Sentences with phrase «high pitch of»

Translated into watercolor, the intensity of the experience is conveyed through the strong, flag - like composition, often interrupted by a house, window, or figure, and through the high pitch of the color.

They anticipate the increasingly high pitch of Sherman's funny, disturbing roles.

Nevertheless, it was among the scientist - philosophers of Greece that reason was carried to the highest pitch of development and that the activity of reason came to be prized most highly for its own sake.

These phrases remind one of Whitehead's contention that religious truth must be developed from knowledge acquired when our ordinary senses and intellectual operations are at their highest pitch of discipline (RM 123).

But the highest pitch of every passion is always to will its own downfall; and so it is also the supreme passion of the Reason to seek a collision, though this collision must in one way or another prove its undoing.

He'll be barking at the highest pitch of his voice.

The nearly 30 black - and - white photographs in the exhibition, made between the years 1967 and 1986, include men depicted in the highest pitch of orgasm, as well as perceptive portraits of fellow artists such as Merce Cunningham and John Cage, David Wojnarowicz and Lynn Davis.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters)- Hedge fund managers at the high - profile 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York pitched stock ideas on Monday that they said should benefit from the growing clout of the millennial generation, ranging from online food ordering to homebuilders.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Hedge fund managers at the high - profile 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York pitched stock ideas on Monday that they said should benefit from the growing clout of the millennial generation, ranging from online food ordering to homebuilders.

New York hedge fund managers from Bill Ackman and David Einhorn to Silicon Valley venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya pitched their top investment ideas Monday at the Sohn Investment Conference, the annual gathering of some of Wall Street's highest - profile stock pickers.

The teams presented their ideas in a high - energy pitch event in front of big league judges, including Tony West, Pepsico's General Counsel and Alan Bryan, Walmart's senior associate general counsel.

He met with three or more people a day, prepared a 48 - page set of interview notes, and rode the highs and lows of pitching himself for a job that many thought he was an odd fit for.

«It was awesome, a high - impact, high - energy, hackathon kind of environment,» says working group participant Mike Green, director of the ScaleUp Campaign, a nonprofit partnership to encourage local innovation based in Portland, Ore. «Since you were pitching multiple times, you had to have your game on.»

At those prices, the Surface Hub's sales team will have to aim their pitches high, convincing senior managers and Chief Technology Officers that a massive touchscreen won't just kickstart meetings, but supercharge the discussions that brought all of those workers together in the first place.

The high - growth entrepreneurship working group pitched ideas «Shark Tank» style about new ways to create healthy ecosystems that foster the growth of start - ups.

Regardless, Camilo plans to pitch his company to such social media networks once he's built up a larger roster of high - profile celebrity partners.

While Cesc was considered one of the world's best in his position of center midfielder, he had a tendency to roam high up the pitch (away from his assigned terrain), leaving gaps in the midfield and the defense exposed.

We also shudder to think what Donald Trump, who thinks that the slow rotating blades of wind turbines miles offshore spoil his golf courses, would make of high - pitched whirring noises in the rarefied air above them.

In the room outside, the refrigeration equipment emits a constant low humming, and the occasional high - pitched chirp courtesy of pulsing helium gas within the cryocooler.

Diesel took the mic and sang a moving rendition of Bill Withers» classic «Lean on Me,» in a high - pitched chipmunk voice.

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, the company's urban planning team, is set to pitch a proposal to rebuild part of a struggling American city as a new high - tech «smart city,» The Wall Street Journal reports.

With the PXC 550 and most others, traces of voices, laughter, and other higher - pitched sounds will still break through.

In late December, he said, he had been struck by a strange, disturbing phenomenon — a powerful beam of high - pitched sound that seemed to be pointed right at him.

Miniso's pitch to customers of «aesthetics and intelligent design» that will «enrich» their lives taps into that, with the added promise of rock - bottom prices, making it something of a stylish Dollarama — the storefront window has a large sign proclaiming «$ 2.99, High Quality Life» and items in the store retail for anywhere from $ 1.50 to $ 25.

In January, according to the Times, HNA Group companies bombarded employees with a variety of e-mail pitches promising high rates of interest in exchange for short - term loans.

«He can present a high - level pitch and do so in an entertaining fashion,» says Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital, who as an individual contributed to two of Uber's venture - funding rounds.

This results in pitch rates in excess of 40 degrees per second, and high resistance to departure from controlled flight.

The Pitch delivers on the high - stakes promise of a live pitch without shying away from the nitty gritty details of what happens after everyone shakes hands and walks out of the Pitch delivers on the high - stakes promise of a live pitch without shying away from the nitty gritty details of what happens after everyone shakes hands and walks out of the pitch without shying away from the nitty gritty details of what happens after everyone shakes hands and walks out of the room.

The company said in September that it would pitch in $ 50,000 to supplement $ 300,000 in Washington State funding for a study of how to link the Pacific Northwest to Vancouver via high - speed rail.

One of the investors said they were frustrated with how the company didn't deliver on the original pitch and that their venture firm wouldn't have met with Evans if he were hawking bags of juice that didn't require high - priced hardware.

That realization led to his restarting an apprenticeship program, which he pitches as an alternative to college — especially at a time when the cost of higher education looks increasingly to be a bad deal.

Williams would wait for a specific pitch (in an area of the plate where he knew he had a high probability of making contact with the ball) before swinging.

Startups from the global fintech industry can apply to perform a 7 min pitch of their product, followed by Q&A from high profile VC judges on the industry's largest stage.

There is high pitch frenzy for B2B leaders today in terms of being confronted internally and externally with persuasive arguments for the latest and greatest new technology or services that promises high returns.

Also, you're probably not the only vendor that they have contacted; a high percentage of inbound leads are being pitched by multiple vendors at the same time.

The better your pitch, the higher your chance of meeting your funding goal.

Six high school entrepreneurs were announced as winners of this year's Young Entrepreneurs, Make Your Pitch competition at Discovery 2018.

The cardinal rule of inbound marketing is to provide value, not high - pressured sales pitches.

So when front man Jason Lytle sings «might as well give up, old friends,» on the album highlight «Rear View Mirror,» you can only sympathize with the timid high - pitched admission of defeat.

In fact, childish whining is more distracting than the screech of a high - pitched table saw, according to a new study.

I used to pitch in high school, and I was also the lead singer of an incredible music band.

We make every effort to get back to everyone who sends in an idea, but owing to the high number of pitches we receive, this is not always possible.

Like Teilhard, he has deep faith that the evolutionary energies of the universe which have brought life on earth to its present high pitch are working through today's crises to a new level.

Melville himself, in his own bleak old age, underlined in his edition of Balzac the sentence, «New York: A place where speculation and individualism are carried to the highest pitch, where the brutality of self - interest attains to cynicism, where man [is] essentially isolated.»

We can be certain of how these things appear to us, the fact that we are directly aware of a brownish rectangular shape, a high pitched blare, a sugary taste.

Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

The Light of Christ neither condescends to its audience by talking down, nor loses readers by pitching too high.

He has a high - pitched voice that drips with the Southern inflections of his native Arkansas.

The second, lighter mode begins again, with the same notes as before, and it breaks into a cascade of high - pitched, joyful notes, accompanied for the first time by the cymbals and triangle which have lain dormant thus far.

That pitch came from the left arm of Ross Baumgarten, a junior high school classmate in a suburb north of Chicago, who went on to pitch for the hometown White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates.