Sentences with phrase «cacophony for»

Mother Nature gave dogs auditory capabilities that would make the world an endless cacophony for people if they suddenly could hear so well.

Tel Aviv University researchers studied 15,000 Egyptian fruit bat calls over 75 days and pinpointed specific vocalizations in the cacophony for the first time.

Stepping through a side exit and closing the door on life's cacophony for a week, time stops.

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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.

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

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

There's much being said and written about the midterm elections (you can thank me later for not [yet, at least] adding my own voice to the cacophony).

The universe that has been made dissonant also requires reenchantment, therefore, in order for us to participate in an otherness that is not finally cacophony but symphony, a complex interlocking of likenesses and differences that form an immensely complex but finally redemptive Whole.

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

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.»

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!»

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

Fish's own tolerance during his chairmanship at Duke for the cacophony that literary criticism has become, indeed his encouragement of it, does not contradict his exegesis of Milton; rather, that exegesis confirms it.

For three hours the canyon echoed to a cacophony of blowing horns, shrieking tires, and howling motorists that may never be duplicated.

But amidst the plethora of substantial, legitimate information, there is also a cacophony of foreboding, judgmental voices: «lactivist» blogs that compare formula feeding to child abuse; public message boards with calls to action - «I automatically feel sorry for the baby sitting in the cart in the formula aisle as their parent loads up on cans of the stuff.

It is often a veritable cacophony of bubbling and other sounds that get new parents concerned for their new edition to the family.

Cameron defended the plan to include an elected second chamber in the Queen's speech despite the cacophony of calls from his own backbenchers to drop the bill: «I wouldn't for a moment say that this is the most important thing the government is doing.

Several species of fireflies may co-exist in the same habitat, creating a cacophony of signals as individuals search in the darkness for others.

And the cacophony isn't just bad for animals using natural sounds to hunt and forage — it could also be detrimental to human health.

In a report that appears in PLOS BIOLOGY, Dr. Hugo Bellen and his colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital and BCM, and Dr. Chao Tong, at the Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell Biology, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, find that mutations of human homologs (genes that carry out similar functions) of cacophony and its partner straightjacket (Cacna1a and Cacna2d2 respectively) cause defects in autophagy in neurons.

Three projects — the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array in Australia, NANOGrav in North America and the European Pulsar Timing Array in Europe — are monitoring dozens of pulsars for tempo changes that can reveal not only single collisions but the cacophony of gargantuan black holes smashing together throughout the universe.

One thing's for certain — you'll never go wrong with this gorgeous color palate and cacophony of flavors.

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As I slunk into the back of my chair, my eyes peering out through the unnecessary 3D glasses at the hyperactive action unfolding on screen, there was little more I could ask for Christmas than for this exhausting cacophony of noise to end.

Even with all the cinematic accoutrements — the music, the comedy, Wright's penchant for attention - grabbing camerawork — there's a purity to Baby Driver's vehicular mayhem that's extremely refreshing in a summer movie season where even the best blockbuster action movies tend to devolve into a cacophony of pixels by the big final battle.

Director Ryan Coogler, who is African - American and who previously made the estimable features «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed,» is also the co-writer of «Black Panther,» with Joe Robert Cole, and he understands better than any of the other Marvel maestros that for a superhero movie to be more than a popcorn jamboree, it needs to have a purpose beyond mere cacophony and hijinks.

The omission of Christopher Nolan for directing Inception sparked a Twitter cacophony; it could be that the mindbending sci - fi thriller is perceived as too much of a special - effects entry for the Academy voters, who prefer humanist storytelling.

Soon that show tune merges with score to create a cacophony of discordant sound, fitting for what The A.V. Club's A.A. Dowd described as «a portrait of a famous dreamlife curdling into a public nightmare.»

The roughly 630 students streaming through the school's doors hail from more than 40 countries and speak 28 languages, making for a cacophony of sounds that bounce off the building's bright...

The unending cacophony of stories of public education failure and a need to reform it for the future has been ongoing since before the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB, 2002).

If the recent reaction from some schools of education to proposed federal regulations aimed at improving the quality and impact of teacher preparation programs is any indication, we can expect the traditional cacophony of complaints, such as «We can not hold preparation programs accountable for factors outside our control.»

To compensate for any lack of drama, the sports exhaust — controlled via a Bluetooth button on a fob within the car — adds a heap more noise, and off throttle there is a cacophony of bangs and crackles.

I suspect that the third of Forester owners who opt for the XT do so because its 2.0 - litre turbo produces power at lower rpm thus avoiding the high rpm cacophony.

Getting our books noticed when there's so much competition for readers» attention; not just from other books, but from the sheer cacophony of modern life.

She is also bone - thin and given to self - harm, unable to get used to the cacophony of the shelter and no doubt lonely for the family who surrendered her.

There's the thumping soundtrack that plays with its own panic in the most mischievous way possible, the cacophony of devilish creatures that combine to provide a wicked assortment of attack puzzles for you to solve, and a pair of pulsating electronic weapons that ripple and warp the very fabric of space.

The layout is so much better and thanks for eliminating that irritating cacophony that used to pass for theme «music».

It's an oasis of calm and entry - level accountancy in a cacophony of tyre smoke and bullets, a sim designed for all the family.

Megastudios, indies and Kickstarter - fueled startups all jockeyed for attention, creating a cacophony on the floor of the Sands Expo & Convention Center.

The boss battle themes change depending on how well the fight is going — if you're in trouble, it delves into a cacophony until you can rescue yourself (or until you die), but if you damage your foe enough, it transforms into a heroic, can - do tune that gets you pumped for victory.

For the most part, they were intuitive, almost musical outpourings, drawn from the cacophony of sources that surrounded him.

When in use on stage, Cave's painstakingly detailed textile sculptures conceal the wearer's identity, trading the apparent markers of race and gender for a visual cacophony of heavy beading, embroidery, and organic materials such as twigs or human hair.

To single out one individual work, Lure, from the panoply of forms is to ignore the massed effect of the installation, which to some would have the energy of a symphony by Karlheinz Stockhausen, while for others it might seem a cacophony.

(ii) For Graves, the mechanical cacophony of industry and technology was a major obstacle to this journey.

Richly adding to this conversation is the work of Leslie Hewitt, who isolates and juxtaposes objects, images, and texts amidst the daily cacophony, asking for our sustained focus on an «intimate and imperative level» [1].

The current trend for the likes of Oscar Murillo and Christian Rosa, messy paintings with heavy but astonishingly superficial conceptual backstories, or the current obsession with archives, or the insipid cacophony of video art, all just drive us back to the likes of Doig.

Some installations embrace the cacophony of contemporary culture's accelerated pace, whilst others lament it, wistfully dreaming of a time and place reserved for quieter contemplation.

«In order for something to be found, it has to at some point in its history have been lost» says Parker, who also states her intention to create a «riveting collective cacophony» which will be displayed throughout the museum.

When Martha Rosler's cacophony of exploited naked babes were — not uncontroversially — used on the cover of the catalogue for WACK: Art and the Feminist Revolution?

Between mute traces and promises of a speech act, polyphony and cacophony, transcription and oral tradition, the remains of the song of these «sirens» stand for fossils organising their own archaeology.