Sentences with phrase «muffled by»

My home office is in the back of the house and the doorbell is usually muffled by kids, noise, and more noise!

They began to negotiate, often in voices choked with sadness, or muffled by tears, sometimes with anger, and mostly with empathy.

The Ergofit's rendition of the song sounded softer and slightly more muffled by comparison

The speakers are muffled by the keyboard dock, making laptop audio quiet even at maximum volume.

The tiny rear speaker does the majority of the work, but it is easily muffled by your hand or anything the phone happens to be sitting on.

The lone speaker on the Galaxy S4 resides on its backside, in that wonderfully unconsidered spot where audio is both muffled by your hand and blasting directly away from your ears.

Sound quality is pretty good too, with a pair of front - facing speakers in the right position not to be muffled by a desk or other surface.

Tinny and muffled by its placement when the phone lies face up, it's a weak link in the device's overall performance.

In landscape mode, the two stereo speakers are positioned at the top side edges of the tablet keeping them well away from being cupped and muffled by your hands as can be the case with some Android tablets we've recently tested.

It's not a huge issue, but the result is sound from your movies, games and music can end up being muffled by your hand.

There's a speaker grille at the bottom, and a small raised lip below the speaker to prevent it from becoming muffled by flat surfaces.

The Note 8 comes with a single bottom - firing speaker that is easily muffled by the palm of your hand when holding the phone in landscape and the audio quality can sound distorted at max volume.

It is a stark example as well of how public debate on topics deemed delicate here can be easily muffled by a small minority, the most vocal of whom are the country's estimated 10,000 rightists who espouse hard - line stances in disputes against Tokyo's neighbors.

Modern art in Britain is muffled by a middle - class, bland consensus of approval.

That voice we hear in our heads, the one that often gets muffled by what we think we should be thinking: Carlozzi reminds us to listen to it.

Run in the quiet of the canyon, the sound of the river flowing below you and the wind whistling past your ear is only muffled by the sound of your breathing and your feet on the ground.

Or perhaps what catches Max's attention is the way she tilts her head toward her companions to laugh at their conversation, or to utter words whose sound is muffled by the car's silent windows.

But every year people die and their ghosts roam in the public gardens, hiding behind the gray, dark statues like wild cats, their tiny footsteps and secret breathing muffled by the sound of falling water in the fountains and the quiet ponds.

Situated on the base of the tablet, either side of the new 8 - pin Lightning dock connector, the speakers are easily muffled by the hand when holding the device in a standard and conventional manner, an issue that can severely diminish the sound quality and deplete the overall enjoyment of the experience.

In landscape mode, the two stereo speakers are positioned at the top side edges of the tablet keeping them well away from being cupped and muffled by your hands as can be the case with some Android tablets we've recently tested.

They whump and wallow over pavement like the sound of supermarket conveyor belts, their occasional squealing from outside muffled by the Cayenne - aping bodywork.

When the rear suspension thunks, it isn't muffled by the separate trunk.

The 735i, noise of the Harleys we encountered along the way was muffled by the 735i's insulation and tight seal.

It doesn't make a nice noise, but it's muffled by a crash helmet so you never so much as think about that more than once.

For the girls and the women of Sofia Coppola's elegantly spare, psychosexual Civil War drama The Beguiled, this daily broadcast from the front lines — muffled by the foliage, accompanying the...

Sound is equally modest, the mono track often muffled by the circumstances of its location shooting, which makes the foley effects of crowd noise and rodeo sounds even more tinny to the ear.

The smart, rapid dialogue is sometimes mumbled and other times muffled by ambient sound, and serves as the meat of the modestly budgeted film.

Words don't vanish altogether: in places, dialogue is retained but practically drowned out by raging wind, or muffled by protective suits and visors.

The sound, on the other hand, can be muffled by a pillow.

The world's newest most expensive player — a footballer with the attributes and abilities to live up to his billing as the archetypal modern midfield all - rounder — was muffled by his manager's tactics in almost the complete reverse of Guardiola's impact upon De Bruyne.

There have been rushing defensemen coming out of junior hockey, but they are being muffled by the NHL's dependence on the trap.

Mark and I were in Montreal a couple weekends ago and passing by an old church in the morning hours, I could hear the choir of voices inside just slightly muffled by ages - old bricks and mortar, the congregation's joy barely contained.

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Rather he will remain sensitive to those meaningful qualities of human experience which are often muffled by the sirens that daily alert the public to the beginning of a new countdown.

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

I've known many evangelicals that are great people, but they're being muffled by their crazy minority against Romney.

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By privileging the Bible's prophetic voice, Gerstenberger muffles the voice of the priests.

As shock muffled my ability to experience God's abiding presence with me, my director invited me to open myself to discover all the ways God was reassuring me that I was not walking this journey by myself.

Even the sacraments of the church have provided occasions of humor, muffled, of course, by a sense of guilt which failed to see that only the true and meaningful can provide the leverage necessary for laughter.

By mid-month, during the muffled silence of cold, a deep, bone - chilling freeze would halt every living thing upon the face of our backyard.

But the effort is almost always worthwhile, for Maritain's true conversation partners were less his contemporary critics than the classics, whose intricate treasures he did not wish to muffle, encrust, or belittle by oversimplification.

By forgiveness I do not mean a warm sentimentality that muffles real wrongs.

Sounds may be muffled, though, because the ears are still covered with vernix, the thick waxy coating that protects the skin from becoming chapped by the amniotic fluid.

No, here in Texas, it's the muffled voice of the announcer on the high - school stadium's PA system, with the play - by - play action of the football game.

Your sounds will be muffled to him or her, but they will hear you singing to them and be lulled by your soothing voice.

The New York State Thruway Authority said the barriers, which would cost $ 2 million, will muffle the din of traffic by seven decibels.

The clanging way the old piano used to sound, muffled just so by the side doors as those keys were pounded each night.

Mr. Cronenberg, for once oddly inhibited by brazen subject matter, has made a meticulously stylized and controlled film that leaves many of its characters» ideas muffled and lacks the true audacity its material demands.

The problem with the early episodes — written and directed by Jim Mickle, who also made the film «Cold in July,» based on a Lansdale novel — has to do with a slow pace and a sameness that muffle the humor and menace we expect from smart noir.

Even the best images get scuppered by awkward ones, as when Ozon follows a dark, misty tracking shot of Anna and Adrien returning home from a late - night dance with some boilerplate medium close - ups that dissipate dramatic tension and muffle expressive detail.