So an office at that end of the building is a definite no-no as the droning hum could drive me mad.
She pointed to the west where the droning sound of engines was now unmistakeable.
I love better to fly a hawk at a heron, or to crush a cup with a friend, than. listen to their droning chants and their dull sermons.
The droning wail of air raid sirens drives the citizens of Tokyo into bomb shelters or into the surrounding countryside.
A blip of noise signals contact, then a low, droning hiss fills the speakers before the music begins.
Synth notes bob, bend and warble, producing a strange, droning, Doppler effect, whizzing past the listener like vehicles on a Tron superhighway.
Before being shown into a shed, I could hear the miserable monotonous droning, or pecking noises of the birds.
His droning slacker voice and bizarre lyrics were present, but where were the interweaving guitars?
As you might expect there's a droning baritone banjo, playing drawn out notes over a deeper, more stable cello.
After Olos had gone, she sank into a deep, much-needed sleep, un-plagued by dreams of oily brown clouds and droning.
They should bring to life the droning intonations and cadential prolongation his music shares with the undulating rhythms of Russian prayer.
Our regular priest was on vacation and the fill-in had the voice of droning bees.
She didn't bother wasting her breath on droning polite words to sound sophisticated.
No droning or monotonous lectures, the professor's job is to lead and move the discussion.
The droning of its wingstrokes as it flitted from flower to flower fell upon the ear as a token of content.
Syncopated staccato accents gradually drop into place on top of an extended droning chord.
Yanking down the sleeves of my jumper until they covered my hands, I turned back to my teacher, droning on about cell structure.
Women's bell-like tittering and men's droning passiveness filled the void my nervousness made.
The two of them spoke in a droning monotone, as if talking about municipal zoning ordinances.
Convinced that she was indeed taking notes, Mr. Hawthorn continued droning on about the Samurai warriors.
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Any dramatic or emotional impact is, however, entirely nullified by the catatonic acting, anaesthetic direction and droning musical score.
The men were droning at each other in their Greek-inflected patois, or singing through their noses to the accompaniment of a flute out of tune.
When we entered the Wat around lunch time, we were struck by the droning chant of a large group of monks prior to their midday meal.
There is a harsh, lonely element that runs through much of the IAS material, droning passages, a juxtaposition of numerable repetitious melodies.
He imagines himself channelling vast cosmic forces through his droning feedback guitar.
There was a buzz as of a bee droning in the distance, and I felt my consciousness fading away.
This droning bass continues until the end of the exposition, interrupted only by two modulating outbursts of increasing urgency.
A site begins to look droning without scheduled updating, new content and regular maintenance.
Crowds gasped as the team of seven leapt from a droning Hercules 3,000 feet above them, while youngsters rushed for autographs from the jumping daredevils.
Then the speakers seem to come alive with demented directional droning.
For the first chorus, everything stays as before except a droning organ drops in on the left channel, the autoharp plays changes, and the synth gets detuned slightly.
There are bumble bees buzzing and droning around my spring flowers.
Simply add some sugary water, hang it up somewhere, for example in a tree, and those droning insects will soon find their own way to it!
Many a schoolchild has been lulled to sleep by the droning voices at the Comédie-Française.
Probably not – and some former politicos droning on self-importantly would be more enraging than others, but that's not the point.
When fringe theatre gets parodied, the image is often a lone actor droning on about some hobbyhorse subject.
A dense fog gathered and unseen aeroplanes droning above drowned out the noise of the tanks that would support the infantry.
Nothing turns an audience off more completely than the featureless droning of a voice speaking in monotone.
Rain and snow fell on my face as I heard the aircraft droning overhead searching for me.
Mrs. Flaunders sends her a nasty look and continues droning on.
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The silence after the constant droning from the generator during the day is like a big gulp of cold water slaking thirst.
You will not find restaurants or shops in Martherenges, only a great peace and quiet, sometimes altered by the droning noise of a few tractors.
I lazily dropped the envelopes to my side on the couch and sat back with a hopeless sigh, staring directly at the droning television, not regarding anything happening on it.
He stopped his droning speeches and adopted a feisty, homey style answering questions on the tours.
Sort of a double life, like this Bob character you were droning on about earlier.
He saw the soldiers and the land-girls, the silver sausage shapes of the barrage balloons in the sky, the occasional flight of marauder or defender aeroplanes droning aloft.
I'm weary of his monotone droning as he reads yet another story of yet another hapless, submissive male being dominated by yet another psychotic nympho.
Mr Johnson's very unChurchillian but winningly colloquial style, for example, makes Mr Brown's droning automation sound even worse even if Mr Johnson deploys it in the prime minister's defence.
It's a lot harder to write music and to get more melodic and try to actually have songs within those heavy, droning, angstful power chords.
Mr Brown honed his droning, attritional approach to economic chat in a different job and in different times: during a boom, when voters were complacently content to be bored by their seemingly alchemic chancellor.
And in a world overrun with droning dance clones, it's refreshing to hear abrupt time-signature changes.
The different notes will create a harmonic droning noise from across the pentatonic scale.
But I am not looking forward to her droning on with that stuped mid-Atlantic accent she puts on for the cameras.
Their frenetic flights to and from their macabre honeycomb, and their loud heavy droning, put me off from my first instinct to close the lid and push him back into his grave with a quick, stingless blessing.
Yet in the distance beckons the droning and whining of the racing cars as they receive a last-minute fine-tuning from the mechanics before the race starts.
Active noise reduction technology in stereophones creates an invisible shield between the listener and the droning sounds of the world by stopping low frequency noise before it reaches the ears.
When confronted with the term speech synthesis, everyone, without meaning to, thinks about the monotonic droning voice from the computer or android in the old science fiction films.
You had one simple droning B note running through your last album Le Fil, but the striking difference this time round is that the arrangements are polyphonic?
A dense slab of droning funk, it saw Shaun and Kermit looping it's vocal refrain over the top as the band spiralled off.
He remembers the sad, droning sound of a blowhorn from a dredge barge, a plea for help as it was swept out to sea.
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At least, until they start droning on about those boring numbers again.
The tour guide walked backwards while droning on to the bored seniors.
Even beer swillers are starting to Goolden, trying to justify their hobby by droning on about maltiness, yeastiness, hoppiness, and the creaminess of the head.

Omnipotence of droning, edged with shrieky squealing, which fills the Universe, not at all in a melodious way.
Over there a formation of A flight, umpty Squadron, will perhaps be droning back from a hundred-mile reconnaissance.
Jed, absorbed in his work and droning a hymn, apparently forgot all about his caller.
Over the droning of the hymn she caught the sound of a horse's hoofs on the road.
Naught was heard save the droning of the students and the sough of the wind in the forest.
It was the animal in the desert droning and purring to itself in excess of ease.
The droning hum of the helicopter came across the broken ground.
Then the droning voice of the Puritan minister greeted them.
I heard them droning out their death-psalms, little judging they were sung in respect for my soul by those who were thus famishing my body.
It was droning like a harmonium with the flies and bluebottles, and the floor and walls were like a slaughter-house.
The bees were droning among the nasturtiums and convolvulus.
Jed still sat there gazing at vacancy and droning, dolefully.
Even the droning of the worrying mosquitoes had no power to disturb him.
It came droning, droning up the forty-odd thousand miles from the planet.
Through the rumble of omnibuses, and the clatter of street-cabs, he could hear the droning voice devouring each minute that was left to him.
Then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise.
The discordant tones of the voices and instruments drew nearer, and now droning songs mingled with the sound of the tambourines and cymbals.
I was reading that everlasting Belsham, and droning away as I always do, for Aunt soon drops off, and then I take out some nice book, and read like fury till she wakes up.
As the opening credits roll, Karen O sings a droning cover of the 1980s hit Obsession over a grainy montage featuring dancers and a lot of flying red chalk.
That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
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Someone was singing, a dull, old, droning sailor's song, with a droop and a quaver at the end of every verse, and seemingly no end to it at all but the patience of the singer.

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