Sentences with word «cacophony»

"Cacophony" refers to a unpleasant or jarring mix of sounds that don't go well together and create a noisy, chaotic effect. Full definition
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.
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.
Its instruments are unknown, but there is a constant string bass line, a piano dissonance at one point, and then a crash of cacophony at another.
Mother Nature gave dogs auditory capabilities that would make the world an endless cacophony for people if they suddenly could hear so well.
And to be clear, when it comes to the comparative cacophony on the self - publishing side, we can't entirely blame indie writers.
There were moments that it felt like some ambient audio cut out during prolonged firefights, but it didn't ruin anything mainly due to the constant cacophony of gunfire.
The social media cacophony makes it difficult to be heard but an entire industry has developed to amplify your company's message.
Prepare for sabotage by alt - right dudebros or death by woke think piece, and sink into the social media cacophony of shouts and murmurs, sound and fury — all of it, yes, signifying nothing.
Voltage-gated calcium channels can not form properly when cacophony is mutated, preventing fusion of the synaptic vesicle with the plasma membrane and neurotransmitter release.
This presentation will debut a series of wire Tondos, in which swirling cacophonies of colors a...
A forward genetic screen in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies) identified mutant copies, or alleles, of a gene called cacophony associated with defects in autophagy and cellular homeostasis.
The resulting cacophony in the public square is called multiculturalism.
In the interest of not contributing the ever - loudening political cacophony, we're going to steer clear of politics this week.
It is the textbook on how they rewrite history — the sound chamber of liberal denunciations, their phony victimhood as they demean and oppress their enemies, their false imputation of dishonesty to their opponents, their legalization of every policy dispute, their ability to engage in lock - step shouting campaigns, and the black motives concealed by their endless cacophony.
A printed cacophony of creatures chasing, leaping and fluttering their way across striking landscapes and seascapes.
When one dog barked, the others joined in, creating a deafening cacophony of sound.
Martin refused to be drawn into this tumultuous world, instead searching out an alternative that was able to withstand the painterly cacophony produced by her male counterparts.
True classics never go out of style, and these handcrafted wooden toys from Little Sapling Toys hearken to a simpler, quieter time, when childhood wasn't a discordant cacophony of electronic — and lead - contaminated — distractions.
The engine added a little sound and vibration to the silent running of the electric motor at low speeds, but at anything above 40 mph the beginning of the engine's combustion became lost in the general cacophony of wind and road.
So basically, the ever - increasing daily cacophony of market noise you experience is simply another (specialised) example of the day - to - day noise of history.
I have completed Hotline Miami more times than any game I've ever played, not just because it's short, but because I can't get enough of the energetic music, the pixelated ultra-violence, and the blood soaked neon that comes together in a beautiful cacophony of frustration and tension.
«Crescendo to Climategate Cacophony Behind the 2006 Wegman Report and Two Decades of Climate Anti-Science,» (PDF - p. 166), DeSmogBlog, March 15, 2010.
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.
That's one reason that, even in its colorful cacophony, the center feels stuck in time.
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.
Cellos and violins should scrape and moan as rusted hinges yawn slowly open, and melancholy tunes should give way to frantic cacophonies whenever monsters are threatening the main character.
At moments, it feels like Tarantino is really trying to say something about the bizarre, angry jigsaw of people who help make this country the polarized mess it remains today, but once the film shifts into an expected cacophony of violence, whatever that might be slips through his gore - stained fingers.
Toothed whales, a group that comprises sperm whales and killer whales along with another six dozen species of lesser whales, porpoises, and dolphins, can emit a bewildering cacophony of noises underwater.
Gas churning near the sun's surface propels sound waves inward, where they skip and reflect until the entire sun hums in a complex, low - pitched cacophony.
Inside the wagon is a bright cacophony of patterned furniture, ceiling, and upholstery.
Of course, a supercar can get away with these kind of aural histrionics, in fact such a glorious cacophony at tickover is compulsory.
I like everything to look mellow, all of the crazy cacophony of colors makes my head hurt..
«The Night Before» opens with a promising premise that quickly descends into the usual comic holiday cacophony of lowbrow, banal and tedious sex, drug and dick jokes.
But they, along with movies like Hook and Finding Neverland, create a cultural cacophony perhaps shared only by Robin Hood in the Disney feature cartoon canon.
The opening moments of HUSH offer an overwhelming cacophony of banal noise.
But, if Renault's claims about the transmission combining the best characteristics of a CVT and a regular auto are to carry any weight, you would have to ignore the rising cacophony from the engine as the Koleos works its way up a highway incline with engine speed ramping up to maintain pace.
These include Dunham's elegantly eccentric Horizontal Bands (1982 — 1983), the cool formal title giving no hint as to the jam - up of witty, bulbous, bulb - and - root forms; Joan Snyder's rapturous lyric pastoral Beanfield With Music (1984), with its luxuriantly orchestrated cacophony of greens; and Bill Jensen's The Tempest (1980 — 1981), a floating enigma like an astral starfish with a sci - fi snout, at once melancholy and oracular.
Sadly, this is also the case with the music during most of the storyline interludes as the same melody spirals in and out in a never - ending cacophony.
In a visual and aural cacophony of video, photography, installation and more, those artists tell us their stories of life lived in the interstices of sex work, the global sex trade, gender and sexuality, identity and sexploitation.
Her work is represented in several public collections and she has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and internationally including most recently at the 56th Venice Biennale, where she presented Exquisite Cacophony (2015) and the Villa Arson in Nice where she produced Paper Tiger Whisky Soap Theatre (2016).
Like Jaffe, Tétot employs the white ground of his surfaces as if it is an expression of form, and he fearlessly embraces cacophony, revealing the strange harmonies that exist within apparent contradictions.
Harmonious layers of acrylic paint pool in jewel - like formations and offer a delightful cacophony of vivid, warm paletted abstract color.
This exhibition celebrates cacophony and material - crossing whilst floating between physicality and significance, to consider alternative forms of artistic expression looking at a context - based sensoriality as opposed to direct representation.
Inspired by Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular reflects an expanded view of the vernacular posited in Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, and Robert Venturi's Learning from Las Vegas (1972), one that embraces the spectacle of the street and the stylistic cacophony of the strip — the totems, billboards, and neon signs of roadside America.
Over a six - decade career, Freilicher quietly painted in direct contrast to the heroic and gestured angst of Abstract Expressionism, the industrial starkness of Minimalism, and the broad sweeping cacophony of Pop.

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