What makes you an introvert in the eyes of psychologists is not your social skills — many introverts do just fine in that department — but rather your need for solitude, quiet time, and your preference for an inner world of ideas
over the din of social chatter.
You can just imagine that if this were in a busy cafe somewhere, it would need to be
heard over the din of cooking and customers and everything else, but in my kitchen it's pretty startling.
Unfortunately, three rows of game stations, tightly packed together, each hosted by designers
shouting over the din of a noisy exhibition hall - well, it ain't exactly a festive festival.
«I thought it would be a lot tougher mentally,» Samuels
says over the din of the TV, «but Russ makes it pretty simple.»
«I think Richmond needs that,» Baskerville said
over the din when he stopped by my table.
Just a week after the move, Fried was bubbling with excitement, obvious
even over the din of 500 packages being prepped for the daily UPS shipment.
The little 3 year old girl with the brown eyes in this ocean of blue, she taps my shoulder and says it
loud over the din, «Mama?
Speaking at a
luncheon over a din of cooing, crying, breast - fed children, Satcher called for more mothers to breast - feed and for the racial and ethnic gaps to be eliminated.
They didn't even need radios: they heard my agonized
screams over the din of a busy day on the slopes with what they all agreed was unusual clarity (as did, I should mention, a gaggle of curious 9 year olds, one of whom nicely asked «is that lady ok?»
Never mind trade shows - not being Resident Evil or Street Fighter, poor old Dark Void struggles to make itself heard
over the din at Captivate.
When Bill Green was appointed superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools four years ago, the announcement was
made over the din of catcalls from an angry group in the back of a meeting room at district headquarters.
Noise and vibration are my first impressions; Niclass and I have a quick shouted
conversation over the din — we're both in agreement about giving it the berries off the line.
I thought of exploding
trees over the din of the gravel being kicked up by the 2018 Audi RS 3's 19 - inch wheels as we headed north from L.A. into Ojai on a warm fall day.
The mono - speaker is quite loud and in two separate demos, I could clearly hear the
recording over the din of a crowded room.
A couple come together through an illicit cigarette and a song
shared over the din of a Chinese restaurant.
And forget inviting more than one family over for dinner unless they don't mind
yelling over the din.
A bigger concern was the volume of the translations: it was hard for me to hear Travis convert my English questions into
Spanish over the din of CES's massive crowds, which might be a concern if you need it in similarly hard - to - hear places.
«This is the Israeli side, this is the Palestinian side,» teacher Justin Phillips explains to Sharp, speaking loudly to make himself
heard over the din of student voices.
«It makes me sad,» Reiss
says over the din of a bustling New York diner near her office.
Forced awake, the dolphins began to vigorously click with one another in an effort to
communicate over the din, the team will report next month in Marine Policy.
The Netchef is built into a very durable plastic enclosure with two giant speakers on the side, that video tutorials can heard
over the din of cooking a meal.
Lamott concluded her essay, «You are my own, and I am yours — I think this is what God is saying, or trying to,
over the din.»
But with practice, the one who has attuned their heart and mind to the voice of the Spirit can hear
it over any din and pick it out through all sorts of interference.
over the din of a crowded bar, maniacally waving your arms to get the bartender's attention — a real struggle at most bars.
Lerner says
over the din.
He probably heard us cheering two miles off,
over the din of the engines and the blades...
Shouting
over the din, kids in the pit area showed off complex transmissions, photoelectric tracking, and even inertial guidance systems on their robots.
Edo Bar - Zeev shouts to
me over the din of the motors, grinning with undisguised awe at the scene before us.
But try explaining that to someone who can't hear
you over the din of voices in his head.
If there were any whispers of human truth, they could not be heard
over the din.
Consider the students like Charlie who can not process at the same pace, the ones unable to speak up
over the din of the class, or those who want to share ideas to a point of disruption and need an outlet for their enthusiasm.
Over the din of machinery we hear another man say, «Watch his hand; he will kill you.»
One door - assembly worker, complete with his cut - off T - shirt and frayed baseball cap, tries to greet us with a friendly word, but we can't hear
him over the din of Rick Springfield's «Jessie's Girl» blaring from a nearby boom box.
Fortunately, our Cooper Coupe featured a great premium stereo that is easily loud enough to be heard
over the din, but cranking the volume really just adds to the total noise level of the cabin, which was starting to get a bit annoying by the time the JCW Coupe left the CNET garage.
«There are three,» I answered, raising my voice in order to be heard
over the din of the market.
Sometimes, the Echo had trouble hearing
me over the din, but usually the voice assistant got it right.
The collective sigh could not be heard
over the din of traffic on 42nd street.
It is part of an effort to understand what the increase in oceanic noise pollution is doing to whales who struggle to communicate with one
another over the din.