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off key

Music
a. not in the correct key
b. out of tune
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Bruce Bower explored the mental mechanics of off-key singing in "The tune wreckers" (SN: 9/21/13, p.
After all, "He who sings prays twice." But we sometimes cringe when we hear a priest with a weak, wavering, off-key voice attempting to sing.
The video footage of the performance, which took place last week on board the Holland America Eurodam in the Caribbean, shows the 56-year-old actress slurring a couple off-key songs, TMZ.com reported.
Offbeat, but also frequently off-key and somewhat off-putting, Francesca Gregorini's "Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes" comes up with a mightily strained framework to deal with the grief of familial loss: the friendship between a sullen motherless teen and a woman mothering a rather singular child.
But when she turns her attention to the church's off-key choir, helping the nuns to find their true voices and breathing new life into the rundown neighbourhood, her cover could be blown.
Disguised as a nun, she decides her true vocation is helping the convent's off-key choir.
While the soundtrack to Miller's film hits the high notes, the script is frequently off-key, heavyhandedly dealing with issues of parenting and friendship, then ladling on the sickly sentiment.
If I'd done all that, I might have been considered 'keynote' and not have to resort to ranting here 'off-key'.
Some even threatened to boycott the show in protest at the alleged use of the studio technology used to correct pitch and off-key mistakes.
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