vocalism

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The Atlanta Constitution snorted: "He would turn the United States Senate into a gathering of 96 Charley McCarthys with himself as the sole Edgar Bergen to pull the strings and supply the vocalisms."

From Time Magazine Archive

Martin is never so outrageous, but his familiar cool-guy strut and laid-back vocalisms keep him from inhabiting his character.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, how the legs and arms and dust and trouser-buttons flew,— What florid vocalisms marked that vesper interview!

From Second Book of Verse by Field, Eugene