basso

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Examples

• Blessed with a preternaturally resonant basso — someone should record this actor for use, like the sound of ocean waves, by troubled sleepers — Page seems to have been custom-designed himself for the passages he pulls out of the texts.

• But for Basso (Super 8), keeping a straight face during these scenes was easier said then done.

• Basso said Alleman had a genetic predisposition for cardiac problems, as both of his parents died of heart attacks in their 50s.

• "He lived a very full life," said Basso, who seemed shaken when reached by phone Monday evening.

• Basso recalled Alleman as a fun-loving man who loved the Heart Attack Grill.

• Dmitri had been a basso profundo singer, and to this day retains a commanding voice as well as a keen ear.

• He passed them by, and haughty tenor and swaggering basso again took heart of grace.

• She stood by the gate and pumped up basso-profundo bawls from her second or lower stomach.

• For him Gibson executed a basso rilievo in terra-cotta, now in the Liverpool museum.

• The inner apartments are much the same as the portico, all covered with figures in basso relievo.

• Not far from it, on the side of a large well, was fixed a stone with three figures carved on it, in basso relievo.