Sentences with phrase «chords around»

that he was giving back his 8 - and 6 - year - old son's «participation» trophies because they hadn't earned them struck a chord around the interwebs.

Lindy's plight struck a chord around the world.

Indeed, Charlie and Megan did a lovely job, and touched a chord around the world as nearly a hundred thousand people signed petitions to save the house.

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Things didn't really turn around until the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, which struck an emotional chord with readers and once again appealed to the general sweep of Scripture rather than the letter.

Since the book draws from the imagery of the seven sacraments — baptism, confession, communion, holy orders, marriage, healing, and confirmation — stories that center around those experiences are much more likely to strike a chord with where I'm at creatively with this project.

Remember when you measure your chord to always add at least 4 inches so you have enough extra chord to easily tie around the jump rings.

Plug your white noise machine in anywhere, as your 8 foot chord should help you get the device to many different areas around the room or on top of furniture.

They may carry weight around their midsection, have male - pattern baldness, velvety skin and hyperpigmentation, suffer from vocal chord thickening or have an enlarged clitoris (King, 2006; Richardson, 2003; Shannon & Wang, 2012).

I pushed - Elton John's «Tiny Dancer» was playing, my husband was holding my head, Terry was on the other side of my head, and 8 minutes later the OB pulled out our healthy little girl who cried — with her umbilical chord loosely around her neck and feet.

I play guitar, working out the chords gradually as we walk around the streets of Digbeth and then forgetting them again before the next parade.

How a message full of «ifs» and «could», built around a scale and institutions that are alien to most local residents, should «strike a chord» and enthuse people to vote remains unclear, to say the least.

The umbilical chord had been wrapped around her throat for the whole 20 minutes.

Balls's warning about the dangers of a double - dip recession and an «economic hurricane» have struck a chord with Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, who notes that «The consensus around drastic and immediate deficit reduction is in danger of breaking down.

You want to drink noncaffeinated fluids to hydrate yourself so the mucus in your throat and around your voice box stays watery and protects your vocal chords.

It can be difficult to get a sufficient level of folate from your diet, so you should start taking a supplement around three months before you plan to conceive and continue with it until the end of the first trimester, during which the spinal chord and brain develop.

The Earth Gong is a rare and magnificent instrument, a large gong tuned to the vibration of AUM, the Universal Chord, and to the fundamental vibration of Planet Earth as she revolves around the Sun.

What men want: Singer Daya has a lot to say about men and relationships, and her songs strike a deep chord with listeners around the world...

The songs are less varied, however, tending to chug along morosely, based around similar clusters of chords to David Bowie's Five Years, which suits the apocalyptic foreboding but can make you long for a brightly coiffed alien androgyne to come along and break the monotone gloom.

It works because Joe isn't, of course, as hardened and invulnerable as he likes to project; there's a chord of ruin and despair in him that is causing him, like the city around him, to slowly rot.

The central question is whether or not young Rose killed her newborn child with a rock, an act of infanticide which Mara denies early on as piano chords come crashing down around her.

Independently made (on a reported $ 80 million budget) by French producer Dimitri Rassam, «The Little Prince» may lack the fast pace and high - concept storytelling of today's most popular animated fare, but it should strike a solid chord with family audiences around the world (where the film has been heavily presold) and particularly in France, where Paramount opens the film July 29.

Power Guitar Electric Guitar + Amp Rock out with a power chord to knock all enemies around you on their zombie behinds.

Just listening to the opening chords of «Saiboguee Tansaeng» playing over the opening credits gives ideas of creeping around in dark and secluded areas, but in a cheeky and mischievous kind of way.

Lionel Shriver «s 2003 novel We Need to Talk about Kevin with its themes of parenthood and nature vs nurture hit a chord with readers around the world.

STX isn't targeted at the ultra-competitive; it's designed around ease of use, accessibility, and plucking enough chords to resonate with everyone in some way, even if it never particularly excels at any one of them.

Since the successful strike in West Virginia, in which teachers and education support professionals pressured Governor Jim Justice to agree to a 5 percent pay raise, the message around education funding and teacher pay has clearly struck a chord with the general public.

I recall first coming upon it around the same time as Flaubert's Sentimental Education, and the vaguely twinned themes — of idealistic young men trying to navigate the vast and arcane social and professional labyrinths of the metropolis — seemed to strike a chord (as did George Gissing's New Grub Street and George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying, for somewhat related reasons).

Tissue around the vocal chords may be drawn into the trachea (windpipe) itself causing a partial blockage at this point (this is known as everted laryngeal saccules)

As much as the soundtrack enhances each of the areas, at times, it can feel grating — the more time you spending searching around them, the more the same ominous chords strike while you search for the next path to take.

Not only is it worth praising for how it ties in with the in - game mechanics it's paired with, its instrumentation is also totally fucking nuts in the best possible way; funky electric bass (a recurring theme of Mitsuda's work) is layered with shrill, panicked violins while the chords and time signatures shift and shiver around chromatic, jazzy melodies.

These uptown programmes are like an umbilical chord that link older, wealthy collectors who would never venture south of 14th Street in anything but an armoured SUV to the burgeoning art scene around the New Museum on the Bowery.

You'll be transported back to the 1990s when Weezer's power chords ricochet around Roseland Ballroom tonight.

If gangsta rap's not your thing, sing your fave upbeat song, do some «doh - ray - mes», some «she - sells - sea - shells», get your lips loose and your vocal chords limber... dance around, clap your hands, make sure you get those last drops of nervous energy out in the bathroom beforehand.

This time around, his work strikes a softer, more emotive chord, finding inspiration in traditional vanitas and still life paintings.

«During a time when record numbers of migrants are uprooting themselves in search of a better life, Lawrence's timeless tale and its universal themes of struggle and freedom continue to strike a chord not only in our American experience but also in the international experience of migration around the world.»

If you've been treading a path around the cross-continental gallery and museum show circuit over the past two years, you've likely laid eyes on the bright, lucid paintings of Etel Adnan, the Lebanese poet, painter, philosopher, and octogenarian whose compositions have struck a chord with curators, critics, and viewers alike.

If you value space for them to rough around and be able to express their vocal chords, I wouldn't recommend tiny house living (at least something less than 400 - 500SF) for you guys at this point.

The photos strike a chord with viewers, who can relate to the way in which we embrace our devices, rather than the people around us.

After the release of the book, the 100 Mile Diet became a cultural phenomenon that struck a chord with people around the world.

Musician Owen Pallett noted in his own twitter post the potential that it's not simply a matter of «Radiohead sitting around feeling annoyed about a stolen chord progression, this just might be their lawyers being lawyers.»

So go ahead, no need to get too methodical about it, just play around — and try to repeat the stuff that really strikes a chord.

John Gray, author of «Men and from Mars; Women are from Venus» challenged this «unisex» approach and struck a chord in the American public and around the world.