Sentences with word «roomful»

Two sources here are certain: the deeply masked vocals of Caroline Shaw, the Pulitzer - winning composer and singer in Roomful of Teeth, and those of Olga Bell, keyboardist / vocalist of the Brooklyn band Dirty Projectors.

The desire to understand one voice in roomful of chatter has been dubbed the «cocktail party problem.»

Entering a large roomful of works by Tony Cragg or Joseph Beuys, for example, one finds the works on view so absorbing in themselves that their curatorial purpose fades.

She has tracked down his other works from the early 1900s, including roomfuls of furniture carved for American industrialists.

Traversing the long walkway that leads to the Sol LeWitt wall drawings exhibition, you hear disembodied voices (recordings of the eight - member vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth) singing in brief harmonies (thirds and fifths), and holding sustained microtones.

Once the mission in confirmed, Piper and her squad board the enemy ship and engage several roomfuls of armed robots.

And because New York teems with people who love baseball but refuse to pledge allegiance to the Yankee pennant, Allen's «objective but pro-Yankee» broadcasts can turn a ruly roomful of people into a hating, shouting, blaspheming mob.

Meanwhile, those candidates who have amassed roomfuls of well - paid online experts have frequently found themselves buffeted or embarrassed (or sometimes both at once) by mysterious forces outside their grasp.

By Sean Ryan A roomful of people who spoke in harmony about the need for more transportation money broke into discord while sharing ideas about how to get it.

So far, quantum computing researchers have managed to carry out a few simple logic operations in the quantum regime, but that has typically required roomfuls of lasers, magnets, or other control equipment.

The callow sophisticate, passing afternoons in Paris museums amid roomfuls of Ming vases or dinosaur pelvises, might guess that a ball of twine, however large, could have only limited public appeal.

«[Before Amazing Spider - Man], they sat me down in Amy Pascal's office with this big roomful of producers and writers and directors, and she looked at me and said «Organic webshooters or mechanical webshooters?»

Just keep a little distance, and seriously, use the wrist straps, unless you want to be replacing an entire roomful of furniture.

Additional recital programs include the Grammy Award - winning Roomful of Teeth in a performance exploring vocal music of the 21st century, and a recital by the JACK Quartet performing the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize - winning composer Roger Reynolds» FLiGHT.

A shift in the wind, of sorts, occurred in the wake of «Turner: Imagination and Reality,» an exhibition organized by Lawrence Gowing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1966, which tendentiously presented roomfuls of paintings and watercolors mainly from the 1830s and»40s, the final decades of Turner's career.

There are the familiar roomfuls of works by Clyfford Still and Paul Klee.

In his nationwide Show Me Your Data And I'll Tell You Who You Are lecture tour last year, Dr Brian McNamee, also of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, treated roomfuls of people around the country to live demonstrations of how audience members» unsettling personal data could be used by interlopers of all kinds, from commercial enterprises to national security agencies.

«Ronald Bladen: Selected Works» — organized by Alanna Heiss for the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens — includes four of Bladen's full - size works and a large roomful of smaller studies and models.

A week later, the 8th Annual -LCB- Re -RCB- HAPPENING will be held on March 31st at the historic Lake Eden Campus, featuring the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and dozens of installations and performances from local and national artists.

Last month, I spoke on two different career panels to roomfuls of young scientists.

«I have five kids,» he recently told a roomful of new hires.

If you walk into a roomful of tech hopefuls in Silicon Valley and tell them that, many would stare blankly back at you.

It turned out to be a roomful of arguing Trumps, spouting verbatim the contradictory statements he has made on issues like abortion, the minimum wage and nuclear proliferation.

Microsoft's CEO recently told a roomful of women that asking for a raise isn't the best way to get ahead.

Charan fielded questions from a roomful of worldwide CEOs Tuesday morning at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco.

Quiet, soft - featured, and ordinary looking, he is the kind of person who can get lost in a roomful of people and who seems to take up less space than his large frame would suggest.

The previous day, he had introduced himself to a roomful of potential customers in the hotel as the new London head of a foreign currency trading platform whose website offered very high returns.

Ask a roomful of high - achieving, top - college graduates to find potential new coworkers, and they'll likely deliver a binder full of candidates who look like themselves.

His address to a roomful of American and Chinese business executives was designed to soothe industry, especially the high - tech sector, though it remains to be seen how seriously the Obama administration takes Xi's comments.

When he asks a roomful of college students how many of them want to run their own businesses, often almost every hand in the room goes up.

In the film's final scene, Belfort — now a motivational speaker, having escaped with the mildest of penalties — addresses a roomful of wannabe entrepreneurs.

A disoriented Jarvis was pulled into a roomful of anxious faces and handed a sheaf of printed pages.

Pitching an idea to a roomful of investors can be tricky; while preparing a pitch for an online forum is not easy, it does require a different set of skills — perhaps this is an area where you and your business idea shine.

This was the story I was telling a roomful of aspiring entrepreneurs and tech founders at a conference recently.

He even made the front page of the prestigious Financial Times in London with a picture of himself taking a selfie with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and a roomful of students.

It was a useful reminder that Zuckerberg is the real star in this roomful of powerful elders.

He recently told a roomful of fashion - design students that he regards his lack of formal training as a strength.

In June, Mr. Schneider returned to the United States to host a symposium with a roomful of bankers and venture capitalists, a vivid demonstration that private space investment has reached a tipping point of credibility.

Kevin was generous enough to share his experiences in the trenches, both as a seasoned operator and proven investor, and he left this roomful of aspiring founders with some pearls of wisdom on the value of staying nimble and not getting bogged down by a specific vision.

The women who started the movement agreed that when it came to being a victim of rape, there was no distinction between religion or ethnicity: If a man came into a roomful of women with the intention to rape, he would not discriminate among his victims based on religious or ethnic grounds.

Did it ever occur to Goldberg that a roomful of journalists might benefit from being asked to tolerate a member of their outgroup?

Do you really trust a roomful of powerful men to tell you how to live your life?

As I read, I often felt I was eavesdropping on a pajama party sleepover conversation where a twenty - something woman answered questions from a roomful of teenage girls.

Mom had identified the stunning irony of a roomful of professional, educated women critiquing the very movement that made their careers, their choices, and perhaps even this conference possible.

There was a moment in the middle of my reading at the release party when I hit the line ``... because you matter» and I remember lifting up my eyes and seeing a roomful of you, all of you, looking straight back at me, so beautiful and present, and I nearly burst into tears at the sight of you.

In April, the head of the Population Division, Hania Zlotnik, repeatedly told a roomful of delegates to the Commission on Population and Development, «Smaller families live better.»

Before the teacher was done, she told a roomful of alternately jeering and frightened public school students that Jesus Christ impregnated Mary Magdalene just before his crucifixion.

A roomful of foodies, briefcases stuffed with 50 - cents worth of lentils — sponsor heaven.