Sentences with phrase «cacophonies of»

He continues: «There is a rather aggressive dance in these works between the optical and the visceral, legibility and illegibility, crisp and blurred, the solid and the atomized — the visual cacophonies of urban life, which I am betting most of us don't luxuriate in.

And when it turns out that he wasn't alone on that street, and that maybe the guy he thought he killed was already dead, he finds himself lost in an ever escalating spiral of darkly comic suspense sequences, moving from mere moral corruption to unbelievably, but no less thrillingly, wild cacophonies of destruction.

Ironically, this cacophony of niches, countercultures and innovations has been magnified by the very same force that Trend Hunter is using to make sense of the chaos: the Internet.

On a Friday afternoon at their office in Minneapolis, I wandered around and worked in a few rooms meant to give you some respite from the cacophony of constant chatter and digital overload.

On the expo floor, more than 500 vendors will employ a slew of tactics to rise above the collective cacophony of cybersecurity sales pitches.

A flood of money from outside groups - a result of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United - created a «huge cacophony of television» in the final months of the campaign, making it harder for any one message to stand out.

Most of them said they are just barely staying above water; email is causing a cacophony of superfluous content.

Cryptocoin explorer is a blockchain explorer for a cacophony of cryptocurrencies including PPCoin, Terracoin, Freicoin, Feathercoin, Novacoin, and Bytecoin.

Many Fed watchers now complain that good intentions have devolved into a cacophony of often - contradictory statements that do more to obfuscate than to clarify.

And it's that state of play that's fueling the cacophony of media deals at the moment.

I'd much rather be a lone bull in a cacophony of bears, but if my views are occasionally less agreeable, I hope that the analysis behind them is useful.

It licenses a cacophony of communications in the name of transparency.

The markets are moved by the cacophony of polls, both private and public.

The weaker the SWISS currency, the more profits for the shareholders because the SNB balance sheet is a cacophony of foreign assets.

I'm surprised that so many people can hear God over the cacophony of disagreement.

On the streets of densely populated conurbations like Mumbai, Diwali - popularly known as the Festival of Lights - is often a raucous affair, marked by a cacophony of firecrackers on the streets and a flourish of ceremonial gambling in the home.

In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible's cacophony of voices into a single tone, to turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed.

For example, he likens the cacophony of voices competing for our attention in our hyper - connected world to the demon Legion from the New Testament.

I was in the Somali capital two years ago and every night, just before the call to prayer signaled the breaking of the fast, we'd hear a cacophony of mortar rounds and gunfights.

And so, with the cacophony of «but you must believe these things to raise righteous children» and a great deal of uncertainty ringing in my ears, I let them go.

In my online community The Lasting Supper, there's a wide diversity of people with differing beliefs... an amazing cacophony of nonconformists I've ever met.

There's too much at stake to try and force Christianity's cacophony of voices into two competing tones.

The more encouraging messages from readers, and especially from the growing number of readers of college age, are those that say they discovered in First Things a perspective that enabled them to turn the cacophony of impassioned opinions into the paths of robustly constructive conversation.

Reuters: Chinese give Year of the Snake a raucous, colorful welcome Chinese welcomed the arrival of the Year of the Snake with raucous celebrations on Saturday, setting off a cacophony of firecrackers in the streets and sending fireworks blazing into the sky to bring good fortune.

- goes a long way to explaining why the Pope's «opinion» is just one more voice added to the cacophony of Oprah, Al Gore, Howard Stern, and the woman in the next cubicle at the office.

In fact, Schweitzer's declining years were accompanied by a veritable cacophony of praise and blame, during which time he sought to maintain a dignified silence.

The whole point of the attack is that «Western Civilization» is a cacophony of stories, and that that cacophony forms a uniquely beautiful melody A defender of the canon might retort that a story of plurality remains a story.

The rain «created a cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks.

But interaction gave way to silence, only to be replaced by the cacophony of artillery.

An eye - popping, universe - exploding, noisy, colorful, cacophony of creative power unleashed into darkness and chaos.

Pages like mine exist as a response... a counter-argument to ensure that the cacophony of superst.ition does not go unchallenged.

There's just too much at stake to try and force Christianity's cacophony of voices into two competing tones, into a simple «my team» vs. «your team.»

At the heart of a prescriptive use of the word «biblical» is a desire to simplify — to reduce the Bible's cacophony of voices into a single tone, to turn a complicated and at times troubling holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto.

James likes to be on his feet, voice raised, arms uplifted, surrounded by the cacophony of tongues.

Cyberspace, in particular, seems to foster the cacophony of Babel more than the rhetorical precision of Mars Hill.

In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible's cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed.

Our dinner table is a jolly cacophony of questions and conversations.

In Isaiah 34 God ruins the glory of the nations, turning fertile places into deserts inhabited b a zoo of wild animals who fill the air with a cacophony of noise.

According to Walsch, we can discern God's voice amidst the cacophony of voices that bombard us both within and without because God's voice is linked with our highest feelings, thoughts and experiences.

More and more the commerical cacophony of Christmas preparation has meant that the only Advent themes which have survived are those which look forward to the celebration of the birth of Christ.

For seekers, believers, and skeptics, Collins has gathered flowers of prose — classic and contemporary — that quietly display the harmony between reason and faith, in contrast to what he calls «the cacophony of extreme voices dominating the microphones, bookshelves, and airways.»

There were times when the cacophony of selves in cyberspace frustrated me so much that I attempted to end my virtual life, literally.

However, social media has allowed for the amplification of conversation - killing cultural outrage inside and outside the Church, turning spaces for sharing rhetoric into echo chambers with a cacophony of voices declaring, in so many words, «it's us versus them!»

That's the point — there is a cacophony of emotions and issues.

Does interpretation alone account for such a cacophony of voices telling us their «correct» theologies?

Nearly lost in the cacophony of voices bearing down upon us is the voice of Jesus the Christ, «You are the salt of the earth.»

Every piece of furniture we own was crammed into two rooms of our house as carpet and bathroom floor installers ripped up the old flooring, laughing and singing along to their country tunes above the cacophony of staple guns.

«I want to turn the cacophony of the subway into unique pieces of music.

But it's only at the stroke of midnight, when fireworks light up the sky and set off a cacophony of endless crackles and thuds, that people will sink their chopsticks into the holiday's most important dish: jiaozi, or dumplings.

What provoked the howls was a cacophony of these sounds: gobbles and clucks, whines, purrs, waddles and putts, and Kee - Kee runs, all of them turkey calls, all failures.