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They make up for their modest technical gifts with a soft, breathy, sensual sound and persona.
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Emulating her father's breathy voice and double-entendre-laden subject matter, Gainsbourg crafts a mature exploration of ethereal pop and new wave.
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With a breathy, calm and happy demeanor, Hecht is addictive to watch.
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Although the producers pile on signifiers of romance ball gowns, candles, roses, breathy declarations the weekly eliminations are what give the show its cruel but satisfying rhythm.
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Melted over the top of it all are Koushik's breathy vocals.
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His voice is breathy, wistful and piping, yet plaintive and emotive.
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The orchestra included a ney, an end-blown Persian flute, whose breathy timbre in its low register gave an unearthly poignancy to the music of Mr. Parvin and the Bricklayer.
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Despite the excitement that this Saturday holds, much like Groundhog Day college football fans will suffer yet again this year myriad breathy articles from emotional sportswriters about how a playoff must be implemented.
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But when combined with her tentative delivery, Mr. Getz's breathy sax and Mr. Jobim's gentle piano, the errors make the result ever so slightly foreign just out of reach, like the girl herself, and thus irresistible.
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Much like the language, the arrangement is a model of sublime economy, built around Veirs' slender guitar part and gentle rhythmic accents. (With her sweet, breathy delivery, the Oregon-based Veirs sounds at times like an older, romantically thwarted Taylor Swift.) But as the song continues, the production gradually builds, as if matching her own escalating ache.
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