duskiness

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.

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.

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.

In her duets with Mr. Kaufmann, his voice’s duskiness unsettles into stormy passion.

The DA sent his “voluptuous” detective Rose Burrows—specially selected because her mixed-race background allowed her to “pass for any nationality in which duskiness is an important feature”—to infiltrate “heaven.”