This time, the screams carried a different pitch: high and frantic!

His efforts to please sponsors, as well as his frantic, last-minute pitch for additional funding, left Plant with little energy for more important matters - such as getting his boat ready.

The histrionics and legislative scare tactics that surround every negotiation on a New York State budget have reached a frantic pitch.

The film begins with apparent nonchalance but eventually reaches an effectively frantic pitch.

A light switched on, almost at the farthest fringe of the village, and he could hear someone-a man's voice-shouting in a high, frantic pitch.

Kori'nd screamed, her voice raised to a nearly frantic pitch as she drifted upside down and clutched at the console at her station for stability.

Mr. Nichols puts his film through these paces with dependable comic agility, and rises to the requisite frantic pitch when the two families meet for dinner.

The frantic pitch of the Veronica seems to attempt to storm into the circle of dramatic setpieces, with a shrill fervor.

The humming had increased to a frantic pitch.

If the quality of public services has achieved a higher political profile in general, it has reached a positively frantic pitch in health care.