Oblivious to its place in history, the feisty North Island brown kiwi twisted its head as the Tainui kaumatua intoned a karakia. |
But never should the memory of his death be intoned as ammunition on the political battlefield. |
But the announcer intoned visitors' names in a voice so soft, so dipped, that those men were reduced to whispered asides. |
Chords shift like tectonic plates in a rugby scrum and Todd remains calm, focused and deals in a very dry, biting, intoned vocal delivery. |
It is very much a South Island instrument of the Ngai Tahu people, used particularly in whare wananga to accompany intoned learnings. |
It's been intoned mindlessly so many times since that no one ever stops to consider the utter ignorance of the statement. |