Sentences with phrase «whose voice i like»

They are only writers that I enjoy reading, whose voice I like, so I'm quite unlikely to tear their work apart.

Not exact matches

I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one contrarian and maybe one voice of realism among this season's many purveyors of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.

I wonder if she really means it, if she really wants to know that the demon whose voice she thinks she's quieted in her own heart is screaming like hell in mine, and that the scariest thing about being VULNERABLE, about exposing myself to the world without a religion or a platform or a «brand» for protection, is that I might lose them for good... or, perhaps, learn that I can breathe without them.

Marginalized are voices that sound like the strong and kind God of the Bible, whose message to His people is, «Be just and merciful and brave.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

It's interesting, because he's drawing most of his inspiration from heartland rockers like Petty and Springsteen, whose voices floated to the top of the mix.

Instead, it is the voice whose analytical speech draws fire from the visionary energies of depth language and (like the biblical prophets) shakes the foundations of the state with poetic thunder.

Another person like my friend Shanna, whose gentle and wise voice is the reason why I return over and over to her blog, Food Loves Writing, from which I almost always leave feeling inspired, refreshed or determined to better myself as a person, and be a kinder soul to others.

Like Robert, Fiona, and Kirsty... whose voices were all heard in Parliament when their MPs spoke out on their behalf.

«I'm honored to have the endorsement of the CWA, whose hardworking members, like all New Yorkers, deserve to have a voice representing important Democratic values in the State Senate,» said state Senator Klein.

«I'm running to fight for what our communities need — like more infrastructure investment — and stand up for people whose voices are drowned out and shut out.

Ms. James, whose voice booms like a preacher's at press conferences, has emerged as one of the loudest members of the City Council when it comes to issues she's focused on, including not only CityTime but cuts to social services, the police department's stop - and - frisk policy and the controversial Atlantic Yards development project, located in her Fort Greene - based district.

The Nigeria police is so predictable in terms of setting up innocent persons whose only crime is that they are independent voices from the positions expressed in official quarters inside the presidency which controls the police like rubber stamps.

Whose voice does this Controller sound like?

You know who I mean — the one guy who looks you in the eye with an I - can't - live - without - you longing, whose voice is like a sound you've known all your life.

The former, whose voice and comic delivery are identical to Fred Willard's, sauntered around the stage of the Walter Reade while the latter sat behind him in a chair, adding little, looking like he wanted to be swallowed up by the floor.

Many handsome leading men lose their seductive confidence as they grow older, but Bachchan is such a industry - defining star that he can do (and often has done) whatever he wants, whether it's scowling pensively throughout a trilogy of «Godfather» - esque gangster films («Sarkar,» «Sarkar Raj» and «Sarkar 3») or playing a Cyrano de Bergerac - like bum who lends his commanding baritone voice to a struggling young movie star whose natural voice isn't sexy enough («Shamitabh»).

Overshadowing all, though, is McKee, whose voice sounds like that of a young Dolly Parton fueled by Exene Cervenka's passion.

Young actor Gonzalez voices 12 - year - old Miguel Rivera, whose only wish in life is to play the guitar like his idol, the late, legendary Ernesto de la Cruz (Bratt).

On one side of the coin, collaborations with indie filmmakers and esteemed auteurs like Bong Joon - ho, whose new film Okja plays in competition in this year's Cannes Film Festival, ensure that more and more diverse creative voices are being heard.

David Mamet ---- «House of Games «If it feels like some of the writers on this list kind of lucked into direction having written a film (or several) that became a mainstream success thereafter, there are a few others whose writerly voice was already so established that the idea of having them direct a straightforward genre film is kind of inconceivable (see also: Charlie Kaufman).

Ford Prefect (Mos Def) is black, and decidedly odder than the original; Zaphod Beeblebrox now conceals his second head beneath the first, and is played with hyperkinetic gusto by Sam Rockwell as a President of the Universe whose patent idiocy recalls one or two Presidents much closer to home; Marvin the eeyore - like Android (voiced by Alan Rickman) has a cute appearance comically incongruous with his deeply depressive nature; and Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), the well - nigh disposable token female of the original radio show, has been elevated up to a genuine love - interest for dressing - gowned hero Arthur Dent (Martin «The Office» Freeman capably taking over from Simon Jones — although Jones turns up briefly as a «ghostly image»).

Characters interact in fun little ways, and some of the cutest touches come in things like pre and post battle dialogue or even in the tone of how characters call each other into battle, like the overwrought, slightly mocking way Spider - Man calls Frank West (whose original, true voice actor returns) in to tag.

(Best running gag: Nicole being aggressively wooed by a little boy she babysits whose voice has dropped early, making him sound like he's about 40.)

But even in a sprawling ensemble piece like Netflix's «Mudbound» (whose cast includes Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, and Mary J. Blige), Rees ensures the interpersonal relationships and nuanced dynamics between her characters are put front and center, never getting lost in the film's network of voices.

It's a type she played most memorably in Kiss, Kiss Bang, Bang, a movie whose post-modern, meta - textual smartassery so resembles what Playing It Cool is trying to do, and feeling miserably at, that I just found myself wishing I was watching a Shane Black movie instead of a movie full of characters that, like, Shane Black, are movie - and - self - obsessed writers deeply in love with the sound of their (and by extension the screenwriters») voices.

Though the operatic dissonant relationship between Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe's Javert does prove to be compelling opera as it weaves throughout the rest of the story, the film's second act focus on the story of rich pretty boy Marius (Eddie Redmayne, whose singing voice is 45 percent Kermit the Frog) falling for Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) at first sight doesn't register nearly the same amount of urgency, feeling like a silly problem that doesn't fit into the story's near - apocalyptic presentation of revolutionary France.

The plot involves an evil ram - like villain named the Storm King (voice of Liev Schreiber), whose magical staff needs the power of the powerful ponies to power it — or something like that.

Like the academics whose research they read, these youth return again and again to the questions, «What is student voice?

Like Lauren Holmes, whose short story «My Humans» - in the collection Barbara the Slut and Other People - charts the breakdown of a relationship through the eyes of a dog, Wroblewski is an author prepared to put the voice of an animal in an adult story, stepping away from the anthropomorphic stomping ground of many famous children's stories and novels.

It was a combination of going to people whose work I admire, writers whom I knew liked the Beatles, or who were at least interested in and / or knowledgeable about music, while others were shots in the dark — writers who have great voices, styles, insights, whether the subject matter was going to trigger them or not.

I've always envied that quality in writers like Sedaris, whose writing feels and sounds just like his spoken voice.

The downside of this is that the human characters can be a bit lacking in background or personality, including Tim, whose voice actor almost always sounds like he's half asleep.

I could give endless examples of how media production companies in North America, Europe, and Japan have responded to fan demands for more female representation in video games, but I'd like to emphasize that the active and creative fans who thrive in social mediascapes do have voices that are heard not just by their peers but also by the senior producers whose positions they will one day inherit.

Voiced by the brilliant Ashly Burch (who stole the show as Chloe in 2015's Life is Strange), the plucky protagonist is the perfect analogue to the likes of Lara Croft - a huntress whose need to hunt both machine and man makes perfect sense in a neo-primitive world.

From George Inness, who «translates just the light and feeling of a fixed hour,» to Vincent van Gogh, whose cypresses are like «voices of aspiration, joy or fear,» to Jackson Pollock, who, Robert Rosenblum wrote, «evokes the sublime mysteries of nature's untamable forces,» artists continually try to capture and replicate the awe - inspiring and the invisible.

From George Inness, who «translates just the light and feeling of a fixed hour,» to Vincent van Gogh, whose cypresses are like «voices of aspiration, joy or fear,» to Jackson Pollock, who, Robert Rosenblum wrote, «evokes the sublime mysteries of... Read More

Historically, the focus on an Outsider artist's biography often compensated for an absence of the artist's voice, especially in the case of artists whose disabilities prevented any conventional form of communication (such as Judith Scott who was a deaf mute who also had Down's syndrome) or when the artist worked outside of public scrutiny (as with someone like Darger).

Others mix up the very idea of art now — like Sanya Kantarovsky, whose mother and child evoke Art Nouveau but also the graphic novel, or Pierre Huyghe, who adds the voice of a poet to film of a deathly sleeper by Andy Warhol.

To the past honorees, however, among whom I feel especially humbled and privileged to share this honor, I'd like to thank you for your example and achievements that have enriched us all: Andrea [Barnwell Brownlee], whose ambitious and inspired curatorial work gives voice to women artists of the African Diaspora; Jerry [Cullum], a visionary writer whose genius lies in his ability to synthesize the experience of art with poetic complexity; Louis [Corrigan], a trailblazing community leader whose innovative ethos and generosity has rekindled the boundless spirit of Nexus; Lisa [Cremin], a leader of responsible and responsive philanthropy who personifies the idiomatic true north for the arts in Atlanta; Lucinda [Bunnen], a brilliant artist and pioneering collector who established photography as an essential feature of contemporary visual culture in our city... and at the High Museum; and Susan [Bridges], den mother to us all, whose generosity of spirit is set off by her unshakable personal integrity.

The fans are rabid, said Mr. Musson, whose real voice sounds like Hennessy imitating a white person (he describes his own ethnicity as West Indian).

Zoe Butt, curator and director of Sàn Art asks, «What does it mean to live in a country like Vietnam whose streets boast the booming voice of communist capitalism and yet the family lounge room still echoes with the memory of war?

Kent Monkman, whose work is featured in Sovereign: Independent Voices, riffs off paintings by Albert Bierstadt like this one.

The project explores the slippery slope of memory as it considers the great debates of the 1960s amongst the likes of Marlon Brando, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, and the extraordinary females performers, dance and singers from Josephine Baker to Dorothy Dandridge Abbey Lincoln whose voices both entertained us and provided the backdrop to our very lives.

If, as I hope, your statements are a clarion call for others whose voices, like Koonin can escalate the rhetoric and authority, then I wish you God's speed.

TubeChop — Tom Waits Recites «The Laughing Heart» — Charles Bukowski — Also growling bear - like is the voice that reads this short poem by the poet whose work was familiar with bites and claw marks.

They want to be able to show that they've got marquee professors (like Lessig or Volokh) whose voice reaches beyond the confines of the campus to the real world.

Now, usually when I get people whose dispositions or attitudes are a bit morose, I either tend to talk to them in their own voice, sort of like Jack Webb from Dragnet (for you older people), or I'll go completely over the top and annoy them with this «Isn't the world great!»

We just saw a demonstration of the feature on stage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco today, and while it might not seem like such a groundbreaking feature if you've ever owned a Moto X smartphone — whose Google Now voice assistant has had always - on listening since 2013 — it'd be pretty neat if your plain ol' Windows computer could do the same, yes?

For example, in the Chinese market, the feedback requested a personal assistant whose voice sounded like she was smiling.