Are we actually supposed to take sabbaticals to search through their turgid cacophonies for a melody? ❋ Unknown (2011)
Why, there are gibbering morons and jabbering blowhards, ersatz culture and artificial cacophonies, bleats of commerce and compulsations of advertisers! ❋ Splogman (2010)
In eighteenth-century England and Revolutionary France, the masks, indecent parodies, musical cacophonies and outlandish costumes of street festivals often provided a convenient cover for insurrectionary activities. ❋ As'ad (2007)
Important issues are often not heard or discussed because of these unpleasant cacophonies of cynicism and negativism. ❋ News From Mad Plato (2007)
Dizzying surges in the ears, biting smells, ringing cacophonies of elusive patterns, queasy perturbations of the inner organs -- a Trainee had to know how these might convey meaning. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A maelstrom of noise surrounded him: persuasive, singsong arguments of merchants, loud cries of outrage from overcharged cus'tomers, background cacophonies from minstrels and flutists, even sporadic clangs of daggers against shields or gauntlets. ❋ Niles, Douglas (1993)
Colored lights and cacophonies whirled around Foyle. ❋ Bester, Alfred (1956)
They were regarded as hopeless lowbrows by Mackay and Bradley, who indulged in astringent chamber music and atonal cacophonies of which no one else could make head or tail, or indeed particularly desired to. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1951)
Out of the cacophonies of the place issued, sausage fashion, a half-million papers daily, holding up from hour to hour to the city the blurred mirrors of the newspaper columns alive with the almost humorous images of an unending calamity. ❋ Ben Hecht (1929)
His screams, his grunts, his discords, and harsh jarring cacophonies were an outrage to the very name of music. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst significant amendments have been listed below: p. 79, 'cacophanies' amended to _cacophonies_; p. 102, 'Pantelic' amended to _Pentelic_; p. 113, 'Septimus' amended to _Septimius_; p. 144, 'Sava' amended to _Saba_; p. 206, 'wagons' amended to _waggons_. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
This became clear in Glasgow as the band whose mainstream success was built on slick synth singles waged atonal warfare on the audience in periodic cacophonies of noise. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And Larkin had been complaining about jazz being over - not from when Coltrane started ruining it with his "cobra-coaxing cacophonies" but from the moment it got to be truly great: with Charlie Parker who Larkin blamed, along with those other famous Ps (Pound and Picasso) for destroying poetry and art respectively. ❋ Singularity (2010)
With layers of melodies ringing through each track, the steady drumming is rendered obsolete, merely providing the illusion that the music is neatly crafted pop hits rather than cacophonies of debilitating sound that's associated with their earlier garage-rock infused releases. ❋ Samuel Breen (2010)
The economic news was smothered by that most American of cacophonies - the race tempest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Speakers are one way, but those, of course, would lead to cacophonies in closed spaces such as buses. ❋ Unknown (2010)
