plummiest

At some point, I'll find a knife to stick in the notion that the plummiest of vibrating singers and this lot are plummy must be accompanied in Mozart by that lean-mean-string-thing, that silly period-practice-equals-no-vibrato tokenism...

Archive 2007-05-01 Jessica 2007

At some point, I'll find a knife to stick in the notion that the plummiest of vibrating singers and this lot are plummy must be accompanied in Mozart by that lean-mean-string-thing, that silly period-practice-equals-no-vibrato tokenism...

The Red Shoes - a.k.a. Cosi fan tutte Jessica 2007

"There is no such thing as society," Augusto Pinochet's close friend, Margaret Thatcher, once intoned in her plummiest la-di-dah accent.

Archive 2006-06-01 2006

Obediently, I told him in my plummiest of voices, ‘I assure you, Mr Ledbetter will behave himself.’

The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006

"There is no such thing as society," Augusto Pinochet's close friend, Margaret Thatcher, once intoned in her plummiest la-di-dah accent.

In alta tende 2006

Just over a year ago, to be a literary agent in the Anglo-American world of books must have seemed like the plummiest, most glamorous job imaginable.

Culture | guardian.co.uk 2010

Just over a year ago, to be a literary agent in the Anglo-American world of books must have seemed like the plummiest, most glamorous job imaginable.

The Guardian World News 2010

Imagine John Gielgud at his plummiest reading the dialogue from, say, "The Hangover."

NYT > Home Page 2009

In those days, here in San Francisco, some may have thought Victor Arimondi had the plummiest job in town.

San Francisco Sentinel 2009

Were it not for the fact that we are still using tapes to record onto (I was shocked – when I explained that “Personally, I don’t even use CDs anymore” they were all quite taken aback) the resulting recording could be used as an example of the plummiest British accent for any American film-of-the-week star.

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