nasality

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The ensemble played these pieces with brisker transparency and perhaps more varied colors; Nézet-Séguin’s textures in “Don Carlos,” airier than Levine’s, felt of a piece with the elegant nasality of French.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2022

He added, “It definitely does have some of the Sinatra characteristics, but there’s a little nasality in there, and it’s when the singer becomes nasal that I start to hear that it’s not Frank.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2020

At its best, my voice has a James Taylor-ish nasality that has the net effect of a mild laxative.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2013

Yet the two are instantly doing dueling Michael Caines: Coogan emphasizing Caine's nasality, Brydon the lower, slower diction that comes from decades of "all the cigars and brandy."

From Time • Jun. 10, 2011

Vastly gratified, Samuel advanced with ludicrous gestures towards the visitor, held out his hand, and said with affected nasality, 'How do you do, sir?

From The Nether World by Gissing, George