Trilby is tone-deaf: " Svengali would test her ear, as he called it, and strike the C in the middle and then the F just above, and ask which was higher ; and she would declare they were both exactly the same.

He is tone-deaf and finds music an incomprehensible irritant ( in a scene in Hotspur he is unable to recognize the British national anthem ).

" A First Amendment expert at law firm Baker Hostetler said ESPN is " a private company which does not have to use a tone-deaf politico to sing into its kickoffs.

His other hobbies include singing, although he is tone-deaf.

The fact that the café's cabaret is performed by his tone-deaf wife, Edith, goes some way towards protecting his claim that he remains impartial as possible.

Shemp plays a voice instructor and the object of affection to tone-deaf vocal student Miss Dinkelmeyer ( Dee Green ), with Larry is his musical accompanist.

Storace was put to work producing an " English " version of Gretry's Richard, Coeur du Lion, with the unfortunate difficulty that John Bannister-the famous tragedian-was cast in the main role, and was tone-deaf.

* Emphasizing the Positive-Erickson claimed that his sensory " disabilities " ( dyslexia, colour blindness, being tone-deaf ) helped him to focus on aspects of communication and behavior which most other people overlooked.

Apparently the pure impressiveness of their intellect was enough to allow three tone-deaf mathematicians into a school for the musically gifted.

Her other memorable characterizations included repressed sexologist Dr. Cheryl Kinsey, insecure self-affirmation guru Libby Wolfson, pidgin-tongued janitress Pirini Scleroso, tone-deaf children's entertainer Mrs. Falbo, Texan curio pitchwoman Edna Boil, and impossibly tight-jeaned Melba, the Disco Queen.

He treats Eric and Eric's friend to a confusing, tone-deaf and completely non sequitur rendition of Arlo Guthrie's Motorcycle Song.

The Black Album features songs such as the hip-hop parody " Dead on It ", which directly makes the accusation that all emcees are tone-deaf and unable to sing, and the playful " Cindy C .", which refers to supermodel Cindy Crawford.

In February 2007, Hall developed an in-ring persona as a tone-deaf Diva.

Upon recovering from his bruising, Shemp unintentionally proposes to his unattractive and tone-deaf student Miss Dinkelmeyer.

George the gondolier starts to sing O sole mio, but he sings terribly and all gondoliers in fact start to sing terribly from thereon, and so much so no one requested the singing anymore.

Luigi was able to be reinstated as a gondolier no less thereafter until of course, when a gondolier dies, he is set in his black boat and pushed out to Adriatic Sea.

It is agreed that although he is not allowed to be a gondolier anymore, he is able to work in the Tavern, the Gondolier's exclusive haunt.

She requests a gondolier to sing as she is on the boat on a Royal visit.

The main character, Akari, is a trainee gondolier working in the city of Neo-Venezia, based on modern day Venice.

The Italian is a 1915 American silent film feature which tells the story of an Italian gondolier who comes to the United States to make his fortune but instead winds up working as a shoeshiner and experiencing tragedy while living with his wife and child in a tenement on New York's Lower East Side.

Donnetti is a poor, but happy, gondolier in Venice, Italy.

Note the 19th-century Neuilly tapestry symbolizing the Cher, on which a Venetian gondola is portrayed ; the gondola was actually brought to Chenonceau in the 19th century, with its gondolier, by Madame Pelouze, the owner at that time.

The gondola is propelled by a person ( the gondolier ) who stands facing the bow and rows with a forward stroke, followed by a compensating backward stroke.

The profession of gondolier is controlled by a guild, which issues a limited number of licenses granted after periods of training and apprenticeship, and a major comprehensive exam which tests knowledge of Venetian history and landmarks, foreign language skills, and practical skills in handling the gondola typically necessary in the tight spaces of Venetian canals.

In the ads, it is usually sung by a Venetian gondolier, despite the fact that Venice is hundreds of miles from Naples.

During his time in Venice, Granger renewed his friendship with Peggy Guggenheim, whom he had met during his earlier trip to Italy with Arthur Laurents, and he met Mike Todd, who cajoled him into making a cameo appearance as a gondolier in his epic Around the World in 80 Days.

It turns out, however, that he cannot be identified, since he was entrusted to the care of a drunken gondolier who mixed up the prince with his own son.

The barcarole was a popular form in opera, where the apparently artless sentimental style of the folklike song could be put to good use: in addition to the Offenbach example, Paisiello, Weber, and Rossini wrote arias that were barcaroles, Gaetano Donizetti set the Venetian scene at the opening of Marino Faliero ( 1835 ) with a barcarole for a gondolier and chorus, and Verdi included a barcarole in Un ballo in maschera ( i. e., Richard's atmospheric " Di ’ tu se fidele il flutto m ’ aspetta " in Act I ).

Detmar Blow went on to have an affair with Stephanie Theobald, the society editor of British Harper's Bazaar, while his estranged wife entered into a liaison with a gondolier she met in Venice.

It tells the tale of an aspiring gondolier named Luigi.

A gondola and a gondolier in the Grand Canal.

Berlin, who lavished a great deal of effort on the song designed it as a pastiche of " The Carioca " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ) and " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), and the lyric communicates its fake origin: " It was written by a Latin / A gondolier who sat in / his home out in Brooklyn / and gazed at the stars.

While most accounts indicate that the scenes of Beppo as a gondolier were shot in the Venice district of Los Angeles, an account published by the Los Angeles Times in November 1914 reported that " Ince sent Beban to Italy to get special canal scenes for the eight-reel play.

It serves as decoration and as counterweight for the gondolier standing near the stern.

In August 2010, Giorgia Boscolo became Venice's first female gondolier.

The Japanese manga Aria follows a young woman named Akari as she trains as an apprentice gondolier in Neo-Venezia, a city on a terraformed Mars based on Venice.

When the Grand Inquisitor enters, he explains that the prince was raised incognito by Baptisto Palmieri, a humble gondolier, who had a young son of his own about the same age.

The gondolier was a drunkard and eventually forgot which boy was his own son and which boy was the prince of Barataria.

Keep the belt just tight enough so the pulleys won't slip when pulled by hand ; ;

Of course, if you want to throw all caution to the winds and rent an Imperial or Cadillac limousine just for you and your bride, you'll have a memorable tour, but it won't be cheap, and it is not recommended unless you own a producing oil well or you've had a winner in the Irish Sweepstakes.

She'll eat just a pineapple and cottage cheese salad and I'm to have one with her so she won't feel out of place ''.

My man, he won't be around a little while, he just fixed me up with this stuff they took out of the Elite.

Yes, well, it's a pity to spoil your girlish figure -- which all those kittens would do anyway -- but I think when you've raised these we'll just have the vet fix it so there won't be any more.

It just won't be easy.

However it does not mean that the algorithm will converge rapidly to this solution, just that it won't diverge arbitrarily because of inaccuracy on the source data ( backward error ), provided that the forward error introduced by the algorithm does not diverge as well because of accumulating intermediate rounding errors.

He explained that " I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of a man " and reasoned " I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.

If the pulse has just the right shape, the Kerr effect will exactly cancel the dispersion effect, and the pulse's shape won't change over time: a soliton.

In 1960, Stan Freberg did a parody on the Payola Scandal, by calling it " Old Payola Roll Blues ", a two sided single, where the promoter gets an ordinary teenager, named Clyde Ankle, to record a song, for Obscurity Records, entitled " High School OO OO ", and then tries to offer the song to a Jazz radio station with phony deals that the Disc Jockey just won't buy it.

He states in a video ( Mikey Gear Tour part II ), " My hope is to just write lots of music and then by the time we get to the point to where we're going to finish the tour I'll have a lot of music written and then people won't have to wait five more years for another album ( laughs ).

Next time, it won't be just a dream or a nightmare.

Dr. Hartley says, " Honey, you won't believe the dream I just had.

Santarogans aren't hostile, they just won't shop there ; neither are they xenophobic, instead appearing maddeningly self-satisfied with their quaint, local lifestyle.

Our Liam will talk to him, I won't because he's just another singer in a band to me, but I don't think he's a cunt.

Like, okay, if most boy punk rock bands just listen to the Ramones and that's how they write their songs, then we'll do the opposite and I won't listen to any Ramones and that way we'll sound different.

On January 9, 1991, during the Geneva Peace Conference with Tariq Aziz in Geneva, Baker declared that " If there is any user of ( chemical or biological weapons ), our objectives won't just be the liberation of Kuwait, but the elimination of the current Iraqi regime ...." Baker later acknowledged that the intent of this statement was to threaten a retaliatory nuclear strike on Iraq, and the Iraqis received his message.

" He'll still be doing what he's done the past five years, but he just won't be racing in the afternoon ," Knowlton said.

" When you put this amazing old story in a believable modern setting, it will hopefully raise the hair on the back of your neck, and you won't be able to dismiss it as ' just a movie ' or, indeed, as ' just old-fashioned Shakespeare.

There's young ladies who get pregnant just to jump the housing queue / And dads who won't support the kids / of ladies they have ... kissed / And I haven't even mentioned all those sponging socialists / I've got them on my list / And there's none of them be missed / There's none of them be missed.

She just did it backwards and in high heels, " and " When we pay billions for planes that won't fly, billions for tanks that won't fire, and billions for systems that won't work, that old dog won't hunt.