Sentences with phrase «hollow sound of»

The eerie, hollow sound of the «what if and if only» would rattle against the backdrop of the darkness and the gloom.

The smell of chlorine and warm water and the hollow sound of kicking and pulling: they had been natural parts of my life from the age of 11 to 22, but I had not been aware of them then, no more than I am now of the stench and clangor of the commuter train.

No matter the recipe, nothing beats hearing the hollow sound of a fresh made loaf then (after the long 15 - 20 minute wait) tearing off a piece and hearing the crust crunch and seeing the crumb pull apart with the elasticity of a perfect bakery baguette.

«The efforts of apologists,» he says, «to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow sound of bottoms of barrels being scraped.»

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The Federal Reserve and many Wall Street economists have been saying for months that an economic slowdown in the first part of the year would soon give way to faster growth, but their predictions have begun to sound hollow in the face of ever more dour economic news.

When Christ tells me to follow Him, I must view myself behind Him as he slowly drags His cross to His place of execution, the cross bumping with a hollow sound on the cobblestones.

To the slave, Douglass told his white audience, «your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all...

Place pans in the oven for about 35 minutes, until the tops are light brown and when you tap on the top of a loaf it is hollow sounding.

I remembered all the well - intended and heartfelt things that people had said to me at the time of my father's unexpected death, words that sounded hollow at best and callous and counterproductive at worst.

For many of us, the suggestion that evangelicals are «Johnnies come lately» to social action has a hollow sound.

A proclamation of noble - sounding human rights was no doubt all the rage in the post-war era, but it rings a bit hollow to the jaded ear of post-modern man.

He may grab another man's sermon and handle it well, except for a hollow ring here and there and the subterranean sounds of his own soul crumbling in slow erosion.

Without the fruits, the truth of Christianity sounds as hollow as any other so - called truth.

Tip your loaf onto a cooling rack and tap the base of the bread to check it is cooked, it should sound hollow.

Its ready when you tap the bottom of the loaf and it sounds hollow.

Bake in preheated oven for about 30 minutes, or until the top is golden brown and the bottom of the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.

The last thing I can think of is giving it a good tap on the bottom and making sure it sounds hollow.

Managed to remove 1 cup of mostly wheat before realizing it was a lost cause, so I just added 2.5 cups of AP and had some mixture left over...) I also had no instant read thermometer, but read on the comments that one can «knock» the bread for a hollow sound?

Let the dough prove for 20 more minutes while the oven preheats and then bake for 45 - 50 minutes, until golden brown on top and hollow sounding when you tap the bottom of the loaf.

To test take it out of its tin and tap the bottom, if it's cooked it will sound hollow.

Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until the bottom of the loaf sounds hollow when you tap it or the internal temperature is about 200 °F on an instant - read thermometer.

You should be able to tap on the top of the loaf and hear an almost hollow sound.

You can knock on the bottom of the bread and when it sounds hollow it's done!

You'll know it's done when the bread is browned on top and on the edges and sounds sort of hollow when you tap it.

Take the bread out of the Dutch oven, turn it upside down and give the bottom a firm thump with your thumb, or a knock and if it sounds hollow it's done.

oven at 190 degrees for 25 - 30 minutes or till the bread becomes brown and the bottom of the tin sounds hollow when tapped.

Bake the loaves side - by - side in the center of the oven for 30 minutes, until they're golden and sound hollow when tapped on the bottom.

It's done when the crust is browned, and when rapping the bottom of the loaf with your knuckles produces a hollow sound.

Once the oven has reached the right temperature, place the pan on the middle rack of the oven and bake the dough for 40 minutes until it is golden and the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.

When the dough has risen to about 2 inches above the edge of the pan, bake until the boule is well browned and sounds hollow when tapped, about 40 minutes.

The base of the bread should sound hollow when you tap on it.

The time tested method of determining if the bread has baked sufficiently is to tap the crust lightly and listen for a hollow sound.

Place the baking sheet in the center of the preheated oven and bake for about 30 minutes, rotating once during baking, or until the bagels are a deep golden brown and sound hollow when tapped.

As I watched Sweetness tossing small rocks at a piece of driftwood next to her to hear the funky hollow thunk sound and Mr. Man play with sticks in wide - eyed amazement, I started to think of all I'd learned about positive discipline and what this mom could do differently.

Brad Lander of District 39 has defeated the reptillian and smarmy Josh Skaller, whose efforts to bamboozle the electorate with clever rhetoric fell apart as his pseudo-environmentalism and crocodile tears were sounded out as hollow.

Everyone, BHO's contention that raising 40 % of his funds from small donors is «like» public financing does not make a good sound bite because it is so hollow.

Then there are barriers made of hollow, perforated cylinders that let air through, but they only block sounds at certain pitches.

His airy dismissals of these women, intended to reassure his family, sound hollow.

It does not give away its presence by hooting as some owls do, but has a shrill rasping snore, or hollow hissing sound «shiiish,» which reminded Audubon of «an opossum about to die of strangulation.»

Chances are, instead of the monotonous sound of nut - cracking, you'll hear something more complex: a hollow knocking, a double - time thump - thumping that echoes through the trees.

Glass wine goblets are especially resonant because of their hollow tubular shape, which is why they make a pleasant ringing sound when clinked.

This sounds terribly clichéd, DeVaul admits; the Silicon Valley refrain of «taking huge risks» is getting hackneyed and hollow.

Brush the top of the brioche with egg yolk, then sprinkle over crushed sugar and bake for 20 - 25 mins, until golden brown and the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.

It's a soft hollow sound in the back of the throat.

Bake for 30 - 35 minutes until the bottom of the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.

A gentle tap with the back of your nail should produce a hollow sound when cooked.

The bread is cooked when all sides are brown and firm and the underside of the bread sounds hollow when rapped gently with your knuckles.

The score also sounds too much like a retread of the original score, making it hollow and uninteresting.

His glassy, hollow - sounding suspense music that dominates the opening half of the album somehow manages to create feelings of wonder, beauty and worry all at the same time.

That knowledge makes the already graceful cinematic language of Lynne Ramsay's film adaptation (the Scottish director's third feature, and her first in a regrettable period of nine years) all the more remarkable: altering not a jot of narrative detail, Ramsay and co-writer Rory Kinnear have ingeniously hollowed out Shriver's wordy text into a largely tacit, imagistic memory collage that substitutes sound and vision for dialogue as extensively as possible.