Sentences with word «sibilant»

It is the soft, steady, sibilant sound of the Ujjayi breath that we bring our mind to rest upon as we flow into and out of each posture.
Comparatively disappointing, the 2.0 DTS - HD MA mono audio sounds flat and thin, with Terry Alexander's dialogue, in particular, full of sibilant s's.
It's a great way to tone down overly boosted bass (a common feature in today's models) or to tame some overly sibilant high - mids, for instance.
At best, you get metallic and sibilant highs and a shallow soundstage that doesn't come close to what you might expect from a $ 300 set of headphones — and then the Bluetooth connection starts hiccuping.
The vocals are bright and clear, though too sibilant at times.
Only this couldn't be happening at a worse moment because not only is the guy unsure if the alveolar sibilant is voiced -(z)- or unvoiced -(s)- he's getting totally confused from trying to forget the «schwa» and keep his mind firmly on the open «o» and -(n)- the alveolar nasal.
There's bass, but it never duels for the spotlight with the vocal performances, which are never too sibilant despite a lovely brightness.
At times, this can make things seem a bit sibilant, but the sound signature is never harsh or brittle.
Vocals tend to come off with a sharp edge on many tunes, such as Albert Hammond Jr.'s In Transit, where Hammond's voice borders on sibilant — especially at the «S» and «T» sounds.
Then it was the older woman, his mother's mother, who lost her temper at Fania, «and spat terrible words at her in Russian or Polish mixed with Yiddish,» while his mother «sat there like a scolded child, and as her mother shot one venomous question at her after another, all of them soaked and sizzling with sibilants, she said nothing in reply.»
My voice came through clearly in test recordings on a PC, with plenty of detail and low - mid resonance without sounding particularly sibilant.
Again, the highs balance this bass depth out nicely, though — the vocals are clear and crisp, though you might argue they sound slightly more sibilant than is ideal.
This means music sounds exciting and detailed, but never sibilant.
Bass lacks dynamic punch and the highs get sibilant at times, especially at higher volumes.
Some fellow members of ministerial credential committees reviewing young candidates for the Pentecostal ministry, sought (to my embarrassment) not how these youths thought of the biblical text but whether the incriminating sibilant could be heard when the speech of the clergy applicants got to be a creedal shibboleth.
Mostly he heard only familiar, comfortingthings: the soft snort of horses awakening in their stalls, the myriad, sibilant noises of a spring thaw, a bird chirping bravely in a tree, the mutedrumble of ice breaking up in the Black Sea.
Though everyone else in the picture speaks in some variation of a British accent, poor Jolie has been given the Transylvanian throat - sucker's throaty, sibilant vowels, as well as a wardrobe of snakes.
It's a performance steeped in its own weird sauce, a spray of sibilant nonsense and rousing Braveheart-esque speeches.
• The Count's (Klaus Kinski) sibilant breathing as he watches Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) eat, Nosferatu: when Jonathan cuts himself the Count offers to help, is declined as per generic custom — and then whirls about to leap to his work («It's the oldest remedy...»)....
ABOUT an hour into «Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,» Harry (more often referred to as Mr. Potter or the Famous Harry Potter) discovers, much to his amazement, that he can speak the slithery, sibilant language of snakes, which is called Parseltongue.
Terence Blanchard's epic score soars through the rear channels while Romulus's vocal hallucinations swell and bounce from right to left rear and the middle, creating an ambient noise wall of sibilant whispers that overwhelms with its evocation of madness.
Maserati offers 17 sibilant sentences to describe what separates the new GranTurismo S from its standard GranTurismo sibling.
Vocals are hollowed out and yet sibilant at the same time, and the soundstage seems to be crushed somewhere at the top of my head.
Bass was taught, tuneful and well - weighted, the midrange — especially the upper mids — were startlingly clear, and the treble was beautifully rendered with gobs of inner detail and sparkle, and just enough dryness around sibilants to sound realistic but avoid offending.
There was a breathy edge to the attack of Conor Oberst's voice that was just vaguely sibilant at times, but the spindly touch of the topside was countered with warmth in the lower mids, balancing things out nicely.
The sound is exceptionally sibilant in the highs, while the bass is blurry.
While they lack the clarity and nuance of HTC's BoomSound, they go louder, and can easily fill a small room with tinny, sibilant wailing.
There's a slight stridency to cymbals, sibilant speech, and even brass that comes off just a little too hot for our liking.
We threw every heavily sibilant album in our arsenal at the NS2 in an effort to get them to sound strident, but we failed.
It's not HTC One M8 - levels good but it's certainly an improvement over most tinny, sibilant smartphone speakers.
Again, the focus seems to be on the mids and high - mids, resulting in excellent vocal clarity without ever drifting into harsh or overly - sibilant territory.
Unfortunately, the quest for balance between the molten force of the bass, and a treble region that is among the sharpest and most sibilant we've ever encountered, often created more work and sonic displeasure than we care to tolerate.
-- Disappointing battery life without tweaking — Awful viewing angles — Camera struggles in low light — Thin, sibilant mono speaker on the back — Textured backing lacks high - end feel compared to rest of device — Screen is a fingerprint magnet
The vocals are delivered clearly throughout the track and manage to avoid sounding overly sibilant, despite getting some added presence in the high - mids and highs.
This isn't a good thing, as vocals, and sibilant sounds that help us understand what singers are saying, live in this high - mid frequency realm, along with many percussion and stringed instrument sounds.
Again, the vocals can sound a bit sibilant, but things aren't overboard in this regard.
The sound quality is more sibilant than that of our pick, and over phone calls, though we did find the sound to be very clear, your voice may sound a bit tinny to your caller.
The higher register strings, brass, and vocals maintain a very bright presence in the mix, and sometimes sound a bit too sibilant or sculpted, while the lower register instrumentation gets a dramatic boosting that would overwhelm the mix if not for the aforementioned sculpting.
The sound was middling: too much bass, sibilant highs.
I am a professor of speech pathology and missing 1 - 2 front teeth at a time shouldn't affect the production of sibilants (if that is what he is working on in therapy).
We experienced significant signal drop in our testing, the active noise cancelling was minimal at best, and a sibilant sound quality made cymbal hits and «s» sounds fatiguing to listen to.
In a sibilant, slashing rush it is upon us, rain as hard and strong as BB shot, cold with the sea wind behind it.
Watching him in action later, however, when he delivers a frenetic rogues» gallery, serving up the sibilant - sinister tones of Mandelson, the impenetrable enunciations of the BBC's Robert Peston and the see - saw emphases of Ken Clarke with equal aplomb, it's clear that most of his favourites have a long shelf - life.
Alas, Streep disappoints by turning in a human performance as an Anna Wintour manqué, drifting about as «Miranda Priestly» in Cruella DeVil mane and couture, operating a publishing empire (fictional RUNWAY MAGAZINE substituting for VOGUE, though Madonna's «Vogue» features prominently in the soundtrack for the terminally dim) with a soft voice and a sibilant brittleness.
• In Cirque du Freak, Ken Watanabe as the lofty, weirdly aslant Mr. Tall, whose every sibilant word slides around his mouth like molasses...
Glass and the others are set upon by tribesmen - warriors in an electrifying and terrifying sequence, in which warning cries are silenced by the sibilant arrival of an arrow in the throat.
Jared Harris and Carrie - Anne Moss play the mild maiden's parents; Kiefer Sutherland is the sibilant and hissable Roman villain.
As the dizzy socialite Agatha Runcible, she's hardly the picture of elegance: She has a big, hooked schnoz and a sibilant «s.» But Woolgar's lack of conventional attractiveness makes her Agatha more lovable: The woman dominates by sheer, glittery - eyed force of will.
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