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#123551 - 02/24/04 07:55 PM Re: Vatican sopranos
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13654	They were often thought the best. Some were quite capable of the effort, but without the consequences.
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#123552 - 02/24/04 08:01 PM Re: Vatican sopranos
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Dear Faldage: Vatican sopranos were deprived of posterity at a very early age. I doubt very much that they ever had a "tilt to the kilt".
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#123553 - 02/24/04 11:29 PM Gelding the lilt
grapho addict Registered: 11/09/03 Posts: 619 Loc: Carpal Tunnel Country	I doubt very much that they ever had a "tilt to the kilt". Alas, performance at the expense of performance. To geld the lilt is a crime against posterity. Or at least it should be.
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#123554 - 02/25/04 07:21 AM Re: Gelding the lilt
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13654	Google castrati lovers and you'll find some sites that claim that they were sought after by discriminating women.
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#123555 - 02/25/04 08:24 AM Re: Gelding the lilt
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Dear Faldage: I had searched, and those were idiots who were castrated after reaching maturity.The Vatican types were like the young man from Samoa,Who had one inch, and no more...
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#123556 - 02/25/04 10:48 AM Re: Gelding the lilt
grapho addict Registered: 11/09/03 Posts: 619 Loc: Carpal Tunnel Country	The Vatican types were like the young man from Samoa, who had one inch, and no more... Let's not put too fine a point on it, wwh. Let's just call it what it is: mutilation ... a low note in the history of chasing high notes. Some chords are better lost than severed.
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#123557 - 02/27/04 01:38 PM Re: back to sprezzatura
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	An antonym to "sprezzatura" from a Sherlock Holmes adventure: ""You remember," said he, "that some little time ago when I read you the passage in one of Poe's sketches in which a close reasoner follows the unspoken thoughts of his companion, you were inclined to treat the matter as a mere tour-de-force of the author. On my remarking that I was constantly in the habit of doing the same thing you expressed incredulity." A "tour de force" is a master-stroke, a striking display of skill and power.
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#123558 - 02/27/04 01:41 PM Re: tour-de-force
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13654	That might qualify as making the difficult look difficult. I'm still (the Good Father's noble effort notwithstanding) looking for a word that means making the easy look difficult.
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#123559 - 02/27/04 01:51 PM Re: tour-de-force
maahey addict Registered: 12/03/02 Posts: 555	making the easy look difficult. complicate?
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#123560 - 02/27/04 02:28 PM Re: tour-de-force
grapho addict Registered: 11/09/03 Posts: 619 Loc: Carpal Tunnel Country	I'm still ... looking for a word that means making the easy look difficult How about "clumsy"?
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