big-voiced
Example Sentences
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With her powerful high notes, sumptuous tone and onstage intensity, it seemed that Wagner’s Ortrud, Fricka, Kundry and even Isolde — the province of big-voiced sopranos — might be possible.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2023
Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde and Matthias Goerne as Wotan provided big-voiced Wagner, as did the other Valkyries.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2022
Neither one is big-voiced, though Vuong sings throughout with a prettily demure tight vibrato, which adds color and presence; they blend with, rather than soar over, the orchestra, conducted by Joseph Colaneri.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021
Hayes, by presenting himself with all the bravado of other soul men, but at half the volume, traded the big-voiced charisma that had defined soul in the nineteen-sixties for a more conceptual, introspective approach.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2019
It seemed to me that I was the only person in the village who had witnessed and heard the passing of the big-voiced man and cart.
From Birds in Town and Village by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
