nasality
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The ensemble played these pieces with brisker transparency and perhaps more varied colors; Nézet-Séguin’s textures in “Don Carlos,” airier than Levine’s, felt of a piece with the elegant nasality of French.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2022
He added, “It definitely does have some of the Sinatra characteristics, but there’s a little nasality in there, and it’s when the singer becomes nasal that I start to hear that it’s not Frank.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2020
There’s an enthusiastic crack of adolescence, of nasality, in his voice that might sound nerdy but is also warm.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2017
Yet the two are instantly doing dueling Michael Caines: Coogan emphasizing Caine's nasality, Brydon the lower, slower diction that comes from decades of "all the cigars and brandy."
From Time ● Jun. 10, 2011
A very disagreeable and common fault is nasality, or "talking through the nose."
From Talks on Talking by Grenville Kleiser
