Yet where the term singer-songwriter usually suggests sincerity, emotion, personal righteousness or a good, clear voice, these individuals were more navel-gazing and anti-professional.

He does not bend notes; he gives them just a touch of bitterness to suggest emotion.

He used pitch to suggest emotion.

It demands acting on the performer's part, and the technical competence to suggest emotion when it's not there.

When a movement began to say something to him, to suggest emotion, he changed it.

Ms. Bareikis has an alluring glow and the ability to suggest complex emotion, but her character is not so much underwritten as left blank.

In other movements, intensity suggested tightly packed emotion.

Some quality in the Vulcan's voice suggested great emotion behind it.

Miss Kim has no trouble suggesting emotion, chiefly through a stretched body line, but it is emotion serenely expressed.

Mr. Varone is a master of stillness, able to suggest emotion frozen in time.