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  • r  in a shrill voice
    she sang rather shrilly

  • Her voice is echoed, shrilly, wanly, in dozens of movie reviewers whose style she influenced and whose careers she strenuously promoted.
  • Prominent in the crowd was a white-haired old lady who fell on her knees before Editor White shrilly crying: "Deliver us! Deliver us!" Gallant Editor White made no promises, but .
  • In this shrilly articulate circle, Evelyn is said to have sat usually mute, but terrifyingly observant.
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  • Reader View: Mother Nature is cooling Earth; we don’t need Obama’s plan
    President Barack Obama has shrilly reissued his call for a high-priority war on carbon to stop global warming. This follows his 2008 presidential campaign threat of bankrupting any new coal power plant. While the U.S. has had recent success in lowering carbon output, we have not yet found out just how President Obama intends to carry out his threat, nor how accomplishing his goals would be ...
    Aug. 4, 2013 - Santa Fe New Mexican
Quotes

  • Michael Barone in CNSNews.com
    A closer case comes if the culturally conservative [Republican] Fred Thompson or the increasingly shrilly left-wing [Democrat] John Edwards is a nominee,Barone said.
  • Linda Grant in Times Online
    I consider it to be absolutely normal to care deeply about what we wear,Linda Grant writes, "and [I] detest the puritan moralists who affect to despise fashion......Who shrilly proclaim that only vain, foolish Barbie dolls, their brains...

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