throat-deep

comparative more throat-deep · superlative most throat-deep

1. Of a rich, resonant vocal tone produced low in the pharynx or chest; typically of a deep vocal fry or a booming, bass-heavy speaking voice originating below the larynx rather than from the nose or mouth.

   His cutthroat authority — never more than throat-deep.

   1987, Naomi Doudiai, “Katharine Meets Marco”, in The Jerusalem Post Magazine

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   I see that you are a man of the book, that volume of which Mother in her grace turns over a fresh page each spring. Though your skin is as pale as the flesh of my palm, though you have but one wife, though you speak throat-deep and strangely, yet you and I are more alike than different.

   1961, Allen Kim Lang, Blind Man's Lantern

   It was a thrill that curled through his body, responding both to his heightened erotic senses and to his emotional exultation, driving his thrust deeper into her willingness, and wresting from her throat deep animal sounds that rose steadily in pitch, building, giving, taking, rejoicing, approaching...

   1966, Ted White, chapter 9, in The Sorcerress of Qar, page 59