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4 Jan 2023, 4:38 am
Reflecting a town where everyone is at least industry-adjacent, her characters are often performing—at auditions, on Comic Con panels, on social media—while straining to hide some inner tension, which Reilly betrays with darting eyes or a quavering voice. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 8:58 am
My searching to confirm the source, by the way, led me to this other quote, from the Kentucky Bar Journal in 1942 (writing about the word "quisling"): Q … (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British mind to be a crooked, uncertain and slightly disreputable letter, suggestive of the questionable, the querulous, the quavering of quaking quagmires and quivering quicksands, of quibbles and quarrels, of queasiness, quackery, qualms, and Quilp … [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 1:04 pm
Joe Biden wanted to sound tough on trade last night in Pennsylvania, but began quavering when it came to China — not just the worst abuser on trade, but on a number of other points, including human-rights abuses. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 1:30 am
laments that not even the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 caused the markets to quaver like they are now acting. [read post]
15 Jul 2019, 7:48 am
"No one seemed to know who she was—another polished professional woman, grabbing an afternoon coffee—which was fine by her. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 8:28 am
Kavanaugh drunkenly assaulted her, she offered, with some quavering, that it was the laughter between Mr. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 5:18 am
9 Feb 2018, 2:00 pm
Novelist Joyce Carol Oates dystopian short story on America in the post-civil liberties era. [read post]
5 Jan 2014, 6:58 pm
No banker will lend money to someone who appears distrustful, disorganized, nervous or frightened, or whose hands are shaking or voice is quavering, or who refrains from making eye contact. [read post]
5 Jan 2014, 6:58 pm
No banker will lend money to someone who appears distrustful, disorganized, nervous or frightened, or whose hands are shaking or voice is quavering, or who refrains from making eye contact. [read post]
5 Jan 2014, 3:58 pm
No banker will lend money to someone who appears distrustful, disorganized, nervous or frightened, or whose hands are shaking or voice is quavering, or who refrains from making eye contact. [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 4:00 am
They can even cause our insurers to quaver. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 8:41 am
” In what was reportedly a “quavering voice,” Manning spoke for just a few minutes—only the third time he has spoken publicly since being arrested in June 2010 after leaking a huge trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks. [read post]
21 Jul 2012, 12:25 am
Rohrs said, his voice quavering. [read post]
10 Mar 2012, 5:31 pm
It outright eliminates the shaky hands, quavering voice thing that can plague musicians and other performers. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 8:35 am
We don't quaver because somebody holds up three letters: DNA. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 8:57 am
"* * *"My ex-husband murdered my daughters, and just before he was executed, he told me he did it," Kuykendall said.Kuykendall voice began quavering… [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 5:56 pm
At a hearing on the employee's $19 million proposed settlement in the bankruptcy, David Simon's voice quavered slightly as he began to speak to a courtroom full of experienced bankruptcy attorneys and litigators and to a judge well-known for his intelligence and wit. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 11:53 am
Watch him quaver at Ben Nelson's tactical extremism: I know a lot of the readers of this blog think that Barack Obama could cause any bill to pass the Senate that he wants if only he were sufficiently spiney, and that any effort to point out the existence of objective impediments to passing legislation is just “shilling” for the White House, but it’s still the case that objective impediments exist. [read post]
18 May 2009, 3:39 pm
Ron Meier spoke with a quavering voice as he described what Megan was like and how her death affected his family. [read post]
