Increasingly, pillars of the establishment are sounding like shrill critics.

The child's voice is very shrill when she gets upset.

'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice.

Yet the reactions to his sad plight, especially in France, have been oddly shrill.

In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are, as you know, shrill.

Alarmingly, the resulting political debate has degenerated into a shrill cacophony of moral righteousness, finger pointing, scapegoating, and stereotyping.

One of the things weíve all met is the accusation that we are strident or arrogant, or vitriolic, or shrill.

The same can be said about the shrill tone that Turkey, and Erdogan himself, has recently adopted vis à vis Israel.

Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the name 'Alice!' gt

'Get up!' said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the Queen, the royal children, and everybody else.

Wouldn t they be more likely to read pundits with better track records? If so, pundits might adapt to accountability by showing more humility, and political debate might begin to sound less shrill.

Orbán s putative political role models are likely to become even more shrill and nationalist in foreign policy as they attempt to retain domestic support. In order to secure peace on the home front, leaders will point to the enemies real or imaginary at the gate.

Here, by the very corner of my field, still nearer to town, Zilpha, a colored woman, had her little house, where she spun linen for the townsfolk, making the Walden Woods ring with her shrill singing, for she had a loud and notable voice.

Mouse splashed his way through the neighbouring pool she could hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his friends shared their never ending meal, and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution once more the pig baby was sneezing on the