Shouting, screaming, melismatic vocalisations often featuring call and response with a backup 'chorus' inspired by sanctified churches.
They were drunk and paid no attention to her screams and moans.
[external_link_head]Lyrics are assertive and arrogant, but the exact words are less significant than the vocal styles involved, the shrill shouting and screaming.
His was a figure of tremendous, repressed pain; his outward form muffled a raucous, screaming silence.
One also finds sound gestures such as calls, screams and cries.
[external_link offset=1]A further result was a stretched series of soft screams, followed by pitch bends as conversation went on, morphing into a long 'ahhh'.
She struggles in vain, screaming and trying to get away.
We hear the truck, a struggle, a screaming man falling into an abandoned oil well, sludge being dumped into the hole.
He really hit the roof and screamed in anger and told her to take off that apparel and never let him see it again.
One time he awoke in a state of terror, sweating like crazy, and he actually heard himself screaming.
I also witnessed a white woman who was still dressed as if she were about to bathe (covered up in towels) screaming hysterically.
[external_link offset=2]You're not aware that you're uptight or, you know, like screaming or whatever it might be.
Four males wheeled out prams to sound effects of screaming babies, and in a very funny act, juggled crying babies on short sticks.
I stopped screaming and pretended to be dead.
Groaning and screaming throughout the sessions, he was neither willing nor able to verbalize the terror that seized him.
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