Sentences with word «cacophonous»

They made the machines sing — in cacophonous resonance, it's true, but still, they did sing!

Replete with cacophonous sound, jarring light and fitful movement — a mesmerizing intimation of synesthetic experience — the text conveys a sense of anxiety and uncertainty.

They started campaigning on dumsor making so much cacophonous noise about a problem that is no fault of John Mahama.

At this point Whitehead is very abstract and fails to use examples from the history of music that many times shows that a new combination of sounds, once rejected as cacophonous, is taken up into a richer system of sounds.

One important benefit of living in a diverse and occasionally cacophonous environment is that it guards us against a false ideal of community.

I bought an oboe for our clarinetist son and paid for lessons from a symphony musician whose menagerie of birds, dogs, and cats created cacophonous background noise at every lesson.

It can be cacophonous at times.

by Walter Chaw A cacophonous mess of misguided revisionism and misplaced emphasis, Simon Wells's (and an uncredited Gore Verbinski's) updating of H.G. Wells's poli - sci - fi schlock masterpiece The Time Machine is a miasmic disaster, a sinkhole of shrug - worthy special effects, matte paintings, relentless music, and dangling plotlines and motivations.

At a school that with only a few early exceptions has been free since 1859, the prospect of charging undergraduates has produced cacophonous debates.

Thus, in the midst of the multifarious, cacophonous activities of men and nations, God works to bring the goods and goals of individuals and societies nearer to the inscrutable purposes he holds for each.

What it may lack in sound system - minded sonics it makes up for with its distinctive mix of cacophonous rhythms and touches of warped soul that result in what is, simply put, an accomplished debut LP full of inventive house music.

With that mid-engine's cacophonous force of nature right behind ones head, the sound envelops the cockpit and sends the entire car trembling.

It is only a 45 minute drive from the Puerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR), but a world away from the all - inclusive hotels, hi - rises, and cacophonous crowds.

Beasley's 2012 sound performance at MoMA featured the artist in the museum's central atrium processing the voices of deceased rappers into cacophonous wails that shook the walls of the museum itself.

Driving back from our engagingly cacophonous evening at the bistro, I began to worry: Will we end up trying to inculturate the Gospel into cultural patterns that many» maybe even most» people in the Third World countries want to get out of as soon as they can?

Still, dialogue is clean and clear, the occasionally cacophonous sound fx don't completely wreck the soundscape, and the thumping music track has reasonable dynamics, including some solid bass notes.

I would like to think that even if I was 14, either in body or spirit, I would still find this film an impossibly, incomprehensibly overlong and cacophonous bore.

«Transformers: Dark of the Moon» doesn't have quite as much juvenilia, pointless sub-plots or cacophonous set pieces as the previous «Transformer» films, though God knows it tries.

Boasting of no static shots nor any scenes that last longer than thirty seconds, Driven is a visually cacophonous (and exhausting) accident of a movie so self - conscious and proud about its empty flash that it ironically becomes a somewhat pithy commentary on the specious spectator appeal of watching the sport in the first place.

Joanne Greenbaum's exhibition consists entirely of wildly colored, cacophonous abstract paintings measuring 16 × 12 inches, which are installed salon - style, with some paintings paired and others lined up diagonally, with the bottom left corner of the upper painting nearly touching the top right of the one below.

As with Robert Smithson's A Heap of Language (1966)-- albeit through cacophonous audio rather than writing — this work makes language impenetrable through accretion.

As long as a decade ago, Trecartin's compellingly cacophonous videos were exploring the internet as a potential space for narcissism, mutable identity, fantasy and speed — turning them all up to a frenzied pitch — whilst Cornell was previously director of Rhizome, the New Museum - affiliated art organization devoted to new media and technology.

In the outlying ponds and marshes, however, frogs still ruled in massive numbers and made deafeningly cacophonous music as predatory herons, gulls and crows grew fat.

And yet, within this perpetually restless and sometimes cacophonous environment, our pets provide us with numerous moments of quiet pleasure, contentment and unconditional affection.

In his scrupulous hands, the disputing voices of the Talmudic house of study, however cacophonous to the untrained ear, revealed their multiple strands of meaning and invited his students to become participants in this dialogue of the generations.

Toy instruments: Children generally love music and the chance to create their own sound, no matter how cacophonous.

Even in the absence of a daily cycle of light and dark, the authors report today in Current Biology, the roosters continued to crow near dawn, suggesting that the birds» cacophonous racket is indeed controlled by an internal circadian clock.

For myself, I would be happy to continue on with Thanksgiving for a few more weeks and then take on the crazy cacophonous Christmas season!

His kindly therapist (Jacki Weaver) is happy that he has the social stake of employment, unlike his mother who, by letting go, became the most cacophonous of the personas that haunt her son.

No filmmaking authority, just cacophonous roaring for weirdly specific nostalgia.

A sense of cacophonous emotion and manic fervor tends to permeate the works of Arnaud Desplechin.

Within Stargher's mental flotsam and jetsam — where he's fashioned himself both a helpless child and a violent, horned king — director Tarsem Singh created disquieting tableaus (such as a vivisected horse) while Howard Shore's score clattered like Stargher's cacophonous thoughts.

The decline of the Die Hard series continues unchecked with this empty cacophonous clanger that is so inert story-wise that no amount of explosions can blow the cobwebs away.

Steven Spielberg goes all - out on fan - service and fast - paced action for Ready Player One's self - conscious, cacophonous fun.

A loud, cacophonous score will occasionally envelop chase sequences, but it's scantly effective.

The excellent score, once again by frequent collaborator Jonny Greenwood, is more tame and restrained than his often cacophonous and percussive work in previous films.

Upping the action's aural ante, the Immortan's cacophonous road circus is hilariously accompanied by its own live band, including a gentleman with a double - necked, flame - throwing guitar perched atop a wall of speakers who channels Junkie XL's ear - blasting score (unexpectedly evocative, in its own hyper - charged way, of Brian May's music for the original Mad Max).

Writer - director Baker wastes no time flinging viewers into his story's cacophonous premise: a delirious misadventure focusing on the fractured but luminous lives of transgender prostitutes Sin - Dee Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor).

And they were, in all their contradictory, cacophonous glory.

Pearl doesn't know how she's ended up in the river - the same messy, cacophonous river in the same rain - soaked valley she'd been stuck in for years.

The term «animal shelter» typically brings to mind long rows of metal - barred cages, the pungent smell of urine, and cacophonous barking.

The voiceover stand - ins for heroes like Han Solo and Luke Skywalker may not sound the best, but the audio recreation of cacophonous blaster fire, frantic lightsaber whirring, and intense space battles made it sound like you were in the middle of a Lucasfilm production.

Now, Gears of War 3 is here and it brings about new modes and improvements and ties up the story arc with a loud, cacophonous bang — oh, and the online works terrific too.

While some are a constant delight (the Shy Guy's gibberish is adorable), characters like Wario and Waluigi are not as joyously cacophonous as they ought to be.

Let's start at the top: the core concept is fantastic, with tension, a constant drain on your situational awareness and brief, cacophonous moments of life or death combat.

We needed an original orchestral score that was aleatoric in style, dark and dissonant, ranging from subtle creepy / eerie moods to completely cacophonous frenzies.