breathy

• “Rubyn wins for a while; Williams takes the lead after saying a few words in breathy tones.”

  Fly Girls: TV series follows flight attendants at home and in the air

• “Thanks!} * PSA (in breathy female voice): The Countess is allowed to misspell words for effect, at her own discretion.”

  Archive 2005-01-01

• “Smiling more widely than ever, she rolled down her window and called a breathy "Hi!" even before he reached the door.”

  Rekindled

• “What, is it going to be all overdubbed breathy singing and faked sex sounds?”

  CHARTattack:News Feed

• “This doesn't affect what I wrote; it's just more accurate since plain MIE *d becomes PIE *dʰ although I personally now believe that this stop only became "breathy" after the fragmentation of the PIE-speaking community had already occurred.”

  Szemerenyi's Law and Mid IE

• “Try another interpretation: During phonation shift, the modal *d of the onset phonemicized as *dʰ according to traditional theory remains modal while the second stop shifts to "breathy".”

  Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2

• “The medium -- to which is assigned the greater portion of every singer's work -- becomes "breathy" and hollow, the lower tones guttural, the higher tones shrill, and the voice, throughout its entire compass, harsh and unmanageable.”

  Style in Singing

• “A "quiet, gentle voice" is conscientiously aimed at by many young teachers, with so great zeal that the tone becomes painfully repressed, "breathy," and timid.”

  Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling

• “Certain states of mind, such as awe, caution, secrecy, fear, etc., produce in greater or less degree an aspirated or "breathy" quality, called the _whisper_ or _aspirate_:”

  The Ontario High School Reader

• “To say Cassie Morgan is "breathy" doesn't do her vocals justice.”

  Playback:stl Syndication

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