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River was an Indian — novel, fat, many-voiced, wide-screen; Cyberabad Days is tales.
Pyr's McDonald, Edelman & Roberson: Too Much to Keep Track of Lou Anders 2009
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River was an Indian — novel, fat, many-voiced, wide-screen; Cyberabad Days is tales.
Archive 2009-02-01 Lou Anders 2009
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Because I feel my horror so strongly that I must howl in order to obtain an answer, I am considered insane, but if I conceal my horror in my heart and talk about the weather, the shortage of food, clothes and tobacco, I receive a many-worded and many-voiced reply, and am considered sensible.'
Archive 2010-05-01 David McDuff 2010
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Because I feel my horror so strongly that I must howl in order to obtain an answer, I am considered insane, but if I conceal my horror in my heart and talk about the weather, the shortage of food, clothes and tobacco, I receive a many-worded and many-voiced reply, and am considered sensible.'
Mirjam Tuominen - 4 David McDuff 2010
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The voices, of uncertain name and of distinctive mystery of origin, must be perceived so we may hear them as we have heard other ancient poets of Asia, of a religious and metaphysical cast, from China's Laozi tradition, India's Mahadevi, Sumeria's Enheduanna, and Israel's many-voiced prophets.
Jesus, Poets and Prophets James F. McGrath 2009
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River was an Indian—novel, fat, many-voiced, wide-screen; Cyberabad Days is tales.
Archive 2009-02-01 Lou Anders 2009
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The Times is simply not a single-voiced agenda-driven organization -- it is instead a many-voiced collection of people with quite different perspectives trying hard to present information without making political arguments for or against any state or party.
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In Dreams from My Father, the new president displays an enviable facility for dialogue, and puts it to good use, animating a cast every bit as various as the one James Baldwin — an obvious influence — conjured for his own many-voiced novel Another Country.
Speaking in Tongues Smith, Zadie 2009
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Criticism of The Times is easy, but it often fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the organization, which is many-voiced and not close to monolithic or tightly controlled as so many critics assert without recourse to the facts.
Did Costumes and Props Undercut the Seriousness of the G-20 Protests? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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It is however not wrong if the singer is improvising a counterpoint and ends with imperfect consonance, but in that case, the movement should be many-voiced.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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