sultriness

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"I'd say it's a desert aesthetic with a soul vocal. Like a Tarantino soundtrack or a Nancy Sinatra album – the twang of the guitars, the sultriness of the production."

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

The choir, 56 strong, fills the hall ecstatically with “Allelluia,” and later, in Act 2, the sultriness of Shrader’s tenor is a match for the lilting “Ballad of Eldorado.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2019

The jazzy seven-member band, led by Gerald Sternbach at the piano, provides sultriness or drive, as suits the occasion.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2018

He also captures the sultriness of Wind Gap in unconventional ways, evoking the conflicting sensations of grace and dread in every color-saturated daytime scene and cutting it into its evenings.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2018

Spite of the chill autumn evening, there was an incomprehensible sultriness in the air of the room.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von