His sound mellowed, with such songs as " Sweet Caroline ", a US hit in 1969, " Holly Holy ", "' Cracklin ' Rosie " and " Song Sung Blue ", the last two reaching No. 1 on the Hot 100.

By then, her sound had mellowed from hard rock to more atmospheric pop and the story-based video clip for " Love Is a Battlefield " was aimed squarely at MTV, even featuring Benatar in a Michael Jackson-inspired group dance number.

Another medium, another sitter, would produce a somewhat different content, but in general it would probably sound much like the foregoing reading.

Drums with two heads covering both ends of a cylindrical shell often have a small hole somewhat halfway between the two heads ; the shell forms a resonating chamber for the resulting sound.

In Italian and French, ⟨ gn ⟩ is used to represent the palatal nasal, a sound somewhat similar to the ⟨ ny ⟩ in English canyon.

Little Walter also cupped his hands around the instrument, tightening the air around the harp, giving it a powerful, distorted sound, somewhat reminiscent of a saxophone, hence the term " Mississippi saxophone ".

He cupped his hands around the instrument, tightening the air around the harp, giving it a powerful, distorted sound, somewhat reminiscent of a saxophone.

Although Hatfield shared vocal duties with Strohm in the group, she quickly stood out due to her unique vocal quality ; her somewhat thin, girlish voice gave the group a youthful, innocent sound that was nevertheless belied by often-caustic lyrics and a vocal delivery punctuated frequently by harsh, distorted screams ( in live performances more so than on recordings ).

A number of popular recordings featured " prepared pianos ," playing rags on pianos with tacks on the hammers and the instrument deliberately somewhat out of tune, supposedly to simulate the sound of a piano in an old honky tonk.

X slightly redefined their sound with this release, making it somewhat more polished, eclectic and radio-ready than in previous albums.

The album marked somewhat of a retreat from the increasingly roots-rock direction that the band's past few records had gone in, instead featuring an eclectic alternative-rock sound that fit in well with the then-current musical climate.

Sound also resonates within different parts of the body, and an individual's size and bone structure can affect somewhat the sound produced by an individual.

The Dutch translation of John Cheese is Jan Kaas ; the two words thus would sound somewhat like Yahn-kees and could have given birth to the present term.

Depending on the model, the fiberglass version normally does not have as dark and rich a tone as the brass ( King fiberglass sousaphones tended to have smooth fiberglass and a tone somewhat more like a brass sousaphone ; Conn fiberglass sousaphones often had rough fiberglass exteriors and a thinner sound ; the Conn was also lighter ).

Speakers using such techniques can reproduce sound with a wide directivity pattern ( paradoxically somewhat like a point source ) and have been used in some computer speaker designs and bookshelf loudspeakers.

Washboards with brass ridges are still made, and some who use washboards as musical instruments prefer the sound of the somewhat more expensive brass boards.

The practice of referring to countertenors as " male sopranos " is somewhat controversial within vocal pedagogical circles as these men do not produce sound in the same physiological way that female sopranos do.

The sound track could be immediately replayed from the same recorder unit, which also contained photoelectric sensors, somewhat similar to the various motion picture sound-on-film technologies of the era.

If played backwards, the words " small step for man " sound somewhat like " Man will space walk.

The band's lineup and sound evolved over time, and their music became somewhat more conventional.

Although the Moodies had by now defined a somewhat psychedelic style and helped to define the progressive rock ( then also known as ' art rock ') sound, the group decided to record an album that could be played in concert, losing some of their full-blown sound for A Question of Balance ( 1970 ).

There is also a persistent and oft-repeated story that the microphone for Ely was mounted too high for him to sing without tilting his head back excessively, resulting in his somewhat pinched and strangled sound through most of his vocal.

He first recorded in 1917 with Earl Fuller's Jass Band, who were making an energetic if somewhat clumsy attempt to copy the sound of the city's newest sensation, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.

Steel ( 1988 ) adds weight to the idea, noting that the islanders pronounced the H with a " somewhat guttural quality ", making the sound they used for Hirta " almost " Kilta.

The result was a sound the band called " cow punk " which somewhat mocked the resurgence in popularity of country music in their native Huntington Beach.

In one of his letters, Hans-Gerd referred to his father's " somewhat plentiful nicotine and alcohol consumption ," but assured his mother that Rundstedt's health was basically sound.

`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.

One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.

It was filled with dust and wind and sound and violence.

Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill, they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of water that reached clear to the surrounding hills.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

Johnny Mercer practically grew up with the sound of jazz and the blues in his ears.

Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.

Your suggested solution, it seems to me, is grossly oversimplified and is inconsistent with your generally realistic attitude toward, and endorsement of, sound planning.

Create a free market here, give us a sound, debt-free money system, and we'll compete with anyone, Europe and Asia combined.

the next, a cloud of gun smoke covered a screaming fury of sound, out of which the redcoat soldiers emerged with their bayonets and their cursing fury.

The credit requirements stipulate that the applicant must have the ability to operate the business successfully and have enough capital in the business so that, with loan assistance from the SBA, it will be able to operate on a sound financial basis.

Another example is the recent cancellation of the F-108, a long-range interceptor with a speed three times as great as the speed of sound, which was designed for use against manned bombers in the period of the mid-1960's.

Our readers are familiar with the principles of sonar where sound waves are sent out in water and the echoes then indicate submerged objects.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

It is the classroom teacher, however, who has daily contacts with pupils, and who is in a unique position to put sound psychological principles into practice.

If the argument is accepted as essentially sound up to this point, it remains for us to consider whether the patient's difficulties in orienting himself spatially and in locating objects in space with the sense of touch can be explained by his defective visual condition.

The plaster was sound, the intonaco firmly attached all over, and the pigment solidly incorporated with it in all but a few unimportant places.

There was a sound like the one you produce by flicking a watermelon with your finger, only louder, and Pops fell forward from the waist and then over sidewise.

These are then mixed by their sound engineers with the active co-operation of the musical staff and combined into the final two channels which are impressed on the record.

There also came a brief contretemps with the sound mixers who made the mistake of being overheard during a quiet moment near the conclusion of `` Do It Again '', and she made the tart observation that `` I never saw so much moving about in an audience ''.

Elaine Stritch, who sings with a persuasively warm huskiness, belts some life into most of her songs, but the other members of the cast sound as lukewarm as Mr. Coward's songs.

And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire tool so you won't tell, a combination like ham and eggs, rape her and kill her, and that is being an old maid too.

And, shoving her against a spruce, her back to him, he retreated with the whip and made it whine and crack in the damp air, shortening its arc until it narrowed to her flesh and the sound of it snarled and cracked, settling its own cruel demons on her shoulders while she stood as unchanged, as dark and motionless as ever, her eyes open and staring at the pale delineaments of the bark so close to her face.