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"rasp" Definitions
  1. [singular] a rough, unpleasant sound
  2. [countable] a metal tool with a long blade covered with rows of sharp points, used for making rough surfaces smooth
"rasp" Synonyms
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Even then, her voice is no louder than a rasp.
Glenn turned to me, speaking in a barely audible rasp.
In the mouth, it had a pleasant rasp of astringency.
"My voice wasn't like this before," Mr. Zhu said with a rasp.
Esmé's tone, meanwhile, has a rasp to it that's really rather pleasing.
I tried to yell but my voice was a barely audible rasp.
Her tone is flat, and her voice comes out with a slight rasp.
A tall man with a thin mustache and a scratchy rasp in his
Davis's trademark rasp appears all over "Everything's Beautiful," more often than his horn.
The deeper rasp of Batman was the character's natural affect in private moments.
Her voice was a low, husky rasp, made coarser from years of smoking.
The native Oklahoman has a wiry beard and speaks with a gentle rasp.
She put a little rasp in her voice and answered the ringing phone.
Tegan's voice was louder, cutting, clear, Sara's a notch more staticky with rasp.
"I think youth culture starts here," Ms. Versace said, in her Marlboro rasp.
He has range and rasp that he deploys with just the right measure.
"I don't talk like that anymore," she said last week in her signature rasp.
Her voice is routinely presented as a roughed-up Southern Belle with a smoker's rasp.
Elias sounds exhausted, like he's breathing under water; a rasp in opposition to pop punk.
"And actually now I do garlic on the rasp because it grates it so finely."
He delivers these bizarre claims, and many others, red-faced, in his signature husky rasp.
He gives McMahon a strange grating rasp that makes him sound like something from "The Flintstones".
The next he goes limp, and the sound of a chilling, throaty rasp fills the room.
Lamprey "rasp a hole in the trout and suck out the blood and juices," Fielder says.
Her voice retains its signature rasp, but loses that knife-sharp edge, curdling into sinister sweetness.
This fine-rasp grater is ideal for grating tiny bits of hash or flower over finished dishes.
The curtain rose and Warren was back upright, beginning "Private Dancer" in a gravelly rasp of resignation.
Then, Miley Cyrus's acerbic rasp added a welcome punch, bringing the performance to its climactic, pyrotechnic swell.
And command it does—Rico's signature rasp and bubblegum trap beats are sweet enough to entice anyone.
Todd White, the company's founder, apologized for his rasp; he was getting over a case of bronchitis.
Brown shook his head; more than a hint of a native Brooklyn rasp lingers in his voice.
Her own voice is a taut, lived-in soprano that can take on a flutter or a rasp.
There's no way they used the grindstone on the fleet feet, that took a rasp, I'm pretty sure.
Uncertain of her low, warbling rasp of a voice, she credited herself as "Throat" on Hellion's first demo.
Avoiding simple turn-ups or R&B intimacy, JiMMY spins street tales, anxiety apparent in his high-pitched rasp.
Ford is splendidly grizzled and gruff, giving the film a necessary rasp, and he even shakes up Ryan Gosling.
A microplane rasp grater is the ideal tool for finely pureeing garlic, shallot, onion, ginger, or jalapeño, Davison says.
If you hear a metallic rasp as you open the cover of Cordelia Fine's new book, don't be alarmed.
These bizarre claims, and many, many others, are often delivered in red-faced rants with Jones's signature husky rasp.
"You know what I love is a rasp (a microplane) because I love the zest of citrus fruit," she says.
He has a grainy, melancholy voice that can crest with a howling rasp; he's an acknowledged fan of David Gray.
"I've developed mild symptoms of the coronavirus," said Mr. Johnson, looking wan and speaking with a rasp in his voice.
I love the sort of genial humor that permeates this grid — clues for HEN and RASP, for example, and STAIN.
The outrage in his voice, a booming rasp amplified across three tiers of an NBA-size venue, is softer now.
The new creative team also dropped Chucky's singsong doll voice in favor of Dourif's Chicago rasp, and added some supernatural mythology.
His voice, a gravelly, soul-filled rasp, allows him to transform from quick-witted rapper into smooth-talking Lothario with ease.
Shelley's high, melodic voice was light years away from the acidity of Lydon or the rasp of the Clash's Joe Strummer.
As a rapper, 6ix9ine is a boxer — he thrives on rasp and repetition, as if constantly looking to pick a fistfight.
The first time we hear Maya Dardel (Lena Olin, and her inimitable rasp), she is declaring her intention to commit suicide.
It's faithful, right down to Nielson's delicate rasp, and it captures some of the apocalyptic terror that Bowie wrote into the original.
I got to tell him how much his voice has impacted me as a musician — someone with such grit and such rasp.
"A couple of months ago, I was talking like this," she said, lowering her already dusky sub-alto to a basso rasp.
Now, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts execute it in true rock style — with all the riffs and rasp necessary to entertain a Vegas crowd.
Pike revealed she actually shrunk a centimeter-and-a-half after contorting herself to Colvin's specific gait, posture, and idiosyncratic, cigarette-soaked rasp.
Mark Antony's funeral speech, for instance, is delivered in a barely decipherable rasp by an actor, Dalmazio Masini, who has had a tracheotomy.
"I didn't want a theater ticket, I wanted $19853," Mr. Belafonte recalled in a telephone interview earlier this week, in his famous rasp.
Lauren Jenkins writes and sings about disappointment, disillusion, drinking and holding on despite it all with a Stevie Nicks rasp in her voice.
Pryma gives her room to expand, which is perfect for Lemonade — you can hear each rasp in "Hold Up," and "Six Inch" just bangs.
His smooth, smoky vocal style, with a slight rasp, was influenced by both the country star George Jones and the blues singer Bobby Bland.
Mr. Stewart, using a rasp that suggests decay is working its way out from the inside, does some beautiful work, especially with Mr. Jackman.
But halfway through, as if in an anxiety dream, her voice faded to a rasp, so that she was barely able to produce sound.
Quinlan's engrossing and versatile voice—a whisper one moment, a rasp the next—is still the immediate standout, but the structures are more supple now.
Soon, most of the threesomes had left the Digital Commons and headed into the school's large atrium, where the rasp of unspooling masking tape dominated.
Johnson does a game (if not exactly spot-on) imitation of DeVito's rasp, while Hart does a (quite spot-on) imitation of Danny Glover's gentility.
Instead, he emphasizes texture and intensity — typically, he's screaming in a static-y rasp, an approach that suggests abandon, and potential mayhem just around the corner.
Ms. McEnroe, 26, has a deep, gravelly voice — a combination of her father's Queens-influenced stony delivery and her mother's rasp — and is a fitting sidekick.
Lyonne's throaty rasp sounds like a cigarette would if it could talk, but she also has a presence and an impish spark that cuts Nadia's cynicism.
"I'm a soul survivor, I made it through the fire/ I started with nothing, I've got nothing to lose," Ora croons the chorus in her trademark rasp.
Together they performed the wistful 1979 "The Muppet Movie" tune "Rainbow Connection" alongside a keening string section, Nelson's aged rasp a great pair for Musgraves' smooth croon.
What's left of his blond hair is set off by a bandanna, and his voice is laid-back but definite, with an ingratiating hint of a rasp.
Worst is "Warriors," a techy rasp by the Seattle-based artist James Coupe, which uses facial-scanning software to insert gallerygoers' faces into a 1970s B-movie.
The voice held its own against Sam Elliott's own iconic rasp (the granddaddy of goose-bump-inducing dialogue), which is a grand feat not many voices can achieve.
Flow Mafia - "La Joyería" His signature rasp intact, el favorito de capos himself brings an unrepentantly sinister and racy streak to this jewel-encrusted piece of trap gold.
The voice quality in the samples still has a distinctly metallic rasp to my ear — a sort of audio uncanny valley, if I can put it that way.
In house shoes, he rapped with a sneaky, wily rasp like he was about to steal a million dollar pack from a locked trunk with only a paperclip.
VII is a tribute to traditional R&B as she controls her voice well enough to channel the rasp of Toni Braxton and the whisper of Janet Jackson.
With a pronounced rasp, Shriner relays an array of feverish plots native to underground conspiracy-theory media, often combined with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of Old Testament scripture.
Debs could speak French and German and was raised in the Midwest, so maybe he talked like the Ohio-born Clarence Darrow, with a rasp and a drawl.
As it happens, Ms. Gray's mischievous rasp is a natural fit for acoustic combo dimensions, and the album puts her in excellent company, like the guitarist Russell Malone.
A floppy-haired moppet of a child actor with a chain-smoker's rasp, JTT reached a stratospheric level of teen idoldom usually reserved for pop stars and boy bands.
Whether because of sleeplessness or the grinding stress of last-ditch negotiations, when she took her place at the dispatch box what came out was a dry, croaking rasp.
"I needed to be able to forget about me for a minute and enjoy her—enjoy what I missed, through her success," he says now, in his famous rasp.
His voice, a nasally rasp, sounds at turns sneering and world-weary, giving him a powerful toolset to delve deeper into the day-to-day realities of personal relationships.
Probably his natural, unaltered rapping cadence would sound low and blubber-tongued anyway, and probably all that cough syrup has something to do with the rasp in his throat, too.
She could hear the rasp of her coat sleeve against her coat and the regular clicking of her faithful bag over the floor tiles: ka-thock ka-thock ka-thock.
The juice of white grapes, ordinarily whisked away from the pigment-bearing skins, is left to macerate with them instead, producing an amber-tinged wine with a mild tannic rasp.
Yola can moan and rasp and steamroller her way through a chorus, bringing crowds to their feet; she can also tease out the pain, longing and humor of subtler moments.
He was beset in the early 252s with a mysterious ailment of his vocal cords, leaving him with a permanent rasp that derailed a career as a country-western musician.
As the freeway slung a wide loop around the jagged foothills of the Organ Mountains, the sound of the engine, striving to haul us uphill, had become a shrill rasp.
His voice was one of pop music's most distinctive, a mixture of quintessential American expression: the revivalist's falsetto, the crooner's ease, a rasp like David Ruffin's, the occasional exasperated holler.
I compared Molly to Melissa Etheridge, Patty Griffin (a name that was left out conveniently), & the Indigo Girls purely because of the rasp in her voice & that she's an amazing storyteller.
Gerhaher possesses a singular vocal style in which the veneer of classical refinement periodically gives way to the world-weary rasp of the balladeer or the arch charm of the crooner.
These tiny arboreal ponds lacked sufficient food for the tadpoles, so the male would lower himself into the water, allowing his offspring to rasp the skin from his back for nutrition.
She sang, rapped and toasted, reggae style, with a voice that was often tart and sassy; it could also be a cutting rasp, an airborne soprano or an insistently comical squeak.
You might also consider some of the so-called orange wines, whites made almost like red wines, macerated with their skins, which gives them an amber tinge and a tannic rasp.
Apple is obsessively cautious in maintaining its public image; Iovine, the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman, blurts profanities in a high-pitched rasp and is one of music's great hustler-salesmen.
Her new acoustic performances of tracks from the album, released this week in partnership with the music video hosting service Vevo, are doubly so, spotlighting Lorde's snarling rasp and sly vulnerability.
One might start with the basic shout of Death's Chuck Schuldiner, graduate into the rasp of Carcass's Jeff Walker, and eventually enjoy the standard "cookie monster" approach most associated with death metal.
It's reminiscent of the vivid, world-weary rasp of Kendrick Lamar and the sharp eye of Lupe Fiasco—who tackled this same topic a decade ago on his debut album Food & Liquor.
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In general, Jay's more somber moments—on a rasp-voiced "Song Cry" or "The Story of OJ" while its powerful video plays in full—are met with applause that feels polite rather than rapturous.
That voice—previously heard in Whirr, and currently moonlighting in another project, Miserable—has an intriguing depth to it, whether she's employing a powerful rasp, a throaty moan, or a more delicate, pillowy croon.
In the early '90s, Martin was a long-haired master of the pop-rock ballad with a distinctive Bon Jovi rasp, performing Spanish-language covers of Laura Branigan's "Self Control," which were not major hits.
Though she confides that she wishes she could emulate Bonnie Raitt's rasp—"Maybe I quit drinking too early"—it's Nadler's own wavering, ghostly pipes that give her music its unearthly lightness, and its darkness, too.
"FFF" is built around these color-drained gasps and moaning drones that feel like the rasp of a radiator in an old cabin, or the creaking door of a grizzled man arriving home to no one.
Charles Bradley, the journeyman soul singer whose beleaguered rasp and passionate live performances turned him from an itinerant worker and small-time James Brown impersonator into a late-in-life headliner, died on Saturday in Brooklyn.
She slips into a rich continental accent when she calls for her husband, and she dives into her low, trembling rasp — "not the voice of a woman," as she has put it — when she teases him.
Drescher's character, Fran Fine, was a glamorously packaged bridge between the immigrant generation (her grandmother, Grandma Yetta, would frequently appear hilariously befuddled and bedazzled, with a Romanian-meets-Queens rasp) and the modern, assimilated New York Jew.
She sings with an operatic soprano, a death-rattle rasp, work-song rhythms, sustained shrieks, long-lined modal incantations and rapid-fire gibberish; her piano can hint at bluesy boogie-woogie, tinkling Minimalism and cracked church bells.
The inspired combo of Paak's soulful rasp and Knxwledge's crate-digging samples, as well a Donuts/Madvillainy-esque focus on short songs, makes this album something special in a year that's already filled with strong R&B LPs.
For the new movie "A Private War," the British actress transformed her posh, rounded speech into a distinctive American rasp, to play Marie Colvin, the Long Island-raised, London-based journalist who was killed in Syria in 2012.
When Shinji and Kaworu battle in the episode's climax, the feminine voice they so eloquently captured in the episode's early moments gives way to more masculine patterns: a rasp of anger, a deepening of pitch, a suppression of weakness.
Across the albums 12 songs,, the band is still dealing in bouncy pop songs, but they've got the forward momentum and combustive urgency of punk, with Koch's unmistakable rasp making every song feel like a life-or-death statement.
With zingers like, "When I'm good, I'm very good, when I'm bad, I'm better," and, "It's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men," in her signature rasp, West's characters possessed incredible swagger.
In a ballroom duet, Nathan Bugh and Evita Arce clench the sandlike powder in their fists, giving their tango and salsa partnering a poignant awkwardness (they can't fully connect) and their footwork a scouring rasp as the powder escapes.
It wasn't sleepy, like so much of the "neo soul" then on the radio — your Bilals and your Musiq Soulchilds — and with his signature grainy voice, featuring something I call the John Legend rasp, the music was good, though not groundbreaking.
The cooking is modestly presented, but often extravagantly delicious, with flavors that taste like fresh revelations: the notes of squid-ink musk in a sour-hot adobo, or the charred coconut that provides a vanilla rasp to goat braised with lemongrass.
At first, the words are a rasp in Elisa's throat—but as she continues, her voice grows clearer and the palette of the movie falls away, transporting her into a black-and-white world pulled straight from the films she watches.
Here you can hear her carefully gathering herself, harnessing her fury and directing it with purpose: "I try my best to be patient, but I can only put up with so much shit," she screams, dissolving into an angry rasp.
In place of a startling moment of film in "La Jetée" when Marker breaks out of stop-time and a woman blinks, Ms. Opie injects midway through her movie, which is otherwise silent, the loud rasp of a struck match.
" On a warm, hazy afternoon, supporters spilled out along the famed Venice boardwalk as Sanders, his back to the Pacific Ocean, thundered in his trademark rasp against the fossil fuel industry, drug companies, Wall Street and a "corrupt political system.
No – not the vaguely European accent that makes a very special appearance in this, the very first episode of Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club – but rather, the husky, old world and ageless rasp that made lines like "the limit does not exist!" so iconic.
Instead of removing the pigment-bearing skins from the grape juice, as is the case with conventional white wines, the skins are left to macerate with the juices, giving the wines an amber cast and a tannic rasp that is rare in a white.
In 1986, Carte de Séjour drew nationwide attention when it released a mocking remake of "Douce France," a sentimental Charles Trenet song about memories of a French childhood, lacing the verses with oud and hand drum and snarling the chorus with a punk-rock rasp.
"Black Friday" speaks to the feeling of being uncomfortable in one's own body; it contains moments of venom ("Killer" rails against a sexual predator) and tenderness ("Aaron" is a statement of unconditional support for Kempner's trans partner), all delivered in the singer's signature melodic rasp.
Until recently, I would have said the three most painful hours I spent in a Broadway theater in 2017 were the ones watching Glenn Close gamely rasp her way through the lugubrious revival of "Sunset Boulevard," Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic Billy Wilder movie.
Video series like Silently Cooking and Peaceful Cuisine have no talking, no music, nothing to distract from the sounds of cooking: the rasp of a knife shaving chocolate, the rhythmic scrape of a whisk whipping egg whites, the glug-glug of olive oil pouring into a pan.
A gang of plutocrats, fronted by a master of disguise and suave thuggery named Turner (played by German cinema's favorite villain, Fritz Rasp), plot to steal a rocket designed by an aging mad scientist from his earnest young protégé, the entrepreneurial astrophysicist Helius (the popular leading man Willy Fritsch).
In a showstopping monologue at the top of the second act, Red's speaking voice — a dyspeptic rasp, as if her vocal cords have been gnawed through by rats — suggests someone who has seen the unspeakable, and takes an already eerie performance by Nyong'o to a darker, unearthly realm.
Then she sanded the stone, "finer and finer," she says, until she could do her most delicate work with a pencil-size rasp: an eight-inch Italian steel file, forged by hand, with tiny teeth that eat away at the sculpture — the same type of tool used by Michelangelo.
Cheadle has always been the most agile of actors, tough to keep up with as he switches from menacing stillness to a snapping wit; in short, he is made for Davis, and there's no doubt that he nails his hero, down to the raw rasp of his speech.
But when you, as a writer and a producer, see a moment like when Michelle is on the phone pretending to have had throat surgery, so she can't talk, and all she can do is rasp, and it ends up being so amazing, are you a little like, "Our work here is done"?
Here, inside the office, with the doctor and his caseworker from Health Services, there was no sound of the rain, or if there was he couldn't hear it—all he could hear was the rasp and wheeze of his own compromised breathing as he sucked air through the fibres of the mask.
What I did do — because I wanted to have a little bit more rasp to my voice — I would take shots of whiskey and I would scream really loud to try to get it as scratchy as possible or be around people who were smoking in a cloud of smoke and inhale.
This time, it's Max Evans' (True Blood alum Nathan Parsons) job to keep the peace between these two groups, since he's a town sheriff — and has the bow-legged cowboy gait, quiet rasp (the kind that is near Bill Compton saying "Sookie" in True Blood -levels of scratch-y), and uniform to prove it.
On "All the King's Horses" she slips into hypnotic singsong; on "A Brand New Me" she demonstrates how a belted note can contain just the right proportions of rasp, sugar, warmth; on "April Fools" she spirals further and further upward, her wails getting more and more breathless, as if love's pull is sucking her into the sky.
But the song — built on a sticky, low-riding keyboard whomp by Atlanta beat maestro Mike WiLL Made-It — spoke its own truth as the Compton native savaged pretenders to the throne, stunted for natural hair and stretch marks, and slid his laconic rasp over every subject (syrup sandwiches, Ted Talks, Richard Pryor) in his all-caps command. —L.G.
He played a similar role for two seasons in Starz's "Survivor's Remorse" as the wisecracking Uncle Julius, living the high life after his nephew became a star in the N.B.A. Here, he deploys his 80-proof rasp as a questionable-but-loving quasi-nanny to his nieces, the teenage Tia (Iman Benson) and little Maizy (Aalyrah Caldwell), and his nephew, Miles (Sayeed Shahidi).
To this Stratman adds field recordings made by another experimental woman director, Maya Deren, who made films in Haiti in addition to the US. Hammer's presence — the deep resonance of her rasp voice — is key to the film, as she throws in mentions of her impetuous decision to abandon California (and the woman she was with) to decamp for Guatemala.
Filmmaker Mark Lebon's snapshot into the intimacy of his home life perfectly fits "Marilyn," a song that uses the rasp of Mica Levi's vocal to sound exactly like the feeling you get when you creak open your eyes on a sunny morning and have fuck-all else to do besides hang out with people you love and not get sunstroke in the process.
Over this, through a mic tilted perilously over his head, he would rasp out vocals that were hard to hear and usually absurd, he admitted, once you'd made them out: songs about war, drugs, sex, rich people, kicking ass and broken glass, with titles like "Die, You Bastard", "Antisocial" and "Overkill", scrawled mostly by him in a few chortling minutes on the back of a cigarette packet.
Digging down yet further, he "translated" the voices of animals and plants: the "me me me" dew-flash of finches in seed grass, or the rasp of a cockspur bush, "sharp-thorned and caned, nested and raised,/earth-salt by sun-sugar..." Round the land for years he went with his rifle, shooting at rosellas in the trees or even at eagles ("I see him yet, a wrecked thing drifting/Down the ringing air...").
Here are some other valid suggestions of celebrity voices we wouldn't mind being used in the future: John Krasinski or that adorable prankster, Jim Halpert Beyoncé (duh) Sophia Bush and her beautiful rasp Idris Elba and his endearing English accent That dude Adam Young, aka voice of Owl City Norah Jones because she is very calming Ty Burrell and Ed O'Neill from Modern Family Ellen DeGeneres (or basically any voice actor from Finding Dory, really) And to make things really interesting ... IMOGEN HEAP

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