Quavering

Here she’s quavering on the edge of a sexual revolution or more likely realisation that life, unfortunately, goes on.

But it is hard, she said, her voice quavering, to see Buddy struggle as he did during his last emergency and to carry on knowing that it may keep happening.

It is very painful for my image to be tarnished this way,” the suspended Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Mr Agyenim Boateng Adjei, said in a quavering voice.

You’ll already have heard “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart”, on which Miley Cyrus channels the quavering, fearless bluegrass spirit of her godmother Dolly Parton over a briskly plucked guitar.