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Sentence Examples Hissing drones and cymbal crashes sweep away any memory of the former's dulcet overtones. There are metallic overtones and an accompanying percussive sound, as if something were pounding upon an electric guitar's strings. All this is described with a certain gay abandon and without any overtones of regret, yet Wright's behaviour rapidly became self-destructive. The principle is the same, but the notes become even more complex through the use of harmonic overtones and unconventional bowing. It is whackily comic with irreverent overtones and moments of quite startling seriousness. Our first reaction is enthralled delight, but then ominous overtones register. A challenge to the religious status quo carried strong political overtones, and vice versa. Though the text of 1946 has obvious political overtones, it is not yet openly polemical. I suggested at the outset that there are theological overtones to these overtly political and historical questions. Once Roma were level, that incident acquired ominous overtones retrospectively. Basically a wry comedy, it has serious overtones and philosophical implications. Those Romans had a word for everything and the meanings carried social, emotional and political overtones often as not. His vibrant paintings offer traditional scenes of Nigerian villages and tribal customs, with only a few subtle political overtones. Similarly, laws with distinctly racial overtones may have also had gendered meanings. The mystic overtones of a suffering, bearded and often bare-chested man waving wanly to onlookers gazing up at him have also struck chords. But Beijing made it clear that surveys with noncommercial overtones, such as political opinion polls, are strictly prohibited. With fragrance, the best mix balances flowers with heady scents with those with more subtle fragrant overtones. As the string continues its natural division, creating ever-higher overtones, the intervals between them become smaller and sound more dissonant. The play of light through the space has overtones of spirituality and introspection. I object to the pro-slavery overtones of the Gunmen's confederate army uniforms. Show More Sentences Further compounding the peril is the fact that this is basically a murder mystery, a whodunit with slasher overtones. Many of his paintings were large, with allegorical overtones, typically painted in a vigorous Expressionist style. She refuses to let the issue lie, especially as she feels the snub has racist overtones. There were political overtones, security risks and controversies over ambush marketing, sponsorships, contracts and what not. Perhaps the most repellant scene in the movie, it quickly takes the ugly overtones of a rape scene as he forces himself into her. These highly domesticated blossoms carry overtones of the convivial rituals of patrician social life. With unrelenting precision and distinct overtones of mockery, Tolstoy dissects the notion that men dictate events. The promotional materials presented the film strictly as a romance with no hint of its political overtones. His ideological pretensions, which justified the mass murder of political opponents, had acquired religious overtones. Contrary to their plain and simple overtones, I could imagine the dishes being used in elaborate Lucullan feasts. Styling is clean, has sporty overtones with its wedge profile, chiseled belt line and twin chrome exhaust tailpipes. The basic notes of Philip Glass's music are very few and usually surrounded by a haze of the overtones created by the damper pedal of the piano. It is quite full-bodied and has raspberry flavours with plummy, slightly spicy overtones. The traditional overtones of the image meld seamlessly with a modernist concern with abstract form. In this way Voltaire paid tribute to the moral and philosophical overtones of the Enlightenment thinkers. Although it had some religious overtones, Carnival has become a purely secular event. Some of the songs carry darker overtones with no segues to glossier and happier settings. Also refreshing are the crunchy pickled carrot sticks, with tamarind overtones that add a vivid splash of colour to the palette and palate alike. The basic notes of his music are very few and usually surrounded by a haze of the overtones created by the damper pedal of the piano. For, he told his fans to stay clear of supporting issues that had political overtones. Show More Sentences There are some antiseptic-blue overtones to it, too, and a whole spectrum of greens where the berg descends into the depths out of sight. And all is told with an almost prophetic Biblical tone, with infinite foreboding and dark overtones. Their call is a melodic yodeling similar to a wolf howl with overtones of whale song. In the 20th century, the Bluebeard story, with its savagely misogynistic overtones, fell into disfavor. Externally, this pavilion has disturbing overtones of abandoned blockhouses or military vehicles. The volume of his work is quite large, but I will mention a few that have distinct Borgesian overtones. A sprig each of borage and mint is optional but adds some pleasing herby, bosky overtones. The domestic overtones set up by endearing dolls, toys and china bric-a-brac bring this menace close to home. It contrasts with the soprano voice, which has overtones of someone more out-going than Mary. In different hands, it could have been hardcore pulp noir, with violent overtones. The animistic overtones of the book, and its intimations of love and death, made a deep impression. The choreography of the exercises slowly appears to take on non-naturalistic overtones, hinting at the possibility that they might be stylized. The original lyrics were swapped with political overtones that sang paeans of the political party. This attitude towards his superiors would be mere insolence if it did not have political overtones. Certainly, for the rural Sundanese, modernity carries overtones of urbanisation, Westernisation, and corruption. A few of the songs from his early period hold up remarkably well, usually those without the overt political overtones. His world was deeply imbued in a Calvinist orthodoxy that was to take on sectarian overtones. Christmas shopping, an activity rife with tragic overtones, is a case in point. But less than a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, it is hard not to find political overtones in virtually everything the president says and does. It's a movie with very strong spiritual undertones and overtones. Show More Sentences One, with strongly racist overtones, links three disparate elements. It has overtones of early 90s trancey San Francisco breakbeat house, a sound made famous by the Hardkiss Brothers and Wicked Crew. Digital processing morphs the clarinet's mournful tones into deep sinewave swoops, zooms in on the crackle of spit on the reed or squeezes out didgeridoo-like overtones. But as he goes on, this idea tends to take on worrisomely subversive overtones as he tries to make the case that it's essentially tricking people into learning. What seemed to be an old political rivalry took on ethnic overtones, with the very survival of entire communities now at stake. The beer segment is especially funny with its blatant sexist overtones. The young who are not gnarled and knocked around by the old fights are tired of the overtones of special pleading. With spiritual overtones, and an emphasis on an eternal struggle between equally matched forces of darkness and light, the films suggest a kind of pop-culture Manichaeism. Their first impact is to bring an aroma of balsam wood, but when they break down they create the lovely vanilla and cinnamon overtones detectable in some brandies. His play on the word bunyip, with its overtones of anachronistic absurdity, reflected the refusal by Australians to institutionalise an upper class. The bell has tolled, the crow has cawed in ominous overtones, there's been a dark and stormy night, and now finally we know the results of the election. The Chamber Symphony from 1967 is definitely a massive leap forward and here one can sense the deep atonal overtones that lie behind the heart of the music. The fundamental and its overtones are set into vibration very quickly, and it would take someone with a very keen aural sense to hear all of these tones separately. This show also had a lot of racist undertones and overtones. But I don't think it has had big political ramifications or overtones. This picture, stripped of its moral overtones and exaggeration, is an essentially accurate portrayal of the modally different work motivations of miners and surfacemen. The transaction carries overtones of moves to reduce the autonomy of rural African Americans with the debt peonage of sharecropping or exploitation in industrial mills. String tension has increased to the extent that strings are almost as rigid as metal bars, and sharing some of the same inharmonicity of overtones. If cosmetic, commercial reality has found favour, spare a thought for those playwrights who have taken the people's idiom and heightened it with poetic overtones. Being a purple foliage lover, I am also fascinated by the deep purples and purples with slate blue overtones that have been developed in the flower colors. Show More Sentences Wilson Nimmo played the hero Hamish the Hamster, with overtones of Jamesie Cottar from Rab C Nesbitt, to hilarious effect. The tritare generates not only those harmonic overtones but also nonharmonic ones, he says. Today, this name is seen by some as carrying imperialist overtones although it is still commonly used. Another dimension of the French civil religion is secularism, what French call laicite, with its overtones of anticlericalism. In the NIR region, the overtones are anharmonic, impeding interpretation of the NIR spectra. The story of Laozi has taken on strong religious overtones since the Han dynasty. The word Viking was introduced into Modern English during the 18th century, at which point it frequently acquired romanticized heroic overtones. But this fly-on-the-wall study of teenage outsiderdom gradually takes on darker overtones. The philosophy presupposed by and guiding this mode of team operation has strong progressivistic or even anarchistic overtones. Boyish back-room rhythmic rivalries with political overtones have yielded to opulently escapist floor shows. This genre coexists with other developments in Nordic art and is not without interest, but it can have traditionalist or escapist overtones. Bright blueberries lend tangy sweetness to the theine-free red tea, which has overtones of crunchy nashi fruit. Yet rather than mitigating Burckhardt's verdict, Karsten fully embraces it, minus the former's moralistic overtones. Yet again the imagery of manual work has Trollopian overtones. As the British viewed American popular culture imagery from a somewhat removed perspective, their views were often instilled with romantic, sentimental and humorous overtones. The graph in either form appears as a waveform with overtones. Hamlet is often played with contemporary political overtones. The term African American carries important political overtones. Italian and French influences increased at the beginning of the 19th century with strong eclectic overtones that gave the local architecture a unique feeling. The Vietnam problem was not one of repelling overt invasion but of mixing ourselves up in a revolutionary situation with strong anticolonialist overtones. Show More Sentences However, with the main courses, a creamy homestyle chicken curry with coconut overtones and the divine lamb kurumelagu more than made up for a small flaw. Many noted that the drinks had weird, chemical flavor overtones and aftertastes, tasted like sweetened condensed milk, lacked coffee flavor and were not hot enough. Examples from Classical Literature It is left to the teacher to explain, by the ratios found in the overtones of the harmonic series, the validity of this statement. The presence of these overtones may often be detected by the sympathetic vibration of other wires near-by. This difference in the timbre is due to harmonics or overtones. A refreshing wheat beer with astringent bitter lemon overtones. Forced into a snow drift by another car when they turn off the highway down a lonely road, they face a freezing night together with ghostly overtones. But these trees go much further, triggering an edgy, Seuss-like assault on conservative social values with high Hegelian overtones of the Fall of Man. The riots of 12-13 germinal III had threatening sansculottes overtones, which inspired the Convention to abandon its procedural scruples and simply to decree retribution. Find more words! 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