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meaning of "plum-voiced" and "either touching or profoundly naive"
Dear all,
I'm reading The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett and there are two ideas in the following paragraph that I don't understand:
"The leader of the women’s commune was a stout, plum-voiced woman. She decided, with an idealism that was either touching or profoundly naive, to found a ‘new matriarchal co-operative community’. Eva was sceptical: how, she had asked them, could a truly co-operative community exclude half the population?"
Firstly, I can't imagine what kind of voice is "plum-voiced". Is it sharp or hoarse? Is it pleasant or not? Secondly, even though I looked up the dictionary for those adejectives, I still don't understand what "either touching or profoundly naive" means. Can anybody explain the ideas for me?
Dear all,
I'm reading The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett and there are two ideas in the following paragraph that I don't understand:
"The leader of the women’s commune was a stout, plum-voiced woman. She decided, with an idealism that was either touching or profoundly naive, to found a ‘new matriarchal co-operative community’. Eva was sceptical: how, she had asked them, could a truly co-operative community exclude half the population?"
Firstly, I can't imagine what kind of voice is "plum-voiced". Is it sharp or hoarse? Is it pleasant or not? Secondly, even though I looked up the dictionary for those adejectives, I still don't understand what "either touching or profoundly naive" means. Can anybody explain the ideas for me?