Sentences with phrase «sotto voce»

Matt Miller, who says he has «slammed teachers unions plenty,» goes into somber mode and in sotto voce tells us in that there is a «deeper reality» that we all need to grapple with.

It might require a series of sotto voce conversations with the Secretary and a jointly signed public letter.

So inevitable are these conclusions, in fact, that I just gave up and accepted the ending, which sidesteps a first - glance case of double jeopardy with such vague dialogue, recited in such a bland tone of sotto voce, that I only got the basic gist of how we got from Point A to Point B. With Point B such a shrug - worthy certainty, I wasn't nearly confused enough to care besides.

Users can now ask Alexa to read the Dickens classic to them, exquisitely narrated by Curry, whose sotto voce performance perfectly ties in with the holiday season.

But this revolutionary language is spoken sotto voce nowadays.

He had been widely viewed as a company man, a product of Bernardin's Chicago machine of church politics, who was, at least in part, elected president, it was said sotto voce, because it would look good to have a black man in that very public post.

Alyosha's unfailing goodness is Dostoevsky's last word, uttered sotto voce in a world of malevolence and pain, yet resounding every bit as clearly as any cry of misery or horror.

Happily, they take a lot of looking, and set the tone for the display: a master colourist going through his paces, from sotto voce to full throttle.

As Cuomo has felt growing pressure to support Democrats trying to retake control of the senate this fall, the calls for 1199 to do the same have been sotto voce at best.

The traditionalist right views it with deep suspicion and is sometimes heard to say (if not openly, at least sotto voce) that the Church would have been better off had it never occurred.

«Too late,» he would add sotto voce, his head turned aside, as if walking away.

It was considered radical for a layperson to read the epistle in English simultaneously with the priest's sotto voce Latin recital.

He does not play, but sits next to Coach Lenny Wilkens on the bench, sings The Star - Spangled Banner sotto voce, smiles for photographers and grants interviews freely.

So Labour's interventions in the education debate are suddenly sotto voce.

An occasional boo or «one term mayor» refrain, often sotto voce, popped up as the Mayor passed by, but the crowd reaction was mostly applause and appreciation directed at the marchers.

And while I remain unconvinced that a mere ten articles of clothing do a wardrobe make, Gunn's sotto voce advocating for intelligent consumerism, for the cultivation of a deliberate sense of style, for some consciousness in fashion did resonate.

Charlotte Gainsbourg, as Hole's ex, slinks about, silkily sotto voce.

Danny Glover, at his most sotto voce, plays the president.

Any banner proclaiming PICASSO is bound to draw the masses, but this exhibition delivers its lines sotto voce rather than through the megaphones he gave to the Cubist stage manager in «Parade,» his masterpiece for the Ballets Russes.

«I didn't even have my own checkbook until I opened the gallery,» she said, smiling, speaking in a deferential sotto voce that belies an uncompromising tenacity.

Geoengineering is increasingly being discussed (not so sotto voce any more) in many forums.

Throughout the entire hearing the parties could be heard making what I can only describe as sotto voce snide remarks to and about each other.

A symphony of soft hues, honest materials, and iconic pieces like the Todd Merrill barrel chairs and the vintage Brueton sofa is performed sotto voce in the back parlor.

They spoke sotto voce that it could just as easily be spent on increased welfare payments.

As they were swamped in flashes, cameras everywhere, smiling like the stars they were, Bruce Willis leans over and says sotto voce «here we are prostituting ourselves around the world again».

Or, at least, that seems to be the buzz, uttered sotto voce, around the strangely quiet coffee shops of Wall Street at the moment.The problem is, China knows all this.

We are prepared to entertain the possibility that those gay spokesmen are right who have said, sotto voce, that their movement is losing its momentum.

There are many exceptions to this sotto voce treatment of Christ.

Miliband, by contrast, is getting the hang of this - ranging from the yelping shouting of his conclusion to the sotto voce whispering in which he delivered his trade union reform bit.

Douglas Alexander's «Schools and hospitals first» was (sotto voce) an argument about public services and taxation.

The film's only distracting flaw is the sotto voce performance delivered by Oscar - winner Alicia Vikander (for The Danish Girl) who inexplicably seems to swallow her every word here.

The SXSW hit horror - thriller makes quick work of setting the sotto voce stage.

Lovemaking, death - dealing, complete with chrysalis and butterfly imagery and asides from a comically meddlesome priest (Paolo Bonacelli, a familiar face from many an Italian job or co-production)-- that's how The American rolls, sotto voce.

It could be the firecracker pop of a «dropped» book or a sotto voce put - down that elicits giggles from all quarters.

The New York State Education Department is upset because it believes at least one district subverted state law by reaching a sotto voce, improper agreement with its teachers» union that new evaluations wouldn't lead to teachers getting fired.

Like the common - pin crankshaft that produces that characteristic distant midrange drone; the forged pistons and connecting rods that add a metallic high - rev whirr; the intermittent, idle - speed slurp of the dry - sump lubrication; the typical click - clack that accompanies the stop / start system; the background hum of the chain drives; and the pneumatic lungs that govern the dual - stage intake system — sotto voce up to 4000 rpm, chiaroscuro above 6000 rpm.

The 488 Spider just oozes character, from its rakish lines to the aroma of its leather hides to the changing tenor of the engine as the tach needle crosses 3,000 rpm (the exhaust note goes from a sotto voce grumble to an exhilarating snarl so quickly, you simply can't escape the car's overwhelming charisma).

Yet the rack - and - pinion steering is surprisingly accurate, the integrated body - chassis is utterly solid and the outside noise is low enough to enjoy the 12 - speaker stereo, or a conversation sotto voce.

«Also — sotto voce — if more customers start using Kindle to read The Economist (or whatever) on the iPad, why wouldn't they read the same media on a future Amazon tablet,» guesses Carmody.

It may be delivered sotto voce, but the message of this masterpiece is profound.

The Climategate intimidation was done in the back rooms, sotto voce.