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As such, the subtleties in his singing only deviated minutely from his essentially brilliant timbre — a touch of duskiness here in “Juliet,” an echo of wistfulness there in “Night Song,” both by Owens.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023

The conductor Duncan Ward, also making a Met debut, packed an appealingly forthright sound into the slender frame of Mozart’s music and brought out the score’s duskiness.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2022

As a treatise on the healing power of tears, it’s pure Robyn; but the low-slung duskiness augurs beautifully for Kindness’s new material.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2019

As Carmen, Martínez has just the right duskiness of tone for a role best suited a mezzo-soprano.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2017

And his quick eyes, the whites of which showed so white against his duskiness, the yellow pupils so non-human, met hers with a quick flash of recognition.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)