"...her voice suddenly became brisk and cool"
Hi there.
I am not a native speaker. Yet I am trying to read this book "City of Angels" by C.Clare.
"... her voice suddenly became brisk and cool". What does it mean? The voice becomes sharp/loud ("brisk") and cold ("cool")? Or something else?
Thank you in advance.
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The image is not finely drawn, to say the least. "Brisk" and "cool" do not play well together. I had to think about what such a voice would sound like, and that breaks immersion, a bad thing in fiction unless you want it.
- The image is not finely drawn, to say the least.
- "Brisk" and "cool" do not play well together.
- I had to think about what such a voice would sound like, and that breaks immersion, a bad thing in fiction unless you want it.
- Anyway, "brisk" does not mean sharp or loud.
- It means rapid and easy applied to speech.
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The image is not finely drawn, to say the least. "Brisk" and "cool" do not play well together. I had to think about what such a voice would sound like, and that breaks immersion, a bad thing in fiction unless you want it. Anyway, "brisk" does not mean sharp or loud. It means rapid and easy applied to speech. "Cool" means unemotional. If a book is newer than 100 years, and there are vampires in
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