Sentences with phrase «squeaks of»

Switching to our Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 4K Blu - ray, we had less trouble with dialogue clarity, and though upper midrange sound was just a tad thin and icy at times, there were plenty of shining moments, with deft clarity in the many zips, pulses, and squeaks of the clan's spaceship and Rocket's multiple gadgets.

The car's basic structure also is 10 percent stiffer, which means there are no creaks and squeaks of the sort that distinguished previous generations of Bentleys.

It's three o'clock on a Thursday afternoon, and the school's gym reverberates with the squeals and sneaker squeaks of a dozen excited PASA kids warming up for their AfterZone tennis class.

With a soundtrack consisting of nothing but the squeaks of sneakers and slaps of flesh, Miller choreographs a primal ballet of bodies, with gentle, brotherly bear hugs evolving into brute maneuvers, until Dave is suddenly tasting blood from a hit he takes to the nose.

Pearce, meanwhile, pulls off a tricky hire - wire act of his own, keeping the film's whodunnit structure tightly screwed without lapsing too far into genre contrivance — with the many, varied screeches and squeaks of Jim Williams» terrifically rattling score lending a significant hand in this regard.

Frog - eating bats pinpoint their prey by their calls, and have evolved unique hearing that allows them to detect both the high - pitched squeaks of their echolocation system and the low - frequency sound of calling frogs.

I still remember the smell of sawdust, the glare of bare light bulbs, the squeak of metal chairs.

The sounds a dog made that we normally interpret as expressive of pain were no different from the squeaking of a door.

A one - time squeak of a condemnation is not enough.

(It may not stop the grinding, but they prefer listening to the squeak of a pacifier than teeth grinding together.)

With an Apgar of one it was silent but for the squeak of theatre crocs on the floor.

I heard the squeak of the yoga ball, punctuated by an occasional scream.

Even in the first week after an election, the Whitehall agents of the 800 lb gorilla of executive power are hard at work on the tiny but irritating squeak of the parliamentary mouse rather than fixing the broken democracy in partnership with parliament, «back to normal working» is not the slogan that will restore the reputation and capability of our democracy.

All of that earned barely a squeak of attention in the British press.

However, she was a restless, colicky baby and after a couple of sleep - deprived weeks I found the first squeak of a cry sent me into a state of flight or fight.

The director harmoniously links disparate sounds and images: the buzz of a fly or a gunshot segues into the howling whistle of a train and the squeaking of a weathervane becomes the plaintive whine of a harmonica.

The veteran Bening is typically excellent, affecting a squeak of a voice, while Bell is alternately dashing and crushing.

It's lower in pitch than the squeak of a spring suspensions.

Played with a set of headphones, you can pick up all the small pieces of gravel hitting the underside of the car, or the squeak of brakes, or even cracks and pops when you lift off.

The carbon - ceramic brakes exhibited none of the cold fade or squeaking of earlier systems, though I didn't ever really warm them up on the drive.

Up on top it was quiet, everything squashed down below us, the loudest noise the squeak of the bolts as the wind shifted our car just so.

She heard the front door open and the slap and squeak of the aluminum screen slam shut.

The squeak of the Monster Man's seat was always at odds with the quiet of the countryside, and the boys came to love the noise.

If the squeaking of the wheel is keeping you awake, use a little vegetable / olive oil to grease, and quiet, the noise.

Identifying Characteristics: Constant Squeaking of a new squeaky toy.

The cat's senses continue to record sounds and scents during up to 70 percent of sleep, so the kitty can awaken quickly at the squeak of a mouse or smell of a rat.

Have no fear, Teslagrad features not a single snippet of text or squeak of dialogue.

In 1995, he referred to the parquet surface of the fabled Boston Garden in «Sound Garden,» a flower garden and sound sculpture that audibly traced the squeak of sneakers on a basketball court.

Yet there was barely a squeak of protest from the academic establishment at the way he was howled down and defamed for having the temerity to try to set up a research group at a university.

I can just hear the squeak of the door when it's openend and the sound of it slamming shut when a child runs outside!

The kind that sits where silence is only broken by birdsong and the squeak of a porch swing.

Not exact matches

Bank of Montreal and TD Bank recently announced they just squeaked over the threshold in their first - quarter earnings results, making the Bank of Nova Scotia the only one that may still be under 7 % — the bank has yet to say where it stands.

The remaining candidates square off in the GOP and Democratic primaries after Ted Cruz came out on top of his party in Iowa and Hillary Clinton (barely) squeaked past Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

In February 2013, Dunaway, a producer of political videos, and her partner and now wife, massage therapist Naomi Gonzalez, ginned up a Kickstarter campaign for the shirts of their dreams, squeaked past their $ 75,000 funding goal, and began production.

The Pittsburgh area also saw a population decrease while the Milwaukee metropolitan area squeaked by with a gain of less than 100 people, Frey said.

After a few rate hikes in 2017, the news that the Federal Reserve is expected to raise rates in March hardly set off a ripple when the rate of inflation squeaked up 0.5 % in January.

Goodfriend's nomination squeaked out of a Senate committee on a 13 - 12 vote, with all Democrats opposed, indicating he could face difficulty winning confirmation by the full Senate.

The average family with a single earner with such job protections could probably squeak by for about 6 months on an emergency fund of about $ 6,000.

According to the National Association of Realtors, U.S. pending home sales were mostly unmoved in November 2017, but did squeak out a minor gain both on a monthly and annualized basis.

Would we not be able to squeak out a few more percentage points of return most years by developing and managing our portfolios more closely?

The North Georgia conference was suspicious of my Chicago - informed theology, but I squeaked through.

Nowhere does it discuss the mysterious but willful destruction of the mighty poetic force of the Bible and Prayer Book, which has turned the thunder and trumpets of Anglican worship into a series of squeaks and squawks, accompanied by tambourines and guitars.

And my voice shook and squeaked, and I barked out sobs a couple of times.

The voice of atheism is a tiny squeak in the screams of theism.

I slipped out of bed and followed a squeaking sound into the kitchen where I saw the old linoleum kitchen floor moving up and down with invisible foot steps.

Any strategy that depends on winning over 60 percent of the white vote in order to squeak out a popular vote victory is fatally flawed.

Everybody thinks the babies are so cute, and who wouldn't want a ball of fluff that squeaks for a pet?

Update (May 19): The United Methodist Church, under rising pressure from both sides to decide whether to allow same - sex marriage or non-celibate gay clergy, squeaked out of this year's General Conference with a decision to punt the question to a committee.

So on Sunday morning, in a great city church, folk are to be found who, amid the glorious architecture, stirring music and highly paid preaching of a metropolitan cathedral, are lonely — lonely, it may be, for a wooden meeting house on a country hillside, lighted by oil lamps, with an organ that squeaks every time the boy pumps it, and a man in the pulpit who can not preach for sour apples, but where they have friends.

In truth I usually mix the cabbage in on day two with the leftovers in my version of an English dish called «Bubble and Squeak.»