Castratos

But, of course, they were called castratos for obvious reasons, and even then, some of them were judged to be second-rate failures. ❋ Appleleaf (2007)

He once dismissively told audiences that she owed her career to Bill Clinton's infidelities, and described men who supported her candidacy as "castratos". ❋ Unknown (2008)

Chris Matthews 'comments about her male supporters being "castratos in a eunuch chorus" likewise do not fit into any of the five narratives analyzed, so it could not have been tallied. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Strickland is one of the DLC bunch - whining boring castratos like Harold Ford Jr. who've so split the party - real Democrats don't have the platform or the microphone anynmore. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Secondly becasue I have always loved reading about those outrageous riders the big stars ask for when they go on tour - you know - they want a bowl of M&Ms in the dressing room but with all the brown ones removed, or they want tea made from leaves grown on the eastern slopes of Mount Fuji and picked at dawn by naked castratos playing the Alpenhorn. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He has referred to men who support her as "castratos in the eunuch chorus." ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

Turkish white slaves and Abyssinian castratos and Grecian girls and ❋ Unknown (2006)

I have heard, but only heard, that in times and places when eunuchs went in with the women youths managed by long practice to retract the testicles so as to pass for castratos. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The problem is that the male high notes for opera are for “castratos”. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So the slave went out and presently returned, followed by ten castratos, bearing ten stools of gold, which they set down in due order; and after these came ten damsels, concubines of the master, as they were shining full moons or gardens full of bloom, clad in black brocade, with crowns of gold on their heads; and they passed along the room till they sat down on the stools, when sang they sundry songs. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The castratos then set before them all manner rich meats and they ate, Daulat Khatun feeding her foster-sister by mouthfuls,453 till she was satisfied; when she called for divers kinds of sweetmeats, and when the neutrals brought them, they ate what they would of them and washed their hands. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Palace of the Caliphate and ask for the eunuch Sandal; whereupon the castratos will direct thee to me and by coming thither thou shalt get what falleth to thy lot and therewith wend thy ways. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He never thought that calling Clinton supporters "castratos in the eunuch chorus" was nasty and dismissive? ❋ Unknown (2008)

And he has described male politicians who have endorsed Clinton as "castratos in the eunuch chorus." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yesterday, Matthews called male supporters of Hillary Clinton "castratos in the eunuch chorus." ❋ Unknown (2007)

[Farinelli] was the most legendary [castrato]... history says these things, but [can it] make you believe them? ❋ Sam (2004)

I never have seen one but I was told that the Italian [opera] uses Castrato singers which are really just [nutless] men who can sing like a woman or even a [little girl]. ❋ Saharadryhumor (2014)