The people here are darker and more heavily built and have a different lilt to their speech. |
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My love of the UK has a lot to do with being raised on British fairy tales and the lowland Scots lilt in my grandmother's voice. |
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Many are still waiting, but some morning soon they too will wake to the lilt of a backyard bird pleading for a mate. |
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Even though the statement was short, I could hear the soft lilt of an Irish accent. |
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So, she has a system of poses and a lilt to her voice and it was very calculated so it was easy to imitate. |
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His clothes were well-made but worn, and there was a lilt in his voice that seemed to keep my attention. |
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Only the unmistakable lilt of his mid-European accent gives a clue to his unsettled past. |
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There's deliciously crisp Scottish lilt to her speaking voice, which is sadly lost when she sings. |
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God is there in every platform and on every level, he sees through your eyes and hears the lilt in your voice as you sing. |
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He spoke at once, just the slightest lilt to his voice betraying his origins. |
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I think I have very soft Irish accent anyway, but I'm very proud of my lilt and I don't want to lose it. |
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Never in all his life he heard a sound more angelic, and the lilt of her voice lent itself beautifully to song and story alike. |
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And from its midst rises the rhythm and lilt and melody and meaning of words. |
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Born in Raipur, he grew up on Parsi theatre, silent films and the robust lilt of Chhatisgarthi folk songs that filled the air all around. |
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Each group faithfully captures the swinging lilt of Ory's bands, his sense of dynamics, and the essence of his robust trombone tones. |
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Many of the songs by French artists come with a Latin lilt and tracks from Haiti and Mauritius bring in new instruments and warmer rhythms. |
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Few early-music specialists conduct Handel opera with more grace, rhythmic lilt, and care for style than Harry Bicket. |
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He knew exactly where the accelerations and ritardandos should be, and when the lilt was most important. |
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With a warming Northern lilt and cheekily lit eyes, he talks modestly of the talents that have drawn him from his working class beginnings. |
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Its mandolin-driven lilt is perfectly pitched to appeal to all those recent bluegrass converts and alt country fiends alike. |
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He asked me with an impolite, almost impatient lilt, as he slackly sat himself upon a tree-stump, violin in hand, hand upon knee. |
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It wasn't as if he was speaking Gaelic, his first language, simply that his Lewis lilt was unfamiliar to the point of incomprehension. |
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The complex chromatic, often dark harmony, and caressing Latin-American lilt was impelled brightly by the pianist. |
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Naaz Hosseini's voice slips from a serene hum to a full-throated wail to a sweet high-pitched lilt, flavored by her roots in Armenia and Persia. |
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The lilt of her voice stuck a question mark on the end of every sentence she uttered. |
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Even when talking in the most restrained of voices, Hugo's lilt would still rise up above all others. |
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The lilt in James' voice gives away his Cape Breton roots, but the barbs in his material are clearly Canadian. |
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Heady lyrics, set to folkish classical lilt, sung vibrantly by Kalapini Komkali, Shruti Sadolikar, Bela Shende or Hariharan cast spells. |
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The Welsh language, as with others, has regional variations, within five miles you can have a different lilt altogether. |
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She recalled to mind the soft lilt in his voice as he reassured her of how beautiful and talented she was. |
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He comments that when in America he is seen as being Irish, but when in Ireland, because of the slight lilt in his accent, he is taken as being American. |
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Then the following night I noticed the phase had very slightly shifted to make a lopsided lilt. |
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In Schubert's music, the Viennese lilt and nuance in the phrasing, touch, singing line and overall style, even the pauses and silences, require complete mastery. |
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You can hear a little French lilt in his German and his language has kept the rich imagery of Arabic. |
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Again the group chose a rather fast tempo, which with the bagpipe-like drone in the bass parts, gave this movement the lilt of an improvised country dance. |
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There's a lilt in his voice that was missing some time back. |
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When he speaks English, he does so with a soft, Aberdonian lilt. |
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Poetry takes on a new lilt, novels explore life in a leisurely, circuitous fashion that owes much to an oral tradition. |
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We are hissing and fussing at the faintest lilt of an accent. |
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The first impression of the fragrance awakens your senses with the springtime lilt of fresh galbanum, orange flower and angelica. |
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His voice carries some of the Bavarian lilt of Werner Herzog, and he looks slightly like Daniel Day-Lewis when he laughs. |
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Chanda's Secrets is a novel with the lilt of Africa in its language and the urgency of adolescent struggle in every paragraph. |
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Rankin paints the loveliest of pictures with his words and makes you feel right at home with each and every song, every lilt of his voice, every strum of his acoustic guitar. |
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Yet rather than the French, Argentinian and Dutch tones to be found today, the slang Hill couldn't decipher was the Scottish brogue and the Irish lilt. |
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As Morris shares his side of the story, his voice whispers across the phone line, a gentle Southern lilt kissing every syllable. |
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I decided to give a southern hemisphere lilt to the rather staid and traditional dips market in the UK and launched my dips line, which has gone on to win awards and gain a cult following. |
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But he keeps the rhymes, the lilt and the wit. |
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From the spring of the '99 he is developed therefore of the meetings to monthly lilt that, above all to the beginning, they made lever on the experience of Francis and on his desire to share his own experience. |
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Guitars riffle precise chords and lilt through arpeggios, keyboards go boop, and every flick of a drumbeat is in place. |
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Elsewhere the lilt of the accelerated breakbeat, its harsher edges smoothed away, proved attractive to makers of commercials and composers of television-title tunes. |
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For all his claims to scholarly immurement, he reads a fair amount online, and speaks with a young standup comic's restless, patter-and-punch-line lilt. |
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So the wirework is limited, and also artificial, but, like other artifices — head voices in opera, point work in ballet — it can create a poetic image, and give things a certain lilt and unexpectedness. |
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