Sentences with phrase «autotuned warble»

As I write, birds whistle and warble back and forth to each other in the lush woods surrounding our tidy little rental in the lakeside town of Ajijic, on the Central Mexican Plateau.

Oh, we warble along sometimes with the national anthems at the hockey games but we don't get together to sing like previous generations.

In the intercessions at the end, his voice with its slight warble was missing.

His choice, warbled along with an organ accompaniment, is nothing else but one of the classic 1970s youth group / holding hands / end of retreat monstrosities called «Pass it On»:

Speech, in Kukai's sense is self - revelation; one's sounding or speaking reflects one's nature — the creek rumbles, the blackbird warbles, the lightning booms.

At many points Miller could have mounted a platform and warbled knowingly about Fosdick's failed vision and cultural captivity.

Jodi Belshe of Overland Park, KS, was appalled when she heard her 10 - year - old mindlessly singing Katy Perry's song «California Gurls,» warbling lyrics about women wearing «Daisy Dukes, bikinis on top.»

It can seem like Kermit the Frog was singing directly to us parents when he warbled: «It's not that easy bein» green.»

Maybe warbled a few versus of «If I Had a Hammer?»

Little Orphan Annie warbling «Tomorrow, Tomorrow» would be at home in the Parliamentary Labour Party as the Honourable Member for Procrastination Central.

That will cause some of the light to warble out through an exit called a dark port in synchrony with undulations of the wave.

Crested pigeons, large birds indigenous to Australia, make a warbling noise when they flap their wings to take off.

Later in life, these males warble meager repertoires, potentially compromising chances with the opposite sex.

THE warbling sound of the dial - up modem could soon make a comeback — but it won't take us back to an era of superslow internet access.

Eduardo Miranda shuts the door of his study, leaving two «warbling» robots to their own devices.

Meanwhile, the Many - Colored Chaco Finch [chaco finch sounds] and the Ringed Warbling - Finch [warbling finch sounds] were apparently unable to switch their foraging tactics.

The birds did nothing when they heard a repeating, but nonrecursive series like «warble, rattle, warble, rattle,» the team reports in the 27 April issue of Nature.

The researchers composed 16 artificial starling songs consisting of different «warbles» and «rattles» from a live bird.

After several months of training, 9 of 11 starlings had learned to peck a lever for a food reward when they heard recursive variations of the phrase «warble, rattle.»

For example, populations of warbling vireos (Vireo gilvus) dropped only 8.7 % when they contracted WNV.

The average number of play bouts per bird monitored was 20 times higher and the length of play 90-fold longer during the warble recordings.

Flushing the digestive tracts of captured birds revealed that two seed generalists, Common Diuca - Finch and Rufous - collared Sparrow, adjusted their diet accordingly and ate more forb seeds at grazed sites, while grass seed specialists Many - colored Chaco Finch and Ringed Warbling - Finch did not.

Then we both charged into a grassy old New Jersey orchard on the trail of a warbling vireo.

Minus 1 and his companions in that SAG group were probably producing sounds that have been described as «scream calls, warbles, gunshots, noisy blows, and up - calls,» and the watching humans in the air can hear none of them.

In the Hans Christian Andersen tale «The Nightingale,» a songbird melts an emperor's heart with its singing, but flies away when the ruler forces it to sing duets with a jeweled, mechanical bird that warbles only waltzes.

Riters is confident that the medial preoptic area — and the hormones that circulate in it — create motivation to warble.

If one of you can nail a warbling soprano and one of your team can belt out the baritone, you're onto a winner.

crooned about the merits of respect, they weren't just warbling on about any old nonsense.

Morrissey once famously warbled «to die by your side, well the pleasure, the privilege is mine».

«Every night, every day», warbled Suggs from The Madness back in 1981, «I know that it's you I need, to take the blues away.»

Ella Fitzgerald warbled that question to so many over the years with her marvelous voice.

It's all so sweet and lite that it bounces off you like a cool breeze from the Aegean, and even though the stars are not known as singers at least they are appealing, try hard to make it work and their warbling doesn't ruin any of the ABBA material; and, furthermore, Streep is around to make herself so lovably vulnerable and sings the title song «Mamma Mia!»

Dornan struggles through it, by turns mortified and befuddled: he is even made to warble through Paul McCartney's «Maybe I'm Amazed» to borderline laughable effect.

The story surrounding all this warbling, however, was the standard one of a gang of thugs interfering with the building of the telegraph.

Johnny Depp played hopeless B - movie auteur Ed Wood Jr as a never - say - die idealist who rescued Bela Lugosi from unemployment; Meryl Streep gave life to the deluded classical singer, Florence Foster Jenkins, who was rich enough to pay people to listen to her off - key warbling.

The lovely Cole Porter score (his first written directly for the screen) includes «I've Got You Under My Skin», sung by Virginia Bruce to James Stewart, and «Easy to Love», warbled by Stewart to Eleanor Powell.

Singers often make good actors, but Strait's debut performance doesn't measure up to his heartfelt, down - home warbling.

As for the kids, Seyfried trills and warbles as sweetly and tinnily as she did in Mamma Mia!

While we're ecstatic that Avatar's loathsome original song didn't warble it's way into an Oscar nomination, those blue aliens and a few others did squeeze out a few of our favorites.

It's slinky and customized for Diaz's warbling.

Luckily, the stars are up to the challenge, and their renditions, complete with occasional misplaced warbles and swallowed notes, are a potent reminder of the film's stage roots.

The psychedelic band Tomorrow (featuring a pre-Yes Steve Howe) has a small, non-musical role, and the score also includes several sweet songs that Redgrave and Tushingham warble themselves.

Because not only do they have to warble in Whiplash writer / director Damien Chazelle's new film La La Land, they'll be sharing the screen with J.K. Simmons.

As soon as action jumps to the present day with a warbling youngster, her hot sister, and our troubled hero, however, any pretense of a creepy, coherent mythology flies out the window as the flick devolves into an inexorable - killer flick amped - up to «11.»

Anne Hathaway wins best supporting actress Oscar for role as warbling prostitute in Les Miserables

Even if you can get past wacko Jacko's warblings, Fred Claus is a film with plenty of other failings, ranging from a flawed premise to questionable casting to a dearth of mirth to its lasting way too long.

Take a bow, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Rodgers and Hammerstein, director Robert Wise, all the warbling Von Trapp children and even that saucy, if wooden, yodelling goatherd — you created a movie that is inordinately beloved.

My heart once again went pitty - pat during the ballroom waltz as Emma Thompson voicing Mrs. Potts honors her teapot predecessor Angela Lansbury by warmly warbling the title theme.

If you stay for closing credits, you'll hear Willie Nelson wobbly warble through a Coldplay song.

Payne wallows in this hick sideshow: There's a long shot of the extended family gawking like lobotomy patients at a sports game, while another scene set in a supremely tacky restaurant / karaoke bar finds Stacy Keach — as an old, bullying business partner — warbling out a painful rendition of «In The Ghetto.»