duskiness
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As such, the subtleties in his singing only deviated minutely from his essentially brilliant timbre — a touch of duskiness here in “Juliet,” an echo of wistfulness there in “Night Song,” both by Owens.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
The conductor Duncan Ward, also making a Met debut, packed an appealingly forthright sound into the slender frame of Mozart’s music and brought out the score’s duskiness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
As a treatise on the healing power of tears, it’s pure Robyn; but the low-slung duskiness augurs beautifully for Kindness’s new material.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2019
As Carmen, Martínez has just the right duskiness of tone for a role best suited a mezzo-soprano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2017
My eye was caught by a duskiness in the S.E., and I immediately perceived that it was the Eclipse-shadow in the air, travelling away in the direction of the shadow’s path.
From The Story of Eclipses by Chambers, George F. (George Frederick)
