Sentences with phrase «of hands drumming»

Waiting for her is Tory MP Nigel Evans, who shakes her hand before leading her into the room to a thundering of hands drumming on desks.

Visit on a typical morning, and you'll hear young voices singing scales in the practice rooms, while the rumble of hand drums emanates from a distant classroom.

Sun Foot is a Portland / Los Angeles 3 piece who play low volume tunes through small amps and a drum set that consists of a hand drum, cymbal, pan lids, and electronic drum pad, all three...

Not exact matches

Their 2013 cookbook, Mast Brothers Chocolate: A Family Cookbook, describes «roasting in a coffee drum roaster... three pounds of beans at a time,» «cracking cacao shells with a hand mill used for crushing barley in home brewing,» and «winnow [ing] the husks from the nibs using fans, or even hair dryers.»

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

As the meetings progressed a great bass drum beat out the rhythm of the hymns until the whole crowd, caught by the rhythm, began to shout, clap their hands, and go into furious motions.

As I sit here, a glass of wine in my hand, the Elf playing the drums not 5 metres away and a Great Dane puppy trying to hold a chew ball using my boob as a prop, I drink to us all.

The evolution of cacao into chocolate is, for us, meticulous ritual — the product of precision drum roasting, hand - refinement and patient aging.

Using the empty containers as drums, show your baby how to tap their lids with your palms, fingers, and the heel of your hand.

Natarajas dance activates dormant vital energy (kundalini shakti) and becomes an act of both creation, symbolized by the upper right hand holding a drum, and destruction, represented by the flame held by the upper left hand.

Since the 1970's Rudolph has been developing his unique syncretic approach to hand drumming in creative collaborations with outstanding artists of cross-cultural and improvised music, including: Don Cherry, Jon Hassel, Sam Rivers, Hassan Hakmoun, L. Shankar, Omar Sosa, Wadada Leo Smith, and Pharaoh Sanders.

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The scenes frantically cut back and forth between Andrew, his hands beating the drums, the instruments themselves battering the drums with up - close looks of the marks left behind, and the wounds that are inflicted on the hands during extensive and exhausting performances.

On the other hand, he knows how to drum up some properly exciting soundtrack music, fast cutting and churning skies (the latter courtesy of the inevitable Chivo Lubezki, who has certainly learned a thing or two from Terrence Malick).

Normally, this hand wringing would all feel like Oscar bloggers justifying their own vocation by drumming up artificial suspense, but the fact is that more films out of this year's nominees are still thought of as being in the mix than have been ruled out.

In less expert hands, the language of standards merely reinforces the content - agnostic, skills - driven vision of schooling drummed into teachers in ed school.

The only way to accomplish this sleight of hand was to pursue a skillful public relations campaign that drummed in the message, over and over, that our public schools are failures, that these failures harm our children and threaten our nation's future prosperity.

And so, with a drum roll provided by art director Paul Lang via the medium of his hands and the plastic rear windows of the Mégane, it is an honour to announce the winner as... the Pagani Zonda F. Here's how the praise stacks up.

Hari Das opens his mouth, and the makeup boy carefully applies some rouge to his lips, «It's like a blinding light,» he says eventually, «When the drums are playing and your makeup is finished, they hand you a mirror and you look at your face, transformed into that of a god.

Hearing it triggers memories for both of the story's main characters, and three hand - made instruments — a single - stringed lute, an oboe, and a drum — set the plot in motion.

The other stands beside her, watching the dance unfold: the circling couples, the clasped hands, the drumming shoes, the whirling skirts, the bounce of the floor.

We would run up and down mountains of rolled black and blue velour, laid out like in a car - pet store, and dip our hands into oil drums full of glitter.

In addition to trying to drum up some excitement for the blog, as well as to hand a new Kindle Fire to someone, an additional strategy was to increase the participation of the blog's social media pages.

Our large selection of drum sets, snare drums, cymbals, hardware, auxiliary percussion, hand drums, sticks & mallets, electronics, parts and accessories make for an unparalleled browsing experience for both new and veteran drummers alike.

With many drum circles and more participatory, hands - on events, as well as great food and vendors, this weekend is a time for all to unplug from technology and the rest of the world for relaxation, rebalancing and fun.

BEARDIEBAG — BEARDIE BAG A unique small pet carrier bag designed specifically for those who march to the beat of their own drum, the Beardie Bag is a fashionable and functional cross body bag that keeps the pet owner's hands free while their pet travels in comfort and style!

To clean the unit just put your hands on top of the drum and spin it once to make the waste go into the collecting tray - screen.

When the sun sinks down behind Lana'i, savor a dinner of hand - rolled sushi at the resort's restaurant, Japengo, or enjoy dinner with a fire - and - knife show at the Drums of the Pacific Luau.

Learn about the history of the Junkanoo festival and try your hand at shaking the cowbell or beating the goatskin drum, like a Junkanoo pro.

Your mission is to retrieve the bananas, avoiding death at the hands of giant orange spiders, bright pink vultures, animated bongo drums and so on along the way.

Using whatever weapons come to hand - knives, whips, bats, rocks, oil drums, even dynamite - Billy must pursue the gang through the slums, factories, and wooded outskirts of the city to reach the hideout for his final confrontation with the Shadow Boss... his brother Jimmy!

Its hand - drawn world is alive with accents and scrollwork: wooly faces looming on Godstone monuments, fingers drumming the rim of a shield, the long gold edge of the red banner Alette mends on the menu screen.

While there are signs of poverty throughout her photographs — an elderly woman wearing paper bags on her feet, a toothless man smiling at the camera — more striking is the sense of camaraderie among the residents, as seen in the photos of drum circles, kids wrestling with tire swings, groups of women sitting cross-legged on the lawn while singing and clapping their hands.

The exhibition includes a ranting mop, a music box, a sculpture made of twisted plastic that rhythmically drums as it drops water into steel buckets, a whistling tree branch, an amalgamation of sensory organs made from bondo that rises more than 7 feet tall, and a drawing of a record that the artist produced by following the melody of a song with one hand and the rhythm with the other.

These large - scale photographs are developed by hand in a spinning drum process that agitates the chemistry over the photographic paper that lines the interior of the drum — a process that often leaves behind traces on the resulting image.

The work starts with a drum roll, a theatrical curtain - raiser, and then slows as it draws in each of the orchestra's voices in an even - handed score that places equal weight on each instrument.

The corporeal quality of the chairs» form and function, the skins of the elk, and the communal process of hand sewing the elements together is compounded further by the resulting object — a drum — which inherently implies ceremonial and social contexts, movement and sound.

Set to a syncopated jazz drum beat, the hand - animated film compares the conquest of America by the Pilgrim settlers to the ravaging of contemporary society by Methamphetamine drug addiction; the fanaticism of religious zealots is equated with the compulsion of addicts.

«Hand Presence», which Oculus had drummed up as a sort of differentiator against the Vive controllers, doesn't seem to be a clear cut advantage for Touch.

The drums, on the other hand, get a huge dose of deep bass, and sound overly bass - heavy and thumpy on this track.

Before you buy, make a list of your «must - have» features — large - capacity drum, hand - wash programme, and so on — before you get bamboozled by the choice.