At the risk of sounding like a reverse sexist, I don't particularly care for shopping, chick flicks or comparing beauty products. |
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The machine emitted a whirring sound, and a few calculated sounding thunks, and then began to run. |
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He lifts his horn and they all begin to thunder across the plain sounding their calls. |
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And a lot of what they say makes sense to me, but some of it winds up sounding a little kooky. |
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The thunder of the drums rang out around Newbridge town centre on Friday night, sounding the start of Bealtaine, the town s annual arts festival. |
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It started to rain, with flashes of lightning and booms of thunder sounding in the distance. |
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Swarms of scooters yammered hysterically past, sounding like runaway chainsaws. |
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They started with the sounding of a bugle, leading in to a drum ruffle from the drum corps, and then swinging into their rock group performance. |
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Or is it that people with vision and ideas lack the conviction to put them forward and risk sounding stupid? |
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And then Ben's match began, and it was him I cheered for instead, my yells sounding hollow even to my own ears. |
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Remarkably, he manages to say all this without once sounding like he's reprimanding us. |
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A bugle blew in the Ruhr on Sunday, sounding the last post for the postwar German model. |
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He never wants to come off sounding bitter or resentful over opportunities lost. |
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I replied, realizing that my own voice was suddenly sounding deeper, and throaty too, as if I was trying to seduce him. |
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As I said, it's a hard thought, a difficult concept to explain without sounding loopy. |
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The sheer absence of soul in these girls is something I can't easily describe without sounding out-and-out abusive. |
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The pianist wants us to hear everything, and he relies on his legato playing to prevent the music from sounding dry, even skeletal. |
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His muse, whilst sounding thin and mean vocally, comes to life through her guitar. |
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Without sounding too unsympathetic, diseases and illnesses are a natural way of stopping the earth becoming too overpopulated. |
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Gina woke up to the notes of a trumpet sounding reveille breaking the dewy morning silence. |
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There were no bells sounding, no fireworks screaming through the sky, and no audience to clap and cheer us on. |
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Loewen even manages to write about race, gender, and class without sounding like he is repeating a mantra. |
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Motorists could also draw attention to themselves by flashing their lights or sounding their horn to make people aware they are in difficulty. |
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You are sounding like that old bag that's in charge of making sure I am somewhat of a lady. |
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Nick was roused from sleep with a jolt, his beeper sounding loudly next to him. |
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I hope next time they call, I will be in, so I can ask them really dumb questions and see how stupid I can get away with sounding. |
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His simple, often hypnotic approach, to ska, rocksteady and reggae made him one of the most distinctive sounding musicians of the era. |
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The right is sounding the call to arms, while the left, as always, is offering excuses at best, and at worst, apologies. |
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He's recorded live, too, which leaves some of Jamie's piano solos sounding rough and ready, but gives the performances the power of a live show. |
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What with adware, malware or badware and the ominous sounding spyware we seem to be bombarded with diverse descriptions for malicious programs. |
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Despite sounding a little dazed after spending six and a half hours watching three films back to back, he is keeping things in perspective. |
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At the risk of sounding completely schmaltzy, it was the best, most meaningful Canada Day in my life thus far. |
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Some kind of magpie was chattering from the cherry trees, sounding like a child's imitation of a machine gun. |
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My goodness, I'm sounding like a Bolshevik or a troubled man on a street corner with a sandwich board proclaiming the end of the world is nigh. |
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Asha had almost reached the mansion when she heard the screeching sound, sounding like a death shrill to her ears. |
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He uses the lute or deeper sounding theorbo in a continuo role on other tracks. |
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In our schools and organizations, we place value on sounding assured and confident. |
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I'm sure that I'm sounding like either a pathetic lovelorn teenager or a sad bitter queen. |
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He tried to find his voice, but it was difficult for him to manage anything but a feeble sounding grunt. |
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At nightfall, the ceremony ended with a recorded train whistle sounding over loudspeakers. |
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Following these there are soups with the Lobster bisque with brandy sounding very promising. |
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Just like the standard horn in F, the Wagner tuba is written a fifth higher than sounding. |
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Mat Maneri plays some lonesome violin, letting strings weep in blank, tragic beauty, plucking and wailing and sounding like a dying dog. |
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Despite sounding like a rather macho washing powder, biodynamics actually represents a form of extreme organic farming. |
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Bryan groaned loudly and buried his head in his pillow, sounding absolutely miserable. |
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Alex's voice held a strained edge, sounding as if it would break any minute. |
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The basic Spiders From Mars guitar-bass-drums lineup is fleshed out a bit with Mike Garson's jazzy piano and smooth, greasy sounding horns. |
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Someone walked into the room making a noise sounding like they were pulling up blinds from windows. |
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Various activities during the two weeks, including the launch of the sounding rocket, will be webcast. |
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She is often accused of sounding like a headmistress of a girls' public school, part bossy, part jolly hockey sticks. |
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There is also a C.P.E. Bach Sonata here, transcribed and sounding delightful with its switch of instrument. |
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The till staff had learnt the script for their cheery greeting well, without ever sounding transatlantically insincere. |
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Instead we get a series of very similar midtempo chuggers, songs leaking into each other and sounding like dim echoes of Interpol's past. |
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Jean Grae responds, and then she raps about baseball, sounding like a natural. |
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Her voice once light and melodic now deep and whispery, whimpers and moans sounding out into the night to join the other sounds. |
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When the bell rang, sounding the end of school with its high pitched whine, they were reluctant to part, but they did so. |
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The following operations are steps to be orderly taken for performing aerological measurements by radio sounding. |
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Around her whirled a kaleidoscope of unfamiliar faces, a jumbled chorus of voices sounding in ten different languages. |
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But today, the engine's whistles were sounding again and its 70-ton, 27 ft high flywheel was turning for the first time in more than 30 years. |
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And with that he left, the soft click of the door sounding to her ears like the lock of a prison gate slamming home. |
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Lizzy demanded offensively, her voice sounding like wind chimes rattling relentlessly in a strong winter wind. |
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The first girl, with short black hair and a light, kind sounding voice scampered up to her. |
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Jon heard a yell, sounding very far away, and felt the pain yank him up like a string through his belly. |
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The saxophone also captures a great pitch and tempo that blends well with the slightly electronic sounding keyboards. |
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The researchers extracted audio features from the sounds of a user's keystrokes and lumped similar sounding keys into categories. |
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He pressed a few buttons, bleeps and toots sounding in the room along with the soft whirr of the air conditioner. |
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For example, a bass line generated from a kick drum ends up sounding like it's really dragging behind the beat. |
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Generally speaking, for most rock or jazz sounding kick drums you are going to want to use beaters with felt on the ends. |
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A tiny, battery-powered sounding device is placed inside this Spalding Infusion basketball in a cavity usually used for an air pump. |
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The attractive tonal colours derived from some fresh sounding natural horns and focused woodwind, as well as a superb string tone. |
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By contrast, the 2.0 track is nowhere as good, often sounding flat and tinny. |
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The company's acoustic boffins tuned the engine to introduce a throatier sounding note, so the all enveloping deep bass throb rising to spine tingling wail exists. |
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I thundered, my voice sounding angrier than I had meant it to. |
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When the ship hit the rocks, the sound of bells ringing and alarms sounding echoed in the theater. |
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This extraordinary sounding record had tongues wagging all over the place. |
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In Beijing the sounding of car horns is the exception, rather than the rule while Shanghainese seem to hardly ever take their hand off the klaxon button. |
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If the clerk at the Swiss bank was surprised to answer the phone to a gruff, Middle Eastern sounding man speaking in heavily accented English, she did not show it. |
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But how many of us know that even a healthy sounding breakfast cereal can be as full of sugars and salts and fats as a quarter-pounder with cheese? |
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How can I get her to lay off without sounding like a jumped-up cow? |
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Venus conjunct ruler Mercury suggests your need for sounding boards, if not collaborators. |
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The postman is used to delivering mysterious parcels, packets and letters to the old ranch house, mostly from faraway places with strange sounding names. |
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It will not be the crowd or the prospect of penalties that will induce butterflies in the game's most hyped striker, nor even thoughts of the first whistle sounding at 8pm. |
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The second movement opens with timpani and rattles, followed by almost electronic sounding little looped musical figures that litter all of Glass's compositions. |
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Giulavogui cried, 55 years old and less than a decade in America, but sounding like a Gotham newsboy from another era. |
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Singing jazz standards, accompanied by as many as 71 players, Mitchell holds her own and then some, sounding like a beautifully aged wind instrument. |
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In 1842 Doppler proved that the colour of a luminous body, like the pitch or note of a sounding body, must be changed by velocity of approach or recession. |
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Constantly sounding alarms can be a serous nuisance to neighbours. |
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He's dazzling, fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity. |
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Some men raise their voices when the argument heats up, and if women try to match their decibel level, they risk sounding shrill. |
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He sings in his usual reedy voice, sounding all but lost in the swirl. |
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Recent findings have left many scientists sounding much like the alchemists, astrologists, and mystics who have long held this view of the universe. |
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Nye, meanwhile, spent three-quarters of the debate sounding like a clueless geek, even if his points were scientifically valid. |
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He asked, then mentally kicked himself for sounding so lame. |
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The lead-off track finds Haggard sounding appropriately weary. |
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But the air was suddenly clean and clear and he was coughing so much he almost retched and Abby was coughing, too, sounding like she had pneumonia. |
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Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and countless others have made a career out of sounding the alarm. |
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For the moment, none of these players is sounding a retreat. |
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The music sometimes sounding like the exorcism of a multitude of demons, each one of whom was mightily resisting his expulsion. |
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The panel began to flash a pulsing red light like the beat of a heart, and a loud alarm began sounding through out the building and the surrounding outdoors. |
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He could not manage the soft tone of a human voice or juggle the stress on certain vowels and words, and on those he could it always came out angered sounding. |
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The standard treble is available in B, sounding a tone below written pitch and best for flat keys, or in A, sounding a minor 3rd lower and better for sharp keys. |
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I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed. |
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There are enough distractions already, from the trumpet sounding the start of a new race to other customers knocking on the wooden window sill for luck. |
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As enviable as his success is to the thousands of singers looking for their lucky break on New York's club circuit, some are sounding notes of caution. |
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The experience left the septuagenarian designer sounding positively gob-smacked. |
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Conversely, in some cultures, when a person dies, his or her name and similar sounding words may be tabooed, so new words have to be coined or borrowed. |
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John Kerry is sagacious and experienced, but he has an elitist sounding accent that will make it impossible for him to win a national campaign in the media age. |
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Worse, on a seriously winding and narrow road, like the one up the Thames coast, I am tailgated by drivers who then pass on blind corners, sounding their horns. |
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They have to rebut his lies, and they have to do it without sounding bitter or afraid or superior or haughty. |
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It was Jo Gordon's trademark Dr Who scarves that first aroused the magpie eyes of the UK fashion pack three years ago, sounding the first death knell for the soppy pashmina. |
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The trumpeter breaks off in mid-tune each time, recalling the moment when a watchman, sounding the alarm, was pierced by a Tatar arrow in the throat. |
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Ron Johnson, a one-time Tea Party senator from Wisconsin, would come next, sounding like he had seen the light. |
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Standout tracks include the Bad-era sounding Blue Gangsta and the irrepressibly buoyant Paul Anka-written Love Never Felt So Good. |
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Part of a leader's job, of course, is to act as a sounding board for direct reports. |
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But sounding reasonable runs the risk of getting you labeled a squish by the RINO hunters these days. |
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And Williamson so frequently invokes God that she starts sounding like Louis Gohmert strung out on good vibes. |
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It would be a great help if, in the interval, party supporters refrained from looking or sounding like raving madmen. |
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Instead of sounding out ideas in order to judge them critically, academics seem only too happy to silence debate in case it causes insult or offence to individuals. |
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But on Friday, during the debate on the dreadful events in New York, the bear pit of partisanship was instantly transformed into a sounding board of sombre national unity. |
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The cheesy dialogue is poorly mixed, often sounding tinny and hushed. |
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But, only within recent history have sailors enjoyed the peace of mind provided by bell buoys sounding their distinct tones across Cape Cod's waters. |
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He put his hands on his hips and glared belligerently at her, looking and sounding for all the world like a teacher scolding her for stealing another student's toy. |
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When I saw the Kushner play as a student I had a very bad cold, of the kind that makes it difficult to breath without sounding like an organ bellows. |
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Each track is a deliberate layering of textures and elements, with every microtone sounding as fussed-over as the sculpted icing on an elaborate wedding cake. |
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The line clicked, sounding more like a guillotine to Morales. |
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Low returns to the mid tempo rock of the title track and yet still manages to fit a percussion break into the most U2 sounding like track on the record. |
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He talked about manifesting energy into the universe, sounding a lot like The Secret. |
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He does not act the part of a neutral modulator or passive sounding board. |
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She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous. |
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But the White House is sounding more and more defensive and ineffectual. |
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For example, some of the recaptives were forced to change their name to a more Western sounding names. |
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Modern soundings to 10,994 meters have since been found near the site of the Challenger's original sounding. |
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Some Fender Stratocasters and Telecasters are made of ash, as an alternative to the darker sounding alder. |
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Originally, bathymetry involved the measurement of ocean depth through depth sounding. |
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The alien enemies' verbal taunts and blurbs also start sounding like an annoying broken record the deeper you get into the game. |
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Now, however, those kids have moved on to Linkin Park, and poor Gavin, while still cute and sounding hurt in a cuddly way, has run out of steam. |
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The wind played the wire against a branch like a bass fiddle, and my bedroom was the sounding board. |
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Water near the coast and not too deep to be fathomed by a hand sounding line was referred to as in soundings or on soundings. |
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They are yawps, barbaric or otherwise, sounding over a living, writhing world. |
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Maple wood also is used for casks, drum sticks, sounding boards, xylophones, and many other products. |
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Saucy topics that the Nanas struggle to explain without sounding rude include Soggy Bottom, Winkle-pickers and Udders. |
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The other voice is garbly and robotic, sounding like a bad techno rap song. |
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One key feature for which Demian sought the patent was the sounding of an entire chord by depressing one key. |
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While you're in drydock is a good time to check and repair your sounding tubes and striking plates. |
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These are organized in different sounding banks, which can be further combined into registers producing differing timbres. |
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He prefaced his next song with a row of hard, multiphonic squawks, sounding like a truck horn. |
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His nose operation some years ago could not prevent him from sounding adenoidal and unable to deliver really rousing rhetoric. |
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Not only are the speakers better sounding, but also the cabinetwork is light years ahead of the previous model. |
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At the same instant the sounding gallopade of hoofs came from the tranquil roadway leading to the stables. |
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That's an Eck of a tall story from a leader of the party of broken promises, who is now sounding like a broken record. |
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The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint. |
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The same two trenches, home to fish and insects including the harmless but nasty sounding water scorpions, are used every year. |
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For starters, I was tempted by the toasted pitta with the suitably exotic sounding baba ganouj, imam bayeldi and the ubiquitous hummus. |
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So that old chestnut of eventually sounding like your parents is painfully true. |
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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. |
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Anderson's voice is deep, poised and English sounding, but not snootily so. |
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Gore can't even change the inflection in his voice without sounding like someone trying to talk and hold a vurp back at the same time. |
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At half-past one, on the sounding of the tocsin about fifteen persons were collected, when the Rev. J. Bromley was called to the chair. |
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If I speak with tongues of men and of angels, and I have not charity, I am made as brass sounding or a cymbal tinking. |
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Somehow, T. I. delivers supertechnical raps without ever sounding as boring as that last sentence. |
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Even grunge bands, following their break with success, began to create more independent sounding music, further blurring the lines. |
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And it shows that these smaller, less expensive sounding rockets can produce truly robust science. |
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I'm sick of his sounding off about how he thinks this country should be run! |
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I know I'm at risk of sounding like an old fogey but Celebrity Big Brother, for a start, is well past its sell-by date. |
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Traditional speakerphones are great hands-free productivity tools if you don't mind sounding like you're muffled or in a tunnel. |
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Precious instrument was made with the 1514 sounding tin whistles, a manual and a sixteen foot six registers. |
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Council advises on shaping policy, raising and debating issues, providing guidance, perspective and a sounding board for the trustees. |
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Mrs. Wilbur's paper was earnest, enthusiastic, a trifle schoolgirly in its sounding periods. It caused much more discussion than poor Flaubert. |
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No offers of coffee and doughnuts, no genuine sounding apology, it was just tough luck, guys. |
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Carts was on his way to the governor's mansion, touring the rural back country in his Model T, sounding the warning against the encroachments of Satan. |
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It is rolled, and with heavier contact with the English language than any of the above the pronunciation has shifted to harder sounding consonants in the 20th century. |
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The literal baying for blood, the tallyhoing and sounding of the horn. |
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The only customer was on her cell phone sounding peeved, as if an office underling had mistyped her itinerary, landing her in a destination preferred only by vending machines. |
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When I see applications for abattoirs, I'm reminded that abattoir is the French word for slaughterhouse, a kinder sounding word than slaughterhouse. |
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McGrew offers statistics, helpful hints and plain common sense presented in easily understood language without sounding overly professorial or scare mongering. |
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But time proved a mortal enemy Friday, and Bryant would not be denied by buzzers sounding or red lights flashing or tenths of seconds ticking off and taunting him. |
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Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas, Andrew Litton's forces come off sounding dull and bass-heavy, with occasional odd vibrations and whumps from who knows where. |
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There is no data between soundings or between sounding lines to guarantee that there is not a hazard such as a wreck or a coral head waiting there to ruin a sailor's day. |
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The area offshore beyond the 100 fathom line, too deep to be fathomed by a hand sounding line, was referred to as out of soundings or off soundings. |
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Jacqueline was so named simply because their mother had liked the ring of the word, sounding Parisian and worldly and auguring, to her mind, a good life. |
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Satellites are launched on ballistic missiles, not sounding rockets. |
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With volunteer help over the years from people who work at places like the China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center, the Millirons have launched suborbital sounding rockets. |
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During the past 15 years, several sounding rockets, both Voyager space-craft, and the X-ray satellite EXOSAT have all viewed stars in the extreme ultraviolet. |
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I said, sounding needier and more pathetic than I ever have in my life. |
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She touched on all those issues on Tuesday in her first speech as a candidate, sounding a strong antitax, antiregulation and antispending message. |
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At half past nine, with the booming drums of the parade sounding up the street, the shivering form of Dwindle Daniels was again sogged down to its original saturation point. |
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He is perhaps best known for his sounding sculptures, metal sculptures with masses of rods or wires that make chimelike sounds when touched or moved by the wind. |
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Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward and believe many people would have been in the area at that time of day and may have heard the car alarm sounding. |
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The remedies are derived from substances that come from often unlikely sounding plants, minerals or animals, such as arnica, poison ivy, stinging nettle and even crushed bees. |
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It may have been listed as the exotic sounding Agnello alia cacciatora in the menu, but this was as non-Italian as it is possible to get in an Italian restaurant. |
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Video tutorials and courses on sounding the uterus, using a tenaculum, and loading and placing IUC devices make it a comprehensive educational tool. |
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It is generally believed that converting written pitch to sounding pitch in conventional Western music notation is always straightforward, if not trivial. |
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All the others, you can read if you want, but this is mainly directed to Frank, and for sounding like a complete dickwod from this point on in the post, I do apologise. |
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