wring

So, cry if you must, wring your hands, clutch your pearls and then get back into it.

Often angry, she specialised in wringing laughs out of the most unlikely material.

"It feels like a wet towel and you're wringing it in your stomach and pain shoots down your legs and it hurts my back, just like an overall ache," she said.

Taddeo’s and Gia’s story is expansive, the result of spending most of a decade crisscrossing the country to find her subjects, sometimes staying in their towns to wring every drop out of their accounts.

The discomfort wrung out by clashing sounds and uneven pitches can effectively convey moments of tension, distress or violence in an opera.