`` 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.

He seeks to make his dancers more `` godlike '' by relating them to the impersonal elements of shape, light, color, and sound.

The President said his proposals combine the `` indispensable elements in a sound health program -- people, knowledge, services, facilities, and the means to pay for them ''.

Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

* Speeds of sound of the elements ( data page ) — speed of sound

When all of the sound, picture, and data elements of a production have been completed, they may be assembled into a Digital Cinema Distribution Master ( DCDM ) which contains all of the digital material needed for projection.

These temporary elements are usually replaced with more refined final elements by the sound, music, and visual effects teams hired to complete the picture.

Formalist film theory is a theory of film study that is focused on the formal, or technical, elements of a film: i. e., the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of color, shot composition, and editing.

Established European artists such New Order helped to inspire the original freestyle sound, then incorporated freestyle elements into their own productions.

According to some scholars these five elements or pancha mahabhutas were identified with the various human senses of perception ; earth with smell, air with feeling, fire with vision, water with taste and ether with sound.

The sound was mastered from the magnetic sound elements.

They were also an important influence on the development of alternative rock, as bands adapted elements from the " Zeppelin sound " of the mid-1970s, including The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

Murat Ses ( Ses means sound or voice in Turkish ) ( born 1946, Bayrakli, Izmir, Turkey ) is a Turkish keyboard player and composer with strong Eurasian electronic elements.

Though the band's early years were shadowed by the legacy and basic sound of Joy Division, their experience of the early 1980s New York City club scene increased their knowledge of dance music and saw them incorporate elements of that style into their work.

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine declared that PE " brought in elements of free jazz, hard funk, even musique concrète, via producing team the Bomb Squad, creating a dense, ferocious sound unlike anything that came before.

The Beatles introduced audiences to many of the major elements of the psychedelic sound during this period, with guitar feedback in " I Feel Fine " ( 1964 ), " Norwegian Wood " from their 1965 Rubber Soul album using a sitar, and the employment of reversed audio tapes on their 1966 B-side " Rain ".

While some of these early experiments were awkward fusions, the Afro-Cuban elements were eventually integrated fully into the New Orleans sound.

Some performers create new compositions using traditional musical instruments while others add electronic sounds, modern harmonies, rhythms, improvisation and sound design elements to enhance the film watching experience.

As many of his tracks blend elements of varying types of music creating a difficult to define sound, so his lyrics create a more ambiguous and blurry take on sexuality.

Theatre ( also theater ) – branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, mime, puppets, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.