Sevenths

The Leafs also added a fourth-round pick, a fifth and two sevenths. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Keller Williams included many Young songs in his sets when he was starting out, no doubt attracted to the composer's use of simple folk chords and wistful major sevenths. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2011)

Gulfport's steady march north from the coast, which accelerated after Katrina and Rita ravaged the old city center, has been so pervasive that Evans says there are three Waffle Houses within five-sevenths of a mile of his house. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the famous "Tempo Blues" theme at the center of the work, the ex-pat's melancholy (Gershwin indicated "Drunk" on one draft), echoes the opening; the keening long note gives way to another series of disjunct intervals, a tumbling of sixths and sevenths: ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

It's a simple, understated lyric, and because Webb wraps the emotion in the language of work and everyday things, it comes out all the more powerfully, especially when grafted to a melody that somehow manages to be subtle (all those minor sevenths) and bighearted all at once. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Minors, sevenths, diminished, and other exotic chords that needed more than one finger to make were a challenge. ❋ Tommy James (2010)

Totals: Traded 1 player and 18 picks (2 second, 4 thirds, 5 fourths, 2 fifths, 1 sixth, 3 sevenths) for 14 players. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You know, he likes those strange sixths and major seconds and sevenths that I already got tired of along time ago. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But even then I missed the metacognitive piece, except with the sevenths...we always nailed the sevenths. ❋ Darren Kuropatwa (2009)

I take it back: Next year, there will be Halloween in the Hollywood Division I had erroneously convinced myself that Hollywood Division has Halloween only five-sevenths of the time rather than six-sevenths. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By objective measure, this one adds up to four-sevenths of that one, given that four prominent members of the college of cardinals have disappeared during a conclave to elect a new pope. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For every $1 of toxic assets that they buy from the banks, the FDIC will lend up to 85.7 cents (six-sevenths of $1), and the Treasury and private investors will each put in 7.15 cents in equity to cover the remaining balance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So to answer your question, can a white man play jazz, I'd answer, sure, he can play polyrhythms and swinging sevenths, but race has long played a role in who'd hear it and, more importantly, whether what they heard was jazz. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's a comedy and it doesn't start off with blasting diminished sevenths I think, which makes the Commendatore's entrance music so interesting since it repeats the overture, more or less: We find out that, as Eliot might have said, "In Giovanni's beginning is his end." ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2008)