| It was a tinkly, reedy instrument, for none of that household had any turn for music. |
| Alexandre Desplat's tinkly score does a lot to mask it, but Tom Hooper's direction is relentlessly angular and odd. |
| Hence the songs which are performed to tinkly, beguiling arrangements of tunes from The Magic Flute. |
| It must have sounded as tinkly as one of those tiny children's pianos which you can buy at every toy-shop. |
| It is a voice that veers from strident to enveloping warmth in a sentence, occasionally broken by cut-glass tinkly laughter. |
| He paid meticulous attention to the warmer sonorities without letting the tinkly orientalia obscure the predominantly smooth melodic contours. |
