Sentences with phrase «by the ear of»

Though they may have required for their exacting execution the fragility of a mind as brittle and punctilious as Martin's, the power of her paintings is that of a sublime symphony: their mute melodies as meticulously wrought as they are effortlessly imbibed by the ear of the eye.»

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They said the company's head honchos told the public they perfected a «revolutionary technology» vetted by experts and regulators that will change the world of lab testing, knowing full well that it'll reach investors» ears.

Seeing as even the tiniest hint of future plans uttered by Bernanke in 2013 had the power to move markets, all eyes and ears will be on Yellen as the Fed continues to make adjustments to its economic stimulus program.

That's the path pursued by GenVec, which wants to be the Rogaine of the ears, using gene therapy to regrow damaged hair cells.

Other jewels on auction include a pair of emerald, onyx and diamond earrings by Cartier and a pair of fine diamond ear clips by Harry Winston.

«It's incredibly important because lately, this market's been led in part by the financials, and an important Fed head arguing for four hikes would be music to their ears, especially given that we are going to get a lot of bank earnings at the end of the week,» Cramer said.

VR audio engineering has corrected this defect by using processing algorithms to recreate what happens between the loudspeakers and the ears in the form of binaural recording.

While Holoubek focused on building her colleagues» capacity to function without her, and Downey thrived playing it by ear, Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research took a slightly different tack, actively looping collaborators into the planning process.

It comes as no surprise that out of 11 wireless in - ear headphones tested by The Wirecutter, the Elite Sport made the cut as the best truly wireless headphones for the gym.

Johnston, welcoming MPs back to work after a month - long delay, opened the speech by noting that «the eyes and ears of Canadians turn toward this Parliament, in trust that those who stand here in their place will relentlessly advance and uphold the ideals that are inclusive, honourable, selfless, smart and caring at every turn without fail.»

Last week, a video was posted by an Aussie tech blogger named «Blunty» that showed a black bus pull up to a Sydney Apple Store and dispense a crowd of protester types holding up placards telling anybody within ear - and eye - shot to «Wake up.»

The new film «A Quiet Place» is an edge - of - your - seat tale about a family struggling to avoid being heard by monsters with hypersensitive ears.

Instead of transmitting sound in waves that float through the air and into your ears, bone conduction gets noise to your cochlea — that's the auditory part of the inner ear — just by vibrating the bones in your skull.

«If you've got one member of the power couple — Jared Kushner, whispering in the President -LSB-- elect]'s ear — and if you've got the other, the wife and daughter, who is running businesses, it merges the Trump Organization and the United States into one huge conglomerate managed by the Trumps for their own interests,» he says.

These happy vibes are heard by a founder's «happy ears» — often leading the founder to draw false conclusions about the true level of potential VC interest.

A new study from Juniper Research estimates that 66 % of «hearables,» ear - based wearable devices providing aural content, will have voice assistants by the end of 2017.

Williams» comments come after recent remarks and actions taken by the US Federal Reserve that have pricked up the ears of blockchain technology advocates in the US financial sector.

In addition, there are material expenditures missing from the operating budgets going forward, such as the Golden Ears bridge toll fees removal in year two and beyond, the one - third replacement cost of the Pattullo bridge (which was to be funded by tolls) and the second 50 % of the promised 100 % MSP premiums reduction.

If all goes well they'll be in almost 12,000 sets of ears by the end of the year.

The idea of two eyeballs and two ears on the same creature by random chance is impossible.

I imagine a lot of little boys heard those same words whispered in their ears by pedophile priests.

I'm a liberal, and I was once an atheist, but I can't put any stock in the opinion of someone who has deformed his ear lobes by stretching them, and who wears a ring in his nose.

If you will turn the table of the burden of prrof you have to agree wtih me that the universe was created by the great pink unicorn with golden ears, because you can not disprove that such a creature with unlimited power exists.

«If you will turn the table of the burden of proof you have to agree with me that the universe was created by the great pink unicorn with golden ears, because you can not disprove that such a creature with unlimited power exists.»

From the «I can't believe my eyes and ears» file: A group called Majority Action ¯ which describes itself as being «led by veteran Democratic activists and [having] a leadership board that consists of prominent political figures, including several former Members of Congress,....

The first, a wearisome and noisy depiction of the evacuation of Dunkirk by a defeated British Army, bored me silly and left my ears ringing and my stomach faintly heaving.

The rythms of the liturgy fall upon my deaf ears and crash against my stony heart year after year, until His word is beaten into the fiber of my being, and piece by piece, tiny chip by tiny chip, the Old Man in me dies, and a new man is raised to life in His likeness.

Instead of looking at a universal definition of the poor as those who have been deprived, stereotyped and discriminated against, they are on a mission to make the cripple to walk; the blind to see forcibly; the deaf to hear by knocking their ears with sledge hammer; the dumb to speak by inserting tube in their esophagus and the list goes.

The responses of laity to preaching and teaching and other pastoral leadership activities are extremely important; pastors referred to «feeling that preaching and teaching are falling on enthusiastic ears,» «the recommitment of the faith by members who had fallen away,» or «helping the laity to use their gifts.»

By looking at pupil dilation, ear twitching, small head movements and other indicators of cat emotions, the feline - feeling researchers found cats do get really excited around their owners, yet they choose to express it in extremely subtle, essentially imperceptible ways.

I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see thee; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes?»

If these ancient rites hadn't been co-opted by capitalism, hadn't morphed into pastel M&M s, plastic grass and My Little Ponies with bunny ears, I might find it a relief to preach on the fecundity of spring, rather than trying to tell the story of a living, breathing dead man.

According to both Mark and Luke, the cures accomplished by his emissaries so enhanced the fame of Jesus that a rumor that John the Baptist had risen from the dead spread abroad and came to the ears of King Herod Antipas (Mk 6:14 - 16; Lk 9:7 - 9).

The love, patience and candor offered by people of color in my life has given me a new set of ears for Dr. Yancy's outcry.

The Ear of the Heart by Mother Dolores Hart OSB and Richard DeNeut, Ignatius Press.

Some justify turning a deaf ear to the Conciliar teaching of Gaudium et Spes by pointing to the word «pastoral» in its title, to its unusual aversion for definitive canons, and its apparent emphasis upon the sixties concept of «progress».

15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, 16 then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, 17 that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man; 18 he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.

I thought: He is «not now that strength which in old days moved heaven and earth,» when, for several years, he accompanied his old blind father to the synagogue and, for an hour, whispered in his ear every word of the prayers the old man did not know by heart, then going off to another service to fulfill his own duty to pray.

Sensing an opportunity to be heard by unprejudiced ears, and, writes Las Casas, «knowing the odor of holiness that they produced, he let himself into the straw hut which had been given to the religious for their quarters and made an account of his life.»

Ear God's time remains the same «yesterday and today and forever» (Heb 13:8).28 God is «not affected by the vicissitudes which mark the time of his creatures, for on the contrary he remains the absolute master of time: «With the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day» (2 Pet 3:8; cf. Ps 90:4).»

The law allowed going through a grainfield and plucking a few ears by hand on the way, but some of the Pharisees found fault with the disciples for doing this on the Sabbath.

Missionary appeals are losing their power through our sectarianism, being resented by the natives among whom missionaries work and, at home, falling upon the indifferent ears of a denominational church.

It is not a good idea to pick babies up by the ears or to drop them, but the history and theology of infant baptism are far more important than the technique, though not unrelated to the method used.

It begins with a call to the Imperial Princes, Ministers of State, and high officials, to give ear to the great purification by which «are purged and washed away all sins which have been committed by Imperial officials and attendants,» men or women, civil or military.

If we compare the power I exercise by way of sound waves upon your ears (power, sense 1) with the power that I, in action, exercise upon some neuron that fires or is inhibited from firing during the action (power, sense 2), we see a marked difference.

Thus in one moment the soul would be constituted by the present reception of stimuli from the ear drums, while inheriting from a past occasion that was stimulated from the big toe.

You can find him on Sunday at St. Jude the Apostle Church in Westlake Village, California, being fed by word and sacrament before he brings a lifetime of learning and that melodious voice into the homes, cars, and ear - buds of millions later in the afternoon, from his post behind the microphone at Chavez Ravine.

(p. 111) So long as such an anti-war stance, with its own sort of heroic aspirations, does not, through the sorts of errors mentioned above, condemn or spit upon the more tangible heroic feelings stirred up by the real wars that inevitably will come (and thus demand, as C.S. Lewis put it, «long - faced» warriors even for just wars), and so long as it does not plug its ears against the geo - strategic and national considerations that must remain part of all politics, she would broadly endorse it, and would encourage all of us, whether theists or not, to yearningly quest for a world without war that we nonetheless know can never fully arrive.

That is true, but it is not under the predominant influence of Greece and Rome that we have perfected it; it is by lending an ear to the voice of Jerusalem to which the ancient world finally listened, finding that it could not continue morally, humanely, by its own wisdom.

He had felt it, for example, in the darkness of the paleolithic age when for the first time he ventured to put fire to his own use, or accidentally discovered how to produce it; in neolithic times when he found that by cultivating thin ears of grass he could turn them into rice and millet and corn; and much later, at the dawn of our industrial era, when he found that he could tame and harness not only animals but the tireless energies of steam and electricity.