Small, pale and scrawny with watery eyes and a whining, adenoidal voice, Spector was the playground outsider, by his own account 'always different'.

I heard Riza Kolodny's adenoidal voice in my helmet earphones.

"You have been given a Royal Command," an adenoidal voice said in my ear while fingers plucked at my sleeve.

He began speaking in his adenoidal voice that made everyone wince.

The adenoidal voice and upper-class British accent belonged to Cyril Langhorne, an ace cryptographer and cipher clerk.

The digital clock was just threatening to trans- mute to another number when his intercom chimed softly and the adenoidal voice of his secre- tary swept through.

And instead of working with baritones like Bryn Terfel, she faced the adenoidal voice of Mr. Costello.

At first, his slightly adenoidal voice and the classic pop la-la's and handclaps he loves seem a mismatch.

"yes, mr. talbot," the adenoidal voice said and sneezed.

This is not Mr. Young's best work - nothing from the 1980's has been - and he's in particularly adenoidal voice.