sotto-voce

Galileo Galilei is best known for his sotto-voce defiance of the inquisition.

Gardner Dozois (ed.) - Galileo's Children: Tales Of Science vs. Superstition (Book Review) 2008

It is a maaaaahvelous event unless you have sotto-voce hecklers in the front row.

This Weekend: Mayhem Incoming bantiarna 2010

Galileo Galilei is best known for his sotto-voce defiance of the inquisition.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

I didn't know the fellow lit major, but I'll never forget the professor's sotto-voce wisecrack as her footsteps faded down the corridor: "But Allen Ginsberg is a saint."

Michele Somerville: Allen Ginsberg: Buddhist Rabbi 2010

Skin blanched, q leaned backward in her chair so both Tom and Harry could hear her sotto-voce reply.

String Theory, Book 3: Evolution Heather Jarman 2006

“God forbid!” said the Justice in a tone of sotto-voce deprecation; “some of us have enough of one of the tribe.”

Rob Roy 2005

Some authorities, however, direct it to be meditated sotto-voce.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

"Singing disrupts the road work -" The sotto-voce imitation is nearly inaudible, cruel and bitter in its mocking overtones.

The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

Again, the fashion in contemporary England is for poetry, like Philip Larkin's, which is highly and consciously literate, and at the same time deliberately unliterary, anti-rhetorical, anti-evocative, in Auden's phrases, 'sotto-voce' and 'monochrome.'

Three Poets Fraser, G. S 1964

As I canvassed the possibilities his _sotto-voce_ ecstasies continued, to the vast amusement, as I perceived, of a sardonic stranger who hovered unsteadily in the background.

The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather