| But the announcer intoned visitors' names in a voice so soft, so dipped, that those men were reduced to whispered asides. |
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| It's been intoned mindlessly so many times since that no one ever stops to consider the utter ignorance of the statement. |
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| But never should the memory of his death be intoned as ammunition on the political battlefield. |
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| It is very much a South Island instrument of the Ngai Tahu people, used particularly in whare wananga to accompany intoned learnings. |
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| Oblivious to its place in history, the feisty North Island brown kiwi twisted its head as the Tainui kaumatua intoned a karakia. |
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| Chords shift like tectonic plates in a rugby scrum and Todd remains calm, focused and deals in a very dry, biting, intoned vocal delivery. |
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| This was not only a sentiment intoned by politicians and newscasters but one that we were all saying to ourselves. |
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| I particularly noted the basses of the chorus as they sinisterly intoned the conspirators music. |
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| This phrase is intoned in exactly the same exasperated moany, whingy way, no matter what the state of play. |
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| It is half-way between a kind of intoned opera and the revenge, betrayal and interaction between men and gods of an Old Icelandic saga. |
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| From infancy I heard the Song of Solomon intoned to the ancient rhythms which inspired Gregorian chant. |
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| Very few of the vigorous choirs which in earlier times fervently intoned the songs that accompany the various rites roemain. |
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| Spectators should always stand and remove caps and hats when an honour song is intoned. |
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| Every day, this proud chanticleer intoned his morning cock-a-doo-del-doo which, unfortunately, disturbed the sleep of the students. |
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| A powerful moment in the service came when the ancient prayer veni creator spiritus was intoned. |
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| Once the public got wind of their move, they intoned that they were just trying to streamline government. |
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| Cantillation, in music, intoned liturgical recitation of scriptural texts, guided by signs originally devised as textual accents, punctuations, and indications of emphasis. |
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| The variations continue until, softly intoned, we hear an old friend, that famous eighteenth variation, which is in fact just an inverted image of the Paganini theme. |
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| Having intoned the Asperges, sprinkle the altar, center, left, and right. |
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| La Madre intoned a song to Mother Mazzarello that each one present sang in her own language. Mother Marinella, turning to Mother Mazzarello, said it is good every now and then to be away from Mornese! |
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| Nevertheless, we need to beware of this concept being hijacked and used with overweening ideological verbosity, encroaching on new areas and being intoned in support of questionable technical proposals. |
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| He also intoned, in pealing sustained lines, a Sufi poem by his father. |
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| I intoned into a Belisha beacon or the top of a traffic cone to get the resonance. |
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| In the light of the seven golden flames, Nana's face looked young and fresh, and their glow erased the deeply graven fines in Baba's brow as he intoned the kiddush. |
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