Richard Belzer

Have you noticed that the meanest, shrillest, least compassionate and most heartless people who are well off and have all the medical coverage they'll ever need are seemingly sickened beyond cure by the notion that someone who literally cannot afford health care is somehow beneath contempt and must be vilified and humiliated?

American Comedian

Eliot Spitzer

Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.

American Lawyer

Stacy Schiff

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

American Author

George Best

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

Irish Athlete

Joaquin Castro

Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody.

American Politician

Lapsley

I prefer to listen to a lot of male singers rather than females. Sometimes I find it a bit too shrill. I even find my own voice a bit too high.

English Musician

Al Gore

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

American Vice President

Michael J. Knowles

Shrillness is not the inevitable curse of the fairer sex.

Marcia Clark

Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

Renee Vivien

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.

British Poet

Shrill sounds can suggest strong emotions like excitement or fear, not just high pitch.

Emotionally Charged

Describing a sound or voice as 'shrill' often implies it's unpleasant or grating.

Negative Connotation

'Shrill' can imply that a sound starts suddenly and unexpectedly.

Suddenness

To 'shrill' is sometimes used to express uncensored or extreme emotion in the moment.

Emotion Expression

Shrilling can be a natural or deliberate action to draw attention, especially in animals.

Attention Drawing

When something shrills, the sound might echo, especially in confined spaces.

Echoing Sound

 the debates are, as you know, shrill. But I think it's possible that the most powerful and the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder. Thank you.