It's a person with a voice lending that voice to someone who has been dehumanized, debased and locked away in a cage to rue the steadily loudening drumbeat of his impending execution.— Paste Magazine
Production and distribution manager Nabil Mostafa says being featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times 'entertainment section, landing a contract with the world's largest comics distributor, Diamond Inc., and seeing his characters replace Spiderman on Cadbury-Adams Blox bubblegum wrap in Egypt is vindicating, but the company must still deal with loudening criticism of its characters' features.
The breaking of his collar hurled him against a trunk on the other side of the car, dazed and confused A sharp approaching whistle, an ever-loudening roar in that brooding silence out there aroused him to a sense of his surroundings.— Frank of Freedom Hill
The shore was drawing away before him, the surf loudening behind him, yet he could do nothing.— The Blue Lagoon: a romance
The song kept softening, loudening on,— Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses

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