That breathy tone tempted him almost beyond hope.

The work tends to benefit from a more ethereal, breathy tone in the first movement and, in general, a veiled, French sort of understatement.

He plays the sodina - a wooden flute with a breathy tone that carries skipping, hopping, asymmetrical melodies - and sings in a voice full of grit and experience.

"I did try," she said finally, in a breathy tone.

In breathy, groaning, long-suffering tones, Mr. Reznor sings about private despair and a desperate need for sexual connection.

She cloaked it well with a breathy tone, and others might have missed it, but he had been listening for it.

Goulding possesses the vocal range of a soprano and is noted for her high piercing vibrato, breathy tone and emotive delivery.

It produces a very breathy or airy tone.

In the last movement the soprano Marisol Montalvo gave a curiously weak performance, singing with breathy tone and hesitancy.

"They don't leave doors open by accident, man," Pleech said in a breathy tone.