| 单词 | wordless |
| 例句 | It made him open his mouth wide in wordless anguish. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z They could come wordless into the house of any Marine family, but no matter how they came or what shape or appearance they assumed, their very presence was the equivalent of some form of apocalypse. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She gazed straight down at me from almost twenty feet, unquivering, wordless, her hair rubbing against the branches, hanging those narrow bare feet out into the air. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It did not matter that she had no idea of what to do or say to the Presence— after the wordless knowing and the soundless touching, her dreams disintegrated. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She let out a wordless scream that shattered through the frozen wind as she scrambled to her feet. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My prayers are wordless, defiant, dry-eyed, desperate, without hope. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They look at each other, and it’s one of those lightning-fast wordless parental debates—if you can even call it a debate. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He missed the easy if largely wordless comradeship he’d had with gruff, sardonic old Roger Morris right from the first day of freshman turnout. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was not fear touching his heart, but the wordless sorrow of dry leaves rushing desolate before the wind. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z After a few minutes a nurse appears, holding the door open in wordless invitation. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The one was Arthur’s Queen, the other a wordless presence who had celebrated Mam at Castle Carbaoek. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The cold of the water feels like a vise but I hold it there, hearing the bubbling of the water rushing by and the wordless barks of a worried Manchee hopping around my feet. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z A wordless scream spilled out of my mouth and the world went black. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They pressed wordless messages into each other’s hands under the table. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s ... I’ve never—” He struggled, wordless for a moment, then bowed his head and began to cry hopelessly into his hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But that moment was also locked in darkness, was wordless, and would not come forth. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Seven times he returned, bending his tall frame to enter the doorway, and with wordless disapproval set down one after the other the seven small trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I felt, whether I wished or not, the connection, the communication that ran, wordless, inarticulate, through Faxe, and which Faxe was trying to pattern and control, for he was the center, the Weaver. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed her and shouted in her face and she kicked at me, and when I wouldn’t let go and she couldn’t force me to, she began to cry, just wordless howls of despair. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Two of the archers followed them, a wordless presence hedging them in. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z With this wordless gesture, Bull thought, Virgil is suddenly a full colonel again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As they ran, they called out to one another in a weird, wordless cry that echoed almost from the brooding crags of Dark Gate itself. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He raises himself above me and we are wordless, and then we are joined and moving silently. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z All about me was a deep intense silence, and in it I heard my prayer, voiceless, wordless, rising up and up endlessly like the incense which burnt perpetually upon the altar. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Kimberly was taken aback, something wordless spread on her face and then she smiled, and Ifemelu would think of it as the moment they became, truly, friends. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Viserys began to scream the high, wordless scream of the coward facing death. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The dancing, chanting boys had worked themselves away till their sound was nothing but a wordless rhythm. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I gave a wordless curtsy and took my place. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe my atoms begin to drift apart—stop holding hands—in those wordless moments too. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s weird, Noise, but almost wordless, cresting the hill in front of us and rolling down, single-minded but talking in legions, like a thousand voices singing the same thing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z His screams became one long, wordless shriek of fear and pain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z While John watched, the Power struck someone, a man or woman; they cried out, a long, wordless crying, and, arms outstretched like wings, they began the Shout. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Margaret sang a pretty, wordless melody in her high voice; her natural squeakiness sounded conveniently like the scratch of a fiddle. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The two men nodded to each other ceremoniously, a wordless salutation that had not changed in twenty years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now and then, Laila heard running footsteps, a wordless chase, furniture turning over, glass shattering, then the thumping once more. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Tanisha hangs up first, and all I’m left with is the dial tone humming a wordless tune in my ear. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He had set up a wordless howling, like an animal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A moment of wordless communication passed between us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But when Lawrence saw the publication and heard the lame explanation, he turned his back on Kamen and strode away in wordless fury at the Rad Lab’s subordinate position. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Later, he mounted her and relieved himself with wordless haste, fully dressed save for his tumban, not removed but pulled down to the ankles. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z A hurtful silence would fill the room, and Laila could almost see the wordless hostility radiating from Mariam like waves of heat rising from asphalt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z But before she can vocalize her surprise, his lips close over hers and she is lost in wordless bliss. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was there now, his gray head bent over the wheel, chanting his wordless song. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Rut wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His stars are different from the ones in the Bible: they’re wordless, they flame in an obliterating silence. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I was filled with a wordless, obscurely murderous unrest. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Pale and wordless, she departed, with never a look back at him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The chant was audible but at that distance still wordless. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She should bring it up, she owed him that, but a wordless fear had seized her, a fear of breaking delicate things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was the kind of wordless testimony of struggle and anguish I heard all the time growing up in a small rural black church. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Peeta and I sit at the edge of the water, hand in hand, wordless. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z An involuntary, wordless shout left him as he took a few hurried steps along the drive, faltered, ran on, then stopped again, knowing that pursuit was pointless. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Long, wordless screams buffeted at her, and she clapped her hands over her ears to protect herself from the sounds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We lay in the tent for three days while the blizzard yelled at us, a three-day-long, wordless, hateful yell from the unbreathing lungs. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I made my way through the queen’s gallery, where the tapestries with their wordless stories hung dark and silent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Lancelot, swinging his dumb-bells fiercely and making his wordless noise, had been thinking of King Arthur with all his might He was in love with him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the memories I find are wordless. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Mrs. Asher opened her mouth to reply, but just at that moment, the wordless woman—V—made a noise like a startled horse. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Emma and I jumped and hugged each other; Horace fell to his knees and tossed up his arms in a wordless hallelujah! Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty and wordless descent of itself from the fly-specked ceiling. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She threw back her head and screamed, wordless in her anguish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Trembling, her mind a wordless whirl of dread, she waited. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The wordless song had the power of an operatic aria mingled with the sweetness of a lullaby. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But whether or not there actually is such a look, Seanie and I just had an intense and wordless conversation about Japanese poetry, his balls, and our gay friend, Joey Cosentino. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He talked and I sat, wordless as a brick. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Luke faltered, and he stood there wordless and wondering what he could say to get through to Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It was a wordless statement—it would take an Ml tank to stop us now. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z She shook her finger at the doctor, wordless for the moment. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I heard Kevin make a wordless sound of surprise, heard him ask, “What happened?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She made a wordless sound and covered her face with her hands. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I don’t speak wordless glance so I’m not sure what she was saying, but I sensed it wasn’t good for me. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ah, but in the schoolroom, at Christmas and graduation, when the mothers of other children came to the parties—then was the silent cry and the wordless longing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Rita will hum, while kneading or peeling: a wordless humming, tuneless, unfathomable. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Such was the simplicity of childhood, he thought now — events vanished, wordless. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z These are wordless dreams, dreams of the body. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As my parents waited on the other side of the door, we sat wordless, week after week. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In one motion, he embraced me and squeezed out my breath, wordless but shaking. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The wordless words of the rosary continued like the heartbeats of birds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a sad and wordless kind of song. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It seemed marvelous to see life pump through that strange little body of feathers, wordless noises, milk eyes—much as life pumped through me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A creamy, blond woman luxuriates under a refreshing shower, her head thrown back in seeming ecstasy, her mouth opened in a wordless cry. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It had been the country of trial by ordeal with red-hot irons, of the Law of Englishry, and of the sad, wordless song of Morfa-Rhuddlan. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z O'Connor turns the training sessions into a wordless split-screen montage, an overused lazy man's device that conveys nothing of the presumably meaningful interactions that took place between the two during the grueling workouts. 'Warrior': It's brother against brother in pounding drama 2011-09-08T20:33:11Z The Kalevala text is whispered, not sung; the rest of the soprano part is almost entirely vocalise: wordless singing. The Unsingable Music That Stumped a Diva 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The director Jamie Lloyd uses wordless, infectiously silly a capella singing – performed by the entire ensemble — to bridge the scenes of this late 18th-century frolic of love, lucre and mistaken identity. Critic?s Notebook: London Theater Journal: It's About Time 2012-02-02T15:38:37Z Still, the visuals, and the Vancouver singer's intermittent shouts, whoops and barks, add nothing to electronically processed music extremely dependent on airy loops and breathy wordless expressions. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z It is quiet, even wordless for large chunks. Ruth Negga: 'There are films that really mark you. Loving is one of those for me' 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z After the smiling, wordless manicurist applied each coat of gel, she placed my hands under a UV light to set the polish; each was as hard as a shiny stone within seconds. The Mirror: Jenny Allen, an Off Broadway Actress, on Gel Nail Polish 2012-03-15T22:17:07Z This is the scary, wordless vacuum that lurks beneath communal song. ArtsBeat: Nothing Rings True Like Authenticity 2011-07-26T18:21:23Z Eventually wails and pummeling drums; thwacks stark as bullets; and buzzing, bawling electric guitar overwhelm the shining ecstatic wonder, the wordless hymns. Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z On the night I went the trio performed wordless jazz for the most part, though the pianist, Loston Harris, added vocals for “I’m in the Mood for Love.” The Tipsy Diaries: Getting a Kick From Piano Bars 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z Robinson’s first book as both author and illustrator is a wordless story about a girl and her cat who discover a portal into another world, where children and pets encounter mirror versions of themselves. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Steven Mackey is far from the first composer to try his hand at the Orpheus myth, but he may be the first to treat it in what he calls a wordless opera for electric guitar. Spitfire Fiddling: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z As played by Gallo in an expressively wordless performance, Mohammed could be akin to the trapped mountaineer in 127 Hours, but with a political agenda and more blood on his hands. Toronto Film Festival: 10 Films to Talk About 2010-09-19T13:55:00Z Eyes open, staring in wordless wonder in a moment where time stands still. The Oscars Issue: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Shares Something With ‘Lincoln’ 2012-12-28T16:51:45Z He paused a long while, then resumed the play’s last little wordless bit, a coda now. ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ Review: Quiet Tragicomedies of Love and Loss 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z In “Let There Be Light,” Mr. Williams instead writes a swelling tone cluster of dissonant strings and wordless vocals, building an eerie tension that bursts and immediately recedes to a thick haze of high violins. ‘Psycho’ and ‘Close Encounters’ Roll at the Philharmonic 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z But you can talk about Monk's music, its use of repetition, its drones, modal harmonies, its often wordless vocalising. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z Director Taylor-Johnson relies on closeups of her star as the heroine, the wordless narrator and the go-between, assuring the audience that what goes on will have a measure of emotional intelligence. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z DiDonato walked the perimeter of the audience, singing the trumpet’s part as a wordless incantation. Review: Joyce DiDonato’s ‘Eden’ Takes Root at Carnegie Hall 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z “The Dam Keeper” is thin on dialogue, its plot delivered mostly by wordless, richly drawn comics storytelling. Under Siege From a Mysterious Fog 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The band plays almost wordless, progressive noise mixed with beautiful guitar work. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z But it's his colorful illustrations — including several wordless two-page spreads filled with bunches of zany-looking pigs — that really steal the show. New books by kid-lit legends 2011-11-11T01:25:25Z The work, made up of sustained chords, bells and, toward the end, wordless choral singing, is recorded on four separate tracks; parade participants receive one of these to play on their devices. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Unsilent Night’ and Participatory Music 2012-12-19T22:17:40Z 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 He was thinking about how to approach the densely packed music, layered with speech, vocal effects and wordless harmonies, when he noticed that his daughter’s toy set contained eight shapes. Justin Peck and Collaborators Combine Gravitational Universes 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z That wordless melody provides what resolution there is. The Playlist: Zayn’s Bizarrely Great Sleaze Rock and 13 More New Songs 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z “Worth It” starts out like it might be restful and languid: a little guitar picking, some wordless sustained singing, and Haley Heynderickx — a songwriter from Portland, Ore. — eventually musing, “Finally I’m ready for the silence.” The Playlist: John Prine Comes Home, and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z He’d also met a major goal: getting the Spielbergian operation to trust in the power of a wordless, poetic art form. With ‘West Side Story,’ choreographer Justin Peck brought dance into the Spielberg universe 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Farther away, we heard a choir’s wrenching yodels, traditional wordless songs alternating between falsetto and chest voice. A Grand Tour of Switzerland, Reluctant Son in Tow 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z As artists elsewhere have been speaking up about their treatment, the Ailey dancers, in their acts of wordless absence, have joined those ranks. Perspective | Why this is the moment for dancers to behave badly 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z I’ve finally begun to practice benign neglect — the wordless shrug, the see-one-performance-not-all-of-them, or the questions about the game I didn’t attend. Motherlode Blog: Confessions of a Mother Who Couldn’t Say ‘No’ 2013-07-26T14:04:06Z Like most of his books, “I Got It!” is wordless, apart from the title phrase, which appears first as aspirational shout and once again, many pages later, as triumphant cry. If Graphic Novels Are Hip for Adults, Why Not Picture Books? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The world of fashion — so corporatized now, the subject itself globally dispersed as a form of wordless entertainment — was fairly small in the ’90s. When Fashion Shows Were Fun 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z It isn’t hard for Laurel and Hank to hide Walter, as they call the wordless stranger. Books of The Times: ?The Cove,? a Novel by Ron Rash 2012-04-01T18:46:33Z As danced by Tiler Peck, the brilliant New York City Ballet principal who plays the central role, this wordless passage brings the musical to a stirring climax. ‘Little Dancer,’ With Tiler Peck as Degas Muse 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z A wordless little ditty, like a child singing to herself, is quickly doubled a couple of octaves below; a religious stateliness in the keyboards lies over a deep-pocketed groove, accented by spacey, jazzy guitar lines. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Before the year was out, Feldman had done so: the austerely beautiful, daringly static and pervasively quiet “Rothko Chapel,” scored simply for viola, celesta, percussion, two solo singers and wordless chorus. Music Review: Abstract Expressionism in Aural Mixed Media 2011-02-25T23:55:36Z It was Mr. Laurents’s notion to begin the show with an almost wordless sequence for the rival gangs — hardly what you’d expect from an established playwright with a solid ego. An Appraisal: Scrappy Papa of the Ultimate Stage Momma 2011-05-06T22:19:02Z In one notably effective wordless scene, Putin tries out poses in front of a mirror to see which makes him look most impressive. Putin, Chekhov and the Theater of Despair 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In one almost wordless scene, per Manhohla Dargis’s review, “You see the ferocity of the brothers’ love – and their pain – in eyes that have begun to water and in a stone face that will shatter.” A Star Is Born isn't sexist or 'rockist' – it's a cutting insight into so-called 'authenticity' 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Rose has a lot to say but can be just as compelling when delivering wordless vocalese. Review | At DC9 show, Lightmare’s mix of soul and punk sounds great at half speed and full tilt 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z And the piece as a whole has its own cumulative momentum, its music becoming denser and broader, coming to a period of wordless collective improvisation in the middle. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z Like Punchdrunk’s “Sleep No More,” “The Burnt City” is a nearly wordless performance, interspersed with interpretive dance and props in meticulously designed rooms. The Theater at War 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Alt-J’s songs are somber but laced with hooks: clear melody lines, wordless vocal refrains, upfront guitar riffs, stray effects. Review: Alt-J at Madison Square Garden 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Exploring what it means to form a community, the wordless production, for theatergoers 6 and older, will also be performed on April 7. 212-573-8791, ext. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Morrison uses newsreel and other film images of the flood to build a wordless narrative, and Mr. Frisell accompanies it with a score that is an artwork in its own right. Movie Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:16:58Z I loved the wordless sequence in which Elia and his mum watch TV together, and he persistently tries to take her hand, and she brushes it away, as if to say "don't be so soppy!" Film review: The Time That Remains 2010-05-27T21:25:00Z Voices turned into wordless percussion instruments on the rousing “A Commotion.” Concert review: Feist at the Riviera 2011-11-05T05:45:00Z Composed of long, wordless shots, it's set in Calabria, where an old shepherd lives. Nine of the best films for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:11Z Each story gets at least one, a wordless, full-bleed double-page spread that illustrates, extravagantly, either a large motif or an offhand moment from its story in richly textured paint. Showing the Indelible, Imperiled Bonds Between Animals and People 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Still, one of the most conspicuous accessories at the march may be wordless. Fashioning Protest for the Women’s March on Washington 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z But put any one of them in front of a mirror, with a tube of lipstick and some eyeliner, and he falls into a wordless rapture, as silent and luminous as a newly lighted candle. Theater Review: ‘Casa Valentina,’ a New Play by Harvey Fierstein 2014-04-24T02:00:16Z And how do you simulate the wordless gestures of affection that account for so much of personal connection? Bond Touch Bracelets and the New Frontiers of Digital Dating 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The content was enigmatic — sometimes wordless, sometimes poetic — but the evocation of apocalyptic distress was indelible. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Imbued with lilting melodies, the pieces often sound like wordless songs or operatic arias. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Among other delights, this program offered an exploration of vocalise: wordless music for a voice singing “ah” sounds. Music Review: Spending the Afternoon With a Femme Fatale 2011-05-16T21:51:57Z Few dancers seek such parts, which tend toward grizzled sorcerers rather than dashing princes, but Mr. O’Brien, in the opinion of balletgoers and many critics, invested them with a wordless emotional resonance rarely before seen. Shaun O?Brien, 86, New York City Ballet Dancer 2012-02-28T05:16:04Z There is one glorious, wordless spread where Smoot cuts across the gutter against a clamor of color. What the Shadow Knows: Picture Books on Runaway Reflections 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Diamond recalled she was “thunderstruck” years ago upon seeing Krymov’s wordless take on “Don Quixote,” with the whimsically phonetic title “Sir Vantes. Donkey Hot.” Amid Exile and Fire, a Revered Russian Theater Director Is Reborn 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The wordless yearning emo love stuff is unavoidable but Vampire Diaries is a faster, funnier, more entertaining alternative to the increasingly ponderous True Blood. States of bliss 2011-01-29T00:05:00Z Her pandemic project has been “The Storm Before the Calm,” an album of wordless meditation tracks striving for serenity. Drake Looks for Love, Repeatedly, and 9 More New Songs 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z If there’s a riot going on, you may rather finish the night with a wordless avalanche of noise. Music and 2014: Everyday Messiahs 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The song, with its springy wordless melody and clockwork overlay of meters, comes across as a deft piece of work, current in its thinking and light on its feet. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z The final scene, all but wordless, gives us the household routine of Pam and her family transformed into a ritualistic, presumably redemptive ballet. Theater Review: Psychological Turbulence Onstage 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z "It's relevant to my obsession with wordless novels. They're arguably the first real graphic novels, and I've been called the father of the graphic novel. But I'm here today demanding a blood test." Fall books preview: A busy literary season ahead 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Also impressive, by the sheer emotional weight he brings to his nearly wordless role, is Mr. Hadary. Review: ‘Incident at Vichy,’ an Arthur Miller Tale Set in World War II 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Everything that happens in the world of a baby is kindly observed in this near wordless picture book. The best children's books: 0-2 year-olds 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z It’s noteworthy for its superb wordless vocals, its spaghetti-Western vibe, and its innovative video, which demonstrates the effect of sound waves upon Oobleck. Five Songs 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z More quietly devastating is a scene in which a human couple stares nonchalantly over a dreamed landscape in a duet of wordless incantations as another dancer rushes around, as if scurrying in the undergrowth. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Sometimes they’re bored, sometimes silly, and sometimes they relax into an easy, almost wordless intimacy. ‘Aftersun’ Review: A Father and Time 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The award citation praised “Partita” as “a highly polished and inventive a cappella work uniquely embracing speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects.” Caroline Shaw, Award-Winning Composer 2013-04-18T00:31:19Z If you find yourself struck wordless when asked to define the fabled Australian “bogan”, fear not. Who will win my bogan vote? 2013-05-27T01:30:00Z On the closing “Share My Love,” the worlds of White and Kelly converge in a swirl of strings, piano and wordless vocals that smooths a path from the dancefloor to a palatial bedroom suite. Album review: R. Kelly, 'Write Me Back' 2012-06-25T15:43:00Z For one, each of the largely wordless stories is painted in acrylic, not drawn and inked in the traditional comics style. Prankster 'White Cube' comic gleefully dismembers the art world 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The amiable dance film “Rise” begins with a wordless sequence backstage at a Parisian ballet performance. ‘Rise’ Review: Step, Repeat, Recover 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Every detail of the wordless opening moments, even the offstage noises — a baby crying, an engine revving — will reverberate later on. ‘Selling Kabul’ Review: Trapped in a War, and an Apartment 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z His voice drifts in and out of a dream-like atmosphere of twinkling keyboards, disembodied guitars and wordless vocal harmonies. Album review: Wilco, 'The Whole Love' 2011-09-22T04:29:00Z “Saxophone Song” rode a frenzied uptempo swing, with a breakdown for distorted violin and wordless vocals; “Suspended in Gaffa,” originally a waltz girded in oompah, became a rush of metric shifts and chromatic frictions. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z She howls wordless "ahs" while banging on the piano, and she is magnificent. Regina Spektor – review 2012-07-07T23:05:38Z Five minutes into it, she began to sing in a wordless moan that felt ambiguous, then more specific, as if she were trying to locate a secret vowel between “uh” and “oh.” Review | Kim Gordon’s tribute to Yoko Ono: Cool and screamy, with a guitar on your face 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Those wordless phrases were unassuming, but any sense they were merely casual was soon swept away by her electronic manipulations. Review: 50 Violins, 50 Computer Chips, a Secular Prayer 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z We crave those bonds, especially the face-to-face, physical and even wordless human connections that happen so easily on the dance floor. Some day, we’ll hit the dance floor again. And it will be glorious. 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The moment was more wordless than I am now making it. Who Stays Gone, and Who Can Afford to Return 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z One popular version of the film poster, which spotlighted the black-and-gold Batman logo, was boldly wordless, save for the date: “June 23.” How Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ radically changed the superhero-movie landscape 30 years ago 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z You have to have a place to exercise a part of your brain that's feelings but wordless. "I'm not quiet, but my voice still warbles": Amanda Shires on her new album and owning her strength 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z At the Sterling Cooper party, there's some wonderful wordless acting from January Jones as she non-listens to Don's speech and thinks: "Who the hell is this man?" Mad Men: series three, episode ten 2010-03-24T22:45:00Z We follow them in this wordless, paneled story as they begin their day’s work. Picture Books About Cars, Trucks and Other Things That Clank, Roar and Move Fast 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The opening, wordless sequence in which Vic and Danny convert a nondescript flat into a prison for their hostage is really very good. Film review: The Disappearance of Alice Creed 2010-04-29T22:35:00Z Hushes, rushes, brightness, softness, clusters of woodwind notes, quiet choral wordless singing: the score covers a spectrum. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Opens Season With Gala 2014-05-09T23:25:13Z "Silent Land" ends with a haunting, wordless, final scene that illustrates what cannot be discussed. In the haunting "Silent Land," a couple's seaside stay in Italy plunges toward a moral implosion 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Oh, and enjoy those beautifully wordless pastoral landscapes of the rolling Essex countryside while you're at it. Do TV's 'scripted reality' shows fuel regional prejudice? 2011-07-16T23:07:08Z If you don’t find words to compass it, he says, “it becomes a wordless darkness, and you will never defeat it.” ‘Life of Pi’ Review: A Boy and a Tiger, Burning Brightly 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z As forms of wordless storytelling, mime and music are sister arts that rarely share a stage. Review: Japan Meets France, Through a Pianist’s Sensitivity 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Since their wordless interactions are drawn out — friends or strangers locking eyes across a crowded room and, minutes later, embracing or not — your eye can wander, searching for a story, or stories. ‘Crowd’ Review: A Slow-Motion Rave, With Glints of Violence 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The best moments — a young girl's fears of what's behind closed doors, an adolescent's sexual awakening, a woman feeling trapped and vulnerable on a cab ride — are hallucination-intense in their wordless nightmare logic. May 30 at SIFF: 'Waste Land,' 'Winter's Bone,' Joan Rivers documentary are highlights 2010-05-26T23:18:00Z It was like hearing a wordless mezzo-soprano in a Mozart . Music Review: New York String Orchestra, Conducted by Jaime Laredo, at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-31T21:05:36Z Within a long chapter called ‘Losing,’ Brosh pays tribute to her in a wordless, 12-page spread that offers images of their shared childhood. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z A Quiet Place has a clever, innovative premise: the Alien-style monsters can’t see but have exceptional hearing, so the humans in the film have to be almost wordless. John Krasinski: ‘I was never a horror movie guy - I was just too scared’ 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Three wordless spreads follow, in which Julián imagines frolicking in the ocean with dreamlike sea creatures. Picture Books to Help Kids Weather Our Age of Anxiety 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s an intriguing way to open a wordless film of black-and-white compositions that explores, among several themes, the ways in which we watch. Godfrey Reggio’s ‘Visitors’ Is a Two-Way Street for Viewers 2014-01-17T21:44:08Z And Sandy’s very presence presents a wordless conversation about femininity and feminism, since the world of the showgirl was created by men to please the eyes of men. What "GLOW" season 3 reveals about the working woman's gamble 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z These wordless scenes, mounted by the AENY-El Puente company, at the Duke on 42nd Street, evoke the peculiar disorientation and loneliness of navigating a new city. | 'Wearing Lorca?s Bowtie': ?Wearing Lorca?s Bowtie? at the Duke on 42nd Street - Review 2011-12-11T22:49:16Z In a matter-of-fact tone she lays out tales of personal mayhem in “Werewolf,” the daily “fight with my brain” in “Every Single Night” plays out in wordless shouts, and a howl sums up her “Regret.” Album review: Fiona Apple, 'The Idler Wheel ...' 2012-06-18T15:05:00Z At a concert there is a wordless but intense feedback loop between players and listeners. Disconcerted: A Music Critic’s Empty Nights 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z "Would You Fight for My Love" features Amanfu offering wordless tones that capture the longing of the lyric. Jack White's 'Lazaretto' taps Nashville for songs' wellspring 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Best scene I’ll go with those final wordless moments when Carson surveys the windowless bed chamber that has been his domain all these years. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 4: The Engine Purrs 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Its 15 shorts, chosen from more than 125 international submissions, include the emotionally resonant and essentially wordless “It Hit Upon the Roof,” from the Iranian director Teymour Ghaderi. Kidsfilmfest Is Back, With a Villainous Teddy Bear and Surfer Dudes 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It started almost songlike, with a haunting, wordless vocal melody answered by a limpid saxophone obbligato. Pairings Fulfill ‘A Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z By far his greatest talent is his eyebrows, which were brilliantly cast in the largely wordless horror The Quiet Place, and which certainly do a lot of heavy lifting here. Jack Ryan: John Krasinski’s eyebrows out act John Krasinski 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Some might call it contemporary dance, but Bourne prefers the terms “dance theater” or “wordless storytelling.” Matthew Bourne and the U.S. premiere of 'The Red Shoes': 'Art is important, it’s worth fighting for' 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z For one fleeting, disconcerting moment as you drive by, the wordless pictures line up exactly with the approaching view. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Lindstrand then arrived to tinkle Happy Birthday on a music box, before drifting airily through wordless vocal impressionism over the sounds of pealing bells and then into the simultaneously lyrical and dissonant Quiet Nights. Django Bates 50th Birthday 2010-10-06T20:59:00Z The tension between Gartside's appetite for deconstruction and his longing to abandon himself to the wordless joys of pop have nourished and tormented him ever since. Green Gartside: The brainiest man in pop (apart from Brian Eno) 2011-02-22T21:31:10Z As timeless as it is wordless, as disarming as it is funny, this is Christmas comedy from which only a real Scrooge could demur. The Boy With Tape on His Face – review 2012-12-21T18:07:35Z She remembered a largely wordless parting — just an “all right” from Mr. Cosby as she left to drive home. Andrea Constand’s Story: Will It Send Bill Cosby to Prison? 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z I understood the wordless song perfectly, and full of hope I hurried back to my hideout in the Science Museum, where I seated myself comfortably and unwrapped my tiny parcel. Short story: Message in a (Klein) Bottle by Russell Hoban 2012-07-19T16:04:37Z Glass Bowl Mode is wordless but, sadly, not entirely interior and private. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: How to deal with profound impatience? Try the Glass Bowl method. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z His playlists have been a feature of the shoot, used to inspire a mood in wordless scenes that will later be dubbed over: there might be Blondie, or Sparks, or Suicide. ‘Movie blood tastes so good’ – on The Neon Demon set with Nicolas Winding Refn 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Not bad for a wordless, one-man short that was shot in less than a day on borrowed equipment. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z Scored for two pianos, three wordless singers, wind instruments and percussion, it’s an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink concerto that gleefully tosses out notions of stylistic purity for the sake of big effects and a lingering ironic aftertaste. Music Review: Axiom, a Juilliard Ensemble, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-13T21:26:23Z On the surface, we struggled to connect, but something buried and wordless pulled us together. My Five-Week-Long First Date 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Duane Linklater, from Moose Cree First Nation in northern Ontario, contributes a pair of large sculptures that redeploy indigenous materials into wordless, melancholy formations. Artists Space Re-emerges as an Enduring Downtown Alternative 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s a great report, too, especially if you enjoy screaming wordless howls of rage into pillows. ‘Daddy’ not cool: why hipster dads want their kids to call them ‘Papa’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Moore is especially good at the wordless elements of this transformation, allowing us to see through the changing contours of her face what it is like when your mind empties out. 'Still Alice' powerfully presents a mind falling to Alzheimer's 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z "Till the World Ends" sets the tone with its steady climb into Euro-disco ebullience, with stuttering, wordless vocals and grand washes of synthesizers. Spears just along for the ride — all the way to the bank 2011-03-25T21:31:45Z Nearly wordless, it introduces floating ghouls, the Gentlemen, who still cameo my nightmares. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z But the director argued that Paquin’s character — whose wordless rejection of the aging Frank devastates him — was in no way diminished by her silence. Martin Scorsese Is Letting Go 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z But in Almada's calm, nearly wordless reverie, the cemetery, often shown at twilight, looks beautiful. 'El Velador': Beauty, despair captured in expanding graveyard 2012-07-05T20:51:04Z And in a wordless prologue we observe the tense interaction between the affluent-looking gentlemen in their morning suits and the Jews in their Orthodox garb. | 'The Merchant of Venice': Al Pacino Brings His Shylock to Shakespeare in the Park 2010-07-01T02:01:00Z "O, but Everyone/ Was a bird;" wrote Sassoon, "and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done." In defence of mumbling: there's a poetry in our quietness 2013-07-16T13:54:51Z The show is wordless, with a loud and oppressive soundtrack of music and live sound, but during the development process Hotel Modern explored presenting the work with text, taken from letters by extermination camp management. Kamp: 'Performing this work does get to you' 2013-03-15T06:54:57Z Yet the tears that brimmed in my eyes in those initial wordless moments receded almost as soon as the first dialogue was spoken. Theater Review: ?Death of a Salesman,? With Philip Seymour Hoffman 2012-03-16T02:11:33Z Holland is one of those filmmakers who doesn’t need dialogue to express meaning, and some of the strongest scenes in “Mr. Jones” are wordless or nearly so. ‘Mr. Jones’ Review: Bearing Witness to Stalin’s Evil 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Raymond Briggs, the children’s author whose cheeky illustrations dignified workaday British life and an audacious breadth of emotions, most prominently in the wordless escapades of “The Snowman,” has died. Raymond Briggs, Illustrator of ‘The Snowman,’ Dies at 88 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z As the groove deepens, the reeds and brass of the Frankfurt Radio Big Band swarm around Somi’s voice, rendering it almost weightless, until finally, singing in wordless harmony with the flutes, it evaporates into air. Taylor Swift’s Heartbreak Dreamscape, and 9 More New Songs 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The consistent, haunting melancholy of the music and lyrics — most of them spoken word, with Salvant’s vocals mostly wordless — were communication enough. Ambrose Akinmusire and Cecile McLorin Salvant, perfectly attuned to each other 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z If you haven’t taken the opportunity to sit in a dark room to listen to wordless music without any obvious form, the experience is a bit like having a personal score for your daydreams. The Case for New Age Music as American Folk Art 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z My favorite of his sketches is a wordless interlude with Gilda Radner at a laundromat where they meet, see there’s just one machine available and decide to do their clothes together. John Belushi in Focus: What a New Film Gets Right and What It Misses 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z The title track is also a big win, using flutes over mysterious, world-traveling grooves, coloring the space with wordless singing. Review roundup: five local, late-summer albums of note 2011-08-19T19:01:15Z Loaded with typically murky, watery beats and trademark wordless backing vocals, it's an off-kilter, densely hypnotic listen. Avey Tare: Down There - review 2010-10-21T22:50:00Z The latter mainly provided wordless vocals in harmony with the horns but took the lead on Washington’s sweet closer, “The Rhythm Changes,” and a hip-hop-inflected arrangement of the bebop standard “Cherokee.” An emotionally charged performance from Kamasi Washington 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Electronic enhancement feeds wordless choral halos and shivers of percussion around the theater, amplifying shadowy, jazzy riffs, distantly reminiscent of Gershwin, and dusky slashes out of a Bernard Herrmann film score. ‘Hamlet,’ a New Opera, Makes Shakespeare Strange 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z They made an inscrutable, wordless art movie called Daft Punk's Electroma. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z Also recommended are low wordless harmonies, the kind that summon up a cosy fireside. Bob Stanley's guide to writing the perfect Christmas hit 2010-12-16T22:15:01Z “The Naked Island,” released in 1960, is a stark, wordless drama, filmed in quasi-documentary style, about an impoverished farming family scraping out a living on a barren outcropping devoid of fresh water. Kaneto Shindo, Filmmaker, Dies at 100 2012-06-01T15:03:10Z Applauding was an unremarkable reflex: the punctuation between one song and the next, a wordless expression of approval, clearing the air for the next organized vibrations. All Alone With a Microphone 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z “Prayer” sets a tone of melancholy determination, with a quiet snare-drum march and the deep, wordless vocalizing of Abbey Lincoln. Review: Ailey Rages in ‘Survivors’ and Finds Humor in ‘Roy’s Joys’ 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z “Land of the Throat” roams abandoned or sullied sites around Guangzhou and Shenzhen, avoiding character and plot in favor of wordless, melancholy shots that cohere into a lurid dreamscape. Chinese Artists Redraw Boundaries in ‘Tales of Our Time’ 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Then the record stops and starts through drum rolls and cymbal crashes and rattled bells, with theatrical yelping, wordless vocals by Eri Shoji. Playlist: Surfboards, Harmonies and Sheet Metal 2010-09-19T20:25:00Z With that, Ms. Rampling pressed her palms together and bowed slightly before walking away, a wordless benediction that she offered throughout the evening. At 69, Charlotte Rampling Knows What ‘You Look Amazing’ Really Means 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Every character, speech bubble, wordless panel and choice of color serves the story in meaningful ways. Can India Be Her Homeland, Even if She’s Never Been There? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Twitchy electronics and a fitful beat underline the anxieties; wordless voices offer partial solace and solidarity, but nothing is guaranteed. The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The central figure in “Tidal” is not a dancer but Ms. Laverman who, tall and spindly in black, opens the work with wordless vocalizing. Dance Review: Swirls of Motion in Black and White 2010-12-06T23:25:00Z On the Helen side, Synetic Theatre landed 23 nominations for its movement-based productions, with 11 for its wordless Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” ‘Helen’ meets ‘Hayes’ in newly expanded theater awards 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Look also for her other wordless books, including “Museum Trip” and “Rainstorm.” Review | Terrific children’s books without words 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Instead, a soprano sings a wordless aria in three movements that lasts about 10 minutes and ends with a scream. Review: NYCO mixes familiar with far-out 2011-03-28T16:46:04Z Either way, nobody could accuse him of subversion because there could be nothing incriminating in a wordless piece of orchestral music. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Though “Speech Impediment” and “Perpluzzle” were two of the show’s most rhythmically charged pieces, Oh sang along in high wordless vocals — offsetting the rhythms with an alluring, otherworldly glow. Review | An evening of exceptional rhythm from jazz bassist Linda Oh 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Look also for Lee’s other wordless books, including “Mirror” and “Lines.” Review | Terrific children’s books without words 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Madani, a painter originally from Tehran now living in Los Angeles, contributed a wordless animation. ArtsBeat: In Nod to Past, MTV Revives 'Art Breaks' 2012-03-30T13:00:18Z And the wordless, gut-deep howl with which she concludes “Apologia” is more wrenching and revelatory than any of the carefully arranged words that precede it. Review: Stockard Channing Is a Mother to Remember in ‘Apologia’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Melody rules, thanks to countless wordless vocal hooks and Bruno’s surf-guitar fills. Album review: Best Coast, 'The Only Place' 2012-05-14T17:54:00Z The lead characters often deploy a physical language somewhere between dance and simple gesture, a kind of wordless acting and reacting. It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z “Bloom” doesn’t significantly alter the duo’s approach: shivering slide guitars, shimmering keyboards, muted percussion, Legrand’s disembodied voice floating in a thick haze of wordless backing harmonies. Album review: Beach House, 'Bloom' 2012-05-14T14:53:00Z Norberto Lobo’s pieces, instrumental except for a bit of wordless singing, seem to move through country blues, Tin Pan Alley ballads, experimental drones and minimalism. Albums From Jesse Stacken and Norberto Lobo 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z That moment was pure Flossie, leaving us wordless with her astounding sense of authenticity and truth and humility. “Brief But Spectacular” stars Mahogany L. Browne and Flossie Lewis in conversation 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Trade paper Variety called it "that mainstream-movie rarity: a virtually wordless film that speaks with grave eloquence and simplicity about the human condition." JC Chandor gains a Cannes hit with 'All Is Lost' 2013-05-24T09:00:11Z But if the choice ultimately comes down to Norma’s wordless warmth and Piper’s used-panty emporium, I’m going with Norma every time. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Norma Romano's Magic 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z What would start as a stilted, wordless transaction between two people who shared nothing would tilt once I pointed to myself and said, “Brazil!” With the 2016 Summer Olympics just a year away, what Brazil can learn from World Cup 2014 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z And lest the poignant, nearly wordless exchange make you wonder whether true love and fresh dragon eggs have softened Daemon, a few minutes later we see him slice a man’s head in two. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: Calamitous Ambition 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Bullet in the Head, in 2008, was a mysterious, almost wordless movie in which the characters were filmed from afar, as if under surveillance. Cannes 2012: The Dream and the Silence – review 2012-05-24T12:34:30Z A wordless poker game acted out to Beethoven, for example, has its comic appeal, but the synchronization was just as impressive for demonstrating Kovacs’s experimentation with sound and image. That Kovacs Touch: Comedy?s Lunatic Fringe 2011-05-06T23:24:49Z But the thing I'm most looking forward to is Theatre Mala Scena's Parachutists or On the Art of Falling at the Pit, a wordless show for three to eight-year-olds about what keeps the world together. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-10-15T14:13:00Z An electronic voice, apparently emanating from a device somewhere in the orchestra section, intruded into the wordless last moments of “Sea Wall.” The Cell, the Spell and the Mystery of ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The glum, wordless Paul leaves the party early, as does the beautiful and understanding Jess. Movie Review: ‘10 Years,’ a Comedy Directed by Jamie Linden 2012-09-13T22:55:13Z Neither are exactly a barrel of laughs, but they nevertheless feel like a long, relieved exhalation of breath after Feral's muggy, wordless dread. Radiohead: The King of Limbs ? review 2011-02-24T15:30:01Z Less explicit yet more eloquent are such wordless pictures as “Bloodletting,” in which torrents of pigment nearly submerge the stars and stripes. Review | In the galleries: A wide array of media carry election-year messages 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z As children we have gentle, wordless expectations that the big people in our lives will endeavor to keep us from harm, or, at the very least, not harm us. Toni Morrison’s ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Many of the album’s best moments are wordless ones. Wilco Makes an Understated Magnum Opus 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z If being miserable in a happy way is his idea of heaven, imagine what the first wordless eight years were like. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z Her entry also fundamentally changes the show from a visually stunning, wordless survival epic into the most wonderfully unconventional tragic love story on TV. "Primal" may be the most unconventional love story on TV. Just not in the way you think 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z In this wordless graphic novel-style picture book, Grace’s class wants a new hamster. Standout New Picture Books 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z “Breaking Fun” flirts with a disco beat and twists it into something far more sinister, Adele’s wordless harmonies like distant laughter that feeds the disgust of Paterson’s narrator. Album review: Sons and Daughters, 'Mirror Mirror' 2011-07-11T04:18:00Z Tired, bewildered, sitting beside my daughter in her bed, I said a series of wordless prayers, my clumsy attempts at devotion. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z At the heart of the symphony, structurally and emotionally, is the adagio, the wordless love scene, conceived for orchestra alone. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z The key things to appreciate in it are the "ah-ah-ahs" and "ba-da-bup-pas" — little wordless refrains that The Head and the Heart weave into their music that endear it to crowds. Analyzing two new songs by Seattle's The Head and the Heart 2011-11-30T21:12:40Z Ogawa’s introspection leads, as so much self-reflection does, back to her parents, and especially to her strained and often wordless relationship with her late father. ‘The Nosebleed’ Review: Reconciling the Ghosts in the Attic 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Dance, being wordless, leaves ample room for interpretation, perhaps more than other art forms. No More Gang Rape Scenes in Ballets, Please 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Listen carefully to last year’s “Luciferian Towers” and a wordless message comes through — one of fear and longing and hope and glory. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Frantic, nearly wordless, and full of absurdist touches such as a light switch that turns day into night, it shows a side of Henson, who died in 1990, that may be unfamiliar to many fans. Book Talk: Absurdist Jim Henson film that wasn't 2012-01-19T10:01:06Z Boseman would watch the action onstage, mesmerized by verbal directions he strained to comprehend, and by the lights, and by the grace-filled bodies in wordless dialogue. How Chadwick Boseman Embodies Black Male Dignity 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z My mom would bring home used printer paper from work and I covered the backs of the sheets with dense drawings and wordless stories. A Charming, Poignant Middle-Grade Memoir of Soviet Russia 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z It is also the name for the plaintive, wordless singing in Spain’s signature folk music. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The recent "Feel So Close" elicited a spirited call-and-response, while Harris' keen melodicism held the crowd's attention through lengthier wordless passages. Girls flock to see Calvin Harris and Ed Sheeran at Jingle Ball 2012-12-17T21:09:04Z The racing strings evoked Giselle’s heart palpitations, and the questions and reassurances in the music when the two lovers danced brought to mind a wordless operetta. Uncommonly intimate ‘Giselle’ at the Kennedy Center The wordless show “is banged, tapped, swished, clicked and clomped by eight choreographed percussionists,” Stephen Holden wrote in his 1994 review for The New York Times. ‘Stomp’ to Close in New York in January 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z She started off on the floor, seated behind a panel of effects pedals, and began to sing, summoning ribbons of wordless vibrato from the depths of her windpipe. Review | On ‘Jacqueline,’ Haley Fohr sends her alter ego on a road trip 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z In “Muscle Memory,” Kelsea Ballerini orchestrates an instinctive reunion with an old flame — “my body won’t forget our history” — with classic tools: two chords, a backbeat, a lead guitar with wordless caresses. Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Uzuri began her performance offstage, singing into a microphone in wordless, a cappella peals and shaking a tambourine. Wynton Marsalis Provokes Again With Head-Scratching ‘Ever Fonky Lowdown’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Chandor’s nearly wordless tale of Robert Redford lost at sea, sound provides much of the story and the tension. The Carpetbagger: ‘All Is Lost’s’ 2 Crucial Characters: Redford and That Boat 2014-02-21T16:34:05Z In “Svyati,” a setting of Russian Orthodox liturgy sung in Old Slavonic, the foremost voice was that of Mr. Rath’s cello, sounding a wordless paean atop choral lines that rose and fell with pious sobriety. Music Review: Washington Square Music Festival With West Village Chorale 2012-07-11T21:56:11Z He’s fluent in a wordless language, in the immediate transference of emotions. Dancing dads are the new darlings of social media. Here’s why we need more of them. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z It was scored not for an orchestra but for the Philip Glass Ensemble, which consisted of two electric keyboards, three wind instruments and a wordless solo soprano, all exuberantly amplified by a rock-style sound mixer. ‘Einstein on the Beach’ Revival at BAM Raises Questions 2012-08-31T14:06:50Z But the wordless chalkboard in between those two — bearing a friendly pastel drawing of a mask — got only silence. I Love London Theater. But Not London Theatergoing. 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Rightly or wrongly, Up has become famous and almost legendary for the wordless sequence at the beginning. Every Pixar film ever made - Ranked! 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z After eight weeks in limited release, this virtually wordless evocation of Hollywood’s silent-film era finally got to A Theater Near You—and You didn’t care. Underworld Overachieves, Red Tails Flies High and Haywire Gets KO'd 2012-01-22T21:51:13Z She's a floating sprite, her murmurs and wordless refrains sprinkling sonic pixie dust as plucked harps, pounding drums and dynamic swells echo. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z Voices were layered like a horn section on “Lady,” with staccato interjections and wordless counterpoint melodies. Concert review: Mary J. Blige and D'Angelo at the United Center 2012-09-14T07:07:00Z Sometimes called “silent books,” wordless books aren’t always totally without text. Review | Books don’t always need words. Here’s why some stories are better without them. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z When Broemel added his own high, wordless harmonies, the sound was otherworldly – like a choir punching through to an alternative universe. My Morning Jacket builds its alternative universe of southern surrealism 2011-06-19T07:00:00Z “It was hard to listen for a lot of years,” McCready said of “Above” and the wordless songs that had been recorded, then put away. Rock ghosts play again 2013-03-01T00:47:33Z Yet this largely wordless series of tableaus tells a story of abandonment, and the baby in the bulrushes isn’t the only injured party. Review: ‘Go down, Moses,’ Romeo Castelluci’s Mostly Wordless Story of Abandonment 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The galloping sequence is just one of the pulse-quickening effects in this production, the latest in Synetic’s wordless adaptations of classics. Review | ‘Sleepy Hollow’ isn’t Synetic’s very best work, but it will certainly quicken your pulse 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z “Drifting back to the predictable cycles of tadpoles and the ballet of fireflies, Kya burrowed deeper into the wordless wilderness. Nature seemed the only stone that would not slip midstream.” From a Marsh to a Mountain, Crime Fiction Heads Outdoors 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Soprano Ruby Hughes's brief, wordless contributions laid her voice strikingly bare. BBCSSO/Manze – review 2012-10-28T14:00:38Z The current Arkestra, led by the saxophonist Marshall Allen, reclaims the song without words, as a leisurely bolero with saxophones or wordless voices carrying the succinct melody over Afro-Caribbean percussion. Billie Eilish Contemplates Distraction, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z And with that they rediscovered, as Finn puts it, "the power of the wordless chorus" for live audiences. Their last “easy” record: The Hold Steady’s “Stay Positive” and what came after 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Yet these wordless images leave themselves open to interpretation — and sometimes, mockery. Seen but rarely heard: How Melania Trump is approaching the public role of first lady. 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Opsvik sings on many tracks, a mix of wordless vocalizations and abstract lyrics. Music From a Distance? Eivind Opsvik Has Been Making It for Years 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The National Ballet of Canada brought Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of “The Winter’s Tale” to the Kennedy Center in January, and Arlington’s Synetic Theater is well known for its wordless movement versions of Shakespeare’s plays. A balletic ‘Hamlet’ takes one giant leap from Texas to Washington 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The entire claim of waste depends on the assumption that anything called “wordless Shakespeare” is artistically fraudulent. Most foul: Senator singles out Synetic’s ‘silent’ Shakespeare 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The Pulitzer citation aptly described some of the techniques involved: “speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects.” Review: Roomful of Teeth Stretches for a Piano Premiere 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Horses, magnificently wordless in themselves, excite passionate differences of opinion in their admirers and the museum has been petitioned, urging that certain breeds be championed. The Horse: From Arabia to Royal Ascot – review 2012-05-26T23:05:41Z He was about to hit the coda to “Process” — a heart-baring anthem of solitude and self-forgiveness, which he uses to close all his concerts — and he wanted some familiar voices to join the wordless melody. Samora Pinderhughes Explored Incarceration in Song. The Result Is ‘Grief.’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z One critically acclaimed recent A.R.T. show that she imported from England, “Sleep No More,” requires participants to walk through a series of elaborately designed rooms where nearly wordless scenes from “Macbeth” are unfolding. 2010-02-07T18:11:00Z While “Transblucency” may be her signature piece in the genre, Ms. Davis recorded several other noteworthy wordless vocals — many accompanied by the renowned trombonist Lawrence Brown — including “Violet Blue,” “Minnehaha” and “On a Turquoise Cloud.” Kay Davis, 91 Dies; Ellington Used Her Voice as Instrument 2012-02-23T09:25:22Z Absurd and nearly wordless, the brisk 75-minute show at BAM Fisher is composed of a series of vignettes. Review: In ‘Dimanche,’ a Climate Emergency Comes to Stay 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Country accents and surf delay spin the guitar lines, which curl underneath wordless harmonies and tamed feedback. Pitchfork in review: Odd Future plays nice 2011-07-18T04:27:00Z “Allumette” is a bittersweet wordless story about a young girl in a multilevel city in the clouds. Virtual Reality Movies Add Dimension to Tribeca Festival 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z At one point, the piece broke into what seemed like subdued flamenco, complete with Mr. Schimmel’s soft, wordless singing. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-16T21:42:46Z Even with such assistance, audiences unfamiliar with the play will be bewildered, as when the disastrous sea battle of Actium is rendered as a wordless symbolic dance. Theater Review: An ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Set in the Caribbean 2014-03-06T03:00:17Z Cooke, an actor famous for pantomime, . setting the template for an inarticulate, if not entirely wordless, monster. Frankenstein at 200 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z His subtle, often wordless reactions perfectly punctuate scenes such as when sports-averse Amy claims her favorite team is the Orlando Blooms. 'Trainwreck's' Amy Schumer is raunchy, funny and heartfelt 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The group was an experiment, and Stepney its gleeful chemist, mixing gospel, strings and soulful grooves with unexpected, even jarring sounds and wordless, atmospheric interludes. 46 Years After His Death, the Producer Charles Stepney Shines Again 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z My introduction to her album “Midnight Rain” and her rendition of “Bluesette” showcased her courageous and creative approach to her music, especially her use of wordless sounds, which I also incorporate in my performance. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Telling its story through three women’s letters to the same man, the play stars the Japanese actor Miki Nakatani as the women, and Mikhail Baryshnikov in the wordless, physically eloquent role of the man. ‘The Hunting Gun’ Review: Letters to Burn After Reading 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The song is a suite of three disparate sections — two carrying lyrics, one wordless with a spooky high vocal, each section a crescendo of increasing density and dissonance. The Playlist: Christina Aguilera’s Bizarre Puzzle, and 13 More New Songs 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Every sentence started with a noise like a peeved cat, or a baptist healer in the throes of glossolalia, then built to a wordless shambles before dying of loneliness. TV's five most memorable mumblers 2013-07-16T11:45:22Z Spectators can chase after the actors, enjoying wordless, dance-heavy scenes, or linger alone in luxuriant rooms — reading letters, sniffing herbs. ‘Sleep No More’ Awakens After a Long Hibernation 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z The work develops slowly to reveal the effects of time and is, in part, a wordless morality tale, which balances the formality and the serpentine theatricality that grace all of Ms. Stuart’s work. Dance: Meg Stuart Choreographs ?Blessed? at New York Live Arts 2012-01-06T20:40:21Z What is most striking is that all these scenes are wordless. Alfred Hitchcock: from silent film director to inventor of modern horror 2012-06-15T21:55:07Z Dropping to his knees in wordless horror, he busily tries to clean a blade as bloodied as Macbeth’s. | 'The Princess of Montpensier': Pawn, Prize and Beauty, So Submit She Must 2011-04-14T22:43:40Z The principal features of his pictures are stenciled letters and numerals, but these are smeared, overpainted or obscured so as to become partly abstract, and thus akin to the artist’s wordless brushwork. In the galleries: Expect the unexpected as two artists engage in a ‘Surreal Dialogue’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z It’s a moment not of historical revisionism but of wordless acknowledgment that this little person was a boy all along, no matter what the birth certificate said. Why ‘The Cher Show’ Gets Me, Babe 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Because the show is wordless, save for a few gibberish sounds and some good-natured grunting, its cadence and comedy are accessible to a wide variety of audiences. Farewell to ‘Stomp,’ a Show at the Beating Heart of New York 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The 10 songs blow past in less than 33 minutes, with robust melodies resolving in arms-wide-open choruses augmented by wordless “sha-la-la” vocal harmonies. Album review: Redd Kross, 'Researching the Blues' 2012-08-07T04:24:00Z The wordless communication between father and son was resonant affirmation of the unique wavelength they shared. Perspective | Lin-Manuel Miranda speaks out in favor of another great man. This time, it’s his dad. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z It may be most successful, though, in its ominous wordless panels — such as those of overloaded boats tipping bodies into the silent, uncaring ocean. Comics of Violence and Nostalgia From War-Torn Syria 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z 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 The album opens not with bouncy rock but with the wordless vocal harmonies and mournful descending chords of a track called “Think About the Days.” New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z Reassurance and communion are major themes in those songs, which helps explain why so many of their best moments involve wordless lyrics: your ohhs and whoas and oohs. Music Review: Coldplay at the Barclays Center on Sunday 2012-12-31T21:44:58Z Burton played the title role, while Taylor was the four-minute wordless apparition of Helen of Troy. Elizabeth Taylor obituary 2011-03-23T14:01:48Z Schlitz ably conveys children’s wordless emotions, like the feeling of not really wanting to do something destructive but not being able to stop yourself. Star-Crossed Friends in Ancient Greece 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Toward the end of the production, we watch a wordless tableau of pre-human ancestors, a family in a cave, a baby who is welcome news. Review: ‘Go down, Moses,’ Romeo Castelluci’s Mostly Wordless Story of Abandonment 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z He also engineers a static, almost wordless 19-minute shot inside a tent that generates more tension than many horror directors achieve with a swarm of foley artists and a healthier budget. ‘Willow Creek,’ a Good Old Hunt for Sasquatch 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Raschka decided to use a canine as the star of his book to give it more universal appeal, and he determined to make it wordless so that it could be accessible to nonreaders. 'Daisy' runs off with Caldecott and 'Dead End' takes Newbery 2012-01-28T06:24:08Z It begins by setting Banks amid wordless voices and a few sparse piano notes, opens an abyss with deep bass notes, then closes in with suffocating synthesizer chords and whizzing, menacing effects. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Eyes closed, shaping every utterance with her hands, she sings a wordless song from a world of her own. In an endless news cycle, art at Glenstone both echoes and quiets the chaos 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Wordless, it was written and illustrated by Guojing, whose first book was the similarly wordless and affecting “The Only Child.” Are You a Dog Person or a Cat Person? Or Hamster, or Turtle, or ... 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Curtis revealed she threw in a direct wordless homage to "Halloween" in episode 2. Ryan Murphy says 'Scream Queens' is an homage to Jamie Lee Curtis 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z This time, Mitchell offered wordless vocals of her own, her sinuous lines woven carefully into the instrumental fabric. Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra brings celestial sounds to the Green Mill 2011-01-08T15:53:00Z Those lines return later in “Ghosteen Speaks,” with soothing major chords cascading between keyboards and wordless vocal harmonies; Cave makes the same promise in full voice. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The wordless scene is so meticulous in its details that some countries banned the movie for fear that criminals would use it as an instruction manual. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z In its last 15 minutes “Mr. Jones,” buoyed by low-fi but highly aggressive special effects, becomes a nearly wordless experimental experience. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Mr. Jones’ 2013-04-18T16:09:28Z This wordless book is so lavishly detailed, so exuberantly trippy, a kid can spend hours getting lost in its pages. Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Their voices permeate the space either through wordless chanting or Ardizoni intoning comforting phrases like, “The sun will rise again, in time.” Chill Vibes, Minus the Wind Chimes: It’s a New Day for New Age Music 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, asked recently, referring to Mrs. Trump’s near invisibility on the campaign trail, her sole appearance a wordless photo op for which she smiled prettily as her husband announced his candidacy. Melania Trump, the Silent Partner 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Corral's wordless, a cappella "Meditation" enters into Ligeti territory with four singers treated to electronic feedback and mimicking what might be mistaken for an airplane in perpetual lift off. L.A. composers, singers take center stage at SongFest 2015 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z He put on The Birdie Song, a wordless oompah number that was a novelty hit in 1981 for the Tweets, who performed it dressed as fluffy birds. When pop goes bad: novelty records 2010-09-22T20:30:00Z So they did, and the wordless punchline got one of the film’s biggest laughs. Four Secrets About ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z None of this would automatically disqualify “Nebuchadnezzar” as opera: There are wordless operas, spoken operas, unclear operas. Kanye West Is Operatic. His Opera Isn’t. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The nadir arrives in the plaintive “How,” a woe-is-me ballad undercut by Spektor’s wordless vocal interjections that sound as if someone were pinching her arm. Album review: Regina Spektor, 'What We Saw From the Cheap Seats' 2012-05-30T02:12:00Z Tan is best known for two more recent best-sellers, the short story collection "Tales from Outer Suburbia" and the graphic but wordless migrant journey "The Arrival." A new life for Shaun Tan's lovable lost thing 2011-03-02T19:34:21Z In putting her onstage, Lloyd didn’t touch the text; it was a simple, wordless role. A Director Making His Mark in More Ways Than One 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Which other “Nutcracker” turns the wordless singing in the Snow music into a hair-raising dramatic ingredient, as Mr. Ratmansky’s does here? Dance Review: ‘The Nutcracker’ From American Ballet Theater at BAM 2013-12-15T22:25:37Z Instead she performed a wordless choreographed sequence that also functioned as a tour of the spectacular United Palace theater in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Unscripted or Not, the Tonys Were Mostly Predictable 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Throughout the film, as he did in Moonlight, the director lingers over often wordless scenes between his characters, presenting them as a series of moving photographs. Barry Jenkins: ‘When you climb the ladder, you send it back down’ 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z The season opens with a wordless prologue, a mood-setting vignette of tragedy and compassion, like something from “2001” or “The Tree of Life.” Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Starts Over Beautifully in Season 2 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z They got it, most recently, in “Sleep No More,” a deconstructed, noirish, mostly wordless “Macbeth” presented in three abandoned warehouses on West 27th Street beginning in 2011. ‘Queen of the Night’ Opens at the New Diamond Horseshoe Club 2013-12-26T21:42:17Z Her troubled face is like a wordless letter smuggled out of prison — the confinement of the church's expectations that she will be a dutiful wife and believer. Higher Ground: When God Doesn't Talk Back 2011-08-25T07:05:00Z They'll join in a "circle song" on the stage, where McFerrin will set up revolving wordless vocal patterns with the young singers, and let the music happen in a joyfully improvisatory way. Bobby McFerrin ? singer? songwriter? conductor? all of the above 2011-03-07T20:55:04Z “It’s just become so uncool,” added the experimental playwright Young Jean Lee, whose wordless play “Untitled Feminist Show” drew rave reviews in January. ArtsBeat: New York, Cultural Capital of the World? Discuss 2012-05-08T18:40:39Z Hardly less sensational was the reception for Samsara, Ron Fricke’s wordless, globe-trotting attempt to display, and evoke, a higher state of consciousness. Expendables 2 Takes the Top Slot Again, but Obamaphobia is Riding High 2012-08-26T22:33:37Z Just as affecting is The Man Who Died in His Boat by Portland's Grouper, full of hazy, wordless vocals and chillingly lovely ambient electronics. The best albums of 2013 (so far) - the critics' choice 2013-07-11T19:53:04Z The trio performed a nearly hour-long improvisation whose wordless vocalese was accompanied primarily by violin and percussion, supplemented sparingly by keyboards and electronics. Review | Throat singer Tanya Tagaq is both earthy and ethereal in Kennedy Center performance 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The other “As You Like It” running in town is the wordless version at Synetic Theater. Riot Grrrls says no to all-female ‘Taming of the Shrew’ 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z The rare opportunity to hear Baker sing in person wound up being worth the wait, as her wordless trills at the beginning of the opening number "Mystery" immediately made apparent. Anita Baker shines after long wait at Chicago Theatre 2011-02-13T16:06:00Z When the lyrics were done, the songs continued, often in wordless vocal harmonies over tolling chords. | The Antlers: Strumming Off This Mortal Coil 2009-12-17T05:48:00Z The music of “Prayer Song” hovers with electric-piano chords and wordless backup voices; the lyrics are a kaleidoscopic, free-associative vision of Los Angeles, touching on lust, violence, gentrification, plastic surgery, masculinity, conspicuous consumption and religion. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In George Crumb’s deeply affecting “Apparition,” bird calls and other wordless vocalizations link a song cycle on the subject of living and dying. Music Review: Resonant Bodies Festival at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn 2013-09-06T22:26:20Z Filled with visual echoes and wordless longing, it is almost Escher-like in its simple complexity, proving the truth of Elizabeth's thesis by making the silences almost as eloquent as the words that fill it. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-28T07:30:00Z A self-proclaimed jazz singer, Bilal plunged into wordless improv on “Back to Love,” scatting in tandem with his backup singer, Micah Robinson. Review: Bilal Brings Far-Out Viewpoint to This Life and His Show 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z He looked fit Saturday in a red outfit and leather cap, his voice still bearing its gospel pedigree with extended, wordless cries and soaring pleas. Concert review: Bobby Womack at Brilliant Corners festival 2012-09-24T04:52:00Z These juxtapositions—man’s vagueness against the hard specificity of the structures that surround him; ground-level squalor and cleanliness above—are a wordless description, and rebuke, of forties Harlem’s alienating and dehumanizing decay. Ralph Ellison and Gordon Parks’s Joint Harlem Vision 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Its urban soundscape is uncluttered and unhurried, floating in the midrange over a simple beat, and its long wordless coda launches an extended synthesizer line to soar overhead. Florian Schneider’s 10 Essential Songs, in Kraftwerk and Beyond 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z It was entirely wordless, told instead through dance, mime and music. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2011-08-06T23:06:34Z It offered an “unchanging message of comfort,” he wrote in his memoir “Theme and Variations”; its “wordless gospel proclaims in a universal language what the thirsting soul of man is seeking beyond this life.” Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z They perform their wordless scenes as they race from room to room. "Sleep No More": Shakespeare meets Internet games 2011-08-16T18:01:00Z Because I was close to my mom, I held onto a vague and wordless sense that I was responsible for what she did. In the house of alternative facts: How my parents' lies prepared me for post-truth America 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z The footage, stripped-down and sensuous, plays like a continuous, wordless manifesto affirming the elemental power of earthen matter worked by human hands. Ceramics as a performance art: Pomona museum puts clay in motion on screen 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The time comes when one must accept his destiny to be a blacksmith like his stern father, and wordless father-son eye contact seals their bond. Movie Review: ‘The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013’ Anthology 2013-01-31T22:57:57Z Far the best thing in it, I thought, was its last movement, a wordless melody matching Morgan Smith’s almost unearthly vocal delicacy with Gray’s magically disembodied cello sound. Heggie and Scheer at their best for Music of Remembrance | Classical review 2013-05-15T17:54:19Z But it is the wordless visions provided by nature that register as most deeply and tantalizingly Shakespearean. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z But the wordless "You, You, You" is all about that initial three-note melody, and repeats it like a mantra. Friday Favorites: USF, Sax G Whiz, ????? 2010-08-27T17:09:00Z Among the best-known wordless works was “Creole Love Call,” sung by Adelaide Hall in 1927. Kay Davis, 91 Dies; Ellington Used Her Voice as Instrument 2012-02-23T09:25:22Z There is, to be sure, some of the expected celestial-violins stuff so beloved by cinematic composers, with wordless backup choruses that turn Iowa into the land of “ahs.” Theater Review: ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Brings Iowa to Broadway 2014-02-21T03:00:02Z The arc of the whole was compelling, and the wildly careening “Battle on the Ice” movement was a suspenseful, wordless minidrama in itself. Chicago Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Beyond 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z She sings Mr. Rihm’s vocal lines, all wordless “ah” sounds at first, unfolding in piecemeal phrases. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z There were nice textures in the music, especially in the interplay of piano, harp and guitar, and in the blending of Ms. Dhegrae’s wordless singing and Mr. Balliett’s recitation. Music Review: Resonant Bodies Festival at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn 2013-09-06T22:26:20Z The three women sang oohs in wordless harmony, and Mr. Longstreth crooned extended, leaping lines, all cantilevered amid the orchestra’s fits and starts of percussion, cackling Stravinskyan woodwind motifs and hovering tone clusters. Music Review | Dirty Projectors: Indie-Rock on a Quest, With Woodwinds, Brass and Strings 2010-02-22T05:52:00Z The wordless choreography of the wheeling, turning canvases brought back the ephemeral intimacy of one artist’s inner sanctum 50 years on, verifying the often profound accuracy of silence. The Truths of Studios Onstage in ?Red? 2010-04-04T21:33:00Z Four months of waking ourselves with wordless screams in the night. 'The most disturbing thing I've ever seen' – will the new Cats trailer claw back its appeal? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z It's a mystifying film of wordless longueurs punctuated by "miracles" and violence. This week's new films 2013-01-05T00:06:04Z The director, Arthur Ripley, orchestrates a number of wordless stretches and makes strategic use of rear-screen projection to position Ms. Morgan before an oceanic void. 1940s Dispatches From the Land of Wynken, Blynken and Noir 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z For example, “Angels and Accordions,” a series of spooky, wordless tableaus staged around various monuments, had its seventh annual performance last October. A True-to-Life Setting for Voices From the Dead 2011-06-16T22:30:07Z Stewart has a silent film star face that can project all manner of wordless emotion. Kristen Stewart: 'Twilight was so intense. I'm still a very intense person' 2012-05-17T19:00:02Z You also won’t mistake this cast for one of the top-flight acting ensembles in town; Synetic’s forte is movement and “wordless” Shakespeare, and this adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel features lots of talk. Synetic’s ‘Man in the Iron Mask’ has action and unexpected melodrama 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z In the first few minutes of Up there is a wordless sequence showing the lives of Carl and Ellie Fredericksen as they marry, set up their dream home and grow old. Up, up and away 2010-03-04T08:34:00Z The first time is low and disconsolate, continuing with the words “all my broken pieces”; the second is higher, a cry of pain turning to wordless release before she exults, “No more hanging around.” Lianne La Havas Traces the Arc of a Romance 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Most of the album is instrumental, with tracks like “Roman Blue” that float on lush strings and the wordless cooing of a soprano. Weekend Listening: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi's Rome 2011-11-11T19:12:50Z And her wordless sounds were by no means random. Music Review | 'We Are Plastic Ono Band': Amid All That Experience, Innocence 2010-02-18T00:28:00Z Aaron Becker’s gorgeous wordless fantasy stories demand a lot, but in a good way. The best children’s and young adult books this month 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But Walsh’s undulating sculptures, made of rough parts yet elegant in whole, speak less of language than of the wordless expertise of the hand. Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, a version of “Helter Skelter” taped a few takes before the master is a real kick, driven by McCartney’s spirited, occasionally wordless guide vocal. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z At a reception that followed, Saul Goodman’s Klezmer Band provided entertainment for the couple and their guests, many of whom also took turns leading niguns, traditional Jewish songs that are wordless. ‘Traditionally Jewish, but Also Extremely Queer’ 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z In a long sequence, wordless and dancelike — save for Berry’s exclaimed huhs — the creature learns the use of his limbs, with Berry articulating each joint. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z She embraces its accoutrements — notably scat singing, the wordless high-wire act that was a Fitzgerald specialty — with period fidelity, as if donning a costume or inhabiting a role. Music: Nikki Janofsky Wants to Act Her Age 2010-05-07T15:58:00Z With music by Edward W. Hardy, this largely wordless production is by Strangemen & Co. Theater Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But the men don’t just communicate with words; they also grunt, snort and chortle, and at times the wordless exclamations form their own harmony. Review: In ‘Hang Time,’ Lynched Men Tell Finely Tuned Tales 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z “I think of them as one thing,” she said, making the meaning of all this wordless music suddenly feel explicit. Review | Yasmin Williams, a new kind of guitar hero, is listening to the world around her 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Largely wordless vocals are fractured and spliced amid some things catchy, some things creepy, but all things great. James Blake Is As Crazy As Ever On His New EP 2011-12-20T18:10:45Z And, brooding over her like a tiny Easter Island statue, Madge, her old bridesmaid, as wordless and existential as a Beckett character. Perspective | With devastating quips, Dame Edna foretold a vacuous era of fame 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z For Mr. Williams, 41, dance — wordless and based in the body — is the logical medium for telling these stories; as he sees it, dance is “a ritual we use to tell our mythology.” Christopher Williams’s Garden of Fantastical Delights 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The story ends with the old man and his grandson in each other’s arms, brought together by wordless affection and the power of their shared imagination. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The first two-thirds of the album passes in similarly ho-hum style, notwithstanding the wordless introduction, Think About the Days, which is beautiful. The Beach Boys: That's Why God Made the Radio – review 2012-05-31T14:29:01Z McQuarrie and Cruise mainly designed the action scenes first — they include a Moroccan motorcycle chase and a wordless underwater sequence — and then connected them together with plot. Director Christopher McQuarrie's unlikely path to 'Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z His voice is answered and then gives way to Raymond’s trumpet, dissolving into wordless wonderment. Olivia Rodrigo’s Gutsy Catharsis, and 12 More New Songs 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Waitzkin’s wordless library will never again be animated by the writers and painters who kicked around her Chelsea Hotel room, sampling her chicken soup and taking in her numerology. Rescuing Artists of Vision 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z "Haunted" in particular drifted inland like a thick Nordic mist, its melody underpinned by wordless vocals. SXSW Day 3: Indians, Telekenesis, Angel Haze 2013-03-15T13:47:00Z There is something compelling in these partnerships, an intimacy that exceeds perhaps even that of romantic union: a deep, wordless, instinctive understanding. From Leiber and Stoller to Lennon and McCartney: the alchemy of the duo 2011-08-23T20:31:01Z Mr. Schumacher — musical, twinkling and summoning up the elements with wordless calls — is the best of the company’s current Pucks. A Lesson for New York City Ballet: The Past Is Always Present 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z As with any good wordless picture book, “I Got It!” should provoke many discussions — not just about doubt and perseverance, but also about creative visual storytelling. If Graphic Novels Are Hip for Adults, Why Not Picture Books? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Another largely wordless scene has Mark working out with his older brother and fellow gold medalist Dave, someone he admires yet seems to resent. 'Foxcatcher' a gripping story of seduction, rejection, murder 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Raschka has written and/or illustrated dozens of books, but "A Ball for Daisy" is his first wordless one. 'Daisy' runs off with Caldecott and 'Dead End' takes Newbery 2012-01-28T06:24:08Z “Rothko Chapel” unfolds as a series of fragmentary viola lines, flickers of notes on the celesta, isolated wordless chords intoned by the chorus and subdued rhythmic figures in the percussion. Music Review: Abstract Expressionism in Aural Mixed Media 2011-02-25T23:55:36Z The wordless composition, which is scored for piano, strings, voice, and electronics, is a little more than eight hours long. Music to Sleep By 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Created by Marina Montefusco and presented by Le Clan des Songes, this intimate, wordless puppet play features a little man in baggy pants and a hat, carrying a satchel. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z The best moments — a girl's fears of what's behind closed doors, an adolescent's sexual awakening, a woman feeling trapped and vulnerable on a cab ride — are hallucination-intense in their wordless nightmare logic. May 29 at SIFF: Actress America Ferrera, author/director Sebastian Junger visit film festival 2010-05-29T04:01:00Z With a front line of two saxophones, two trumpets and a tuba, the Louisiana collective unleashes a largely wordless cacophony of horn-drenched razzle dazzle. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z Afterward, adding in the creaks of real ships and the wash of oceans — along with myriad substitute noises — the sound team of more than two dozen brought tension and emotion to the wordless story. The Carpetbagger: Keeping Faith in Oscar Filmmakers’ Work and Sacrifice 2014-03-04T23:03:43Z Jenkins has a symphonic devotion to the wordless visual monologue, delivered through the miracle of the human face. Can we Trust the Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Best actor went to the popular French star Jean Dujardin for his sparkling, nearly wordless portrayal of a 1920s silent film star in "The Artist." 'Tree of Life' triumphs at Cannes 2011-05-22T19:18:00Z Empty wooden chairs — a Windsor and a half-dozen folding models — become silent actors here, eventually joined by a white balloon with sepulchral fingers attached, representing that wordless figure, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 9-15 2011-12-08T23:17:55Z The exhibition is divided into five chapters — wordless capsule biographies — in which we see Mr. Hockney’s friends in various moods and settings as they progress through life. David Hockney: A Life in Drawing 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Built from two slowly tolling piano chords and countless reverberating, wordless voices, Sarah Davachi’s “Evensong” isn’t exactly ambient music. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Or silence the noise with “All Is Lost,” starring a nearly wordless Robert Redford. What’s on TV Monday: The First Presidential Debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z By the time we reach the two wordless spreads toward the end, where readers can unleash their own imaginations, she’s exploring a whole new universe, from the outside in. Stop and Smell the Roses 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Swiftly removed by a wordless cleanup crew, the man’s remains are found to contain a single undigested finger. | 'We Are What We Are': ?We Are What We Are?: They Are What They Eat 2011-02-18T01:25:20Z Individually, these scenes – often wordless, bathed in bright light and long shadows – make for seductive theatre. TEOREMAT - review 2010-10-17T20:46:00Z Other moments are more subtle, though, as in the wordless ostracizing Antonio experiences on his first day of school as a poor and illiterate but eager farm kid. Review: `Ultima' an earnest coming-of-age tale 2013-02-21T12:42:18Z Accompanied by cutouts, scrolls and a smaller puppet, she enacts a wordless tale — essentially a statement supporting immigrants — in which La Macanuda rescues the victims of a city-destroying ogre. A Puppet Festival Returns to New York, All Grown Up 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z On Saturday, Morris’s company offered the United States premiere of his staging of “Quad,” a wordless television play that Beckett wrote in 1981. Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z For most of the piece, which spans five movements with three wordless interludes, these singers directly address some form of the divine. Review: Missy Mazzoli’s Unsettling ‘Vespers for a New Dark Age’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Originally wordless with piano accompaniment, Clein and Drake show how easily they transform into charming instrumental miniatures. Kod?ly: Sonata Op 8; Sonatina; 9 Epigrams; etc 2010-05-27T21:04:00Z The following Pianissimo movement breathes tranquility, with a literal singing line, again featuring wordless crooning by Gabetta. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z For the broader community, it is a reliable message of condolence — wordless, but always perfectly expressed. Grief as a fashion statement in ‘Death Becomes Her’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The work’s mostly wordless choral music was sung robustly by the Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Choir and the American Boychoir. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-09-18T21:56:11Z “Till the World Ends” sets the tone with its steady climb into Euro-disco ebullience, with stuttering, wordless vocals and grand washes of synthesizers. Britney Spears' 'Femme Fatale' a group effort 2011-03-25T18:23:46Z It's practically wordless but the word "hug" is said in many different ways. David Melling's top 10 books featuring hugs 2013-01-21T09:00:00Z He also turns the title song into a wordless dance solo for Ms. Charisse in which she touchingly evokes her character’s transformation from humorless ideologue to willing sexual object. On DVD, an American in Paris (and in the Soviet Union) 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z But Shawn Wen does exactly that with her portrait of mime artist Marcel Marceau, who introduced the world to this wordless art form. The powerful silence of mime artist Marcel Marceau 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Kubrick shot 60 takes of a wordless scene in which the camera simply pushes in on Scatman Crothers in his room, eventually prompting the 70-year-old actor to break down in tears. Let's try that again … the most difficult scenes to film in cinema history 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Odd, then, that the sadly pedestrian new production of William Gibson’s 1959 biographical drama is by far most effective when it is wordless. Theater Review | 'The Miracle Worker': Taming a Child by Setting Her Free 2010-03-04T03:22:00Z We may claim the same for the heroines of Petipa’s wordless ballets. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z 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 Appearing even more confident than at a promising show at Metro last September, Cosentino displayed a flexible vocal range that spanned falsetto highs and wistful, wordless coos. Wavves, Best Coast turn up the heat at Lincoln Hall 2011-02-09T16:28:38Z It’s also their most earnest, with a collectively sung wordless chorus, chugging arena-rock guitars and lyrics about lost innocence and growing up. Arcade Fire’s over-the-top show anchored by the band’s older material 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The premiere ends with a tragedy, while an ambitious, wordless, nine-minute opening sequence set in the caveman era will certainly irk those who found the first season a little too Terrence Malicky for their liking. Reboots done right: How “The Affair” and “The Leftovers” played to their strengths and wiped out their biggest flaws 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z His images are unaffected and candid, with wordless close-ups that speak for themselves. Review: ‘Menashe’ Finds Faith and Fatherhood Sometimes at Odds 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Modan does not tell us who she is about to meet, but we register its looming weight thanks to a series of wordless panels. The Property by Rutu Modan – review 2013-07-15T07:00:00Z Horns, electronics, electric guitars and wordless vocals appear and drift away. Jeff Tweedy’s Homesick Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Korf’s skillfully orchestrated music is rich in wordless tunes that Ms. Sciubba sang with beguiling delicacy on various “ah” sounds. Music Review: A Fairy-Tale Anniversary 2011-06-12T22:15:28Z The wordless preshow — a big Hollywood star silently spinning — was born of an impulse. 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Much of the film’s power lies in Moran’s portrayal of the woman in black herself, particularly the wordless, withering glares of hatred she directs at Rawlins’ character. The Woman In Black: why did Britain's scariest horror film disappear? 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z But three minutes into the song, the throbbing bass line suddenly cranks up, staggered against programmed hi-hats, a blooping synthesizer line and cascading, wordless vocals; she can dance her way free. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Shaw knows how to surprise and add suspense with wordless vocal contributions, and how to change atmosphere by means of instrumental texture. At Vail, Tiler Peck Choreographs and Michelle Dorrance Wows 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z A choir chants: a faint, wordless gauze, punctuated by the strangled stabs of a double bass. When the Orchestra Is the Star of the Opera 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Mac’s clean tenor has a bright sheen, and with his lanky frame and pliable limbs he’s a natural at wordless physical comedy. Review: ‘The Last Two People on Earth’ Offers Soft-Shoe Après Déluge 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Chandor, represents Mr. Ebert’s feature debut as a composer, and he told Variety that he initially liked the silence of the nearly wordless film, before being convinced that he could write a theme for it. The Carpetbagger: ‘All Is Lost’s’ Indie Sound 2013-12-16T14:00:28Z They signal this by establishing an irreverent tone, usually reinterpreting their source material as slapstick and, until recently, wordless comedy. Critic’s Notebook: Lego Video Games Let Fans Mix, Match and Make Mischief 2014-02-11T22:35:09Z At the start of this “Antigone,” though, we watch the brothers kill each other in wordless battle. Review: A Spellbinding ‘Antigone,’ Both Timeless and Urgent 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z “And I’m that way too, sometimes. It’s a very particular kind of wordless understanding.” Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z There he encounters a woman whose eyes have been sealed shut and can only communicate wordless whispers. “I don’t understand this situation at all”: Easter egg hunting in “Twin Peaks” 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z In a brief, wordless scene, he is alone, stringing lights on the family Christmas tree; one string shorts out, and his sigh suggests that this is the lives of grownups. David Chase's Not Fade Away: The Sopranos Sing the '60s 2012-10-05T23:52:58Z Fans of the band’s relatively modest indie releases may find the production oddly sparkly, layered with keyboards, wordless harmonies, and exotic little noisemakers and ear-catching details. Album review: The Shins, 'Port of Morrow' 2012-03-19T22:16:00Z Both the humor and the pathos spring mostly from wordless interaction, which is testimony to Ms. Wohl’s intrepid writing, to the superb acting and to the precise work of the production’s director, Rachel Chavkin. Review: ‘Small Mouth Sounds,’ Silence at a Spiritual Spa 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Across this output of virtually wordless vocal music — nevertheless directly stated, thriving at a hinge of experimentation and communication for a kind of ur-expression — are humor, aggression, playfulness and solemnity. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z You'll hear her astonishing range, some extraordinary ululations and incantations, vertiginous leaps, drops, cries and other wordless acrobatics. A guide to Meredith Monk's music 2012-11-19T16:15:06Z The images in this almost wordless short are hand-drawn and gorgeous. A guide to watching the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, from cheeky birds to grisly torture 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z About 25 performers act out mostly wordless scenes inspired by Shakespeare's play while dressed in 1930s outfits and giving off a film noir vibe. NYC's 'Sleep No More' shows off its musical side 2013-02-18T22:46:04Z The models, ornamented in tortilla chips and table lamps, might invite pity, but they seem to enjoy their wordless roles. Review: ‘Everything You Touch,’ a Brash Examination of Self-Image 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z I like to think that long-suffering, wordless Frieda found an appropriate hand gesture in reply. Elisabeth Mahoney on The Archers 2010-06-30T07:00:00Z In Shakespeare, comic fight scenes are punctuated with dialogue, while tragic fight scenes are wordless. Sex and the theater: An actress bares all about onstage nudity Her first song, performed a cappella, was largely wordless: held notes and fierce exhalations, a bluesy lament of a melody, a circling ululation and just a handful of words about “hard times.” Music Review: Tune-Yards at the Allen Room 2012-02-11T01:06:46Z A wordless cry at the start of “This Woman’s Work” became a formal device, sampled and transformed into a drift of ghostly arpeggios. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z It captures and concretizes the wordless, ephemeral moments of bliss and sorrow that come when you’re in a crush of strangers, unsure of the future. “Honey,” Reviewed: Robyn Has Returned, and She Has What You Want 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Like many children’s librarians, I’m a fan of wordless books. Review | Books don’t always need words. Here’s why some stories are better without them. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, a potent wordless reveal, involving some photographs, telegraphs the deeper motive for Arnold’s crusade. When facing evil, does silence become complicity? 'Taking Sides' makes the question newly relevant 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The men’s encounter, a fight to the death lasting nearly two long minutes, is wordless, primitive, palpable, the Fascist digging his fingers into Alvah’s face until the blood runs. Film: Making Hollywood Films Was Brutal, Even for Fritz Lang 2011-01-23T02:19:11Z Obviously nervous, she seems inhibited at the beginning before some of those trademark wordless ad-libs soar over the grandiose string arrangement and the whole thing takes off. Björk's best TV moments 2013-07-26T11:10:12Z Barack Obama’s campaign famously subverted cliches in 2008 with a simple, wordless logo: three rippling red stripes inside a blue circle. Analysis | Red, white and blah: Why are all these 2020 campaign logos so boring? 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The movie is distinguished by its fluid camera, an abundance of wordless passages, and the long meaningful looks its characters exchange. In ‘The Black Cat,’ the Titans of Terror, Karloff and Lugosi, Face Off 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s also a play about intimacy, and indeed the most thrilling moment in the play is the wordless passage in which Rothko and his assistant slather paint across a canvas with rising, almost orgasmic intensity. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z There was the mesmerizing wordless vocal melody that ushered in the tragic "Little Birds," which at times suggested a very dark children's tale or fable. Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum returns with his songs and their durability intact 2012-02-08T06:00:00Z Viewers raved over Beharie's work in "White Noise," which is certainly excellent, especially in the scene where she simply recoils, wordless, as she takes in the vile digs anonymous commenters get in at her expense. The stunning, rude awakening of Nicole Beharie's Chris Hunter on "The Morning Show" 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z This was a rehearsal for Manual Cinema’s “Frankenstein,” a nearly wordless film-theater hybrid that begins performances at the University of Chicago’s Court Theater on Nov. 1. It’s Alive! Well, the Puppeteers Are 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Using simple melodic lines and dramatic, repetitive notes, he crafts wordless narratives that, true to their name, sound like scores in search of images. John Carpenter goes from behind the camera to center stage 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr. McFerrin beatboxed both the bass line and a succession of different beats — drum and bass, slow and warped funk — and Mr. James interacted with him, singing narratives and wordless tones in the spaces. Music Review: Jos? James at Harlem Stage Gatehouse 2012-02-12T23:07:11Z It may be a little more work to read a wordless book. Review | Books don’t always need words. Here’s why some stories are better without them. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Grim and Fischer Wonderheads presents this wordless mask-theater piece about Death and one very stubborn old woman; for ages 10 and up. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 25-Nov. 1: Astrid Hadad and more 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z In one of the night’s most moving moments, the entire audience loudly sang the introductory wordless chorus of “The Dead Heart” along with the band. Why the return of Midnight Oil matters 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z The slow movement’s wordless songs include, in the orchestra, distant echoes of Dvorák’s use of birdsong in the “New World.” Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z They are wordless, shapeless vapors that stop time and thought in a mind-deafening buzz of fear; they are ruthless in their attack and unpredictable in their arrival. I swallow my fear 2013-04-04T00:00:00Z High on the wall of a brick building in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, a jaunty terra cotta troubadour forever plays his accordion and opens his mouth in wordless song. All the City’s a Stage 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most devastating scene in the entire movie is a wordless interlude when we watch Nozomi coming home from an evening out drinking with friends. Pick of the week: A class-war thriller from Putin?s Russia 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z Visual details layer the narrative with satisfying messages that will reveal themselves over repeated readings — no small feat for a mostly wordless book. 3 Picture Books: How to Hike, Camp, Relax in the Great Outdoors 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z A mix of wordless voices, shrouded in electric fuzz, begins to swarm. The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z McCarey moves in for a medium close-up of Lucy as she watches Bark’s train pull away, and the range of emotion that crosses her face, during this extended, wordless take, defies written description. DVDs: In the Depression, a Couple Undone 2010-02-19T23:59:00Z From the play’s wordless opening scene in this Primary Stages production, Teddy is comically, endearingly O.K. with his subterranean surroundings, rooting around amid rusty tools for a bowl for his cereal. Review: Tim and Tyne Daly Are Dysfunctional Siblings in ‘Downstairs’ 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The sequence is wordless, but its metaphorical impact is deafening. Movie Review: ‘Mistaken for Strangers’ Follows the Band the National’s Tour 2014-03-27T23:02:25Z Still, I encounter resistance from some parents, who complain that wordless books “are too much work,” especially at bedtime after a long day. Review | Books don’t always need words. Here’s why some stories are better without them. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Capped by his singing of a wordless minor-mode melody, sometimes in duet with himself on the violin, the piece’s simplicity and poignancy were devastating. Daniel Bernard Roumain’s songs of protest at the National Gallery 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “Dead and Gone” played call-and-response with two wordless phrases that burrowed between the ears like a Black Eyed Peas chant. Concert review: Black Keys at the United Center 2012-03-20T14:36:00Z There's more to this elegiac, nearly wordless drama than that. A Ghost Story Chills-and Makes You Wonder 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z That’s a lofty goal, particularly for a music drama that works through abstract, mostly wordless means. Review: Meredith Monk, Still Peerless at Shocking Serenity 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s a smart and thoughtful play, with a wordless, minutes-long penultimate scene that’s a tour de force of tension: the girls packing their suitcases to go home, radiating fury and betrayal. A Bold Concert of Songs and a Potent Play Leave Audiences Abuzz 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Several long, wordless stretches arise during the film, all of them thoughtful. ‘Weightless’ Review: A Look at Tough, Working-Class Lives 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z As a visual artist, Mr. Fricke said, he was influenced by a cinematic tradition of spectacle, sometimes wordless. ‘Samsara,’ Ron Fricke’s Cinematic Portrait of the Globe 2012-08-17T20:13:02Z If dance is a form of wordless communication, what are the members of Parsons Dance trying to tell us? Dance Review: Parsons Dance Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary 2014-01-19T22:21:59Z A child wanders through a door and into a mysterious world, meeting fantastical new creatures, in this mesmerizing wordless book. Need Gifts for Readers? Check Out Our Holiday Book Suggestions 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z An apathetic ruffle is one of the funnier wordless jokes that can be made. There’s Nothing to Fear at Simone Rocha 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Murkus, a young Palestinian director based in Haifa, took maternal milk as a central metaphor for this wordless work about mourning mothers. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z At a moment when the very idea of new age music seemed like a punchline, her largely wordless, a cappella hymns offered a reminder of the transformative power of something intensely beautiful. Julianna Barwick Left Her Ghosts in New York. Then the Healing Began. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Our relationship continued in this matter for a couple months—stern, wordless lust. My twisted rehab sex life 2012-12-20T23:41:00Z “If one made a classical reference, it would be to the sounds in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ‘Vocalise’ — also a wordless vocal,” he added. Kay Davis, 91 Dies; Ellington Used Her Voice as Instrument 2012-02-23T09:25:22Z It’s an alphabet book, but it’s also much more: a wordless, witty and wonderful story of a runaway cat and his pursuers, including an alligator, a chicken and a dragon. Notable Children’s Books of 2017 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z “Primal” is almost entirely wordless, and its characters rarely rely on gesture; instead, their ideas are communicated through expression, breath and attention. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z For the most part, however, the pictures tell the story in a wordless book. Review | Books don’t always need words. Here’s why some stories are better without them. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z He laughs and shrugs, a wordless: Who’s to say what is yoga? Yoga?s New Wave 2010-04-23T21:06:00Z J. C. Chandor’s drama “All Is Lost” is receiving accolades for the stoic, nearly wordless performance of Robert Redford. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Underwater With ‘All Is Lost’ 2013-12-11T18:53:45Z Spaceship, a stand-out aria from Einstein on the Beach, saw her creating an ecstatic wordless babble. Philip Glass – review 2012-12-16T18:15:01Z But the drama's power as a parable shows best in its wordless sequences. When it comes "Better Call Saul," we should be in no hurry for it to end 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Her first graduate school performance was a disaster, however, as she sat wordless on the stage. Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning ‘Moonstruck’ star, dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Ten nominations went to The Artist, the nearly wordless, black-and-white fable of a silent film star at the dawn of the talkie era. The Oscar Finalists: Silent Picture Double Feature 2012-01-24T19:13:28Z Golems fascinate me because they hold up a distorting mirror to humanity; they're a godsend to authors, a wordless comment on the temptations and pitfalls of playing God. Why golems are precious 2010-08-27T08:56:00Z Apart from a few lines of voiceover at the start and an emphatic expletive, it's a wordless film. JC Chandor gains a Cannes hit with 'All Is Lost' 2013-05-24T09:00:11Z We’re along for the ride, courtesy of a series of often riveting, mostly wordless visual dialogues between artists, conducted entirely by cellphone. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps Mr. Étaix’s focus on wordless physical comedy came at a strange moment: the 1960s, just as the French New Wave was making a splash. Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z Here’s a list of some excellent wordless picture books: Review | Terrific children’s books without words 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The dialectic continued even into the encores, with the tenacious closeness and harsh recriminations of “One” followed by the anthemic solace and wordless arena chant of “Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way.” Review: U2 Is Still Fighting for the American Dream 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The art and the setting seemed in wordless agreement, like lovers making up after a night of wordy squabbling. Perspective | Is Glenstone a great art museum or a billionaire couple’s folly? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z But Wills ranges beyond classic silent comedy, using every means at his disposal – sound effects, costume, pop music and playful business with the audience – in pursuit of wordless fun. Review: The Boy With Tape On His Face 2010-08-10T14:38:00Z On Saturday the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Mr. Adams’s “Canticles of the Holy Wind,” a hypnotic and ethereally beautiful invocation of wind, sky and birdsong through human — but wordless — voices. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z A marriage is its own enclosed universe, and no one except the two people within it can know its complexities, from its wordless shorthand and built-up resentments to its ingrained loyalty and tenderness. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The American acrobatic dance troupe Galumpha and ‘‘The Boy With the Tape on His Face,’’ a wordless comedy act, are among this year’s diverse array of performers. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The line, of course, follows a mostly wordless but memorable scene in a deli performed by Meg Ryan. ArtsBeat: Nora Ephron, the Queen of Quips 2012-06-27T13:42:47Z It’s a strange and very funny sequence in which a cafeteria full of hardened criminals are reduced to uncontrollable giggling and wordless wonder at life. Giancarlo Esposito Plays Other People So He Can Know Himself 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z This obviously wasn’t an issue in her wordless vocals on Tuesday, or in her spoken word. Ambrose Akinmusire and Cecile McLorin Salvant, perfectly attuned to each other 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z When Seneb was being portrayed as a full and distinctive person, the builders of Stonehenge were leaving wordless, silent, and remote monuments. Could this be the earliest portrait in history? 2011-02-09T14:29:36Z |
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