| Then suddenly, in a slightly hoarse and off-key voice, he sang the lullaby that Mom used to sing to me. |
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| Does he see how I look down my nose at the enthusiastic choir member who sings off-key? |
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| A few stand watching a brave soul with a karaoke machine belt out an off-key tune. |
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| But we sang along anyway, and there were no off-key notes or minor chords, not even from Mama, who quite simply could not carry a tune. |
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| Why are the gospel tunes in the soundtrack so annoyingly off-key and out of synch? |
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| They know what mood I am in from the music that I play on the radio and the off-key, wrong lyrics that I belt out. |
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| Add off-key electronic music, and you begin to have some idea of how annoying this is. |
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| With that he turned up the radio to an old eighties rock song, and we started our off-key duet in very loud voices. |
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| She bade me goodnight and walked away, swaying only slightly, and humming an off-key tune under her breath. |
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| If the background music was distinctly off-key, so too were far too many aspects of the meal. |
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| He wouldn't go to sleep and I'd just go from one song to the next in this flat, off-key voice. |
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| He multi-tracks the vocals on this song and the off-key harmonics of his offbeat voice work brilliantly. |
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| It was kind of neat to see four women all lined up singing, but the off-key harmonizing didn't grab me. |
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| I can't help it, every time I get approached now I'm really off-key and give off the impression that I'm stush or something. |
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| She croaks, squeaks, howls, and whines her way through the role, nearly always off-key and most horrid. |
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| The off-key singing of the congregations at Church and the reels and jigs of the Connecticut fiddle players enchanted him. |
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| The music sounded like the tape was being stretched producing appalling sounds and off-key, discordant, unpleasant noises. |
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| He winced as he heard their untrained and off-key voices begin to belt out a crude drinking song. |
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| Many of our performances in these early months after our defeat last November will be off-key and lacking in polish. |
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| He had on his headset and sang along in his off-key fashion. |
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| We don't see that playing out of tune or singing off-key is revolutionary. |
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| The callers recounted tedious vows, painfully off-key songs warbled by bride and groom, the inclusion of the groom's dog in the ceremony. |
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| The audio foreground, however, is dominated by the insipid, warbling, and off-key sound of Gareth Gates murdering a late 1970s disco classic. |
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| And then of course, there are the public ordinances forbidding off-key driveway serenades. |
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| How lovely and strange the gangly spires of trees against a thickening sky as you drive from the library humming off-key? |
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| He looks utterly ordinary – jeans, trainers, holey red jumper – but there's something just lightly off-key. |
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| In the fourth, the entire spectrum is more or less present, darkened, off-key, with a blistery blur of orange in the lower left corner. |
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| The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish. |
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| An occasionally off-key soul belter, but still. |
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| Chests are bosomy, waists are tucked, and with impressive machines and gadgets, recording studios are able to make even the most off-key voice a pleasure to hear. |
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| The accession of the ten is a very festive event, marred only by the off-key note of the Cypriot referendum, on the basis of which, quite remarkably, the no-voters are being rewarded with two seats taken from the yes-voters. |
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| He thinks one of the most important reasons for his long life has been his positive attitude. Without skipping a beat, Herbert breaks into a slightly off-key version of the First World War hit? |
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| I sipped a Martini and occasionally interjected something off-key. |
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| Performers who talk straight to the audience one minute, dance full out the next, then singing hilariously off-key the minute after keep the audience on its toes and ready for anything. |
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| Even before the jilted had a platform like the Web — where, of course, anyone can promptly express outsized disappointment — people still found a way to guffaw at anybody unlucky enough to be busted caterwauling off-key. |
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| We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed. |
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| Yet as an ending it feels somehow off-key, a heartfelt plea that is also a platitude, and that does little to resolve the weird energies of the movie itself. |
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| Creaking leather and the snorting of mules, snatches of off-key ballads, the clop of hooves and the patter of bare soles, the rattle of hayforks and lances. |
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| Though cacophonously off-key, beagles especially provide the enchanting music of the hunt with their excited howling as soon as they get on a scent. |
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