As in Brian Blessed. A man who could out-
boom God in the Booming Voice Olympics. Often described as 'shouty' in his acting performances, this is really an inadequate adjective. While the volume the man can produce is quite simply staggering and which regularly makes wilderbeast stampede for their lives even on another continent, volume alone is only part of his
amazing talent. His shouting is at once deafeningly loud, jolly, heartwarming, deceptively articulate and imposing. An absolute pleasure to experience, even while your ears begin to shatter.
In addition he understands the aesthetic of contrast in further enhancing the magnitude of his shouting. He
will very often speak at a delicate volume for several
words in a row, and he is so well spoken you'd think he was a librarian at Cambridge. But then, without notice... "AH WELL, WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER? HAHAHAHAHAHA.... DIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!"
In common usage
today as
slang for someone whose charismatic presence is felt immediately by all (example below)