The smell of chlorine and warm water and the hollow sound of kicking and pulling: they had been natural parts of my life from the age of 11 to 22, but I had not been aware of them then, no more than I am now of the stench and clangor of the commuter train. (si.com)
Even amidst this alarm and dread, even in spite of the man's «bodily deafness / and his longstanding other sorts of torpor,» there is a small sign, maybe even a still voice, at any rate «a tiny bell... there to be heard it seemed heard in its minuscule clangor.» (religion-online.org)
Every movie should probably be assessed in a vacuum, but that's a fairly impossible proposition: It's all relative in the end, and amid the clangor of the summer movie season, something like «Unfinished Song» has an arthritic leg up on the competition. (newsday.com)