As a taped musician crooned a tune about love and the beauties of nature, the puppet swayed and gesticulated with realistic grace.
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The one woman had her baby in her arms, was crooning to it and was looking sublimely happy.
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What might otherwise be an atttractive crooning voice appears ridiculous.
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He certainly commented on that crooning in somewhat caustic terms.
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The waves moaned a rhythmic sound and the pines crooned their love song.
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He is best known for his smooth, crooning vocals and romantic ballads.
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Here he is torn between accepting the sweet croons of the woman and turning his back on her.
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However, they spend about half their screen time crooning to each other, or dancing on the beach.
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Penniman was blessed with a phenomenal voice able to generate croons, wails, and screams unprecedented in popular music.
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The music was often created with a banjo and a fiddle, while the lyrics were either sung, crooned, yodeled, whistled, hummed, recited, or chanted.
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Unremarkable lyrics are delivered with a sultrycroon, a hands-in-the-air belt, or a sweet whisper.
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She can no longer coo or softlycroonnor can she perform her trademark gravity-defying vocal runs.
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He may want tocroon, rather than just sing the words.
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The change from spectacularly violent soliloquies on his debut to crooning soul on his second effort caught some reviewers by surprise, though not all unhappily.
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Our project is not tocroonabout starry-eyed love and teenage heartbreak.
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