"Eeyore" noun attr.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Is that anything like a "Garrison Keillor" voice?

  JL

"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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"Chan's story is moving nonetheless, and with her unseeing eyes and
dark Eeyore voice, she's a presence you don't want to let go of."

Boston Globe, Movie Review, "A fragmented look at lives of longing"
(review of "Be With Me"), June 23, 2006, D12/6.

Google hits for "eeyore voice" -"eeyore's voice" -"(voice)" -- are zero.

Joel

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