nasality
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The uninterrupted format may have frayed his voice, and a stubborn nasality crept into his otherwise handsome, hearty sound, but the program nevertheless accumulated in power.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 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
At its best, my voice has a James Taylor-ish nasality that has the net effect of a mild laxative.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2013
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
If boys have up to this time used only the thick register, they will in singing through the break intensify their bad habits; throatiness, harshness, nasality will become chronic.
From The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs by Francis E. Howard
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