Sentences with phrase «in a singsong»

You will see how Northup, played with extraordinary precision and grace by English actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, is beaten with planks and whips, his shirt reduced to — as one character says in a singsong voice — «rags and tatters, rags and tatters.»

«Arjun,» he called out in a singsong tone.

Vendors called elote and nieve in singsong voices, and children danced to music emanating from the many different portable speaker systems as happy families shared homemade picnics.

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As he preached, his voice would grow in shrillness until it reached a vibrating singsong.

Saam's delivery is relaxed, almost singsong, which is in direct contrast to his TV - radio partner, GENE KELLY (39, partisan), who tends to be loud and shrill.

It's still practised in a few places, though nowadays it just involves ambling around the borders of a traditional parish and having a bit of a singsong.

Many of us instinctively lisp or speak in a baby like, high pitched, singsong manner when speaking with children.

School children learning by rote do so in a collective singsong.

Streep, speaking in an imperious nasal singsong, makes Graham irresistibly knowing yet, beneath the tea - party bluster, secretly unsure of herself: the only woman in a boardroom of men, and therefore an executive who has to fly solo to find her own way.

One creepy anecdote finds Sestero trying to sleep while, in the next room, Tommy calls out to him «in a high singsong pitch, «Somebody's chicken.»»

Maybe his statement that he hates poetry comes from this early singsong, and I realize as I write this that I'm beginning to engage in theatre critique rather than film criticism.

Special features include a «Build Your Own Treehouse» game that is a slow - loading trial - and - error exercise in «no one is going to play this,» and a «Build Your Own Adventure» game that is a series of rough stills narrated in an indescribably ingratiating singsong by Jim Cummings, which allow one to «choose» where the adventure will go next.

«Math is hard, let's go shopping,» she said in a squeaky singsong voice.

Continue to use the singsong phrase and offer a bonanza of treats (five or six in a row) whenever you see a dog.

Famously friendly and amazingly amiable, with a distinctive singsong «coo», she's exceptionally easy to train for performances in shows, and when she's not nestling close to her owner for human companionship, she's purr - fectly content to keep her own company.

A wagging «no - no - no» finger, seen as often in social situations as it is in music videos, is accompanied in Notes on Gesture by the looped singsong vocal, «I don't lu, I don't lu, I don't lu», which finally breaks into the phrase «I don't love you,» before being replaced by a new cycle.

Standing at a chalkboard, she delivers singsong platitudes to half a dozen corpses draped in white sheets on the floor.

While Mark Dion imagines an educational opportunity, in a mobile library, John Baldessari teaches a plant the alphabet, in the same singsong as in all his lessons on the Southern California intellect.

In «Stream or River, Flight or Pattern», a video installation on three screens, fragments of trees, paper kites, performers and rivers meld into a pastoral, otherworldly realm — all held aloft by rhythmic sound waves of birds, quietude, women's singsong, and interspersed with fragments of warm light.

7 A rocking kid's bedroomOkay, maybe the whole family might not want to hang out here — though we'd be tempted to flop on the bed for a singsong — but Junior needs a space cool enough for his friends to want to chill out in.