Robert Christgau Word of the Day

stentorian adj.

Extremely loud: a stentorian voice. (dictionary.reference.com)

Tom Waits Small Change [Asylum, 1976]

Waits has developed into such a horrible singer that sometimes I think his stentorian emotionalism is deliberate, like the clinkers he hits in "The Piano Has Been Drinking." This doesn't affect his monologue songs one way or the other, but it tends to detract from those with melodies. B- (www.robertchristgau.com)