quaver
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Throughout the history of American music, blues, jazz and soul singers have used the jazzy quaver for the subtlest nuances of emotion: for tension, playfulness, defiance, flirtatiousness, ache or just blithe ornamentation.
From New York Times • May 10, 2024
Crucially, too, Bailey has the set of pipes that every Ariel needs and a gift for modulating her emotions through music, shifting from a rich, confident vibrato one moment to a hesitant quaver the next.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023
There was a quaver in his voice, which defined the depth of his emotion.
From Scientific American • Dec. 23, 2021
Tears sprang to my eyes again, lending a quaver to my voice.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2019
The father’s tenderest feelings were supposed to make his voice quaver as he said,
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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