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

It is also a pleasure to hear Mr. Rickman pronounce “semicolon” with a pinching nasality that turns a punctuation mark into a symptom of terminal constipation.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2011

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

The common defects of nasality, throatiness, and harshness, are due to wrong and careless use of the speaking-instrument.

From Talks on Talking by Kleiser, Grenville