Sotto voce means to lower the sound of your voice, not out of embarrassment or fear but more for emphasis. it’s a dramatic technique and also used in music and screenplay writing. I especially liked the Wiki reference to Galileo Galilei’s sotto voce utterance “Eppur si muove (And yet [the Earth] moves’.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still can’t believe,” Michael said, sotto voce<\/strong>, “that you came to the Vampires’ Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.\u201d
\n\u2015 Jim Butcher, Grave Peril<\/p>\n\u201cIs it life-threatening?\u201d they asked. They said it slightly sotto voce<\/strong>, but you could hear the thirst for sensation right through it: when people get a chance to come close to death without having it touch them personally, they never miss the opportunity.\u201d
\n\u2015 Herman Koch, The Dinner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sotto voce means to lower the sound of your voice, not out of embarrassment or fear but more for emphasis. it’s a dramatic technique and also used in music and screenplay writing. I especially liked the Wiki reference to Galileo Galilei’s sotto voce utterance “Eppur si muove (And yet [the Earth] moves’. 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