It's also not very sexy getting your boyfriend to pop over and syringe your ears on his way to the airport — he headed to Tokyo last night for work — but it's sooooo blissful not to be struggling to hear the world
through a muffled haze.
Think me insensitive, call me a jerk, but some of my dearest companions have ridden on radial tires and many of my best comrades have spoken to
me through the muffled tones of a high - performance exhaust system; they have been there when I needed a therapeutic release, gently cradling me in steel, leather, and even vinyl, as they reluctantly accepted my advances.
The sound design shines here,
through muffled conversations in adjacent rooms and all manner of crashes and bangs as these interlopers abuse her house and her hard work.
Crucial plot points emanate
through muffled voice recordings on cassette tapes, and our imagination is allowed to run away from us.
And what it can't eliminate
through muffling it will drown out through sounds played through built - in speakers.
Not exact matches
Among those gathered here in her modem voice (
through scriptural images, verbal echoes, parallel situations) are women whose stories have been
muffled in the Bible's tradition — Hagar, Bilhah, Zilpah, Mary, the Lord's «handmaiden,» Sarah, Rachel, Leah, Rebekkah, Ruth, Puah and Shiphrah (the Hebrew midwives in Egypt), Jael, Jephthah's daughter, the «Jezebel» of Revelation, and other, unnamed ancestresses, «missing persons without textual authority.
The executioner, enveloped in a black robe from head to foot, with his eyes glaring at his victim
through holes cut in the hood which
muffled his face, practised successively all the forms of torture which the devilish ingenuity of the monk had invented.
«Mmmm,» he
muffled through a half - full mouth, «One of my favorite cakes.»
In either case, having a good Bluetooth speaker means they can listen to music that actually sounds good... not
muffled through their laptop or phone speaker.
Hang thicker drapes that
muffle some of the noise you may hear
through your windows (even while closed).
White Noise In the womb, the steady sound of your heartbeat and the
muffled noise of the blood rushing
through your body provided a perfect blend of white noise to lull your baby.
Major milestones: In month four, your baby will have had a fully functional intestinal system in place, has taste buds, is able to hear the
muffled sound of your voice, and will be able to begin producing its own red blood cells
through their tiny new spleen
Whatever Mr. Spitzer thinks and says will be viewed
through the opaque spectacles and
muffled hearing aides of those that are often clamoring for imagined intellect over demonstrated elitist behavior.
While most blackout curtains
muffle sound, the pair I got, from a brand called moondream has an extra layer to really reduce the decibels that come
through the window.
There's one good sequence in «Prey at Night»: Silent Leatherface in Burlap tries to murder Kinsey's brother in a swimming pool, and the director, Johannes Roberts, shoots the works in an effective way, the blood spreading
through the water, the camera cutting to below the water's surface, then back up and down again, with «Total Eclipse of the Heart» in sync, popping from the soundtrack foreground to the
muffled background.
The metallic creak of the cable as Petit walks; the rustle and hiss of wind passing over his clothes and
through his hair; the
muffled sound of traffic noises floating up from 110 stories below: «The Walk» makes these and other sensations palpable, along with Petit's delight, defiance and moments of doubt and fear.
That's why Caveman Warriors is best played with others,
muffled laughter carrying you
through the experience as you rally around to topple Undine, Lodrack, Cavernator v2.0, and the game's many other bosses.
By contrast, the 5.1 DTS - HD MA track is nearly criminal,
muffling front - channel dialogue yet blowing out the carnage and Danny Elfman's (apropos) score
through all speakers.
Donovan's ballads come
through all right in DD 1.0 mono, though dialogue is usually pretty
muffled.
As good as the i8's engine noise sounded, BMW apparently pipes its normally
muffled note into the cabin
through the audio system.
During the test drive
through Napa, the Accord Hybrid's engine spun up to a noticeable rpm but in a restrained and quiet manner no doubt helped out by the car's active noise cancellation system that generates sounds that
muffle the engine revs in both the conventional and hybrid models.
Afterward, he switched off the electric light, closed the door of the luxury cabin behind him, and attempted to sway with the gentle roll of the huge vessel as he walked across the thick carpet that
muffled the distant thrum of engines propelling the ship
through the Atlantic night.
Calls route
through your iPad when they come in, but the sound quality is
muffled and noticeably inferior.
They convey their message
through imagery, text, symbolism, and to instill a sense of hope, and history,
through creative expression which unfortunately in many inner city communities, is
muffled and sometimes oppressed.
Heart sounds in this condition tend to be
muffled and the raspy noise of air passing
through fluid - filled lungs is often audible.
Through the Mother's Comfort Project, Rational Animal provides comfy homemade beds for animals to curl - up in and
muffle the noise.
The nocturnal wasteland has you traversing
through overgrown woods filled with
muffled cries of strange inhabitants.
They convey their message
through imagery, text, symbolism, and to instill a sense of hope, and history,
through creative expression which unfortunately in many inner city communities, is
muffled and sometimes oppressed.
Noise cancellation
through the earcup padding isn't great, but there's enough to
muffle the sounds of life passing you by.
Muffled screams echo
through the metal tunnel.
When a blizzard moves in, sounds are
muffled with the occasional sniper shot ringing out
through the wind.
Your shifty undertakings are further enhanced by classical stealth elements long gone from modern games — such as
muffling the noise by jumping on a carpet when dropping from heights — along with slightly more present ones, like looking
through keyholes or hiding bodies in containers.
Moving on to 1954 and the low - keyed eighth painting in the series (now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York)-- greys, blues,
muffled yellows on a surface just over six feet high by three and a half feet wide, a motor metropolis of tightly curving ramps with headlight beams spreading like stains suggest a vision, slightly smudged, as if seen
through the thick glass window of a skyscraper; at any rate remote from the scene of automotive nightmare.
In the early morning hours the artist recorded an exterior scene
through the security bars of a window, capturing in real - time the gradual emergence of predawn light amidst intermittent rain showers,
muffled thunderclaps and the irregular green flickering of a nearby security floodlight.
The 4th and 5th harmonics come
through as
muffled, as typical of high frequencies passing
through a thick mechanical barrier.
They convey their message
through imagery, text, symbolism, and to instill a sense of hope, and history,
through creative expression which unfortunately in many inner city communities, is
muffled and sometimes oppressed.
Most headsets leave people sounding
muffled, or like it's coming
through an antique telephone.
The person receiving the call noted that with the new Echo, the voice sound coming
through appeared to be a bit more
muffled.
When it's sitting on a surface, the audio is
muffled to some extent, but there's enough piercing volume to punch up
through the keyboard area.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick drum loop gets enough high - mid presence to cut
through the layers of the mix, but again, it sounds far more crisp when aligned with your ears, and a little
muffled when not.
There was never a time where I felt like something was
muffled or overbearing that it overshadowed other sounds going
through the headset.
They convey their message
through imagery, text, symbolism, and to instill a sense of hope, and history,
through creative expression which unfortunately in many inner city communities, is
muffled and sometimes oppressed.