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...But there is one cracker — Elvis Presley’s “Blue Christmas”, sung by the original bad boy of British rock and roll with a husky quaver and knowing twinkle. ★★☆☆☆ The biggest-selling boy band of all time...
...This is the quaver. So this is the best example of upcycling fermentation. So this is the waste of the waste turned into a delicious snack. Then we've got this magical syrup....
...Then the music comes alive with the leader’s sweet baritone singing — the odd quaver notwithstanding — and the fluid interplay of the four guitarists....
...The quaver in Young’s high voice has a faintly frail tone. The 76-year-old sings about looking through “a wavy glass window” at leaves falling over a lake....
...Happily there are no reports of panic Pringles purchasing though there are isolated cases of punters having to make do with Quavers....
...The first pair alone go from the onslaught of “Désordre” to hypnotic cascades of quavers in “Cordes à vide”....
...His resistance quavers. Lady Danbury is a calculated power-dresser who exudes gravitas; she is queenly but with none of the excess of the show’s real queen (Golda Rosheuvel)....
...An ever-so-slightly misnamed “charcuterie board” consisted of some extraordinarily juicy duck pastrami, a pile of “pork quavers”, each the size of a deep-fried duvet, and a neat range of pig-head croquettes...
...quavers the art teacher, Herr Lang (Rafael Gareisen), who takes pity on the more sensitive students, such as the unfortunate Zelenka, by signing them off drill practice and teaching them calligraphy....
...“The Over Under” opens the album with contemplative ambient music and lyrics about uncertainty, sung by Cole with a faintly Bowie-esque quaver....
...“Sky High” is Caribbean funk, Marielle Rivard channelling Kid Creole while Chrétien’s keyboards quaver and wobble....
...She plays her with so many quavers, quivers and actressy hands-to-heart that you wonder if Graham was a lost cousin of Florence Foster Jenkins....
...A concert adaptation was performed in 2002, but John Wilson likes to do things properly: the full monty, all three hours plus of it, including every quaver of Richard Rodgers’s score....
...Gardner, erstwhile music director of the English National Opera, made his attentive all-American players reinforce every subtle quaver and every noble quiver....
...He encourages them to realise that, for example, that it is the repeated quavers which give the Beethoven score its scary, ominous feel....
...Hits on both sides of the Atlantic, they established Hynde as a sharp songwriter blessed with one of the great rock voices, indomitable and deep-toned, with a coolly emotive quaver....
...But it was when our waitress announced that the pig head and scallop would come with carrot purée, tarragon oil and “a pork Quaver” that they had me....
...Lucy Kellaway wrote last week about how to phrase a resignation, from a tweet by Top Gear’s Chris Evans to a quaver in the voice of UK prime minister David Cameron....
...Voices quaver in the right places — when lovers separate or lovers reunite — but they seldom sound real. Even knives look harmless....
...However, Mr Cameron has proved that a minor quaver in the voice when you leave can be a good thing....
...The Philadelphians made much of every quasi-romantic quiver and quaver....
...Unusually, Solti insisted on performing Verdi’s score in its entirety down to every last crotchet and quaver. There have been 150 performances of Richard Eyre’s handsome production since then....
...Mälkki reinforced every keyboard quiver and quaver with symphonic sympathy. Incidental intelligence: the originally scheduled soloist, Jonathan Biss, had to withdraw because of a broken arm....
...When he wheedles — as the moneylender must at times — his voice quavers like an ailing goat. He is a victim. And the villains are those who persecute old Shylock for his faith....
...The style returns to the sophisticated funk and rock of his 1980s work, sung by Ferry in a careworn quaver, luxuriating in melancholy....
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