicious in strings of syllables — no text was provided — and vocal effects that the players sometimes echoed and sometimes elicited. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW at Zankel Hall 2014-05-11T20:28:02Z In public, Mr. Bennett’s vocabulary is dominated by three exclamations: Great, Wow and Fantastic, the last of which he proclaims with a strong punch to the second syllable. Tony Bennett at 90: ‘I Just Love What I’m Doing’ 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z He likes to deploy a similar tactic after completing a dizzying run of syllables, marveling at his own lyrical agility in square blurts: “Sheesh!” Review | The most urgent rap album of 2020? Drakeo the Ruler just phoned it in from jail. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z “I’m taking the preparation really seriously, because every single syllable is totally brand-new,” he said. So Long, Medical Scrubs. Jesse Williams Is Ready to Play Ball. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Where I grew up, you say “oil” with just one syllable, like “ole.” Southerners Aren’t Always at Home in Hollywood 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Jarv's Seattle twang opens up new pronunciations the harder he leans on individual syllables, and naturally lends his vocals to the middle place between rapping and singing. Music Monday: Jarv Dee, Basic, Kanye West 2010-08-16T18:24:00Z He recalled that her delivery varied nightly, in “very small gradations,” with a new inflection on a particular syllable or a thicker application of vibrato. Music: A Style Lasting Beyond a Lifetime 2010-08-27T22:50:00Z The first syllable of debut album LCD Soundsystem set the tone. My favourite album 2011-08-04T12:17:00Z Franklin’s Jesus wails for Lazarus to hear him, her voice a whip in one syllable and a caress in the next — religion itself! ‘Amazing Grace’: How Aretha Franklin Took Us All to Church 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Introducing the act from England, for the first time in 1963, Sullivan pronounces the second syllable to rhyme with “ham” rather than “some”. Morecambe & Wise in America: how the duo made it in the US 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Just as one syllable decays, the next begins. Post Malone and Rae Sremmurd, Hip-Hop Impressionists Shaping the Stream 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z And it’s that awareness, conveyed in every pained glance and drawled syllable, that saves “The Hero.” Review: For an Aging Actor, Another Chance to Be ‘The Hero’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z And in certain sections, every syllable is accented in this horrible way. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The Empress tried to screen out old jokes, but if one got through, okay, it’s 17 syllables. Style Invitational Week 1458: Do adjust your set 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Homer’s hexameters run from 13 to 18 syllables. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z President Obama sings like a lecturer: contained, sonorous and lingering on certain words for emphasis, pulling “sound” and “found” out into three hard syllables. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z I especially admired the eerie clarity of plainchant-like passages in the poem’s “Death Carol” section, and percussive tattoos of syllables near the end. Music Review: Nathan and Julie Gunn With Pacifica Quartet at Zankel Hall 2013-04-24T21:51:23Z Meanwhile "A Striking Soliloquy" sums up the commuter's dilemma – so akin to that of Shakespeare's most troubled hero – in just six well-chosen syllables. Tube strike inspires Roger McGough poems 2010-10-04T10:40:00Z She turns time elastic, emphasizing different words and syllables with each pass, a performance that still feels combustible decades after it was recorded. Aretha Franklin, America and the origin of the 'spirit feel' 2012-10-29T18:23:00Z Instead, Watergate became a stand-in for scandal, its last syllable endlessly tagged to nefarious acts. Watergate Hotel Is Back and Banking on History, Glamorous or Scandalous 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Conventional prosody in English is based on an issue that is largely binary: stressed and unstressed syllables. Translating poetry might be beyond Google ? but we'll have fun watching it try 2010-10-24T21:00:00Z He speaks of "… the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father", where "gloom", with its drawn-out mournful double syllable, puts the life she wants – possibly deserves – somehow beyond reach. Thomas Hardy goes to the opera 2012-08-17T21:55:07Z On some of the originals here — see the teasing “Cover Me in Snow” and the swaggering “Santa Don’t Sleigh” — Ms. Moore sings in the clipped syllables of Atlanta rap. Holiday Hits, Christmas Comebacks and Some Jingle Bell Schlock 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Sher’s acting is almost a form of reading — he comprehends the role, syllable by slow syllable, for the audience. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z When the singer is ready, he kicks into high gear, nudging so that each line, each syllable, is sung a few different ways. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z The five-minute piece, written by Jason Eckardt, consists of cries, truncated syllables and sharp sibilant sounds that appear to resemble someone angrily shushing herself. After Trauma, a Silenced Vocalist Sings Again 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Although the book does not specify, they seem the sort of academics who might pronounce “laboratory” with the emphasis on the second syllable. Books of The Times: ?The Technologists,? by Matthew Pearl, Is Set in 1868 2012-02-23T00:25:22Z Brona, Ethan and Dorian all converge at a Grand Guignol performance of the werewolf play “The Transformed Beast” — with “Transformed” getting three syllables, of course, in the performer’s delightfully purple rendition. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Blood and Gore Are so Entertaining 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z With the last syllable she shut the light off and closed the door with a click. Horror movies were my therapy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Bryant’s joke is still usually her volcanic charisma, how her voice is like a roller coaster blowing out syllables into triple entendres, but that isn’t automatically a bad thing. Chris Pratt Hosts SNL: Best, Worst, and Weirdest Moments 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Xanman promised to fill an enemy with lead like “mechanical pencils,” making all six of those syllables sound as precise as the metaphor demanded. Perspective | Teen rappers Xanman and YungManny master the art of getting ahead of yourself 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, it exists as the album’s beating heart, her voice delicate and filigreed, turning the syllables of the character’s name into a hypnotic incantation. Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Repelling his advances, she switches from song into konnakol, the Indian art of vocal percussion, hurling volleys of rhythmic syllables at him like pepper spray. Review: 2 Murderous Men in 2 Operas About Killing for Politics 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z But The-Dream knows that he’s just repeating four syllables that sound good together. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2010-06-27T21:17:00Z There are moments on these rerecordings where I hear a little bit of wisdom in the way certain syllables linger. Taylor Swift Remade ‘Fearless’ as ‘Taylor’s Version.’ Let’s Discuss. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z He takes this to arresting extremes with Hades: Groups of instruments buttress, enclose, mimic and sometimes needle every syllable. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z That poem, “The Hill We Climb,” drew on Gorman’s strengths: the rhythm of her syllables, the vigor of her performance, and her gift for concealing razor blades in lines of pillowy hope. An Expansive New Book From Amanda Gorman, Celebrity Poet and Inaugural Star 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Her best songs delivered lines that captured in a few well-honed syllables a cinematic depth, carefully placed into solidly structured, well planned pop blueprints that moved with logic toward conclusion. Jenny Lewis at the Wiltern: A voyager returns to a sold-out welcome 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z He smeared out his nasal syllables in a way that telegraphed heart and despair, but always under tight control. Tom Petty, an Unfussy Rock Star Who Kept His Tenacity Under Cover 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Partch’s characters mostly sing lines he made up from wordless syllables with, at crucial moments, a spoken or sung phrase in English. Review: ‘Delusion of the Fury,’ With New Partch Instruments 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z In place of Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter, Park writes in sharp, staccato rhythms, with short lines that drive through the scenes a few syllables at a time. Review: In ‘Peerless,’ Elite College Admissions Are Something Wicked 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Though the anthem ended up lasting just a few seconds over two minutes, she began daringly slow, with creamy, light strings underneath, and leaned heavily on the first syllable in “twilight’s last gleaming.” ArtsBeat: With Renée Fleming, Super Bowl XLVIII Gets an Operatic Opening 2014-02-03T04:04:19Z When I told him I was trans, I could feel him absorbing each syllable as it left my mouth. Planning my wedding as a non-binary bride 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Generally, he prefers technique to narrative, slipping into double-time patterns or elongating syllables until they become thin and prickly. Review: ASAP Rocky Returns to a Haze in ‘At.Long.Last.ASAP’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z His delivery creates a persona — deadpan tough guy, syllables spat out. Fall/winter album roundup: La, Cold Jungle, THEESatisfaction, Butts, DJ Nphared 2010-12-10T18:32:00Z The thunder's single syllable that was interpreted differently by the gods, men and demons in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z You certainly aren’t going to learn much about this through our taciturn hero, whose most impactful lines generally run only a few syllables long: “I’m going to need a gun,” for instance, or “Yeah.” John Wick Sure Has a Lot of Friends for a Lone Assassin 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z If Mr. Wainwright is not careful, he swallows syllables, and the words become unintelligible. Music Review: The Dark Lady and Judy Garland Play the Muses 2010-12-07T22:15:00Z Throughout the score, Mr. Keene kept the rhythms so sharp and vital, and the textures so polished and transparent, that every syllable of the Mass came through clearly. Music Review | Voices of Ascension: Back to the Roots for Rossini?s ?Petite Messe Solennelle? 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z “Blessed are those who struggle,” Ms. Cherry chanted at the end of “Weightless,” hurling the syllables against a riff that pounded harder and harder. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z In its citation, the judging panel said Finney "finds poetic joy and a political imagination in family wisdom, workaday living and erotic syllables that sing the body of women." 'Salvage the Bones' a National Book Award winner 2011-11-17T18:03:21Z The quality described as Southern drawl may be related to the way some speakers vocalize words like "dress" and "hair" with a lengthened glide between vowels and syllable break: "dray-ess" and "hay-ur." TikTok, #BamaRush and the irresistible allure of mocking Southern accents 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z “I’m sorry, my bad,” I responded in stuttered syllables, my already-broken Spanish further shattered by her reprimands. Far from home, the dulce de leche cake I didn’t know I was looking for 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z The clincher is that every syllable that Holiday sings sounds straight from the heart. The music of ‘Catone in Utica’ conquers the night 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z They are more inclined to fit the syllables to the sounds—a working method that Martin calls “melodic math”—and not worry too much about whether the resulting lines make sense. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z The geology of the guy is open to public view, demanding recognition; one glance at that dimple is enough, like a single syllable of Jimmy Stewart’s voice. Kirk Douglas, a Hundred Years Old 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z When Colbert was younger, his parents allowed him to choose between emphasizing the first or second syllable of his last name. 5 Things You Learn in TIME's Cover Story on Stephen Colbert 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z In this breathless song, the vocal line is nonstop, with dizzying bursts of curt sounds and syllables. A Dazzling Chinese Singer’s Riveting Song Cycle 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z He seems born to play eerie types like Smith who e-nun-ci-ate each syllable as if talking in time to a metronome, fitting vocalizations for a character who’s a machine. Movie Review : ‘Last Ride,’ Australian Film Starring Hugo Weaving 2012-07-05T22:04:37Z Earlier, he blustered over objections to his cruelty; now his lines and syllables shorten and he’s left silent and simple, undone by regret, “content to look on” and “content to hear.” Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The rapping on "Go Far" is characteristically Pinder: clipped, nimble pronunciation with no wasted syllables, the effect being that he punctures the beat more than raps over it. Friday Favorites: J. Pinder, Freeway and Jake One, Last Night's Mixtape 2010-04-09T20:04:00Z An initial listen of Pryde’s “Okay Cupid” can be jarring—her syllables are drawn out and meandering. The New Face of Rap: Young, Female and Ready to Blog 2012-05-30T10:45:30Z As for her delivery, it’s a needling imitation of a black Southern voice, with syllables that twang in the wrong direction and vowels that curve into sour shapes. White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z A single line of dialogue requires looping — rerecording to match the film — but Tallulah cannot manage to speak the requisite syllables in the proper order. Theater Review | 'Looped': Valerie Harper Is Tallulah Bankhead on the Skids 2010-03-15T05:35:00Z When the soprano Julia Bullock sings “Somewhere,” her final syllables resonate with triumphant hopefulness, but the ensemble roils underneath, as if predicting the tragic finale, the dashing of individual hopes. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z But this a cappella group still loves its laser-pointer syllables, which arrive like cruel bullets on “Here Comes Santa Claus,” and make for a genuinely harrowing “Making Christmas.” Holiday Music for the Joyful, the Lonely and the Skeptical 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The sparrows flying into the window trellis beat their wings with a sound that’s “dry vivid dusty,” each syllable a note in a chord he’s forming. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Oct 22: our contest for “Fib” mini-poems, 20 syllables over 6 lines. Style Invitational Week 1302: Ask Backwards 37 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z At the beginning and end, the dancers sing a repeating refrain made up of the syllables “Oh hi.” Dancing Back the Spirit of an Old Friend 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z But when the best-picture presenter starts making the "B" sound at the end of the Oscar telecast, are you sure which syllables will come after it? Oscars 2015: Five story lines to watch 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z This month, EU President Herman van Rompuy published a book of Haiku, the dreamy Japanese poetry of unrhymed three-line poems comprising 17 syllables in all. EU nixes rights agency poetry contest 2010-04-29T16:01:00Z And the voice, a husky, German-accented drawl that seems to sigh with every syllable, suggests some serious inner disengagement with the world, or maybe just disgust with it. ‘Nico: Underground,’ Starring Tammy Faye Starlite 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z But only sometimes did she give it space, as on the lovely “Back to Manhattan,” in which she spread out her syllables languorously and lusciously. Music Review | Norah Jones: Norah Jones?s Moody Notes at Madison Square Garden 2010-03-29T04:45:00Z There’s a running joke involving the first two syllables of “a cappella” being folded into other phrases—Aubrey favors “aca’scuse me”—and it’s the kind of thing that could get old very fast. Pitch Perfect: Back to School Isn't Usually This Much Fun 2012-09-27T14:00:21Z Did he just rhyme “Malcolm X” with “British politician sex”? Does he always pronounce “Berlin” with an accent on the first syllable, or is he just stretching it to fit the syntax of the song? Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z But hiccupping, slurring, coughing up hairballs, chopping up her syllables and singing away from the microphone, s/he reminds you of how Amy Winehouse might have performed, 40 years hence. Antony's Meltdown – review 2012-08-11T23:06:00Z The arresting opening sounds a high note with a long falling melisma on the syllable “la” and a very sparse bass line. She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z She imbues every syllable with a concentrated eloquence that makes her compact voice seem larger than it is. DiDonato a luminous Mary Stuart at Met 2013-01-01T09:46:04Z And most of Shakespeare’s histories, at least, are quite specifically English and feature characters whose rank in society is signaled in every syllable they speak. Stage Accents Trouble American and British Actors 2010-03-21T21:41:00Z Art Garfunkel told Rolling Stone that the brothers' harmonizing had taught him that "every syllable can shine." Phil Everly of rock's Everly Brothers dies at 74: L.A. Times 2014-01-04T15:37:58Z Nearly every syllable feels showy, pungent with urgency and overconfidence. No Grammys for old men! And don’t let these millennials win, either. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Translating as "Japanese Song", waka is arranged in five lines, of five/seven/five/seven/seven syllables. Japan’s cherry blossom viewing parties — the history of chasing the fleeting beauty of sakura 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Our laggardly renewal will sidle up to us on its own time, sleepy and shy, still clad in the scrubs it slept in, unable to remember which syllable in party gets the stress. How to make a perfect French 75, the gin cocktail with the welcome effervescence of sparkling wine 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z His performance spans styles and eras: he affects a heavy vibrato croon here and lightly tiptoes through syllables there, occasionally flitting between English and Mandarin. Stephen Cheng Recorded a Cult Classic in Jamaica. Then What Happened? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z “It’s two or three syllables. It’s not that hard.” American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z I used to agonize over every syllable, squinting at my computer screen as if I were solving a jigsaw puzzle, laboring to turn three words into one. Perspective | Google wants to write your emails for you. It’s time to draw the line. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “IT is dreadful,” declared India Hicks, the model and former “Top Design” host, in a supremely proper English accent that made the phrase a symphony of syllables. The Royal Wedding: A Royal Wedding? She?s Been There 2011-04-01T19:00:45Z I wanted a one syllable name because Cormoran is quite long enough and looking through an old book about Cornish customs I noticed that a contributor had the surname Strike. J.K. Rowling’s Friend Robert Galbraith Has Something to Say 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Yet, the lines keep slipping into fractured, volatile passages where not just words, but single syllables are obsessively repeated. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Yes, each line has four feet, and each foot has three syllables, two unstressed and the third delivered with a beat. Books of The Times: David Rakoff’s ‘Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish’ 2013-07-24T21:06:59Z The word “over” drops in pitch from one syllable to the next. Review | Bill Callahan found domestic bliss. Then he wrote the great apocalypse ballad of 2019. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z In our shared patois, these syllables contain multitudes, stories within stories — none remotely interesting or worthy of elaboration, but all pointing to the fact that we’ve invented our own language. Looking for a Book to Read With Friends? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z As he put it: "It is a small thing in altering of one syllable either with pen or word that may make in the conceiving of the truth much matter of error." Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest by Susan Bridgen - review 2012-12-14T22:55:11Z “And in other places, I’d say, ‘I need more syllables for it to work.’ Dispatch Has Rereleased ‘The General’ in Russian to Support Ukraine 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z He sounds the word with a long “o” and the accent on the second syllable. Body of work: Transgender director returns to Olney Theatre Center with ‘Evita’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Also through consonants: When he says “boardwalk” — a thing he despises, with its “so-called amusements” and “lox and bagel merchants” — the word has three syllables: the board, the wal and the k. ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z And so he sang: The first few syllables of “Amazing Grace” spilled out of him frictionlessly. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z It was adorable to make a six‑year‑old with a speech impediment say an eight‑syllable word. ‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in Hollywood 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z There’s shambolic work from Julian Casablancas on “Little Girl,” with emphasis on odd syllables and sentences that run well past the line breaks. Critics? Choice: CDs by M.I.A. and Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse 2010-07-11T22:31:00Z Whatever, it’s a variation on the ancient Japanese poetry called tanka, which are, roughly, 31-syllable poems in five lines; they begin with 5-7-5, as haiku do, then have two more lines of seven syllables each. Style Invitational Week 1148: It’s TankaWanka II 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z He rushed one phrase and elongated the next; occasionally he stuttered on a single syllable, and then released the pent-up tension in a gush. Music Review: Steve Dalachinsky and Charlemagne Palestine at Issue Project 2013-09-05T21:54:11Z De Vere's models are of the mid-16th century and earlier, with heavy use of alliteration … and a liking for metrical forms with long lines of 12 or 14 syllables. Shakespeare scholars unite to see off threat of the 'Bard deniers' 2013-03-30T12:45:01Z One smash followed every other syllable, “as if/ language as well as tenderness was being/ savaged.” Review | Three new poetry collections grapple with injustice, grief — and the nature of truth 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “When I was your age, the nuns told us that mas-tur-ba-tion” — his was so uncomfortable with the word, he almost added an extra syllable — “was a mortal sin.” Talking Sex With Dad (in the Ford Taurus) 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Patti Smith pronounces the word carefully, with the accent on the first syllable. Review: An Autumnal Patti Smith Remembers Summer in ‘Words and Music’ 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z That’s her big number from “Romance on the High Seas,” and it doesn’t take her long—two words, two syllables, one note—to vent that famous vibrato. The Matchless Presence of Doris Day 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Syllable by syllable, it transported me back to the city where I spent my 20s and developed a perverse love for the broad “a” and the tough-sounding transmutation of “the” into “duh.” A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z And the text is a puzzler, with verses falling into groups of 17 syllables, divided five, five and seven. Review: Roomful of Teeth Stretches for a Piano Premiere 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s how she cultivated such a dedicated fan base, with her elaborately thoughtful meet-and-greets and giveaways; it’s also why she’s such a good songwriter, never letting a syllable fall out of place. The Book on Taylor Swift 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z And it’s Season 5, and you never heard a syllable about that guy until now! Majoring in Potterology 2012-05-25T19:20:00Z “So I staggered home alone,” Whitters sings, each syllable landing like a wobbly footfall. Review | Hailey Whitters made the year’s deepest country album. Just look beneath the surface. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Monteverdi cared deeply about the text; for all the syllables to sound the same would create the wrong color palette. After a Decade, a Monteverdi Masterpiece Flies Free 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Read the example above out loud, with big accents on the accented syllables, and you’ll see what we mean. Style Invitational Week 1448: Hear, hear, it’s Limerixicon XVIII 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Syllable for syllable, it’s stunning work — arguably better than the original. Review | The cranky, bossy, sad, brave, beloved Olive Kitteridge is back in ‘Olive, Again’ — and better than ever 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Syllable by syllable, each actor may well be speaking authentic Philadelphian, but strung together all the accents become inconsistent, hard to understand and silly. 'In the Boom Boom Room' piles on misery with unrelenting punch 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Amid the succulent sweetness and generous vibrato of Ms. Röschmann’s voice, words and syllables bled into each other so much that it was possible only to sit back and surrender to the sounds. Review: Dorothea Röschmann and Mitsuko Uchida in Recital 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z And by using tone, timbre and hyper-articulation to freight every syllable with multiple meanings, he keeps bringing us back to that quantum thing. Perspective | Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z O’Hara exclaimed in her signature Moira accent — a mid-Atlantic patois in which certain syllables are inexplicably elongated and others abruptly cut off. The Rise of ‘Schitt’s Creek’ 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Lachenmann spoke the texts, with the German words delivered in disconnected syllables. Music Review: Helmut Lachenmann?s Pursuit of Delicate and Eerie Sounds 2010-04-02T22:16:00Z And what unfolds, in lines just four syllables long, is a tale of war, deceit, divided loyalties, bitter betrayals and grim persistence: Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Portraying an Italian war bride transplanted to the middle of America, Ms. O’Hara finds a breathtaking sweep of feelings within the iteration of those three small syllables. Theater Review: ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Brings Iowa to Broadway 2014-02-21T03:00:02Z “If it’s a straight memoir” — he stressed the second syllable with an unexpected French flair — “as a publisher you could sell some books.” Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Or when she scours a clog of syllables off the roof of her mouth: cash-bragging about a “big digit difference” on “OHFR?” Review | Rico Nasty will show you what mischief sounds like 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Most of her verse is dedicated to insulting unnamed antagonists, one of her favored modes, doing so while stretching out syllables, jumping up an octave, or taking “two bars off just to laugh.” The Playlist: Lana Del Rey Finds Love in a Hopeless Place 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z I predict the new characters introduced will include more one syllable names like Ryn, Poe, and Finn becuse they are easier for infants to pronounce. The All-Stars of ‘Star Wars’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z He could still hear the singing tone of her voice as she signed off a telephone conversation: “ ‘I love you,’ ” he said, “in 18 syllables.” An Appraisal: An Alluring Beauty Exempt From Fashion?s Rules 2011-03-24T02:58:02Z Mike Finn's Life in 2 Syllables is ingeniously written entirely in two‑syllable lines, while Richie O'Sullivan's Ode to Life dispenses with dialogue to create a sensitive portrait of old age. Tiny Plays for Ireland 2 – review 2013-03-17T18:39:43Z His voice slid comfortably around syllables with a drawl that betrayed his origins in Florida. Tom Petty at United Center: The stealth protest singer 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Here quirkily repeated vocal syllables commanded the attention, while the players mostly tapped rhythmically on their instruments, occasionally letting loose with a few notes. Music Review: Seven Composers, Seven Countries 2011-05-11T21:21:27Z The drone tones in “Sax Solfa” underlie saxophone lines and loops, darting and rippling keyboards and bursts of gibberish vocal syllables, surfacing like anxieties no meditation can dispel. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Take Control, and 10 More New Songs 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z The chorus concludes with a nonverbal “bom-bom-bi-dom-bi-dum-bum-bay,” but those syllables are far from meaningless. Perspective | Lizzo is everything. Is that enough? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z On the first line, she transformed the word "night" into about seven syllables. Black Eyed Peas lead halftime cheers at Super Bowl 2011-02-07T15:39:39Z The poetry sharpened the syllables and the actors were bonded by old words that conjured potions, deceits and mistaken passion. Buddies and budding actor, writer hustle to land their big breaks 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Dressed in white and seated for most of the set, Gainsbourg is a picture of languid detachment, loading every syllable, both English and the occasional French, with disenchantment. Charlotte Gainsbourg – review 2012-07-22T15:44:50Z Now, “names were empty syllables, signifying nothing, lost as easily as a suit of clothes, a brother or a sister, an entire world.” Madeleine Thien’s New Novel of Communist Occupation Turns Inward 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The brothers Nelson approach “O Come All Ye Faithful” with a pair of billy clubs, beating upon each syllable as if playing a mirthless game of Whac-a-Mole. 15 Fresh Takes on a Classic Tradition: The Holiday Album 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z “They understand how to put inflections on syllables to stress the meaning.” ‘Yellowstone’ Gets a Prequel in ‘1883,’ but It Wasn’t Easy 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z By lopping off the last syllable, it's clear there's a Haitian-Creole influence at play. When I think of essential Cuban food, I think of congrí 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Similarly in her frequent forays into the world of cinematic statecraft, she can be an entirely convincing senator or cabinet secretary while still being, in every syllable and flourish, Meryl Streep. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z Back in his hotel room, he practiced tricky phrases from his arias, reciting one word at a time, moving backward from their final syllables, an approach Matheson taught him. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z I saw that when we were writing the first season, and I immediately called Sharon and I was, like, “Don’t write another syllable!” Rob Delaney on Writing While Grieving and the Real Work of Comedy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Its real name, which is only one syllable, is unprintable here.” The New York Times’ F-word problem 2012-08-10T20:15:00Z Every syllable here resonates with a crisp precision that feels earned, especially when it comes out of Mr. Sher’s mouth. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z "Our time is in need of simplicity," Van Rompuy, 62, told friends at the Belgian parliament marking the publication of 95 of his Haiku - unrhymed three-line poems with 17 syllables in all. EU president publishes Haiku poetry book 2010-04-15T17:51:00Z Highly animated, he spits rapid-fire raps over jazzy backgrounds, often moving to the next syllable so quickly he often fights against enunciation problems. Pitchfork day 3: Off to a mellow start 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z But devotees knew that this was entirely planned: It was the exact spot where Garland had forgotten the lyrics in 1961 and frantically subbed in nonsense syllables. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Then the showers of particles returned: deconstructed syllables from a poem in Mandarin by Wai-Lim Yip. For Composer Lei Liang, Technology Brings a Different Transcendence 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The answer is “wrestlers,” two syllables we didn’t expect, sung in two jumpy notes we didn’t expect. Review | Bill Callahan found domestic bliss. Then he wrote the great apocalypse ballad of 2019. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z It warned that he expected to be asked to “weigh every syllable” of this article “against the strictest requirements of the law.” How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . . 2012-04-14T20:06:48Z This week: Write a witty poem, on any subject, in any of these forms: A. Five lines of five syllables each, as in the example above; B. Five lines of five words each. Week 1270: The Style Invitational turns 5 x 5 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Here is pop’s verbal compression at its most distilled, to single syllables: “When I kissed you back I lied/you don’t know how long I tried.” Everything But the Girl’s Long-Awaited Return, and 12 More New Songs 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Shaping his style, Jones became a master of melisma, a gospel technique that involved the stretching of a syllable across several musical notes that were decorated and feathered at their ends for maximum emotional impact. George Jones 2013-04-26T17:06:44Z In a nice, quaint touch, the Apollo’s Fire vocalists begin “The Morning Trumpet” by singing their lines as untrained congregants would, without words but with solfège syllables to plant the tunes in their ears. Complex Pleasures Rooted in Love, Delight and Song 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z Afterward, he noted that they hadn’t been singing the right syllables. Benjamin Clementine Performs at Rough Trade 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The music is suddenly exuberant and crazed, with spiraling riffs and cyclic instrumental figures, and manic bursts of syllables and sputtering from the chorus. Music Review: ‘Einstein on the Beach,’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-09-16T22:03:03Z There was his voice: big and vibrant, with every syllable articulated for the back of the house. Eddy de Pretto Is the Proud Sound of a New France 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Heavy-set and visibly nervous, he is still hyper-eloquent, with that familiar melodious voice, but the syllables sometimes stumble on his tongue. Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Amanda Blue belts out this irresistibly glossy shoulda-been-a-hit with a keen attention to detail: listen to her hiccup on the second syllable of “mystery.” 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z He understood, to stunning effect, the unique gratification of the ideal syllable landing on the perfect note. Perspective | There will never be another Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z To capture the raw anguish being shared for the first time, Greenwell uses many words of one syllable, like stabbing, staccato sounds: “I don’t know if I was like this before,” the character confides. In a Dying Country, Garth Greenwell’s Narrator Comes Alive 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z She softens its punch by pulling away from some syllables on “All We Are.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z An English sentence can be flipped upside down like a pancake, its meaning completely changed by the mere variation of a syllable. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z Marni, a combination of the first syllables of her first and middle names, was created for the benefit of a younger sibling who could not pronounced “Margaret.” Marni Nixon, uncredited star of Hollywood musicals, dies at 86 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The influence of Frizzell’s stoic drawl, liquefied syllables and tightly controlled ornaments is so pervasive that it’s often equated with classic country style. The Year in Yesteryear: Standout Music Books and Boxed Sets 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z If you say, ‘Sa-di’, it’s gone from three to two syllables and you’re using the glottal stop, which is very stigmatised.” The rise of ‘accent softening’: why more and more people are changing their voices 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z "Aw," she said, sadness and affection and loss mixed up in that one syllable. Stephen Colbert departs, and his Nation mourns 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The researchers recorded the kids’ brain waves with EEG as they listened to a repeated syllable against soft background sound and when they heard nothing. Music lessons combat poverty’s effect on the brain 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z And she bent its syllables because the standard word was “boring,” she said. A Newcomer to Watch at the Latin Grammys: Nathy Peluso 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The point is that philosophy is as much a technical discipline as these other sciences are, and as little capable of being diluted down to words of one syllable. Philosophy is supposed to be difficult 2011-02-25T12:01:28Z He then broke up the language syllable by syllable for the actors, and recorded it for them. For the ultimate 'Game of Thrones' fan. How to speak Valyrian 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z In Haiku the first and the last line each contain five syllables and the middle line seven. EU president publishes Haiku poetry book 2010-04-15T17:51:00Z The structure is three lines of five, seven and five syllables sequentially. It’s haiku heaven at Seattle Public Library 2013-04-05T20:55:34Z He sang wordless syllables, meanwhile, in a clear and resonant baritone, and sometimes a falsetto, and he occasionally laughed, satisfyingly, significantly. Music Review: ‘Nous: A Musical Rite’ at Basilica Hudson 2014-02-02T22:41:38Z Although there’s nothing simple about it, melisma in its simplest form is a vocal technique in which a series of notes is stretched into one syllable. Music: Trilling Songbirds Clip Their Wings 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z In the latest, and perhaps last, of that cycle, a crippling self-consciousness informs every syllable they utter. Review: A Family Gropes for Words in ‘Incidental Moments’ 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Listen to them sung, syllables stretched, emphasis inverted, and suddenly you're drawn into the music in a whole new way. Joanna Newsom ? easy to appreciate, hard to enjoy 2010-07-29T20:33:00Z Omagugu sings in a sweeping, brushy tone, holding her syllables open, as Makhathini surrounds her in a pattern of chords that ascend and ascend. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Those three syllables are the gift of Teacher Stuart and Teacher Caroline to their fifth-grade students in Hanover, Pa., to be used in moments of distress during an especially adventurous history project. Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’: A Lacerating Comedy on Race 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z “Are you twittering?” my wife asks, a slow drip of caustic judgment issuing from every syllable. In the game of TextTwist 2, who survives? I make you strange.I conjure you from common syllables,from Kano market, Billingsgate, Arrivals.I wait holding your biro name on cardboard.I say I love you but it's only words. You by John Haynes 2011-01-24T10:59:38Z He's an anonymous rapper until you realize he's telling you his story and putting it artfully, with careful attention to syllable spacing, breath control, and non-cliche punchlines. Friday Favorites: Seapony, Jarv Dee, Havi Blaze 2011-04-22T13:01:05Z The singing — often brash, again in folk style — incorporates all manner of vocalization, often using nonsense syllables. Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Includes ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Revival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z I found that by combining fingerpicking with these freaky chords, it was opening my mind to melodies and different rhythms and syllables. Staying true to Lianne La Havas 2013-03-28T19:35:00Z But most important, he sounded gruff, his voice nowhere near slick, his syllables like sound effects. Music Review: The Rapper DMX Performs at S.O.B.?s 2012-02-25T00:09:39Z Thus, he not only clarified the sense of the word, but he let every syllable and every note sound together and thereby created a unity of harmony and colours unlike anyone else. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a revolutionary performer 2012-05-21T18:08:47Z She took her place on the floor in front of the stage, bending backward and coiling and jogging in place; she whooped and ululated words and syllables. Music Review: Guardian Alien at Shea Stadium - Review 2011-09-26T22:17:56Z In the basement of the society’s Ganesha Temple, an hourlong yoga class ended one recent Sunday morning with a long exhalation of the sacred syllable “om.” Hindu Group Stirs a Debate Over Yoga?s Soul 2010-11-29T20:09:00Z El-P plays it fast and furiously; he piles up syllables and nimble internal rhymes with giddy dexterity. Album review: Run the Jewels, 'Run the Jewels' 2013-07-04T03:21:00Z What, he wonders, is the use of “Unconsulted but retained/ Relic syllables of a name”? The impossible wish of this museum, of poetry, of language, is to reclaim what’s lost, “The same/ Boy again, reconceived.” Robert Pinsky’s new poetry collection is considered and timely 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The stress on this word is supposed to be on the first syllable—"AFF-lu-ent." Eleven common words you're probably mispronouncing 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z It may only be six syllables but they pack a punch. Avengers: Endgame – who survived Thanos’ finger-click? Discuss with spoilers 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z When I’m being ridiculous, he breaks down the syllables of my name with a pause in between to let me know he knows I’m being ridiculous and he knows I know I am. Asymmetric love, part one: I'm going to tell him how I feel 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z As the Sicilian men intone shocked syllables in a martial rhythm, a carefree barcarole suddenly emerges from a passing boat carrying ladies and gentlemen to the ball. Music Review: Verdi’s ‘Les Vêpres Siciliennes’: How Paris Helped Him Soar 2013-07-07T21:44:22Z But Gerald Finley sings them all with such an unwaveringly beautiful tone and attention to every syllable, and pianist Julian Drake is so wonderfully attuned to the baritone's inflections that it hardly seems to matter. Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, etc 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z In places, she barely even relies on words, truncating her syllables past patois to something far less exact. Review: Rihanna, Blissfully Adrift, Juggles Styles on ‘Anti’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z As he speaks, he slows down, making every single syllable count. What do real Italians think about New York's Italian food? 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Sometimes her voice swelled rhythmically; at other times, she slung her words like an attack, dynamically stretching her syllables. ‘Richard II’ Review: A Radio King With a Tottering Crown 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z “Don’t you remember,” she asks — stretching that last word out over a few seconds and many more syllables — “the reason you loved me before” — on those last two words, more seconds, more syllables. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z Metrically varied, the lines are mostly octosyllabic, and that count-of-eight seems fundamental, even where the audible syllable count is less, as in stanza three, line eight. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z “I know it breaks your heart / Moved to the city in a broke-down car,” she sings, rolling the syllables out like she’s snapping pieces of gum. The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” and the Familiar Feeling of Pop 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Which she then proceeds to do for more than an hour, with a voice that can tell a million tales in one syllable. The best sets to watch online 2013-07-02T13:45:53Z And Wave has a particular way of handling some of his line-ending syllables, breaking them into three descending steps, as if giving himself over to gravity. Rod Wave and Lil Tjay, Two Brands of Sing-Rap With Different Bite 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z This coalescence will take something of a supernatural form as the murders continue, the enforcers of “retributive justice” moving as one, making “a collective noise,” chanting one syllable: “rise.” New Southern Fiction By Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew Siegrist 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z And then, “My name is Kiiiid,” he bawls, dragging one syllable out for two measures. Song of the Summer: “Bawitdaba,” by Kid Rock 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The scholar Eleanor Prosser thus detects "considerable evidence" for the elimination of metrical and stylistic "irregularities" in the Folio: short lines are lengthened to 10 syllables, verbs agreed with subjects, double negatives resolved. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z And Anna is still so gaga in love with Bates that she stretches his last name into three syllables. Downton Abbey Watch: Drama and then Somme 2012-01-09T14:30:05Z He held out the last syllable, “ing,” for five and a half beats, echoing the jangle of Monk’s pianism, and expecting everyone to get it. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z He adds one further syllable at the end of the play. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z He still slurs his syllables, and he still leans heavily on assonance. Lil Wayne Becomes an Elder, While Logic Grows Up 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z She makes even the gibberish of scat syllables piercingly specific. Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn’t 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Instead, their movements become the cadences of each word, syllable by syllable. Daniel Linehan is onto something with ‘Everything’ 2013-09-13T19:22:11Z For all I knew they were mining my interviews for “sound packets,” syllables that could be strung together to have me say anything, such as “I pistol-whip children for the fake-news Washington Post.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: His name sounded familiar for some reason. And then it hit me. 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Without the rhyme on the last syllable, it translates as: "She had lost control of her facial features/ She was probably thinking of her tits." What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z “I tend to work with everything from full sentences to short phrases to just individual words, even syllables and phonemes,” Ms. Z said, describing her editing process using the audio program Pro Tools. Pamela Z Manipulates Voices in a Virtual Tour of Times Square 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Other times, thick chords cling insistently to every syllable of the sung words. Review: Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Buried Alive and ‘Embedded’ Conjure Poe’s Dark Terrain 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Every sentence has 17 syllables and starts with the word 'He'. What's on Stephenie Meyer's ideal bookshelf? The works that made the artists 2012-11-25T00:05:41Z The singers sounded like they were interrogating every syllable of Wagner’s libretto even when Mr. Lepage appeared to be looking no further than the description of each scene’s setting. The Met Opera’s ‘Ring’ Works Best From the Cheap Seats 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z A meticulous realism transcribes in numbing detail every syllable of classroom conversation, alongside a great daily fuss about printing and stapling — the literal pushing of papers. In Two New Novels, the Trouble Is Academic — and All Too Real 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z All plummy voice and rolling syllables, Ms. Baldrige took my call. Death of Letitia Baldrige Is Loss for Society as Decorum Fades 2012-11-05T18:32:08Z “Yeah!” remains irresistible — and among the most successful homages to one of pop music’s trustiest syllables. 9 Songs That Will Make You Say ‘Yeah!’ 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z The accent usually lies on the first syllable of a word, on the downbeat, as it were. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z His voice is unbound by anything his fingers are doing; it quavers, rattles off quick syllables and trampolines into falsetto. Jerry Lee Lewis: Listen to 10 Songs From a Rock ’n’ Roll Pioneer 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z It would have been nice if, at some point during the telecast, even a single audience member had been permitted to utter one syllable. Oprah's warm, funny, self-aggrandizing goodbye 2011-05-25T23:07:00Z It used to surprise me, that lonely syllable trapped in cycling repetition, like a bingo ball in a draught. The monster in my mouth: Maggie O'Farrell on fighting her stammer 2013-02-27T20:00:01Z This week: Write a humorous poem of 20 syllables divided among six lines like this: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. Style Invitational Week 1301: Tell us a Fib 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z He’s a rapper obsessed with syllables and trickery and structure, but not much more. New Music: Big Sean and Albert Heath and Friends Release Albums 2013-08-26T21:58:51Z The most reductive recording in the exhibition is of someone saying merely, “bar-o-me-ter,” lolling on every syllable, over and over. American History Museum gives voice to inventor Bell 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Ultimately, I found Netflix Anna too nasally, the words harshly diced, each syllable too carefully executed. Seen ‘Inventing Anna’? Here’s What It Gets Right (and Wrong) 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Lee told her, “You dropped her two social classes with one syllable.” ‘The Mockingbird Next Door’ by Marja Mills 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “So, in Korean traditionally the two syllables they each mean something different and Ji means, like, smart or wise. And Young means, like, brave or courageous and strong,” Ji-Young explained during a recent interview. AP Exclusive: ‘Sesame Street’ debuts Asian American muppet 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z I would start all over again, underscoring the words with my fingertip and silently pronouncing the syllables, but Danny would slide an inch forward and clamp harder—and the ship would capsize again. The Bonds Between Sex and Books 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z My cheeks redden for him, for us all, as words jam painfully in his throat and spluttered syllables echo mockingly across the silence. How "The King's Speech" gets stuttering wrong 2011-02-21T23:01:00Z She phrases intuitively, waiting on a word and then drawing it out, and turns good lyrics to oatmeal, adding strange new colors to vowels, making whole syllables vanish. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z The metaphor shifts to "jades" – old horses urged to recover after a stumble and run on, as these desperate poets "run on", their sounds and syllables like the jingling reigns, their words "dull droppings". Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z It’s written in the Japanese style of haiku — three lines that typically contain five, seven and five syllables each: For writer Bob Raczka, a poem is often as playful as a puzzle 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Its real name, which is only one syllable, is unprintable here, and “Cockfight Play” is being used in advertisements in family newspapers. Theater Review: ?Cockfight Play,? Directed by James Macdonald, at the Duke 2012-05-18T02:00:02Z Even the timing between syllables can be crucial to a phrase’s meaning. What does it really feel like to fall out of a building? 2013-05-25T22:30:00Z Shaving off the last name gives McCartney enough syllables for some more specificity in the story: “Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona …” Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “I realized it was just a game,” he sang, holding the final syllable for emphasis. Music Review: Seal and Macy Gray at the Beacon Theater 2012-07-20T21:43:04Z I sat in the back row of the Stratford balcony in the 1950s many times to see Olivier's Macbeth and Titus, Gielgud's Lear and Prospero and heard every syllable. The thrust of the problem for the RSC's new stage 2010-11-24T10:28:00Z Finally, the final syllable sounds something like "lace" with a long "a," not "ya." Pasteles, a Puerto Rican Tradition, Have a Special Savor Now 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z He cheekily punches the last syllables, emphasizing what the play’s subtitle already warned us about: We’re seeing a thriller in rhyme. ‘The Smuggler’ Review: A Barman’s Rambling Yarn 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Jackson bites off the phrase “properly execute” in a manner heretofore unheard in the history of English, laying equal stress on each vicious syllable. “Pose,” Reviewed: In Ryan Murphy’s Latest Musical Melodrama, Elektra Abundance Steals the Show 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Bells shine and strings shudder in the background, while gangster/Muslim rapper Freeway rises to the seemingly impossible challenge of mirroring Jake's drums with individual syllable placement. Friday Favorites: J. Pinder, Freeway and Jake One, Last Night's Mixtape 2010-04-09T20:04:00Z And then with a final series of anguished fist pumps on each syllable, the singer dropped the curtain: “I wish you didn’t trust me so much.” Concert review: Bobby Womack at Brilliant Corners festival 2012-09-24T04:52:00Z He lined up the group and handed each person a sheet of copier paper with a syllable written on it. Rare Book School at the University of Virginia 2012-07-23T22:19:23Z The appropriated Indigenous name “Zuni” fit Mr. West’s décor, and he liked the sound of the syllables. The Forgotten Queer Legacy of Billy West and Zuni Café 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z On the other, jazz – the work of the devil: one character almost faints in pronouncing the single syllable. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z Those three syllables will be gasped with a sigh of relief at Oscars across the country when perpetual bridesmaid Leonardo DiCaprio takes home the best actor trophy for “The Revenant” tonight at the Academy Awards. Leo’s Oscar isn’t overdue: He hasn’t won before because he didn’t earn it 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Theater gave Grant a chance to write every syllable and every note of “Don’t Bother Me,” which earned her half of the show’s four Tony nominations. Micki Grant: ‘I Wanted to Open Eyes’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z In other words: three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third. Style Invitational Week 1317: Punku 2 — yup, haiku with puns 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z These three syllables washed over me like gasoline; I knew “bulldagger” was inflammatory but I still loved the smell of it. Fast cars, bikes and guitars with women's names 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “Room 25” followed last year, doubling down on lush, live instrumentation and lyrical truths so dense it seemed like she was running out of room on the page and scribbling syllables in the margins. Review | At the 9:30 Club, Noname proved she can out-rap most rappers — even when she’s sick 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s an artfully pressurized style of mouth-music that keeps you listening close, with every syllable prompting a balancing act in your brain. Review | Shy Glizzy is bigger than ever — but he still sounds like D.C. 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z "By now I know what I'm doing," she sums up in her soft Aussie accent, which sounds indistinguishable from a velvety Southern twang and can turn the word "dance," for example, into two syllables. Poppy Montgomery is 'Unforgettable' solving crimes 2012-04-30T11:54:15Z His voice is deep and dank and baleful, an exotic cousin of Vincent Price’s from-the-crypt baritone, and his pronunciation stretches syllables into fluttering shadows. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z So many syllables in each of the examples! Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Finale ticked off a list: words, syllables, meter, sound, flow and position. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Her voice sounds both guileless and cutting; she can be tough, sympathetic, vulnerable or brusque, bouncing syncopated syllables against tracks that often stay cannily unadorned. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z It's a weird listening experience, to put it mildly, with Dougie creepy-calm through flowery pimpisms, his messy syllable style and mannered singsong flow meshing with budget horror pianos to sinister effect. Music Monday: Salmon Thrasher, Sol, Dougie 2010-06-07T19:46:00Z He rhymes fast and slow, choppy or smooth, with lines that might be two vehement syllables or 10 rapid-fire ones. Music Review: Street Smarts Meets Old-Fashioned Showbiz 2013-07-20T10:48:52Z That their merchandising kickbacks, groin injuries, multilingual inarticulacy and parodies of human excellence make me wish it would rain until the last syllable of recorded Wimbledon? The Secret Life of the Sun; The White Queen; The Man Behind the Racquet; Venus and Serena – TV review 2013-06-24T06:00:26Z Often a syllable will be rhythmically repeated on the same pitch, a technique similar to what composers like Monteverdi sometimes did. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Has Its New York Premiere 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “Sedagive?” he barks, referring both to an earlier joke about a sedative and the current situation, and turning each syllable into a note of aggravated disbelief. Gene Wilder’s Understated Nuttiness 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z With a baritone voice that was as elastic as a steel-guitar string, he brought suspense to every syllable, merging bluesy slides with the tight, quivering ornaments of Appalachian singing. George Jones, Country Singer, Dies at 81 2013-04-26T14:38:56Z They heard in Houston an invitation to musical excess, to embroider every syllable until it sounded like three and to garnish every note with multi-octave trills. Kot: Houston had a voice that served the song 2012-02-12T22:06:00Z The irony is that such presentations are highly rehearsed, with each caesura calculated and every syllable stressed in advance. ‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z A child prodigy as a dancer — she liked to joke that if one reversed the syllables in her surname, “Chou-teau” became “Toe-shoe” — Ms. Chouteau started dancing when she was 2 1/2 years old. Yvonne Chouteau, Native American Ballerina, Dies at 86 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Scat singing wasn’t a bebop innovation, but it was a core part of the subgenre’s development — right down to its name, derived from common scat syllables. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z “I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi,” she said, her Southern drawl peeking beneath her syllables like a branch under kudzu. Up Close : Grace Hightower De Niro: The TriBeCa-Rwanda Connection 2013-07-17T18:59:15Z Eerie harmonic layers were built upon the wordless syllables, an austere medieval aesthetic punctuated with colorful contemporary twists. Music Review: John Zorn Performing at Alice Tully Hall 2013-07-19T19:42:03Z Dean creates webs of deliquescent, wintry sounds, through which the singer threads the atomised texts, syllable by syllable; it's fragile and transient, and finally delicately elusive. Cheltenham festival 2010-07-12T20:45:00Z Ironically, the thing that really paid off with that is singing those three syllables, “The Simpsons.” Danny Elfman Brings Music From Tim Burton’s Films to Lincoln Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The conductor urged us to pronounce each percussive syllable and not let the tempo drag. A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Death steps over the river on stone syllables. Poem of the week: Peter Riley 2011-07-11T10:20:00Z His flow is syrupy, often swallowing syllables but not the vérité imagery and frisky, conversational tone that make some of his best lyrics sound like direct, mettle-testing addresses. A Trip Home With Moneybagg Yo, Trap’s New Ambassador 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The syllables of the word were then sung with stately grace before resurfacing later in the section. Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z “I’m not, like, an ac-tor,” emphasis firmly on the second syllable. Ed Helms Is Back in ?Jeff Who Lives at Home? 2012-03-09T15:00:00Z She dragged out syllables, pivoted into pauses, raised eyebrows, deadpanned, and when the crowd started to clap, she let out her laugh, like a pro, goosing a round of applause. ArtsBeat: Phyllis Diller and Her Comic Craft 2012-08-22T16:23:43Z The best gags are traditional ones involving Yogi's ingenious schemes to steal picnic -- a word in which he magnificently contrives to find three syllables -- baskets. "Yogi Bear" may send viewers into hibernation 2010-12-13T08:40:00Z The transition from breathy syllables to a song with lyrics, awkward at first, later seemed to echo the dancers’ relationship, with its tensions between tentative and boldly trusting. Fall for Dance Review: Some Tap, a Pas de Deux and a Monastic Chorus 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z On “Mine,” he envisioned a gunshot through a white T-shirt in conspiratorial staccato, syllables throbbing and oozing like the wound: “It’ll be a peppermint or a baseball.” Perspective | I was wrong about Young Thug 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The problem with the fiction version, however, is that Kraus often puts the emphasis on the wrong syllable. “The Kill Team” offers atrocities, but little insight into wartime murders of civilians 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Occasionally, they stopped and sang a single word or syllable back and forth, over and over again to make sure it was exactly right — the right note, the right pitch, the right cadence. Peek behind the scenes as some Seattle performing arts groups prepare for fall 2021 — their first in-person shows in over a year 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Some songs used phrases picked out of English dictionaries or nonsense syllables yelped as background vocals, but others confronted violence and anger with taunting confidence. Marlene Marder, Guitarist for Liliput, Dies at 61 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z His syllables can be arrhythmic, and the conclusions of his lines fall over the end, like Wile E. Coyote zooming past the edge of a cliff, legs still pumping. Meet Blueface, the Self-Aware Rapper Who Knows He’s More Than a Meme 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z He then took the syllables apart, repeating each one until the line of poetry was impossible to pick out among the bare sounds. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z It sounded so important and complete: Ma-li-na, stress on the final syllable. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z He’s so slick he often appears to be rapping beneath the beat, his syllables clinging to each other as if glued. Critic?s Notebook: Bam! Pow! A Loud Young Rapper Rekindles Rap?s Old Fighting Spirit 2010-10-08T22:30:00Z The first stanza is modeled after traditional haiku with three lines of five, then seven, then five syllables. Using haiku, more than 200 poets pay tribute to Obama 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z A Genre, Old and Irish, Is Renewed Early vocal music like Gregorian chant often uses a melismatic style, in which a single syllable of text is sung between successive notes. Music Review: Crash Ensemble at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-20T20:49:46Z His tenor is white-hot, piercing through the orchestra, threatening to burst into flames as Hades, in his sleazy green leisure suit, leers at Eurydice and stretches the syllables of her name into a sinister design. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The octave between the two syllables of “Starman,” in Bowie’s song of that name, is lifted from the interval between “Some” and “where” in “Somewhere over the Rainbow.” David Bowie in the Movies 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z He managed to reduce the words "" to just two syllables. Labour watches the Eddie and Ed show 2010-09-29T18:17:00Z Time and time again he keeps his rhyming syllables close: “It was all for the ends, ends for the rims, rims for the Benz, Benz full of skins.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z You can see what he means, for Žižek cuts a fairly startling physical figure – like a grizzly bear, pawing wildly at his face, sniffing and snuffling and gesticulating between every syllable. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z Aglaia Kremezi’s favorite word, said with a punch of an accent on the second syllable, is “Exactly!” Weeknight Vegetarian: Aglaia Kremezi has a way with Mediterranean vegetables Afflicted with severe aphasia, unable to process language, Mr. West could initially only repeat the cryptic syllable “mem.” Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity Into His Books, Dies at 85 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The way the syllables have sturdy corners, but there’s still a liquidity between them — it’s as reassuring as my mother’s voice. Love Music to Surprise You? Jon Caramanica Recommends TikTok Dives 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z One arresting voice comes through like a war cry, all ancient, melismatic syllables in unsettled rhythms. How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Otherworldly Sounds of ‘Dune’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Not sure about the syllable before "lucky guy." Friday Favorites: Butts, TacocaT, THEESatisfaction 2010-05-07T18:05:00Z “Massachusetts,” my 4-year-old said, articulating every syllable as we crossed the state line. In Massachusetts, a seacoast city that feels like home 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z White's controversial syllable came as part of his rendition of Love Interruption, performed with Ruby Amanfu. Jack White did not swear on live TV, Grammys broadcaster insists 2013-02-12T10:58:09Z It's a terrific tour de force for soprano, the feisty Piia Komsi in this recording, whose lines vaporise the texts into syllables and weave them into the microtonal webs of instrumental sound. Chin: Fantasie M?canique; Xi; Akrotischon-Wortspiel; Double Concerto - review 2011-03-24T21:45:00Z Chandler’s verbal style, with its untraditional emphasis on certain syllables or words for comic effect, would become one of the show’s most widely imitated signatures. Could Matthew Perry’s Chandler-Speak Be Any More Memorable? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Sondheim’s deft wordplay seems like a precursor to Miranda’s rap style by the end of a section in which Renée repeatedly sings, “And another hundred syllables/Came out of his brain.” 'Spamilton': Musical spoof lands its punches softly, and with a smile 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z |
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