But today it's mainly clunking prose that makes me want to weep.
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Mrs Clinton was a clunking candidate who—disastrously—took the Midwest for granted.
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Customers complained their dogs made a "clunking" sound when they walked or sat down.
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" And B of the Bang was a "monstrous and clunking expression of a slight idea.
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Of all the things to put up with, that would be too much: the persistent clunking.
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Barring a few clunking instances of cartoonish satire, Ms. Bonney's production is as harrowing as it is witty.
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But the clunking gear changes between two metrical forms make it hard to build up a rhythm in either.
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"The entire machine structure shifts its weight, radically, and that used to cause this big clunking noise," Mr. Gelb explained.
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What it does have is a sliver of a button tucked behind the scroll wheel that makes a pleasant clunking sound when pushed.
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That's not for me—I like a big brawler, clunking and donking his way around the screen, swatting puny opponents out of the air.
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The clunking dread of the door dog is this: This isn't even the freakiest and most advanced robot you will see in your lifetime.
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I'm sharply aware of everything around me—the wind gently shaking the blinds, the clunking of the pipes, people laughing or crying in rooms nearby.
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The arrangements utilize the clunking, heavy-breathing focal points of a contrabass clarinet, rigged up with his signature contact microphones instead of the original's drifting strings.
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Clunking my way through the turnstile, I saw the dreaded green "DELAY" flashing on the monitor, and I spun around to make a run for the bus.
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As Sam points out, Bran has an objective and unlimited archive of Westeros' history and future—and who knows what else might be clunking around in his brain.
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You try standing on your knees below a regulation-sized rim, and clunking a basketball into it using only your big dumb head with any kind of proficiency.
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"The robot often has symptoms that are kind of confusing," says Sarah Coe, a lead on the forensics team, over the faint clunking of trash from the playpen nearby.
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But the pitching, predictably, has been exactly as terrible as expected, clunking along to the tune of a 5.14 ERA for Baltimore's starters, the second-worst mark in the American League.
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"I am jush here becaush my girlfriend wash feeling quite shick, so I came here to find hurr," he says, his Dutch accent clunking as solidly as a pair of clogs.
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I heft my Bessandra again, as if she might feel heavier or have loose parts clunking around inside her all of a sudden, now that I know she's a synthetic android.
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And yet, because of the creaking, clunking nature of British law, it is still impossible (or illegal, at least) for me to write down the name of the individual who has taken it out.
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Metal debris inside the piping was propelled along at speed, damaging equipment and producing "very loud clunking noises" which prompted operators to initiate emergency shutdown procedures, according to one worker and corroborated by AMWU's McCartney.
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For example, grinding or clunking noises coming from the computer's internal drive have traditionally been signs that your system was about to go south (or at least needed investigation) and that new equipment might be on the horizon.
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The novel is not clunking around with the literary halo of high advances and M.F.A. pedigree and overthought adjectives, but it's a brutal story about loneliness in this hyperactive social media age that was bursting to be told.
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Mor Spirit Trainer: Bob Baffert Jockey: Gary Stevens Record: 7-3-4-0 Points: 84 Odds: 11-33 J.D.: This Pennsylvania-bred colt is as steady as they come, but he looked ordinary clunking up for second in the Santa Anita Derby.
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Mor Spirit Trainer: Bob Baffert Jockey: Gary Stevens Record: 7-3-63-0 Points: 84 Odds: 11-1 J.D.: This Pennsylvania-bred colt is as steady as they come, but he looked ordinary clunking up for second in the Santa Anita Derby.
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The colt named Destin had broken poorly that day and was roughed up early in the race, and Creator, who had closed like a freight train in the Arkansas Derby, barely lifted a hoof in Kentucky, clunking down the track as if wearing concrete shoes.
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But just above the tracking-induced grinding of my teeth, I can hear a pleasant sound at home: the reassuring droning and clunking sound of a robot butler, smart enough to make my floors slightly cleaner but far too stupid to do anything else.
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At the reception, Mr. Perez serenaded his bride with a song called "Cecilie" that he wrote for her: And you changed my life forever After kissing in the park 'Cause every time that we are together You are the light in the dark He left out the part about the clunking teeth.
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It was an evocation through revenants, ghosts, of how memories of the Holocaust went on pulsing through the present, like the slow ripples of the river on which one Polish interviewee rowed and sang a Prussian song; or like the laboured clunking of a train in which an old railwayman stood, remembering how he had drunk vodka to mask the smell of burning bodies; or the rote recitation of railway stations by the German who ran the Department of Special Trains, still proud of ensuring that they got to Treblinka in time.
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You have to work to live, and you can only afford to live far away from work because of complicated machinations designed by hands unseen and an unfair structure that necessitates this and the fact that your work don't pay you enough anyway (whatever your work pays you is not enough, this is a fact that is true about broadly everyone), and all this time you spend clunking to and from work every day is eating into your sanity and your spare time, and no matter how far you are from work the reality of the commute is a constant within it – you know how you went for a couple of pints after work to avoid the packed commuter train home and now here you are, half-pissed in Liverpool Street station and desperately eating a pasty because you know you'll get in too late to have dinner?
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Written by Halsey, Jasper Sheff and Johnathan Carter Cunnigham, "Clementine" is a "stripped-back track, driven by simple piano tinkling and some subtle clunking for percussion". Halsey released the song on her twenty-fifth birthday.
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Too small to stay up, too big to stay down, Leicester are instead the ultimate ballcock team, clunking up and down between the divisions with reassuring regularity, an inbetweener club in a city on the way to somewhere else.
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Capuchins communicate making short and frequent yipping whines similar to a newborn pup. When in danger, they emit a two-toned clunking noise. Many of the noises Capuchins make are similar to bird sounds. They also communicate through chemical signals to express territory boundaries as well as during mating rituals.
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Tom Young of BBC wrote that the track "stumbles awkwardly" owing to the sample of "Standing in the Way of Control". A writer from The Scotsman criticised it as substandard, noting its "clunking sexual imagery" and "bewildering observation" in the middle eight. Entertainment Ireland critic Lauren Murphy dismissed the song as "garden-variety pop" and wrote that it suggests the Sugababes "may be losing their magic touch".
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He suffered from eyesight degradation and eye pains. He was unable to keep his eyes open and he did not open his right eye until emergency personnel arrived. Siebold's flight suit was saturated with blood from bleeding in his right arm. He did not feel any lower body injuries. As Siebold removed his parachute harness a “clunking noise” was felt in his chest and Siebold became concerned about a potential spinal fracture.
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When the brawl takes them into a barn, an ACTUAL horse forcibly ejects them, clunking their heads together in the process. The two foes, shaking hands to prove solidarity, re- enter to double-team the horse. Finally, Henery captures Foghorn, the Dawg, and the horse, mimicking Foghorn and telling the camera that "One of these things, I SAY, ONE OF THESE THINGS, has GOT to be a chicken!" as the cartoon irises out.
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The bike's throttle-response and low-end torque were ranked high. In a March 1973 article Cycle magazine called the TX750 "one of the ten fastest production motorcycles in the world" based on its quarter-mile speed. Testers reported noticeable driveline lash, and clunking and lurching when shifting out of neutral. Other complaints focused on a lack of preload in the front suspension, and excessive softness in the suspension and seat pad in general.
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Sounds appear in road safety advertisements: "clunk click, every trip" (click the seatbelt on after clunking the car door closed; UK campaign) or "click, clack, front and back" (click, clack of connecting the seat belts; AU campaign) or "click it or ticket" (click of the connecting seat belt, with the implied penalty of a traffic ticket for not using a seat belt; US DOT (Department of Transportation) campaign). The sound of the container opening and closing gives Tic Tac its name.
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However, he also noted that the episode had "a tad too much clunking exposition, the odd spot of creaky CGI and some unconvincing metaphors about soufflés and leaves." Despite this, he called it a "breathless, brilliant finale". Some advance coverage of the story assumed the Doctor's name would actually be revealed in the episode. The episode was nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form), along with The Day of the Doctor, An Adventure in Space and Time and The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.
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In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song number 161 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It noted: In a song review for AllMusic, Dave Thompson called it "one of the all-time classic rock songs... Over chunky guitar, clunking piano, and jackhammer drums, Reed half-sings, half-intones what he would once describe as a love song about a man and the subway." He notes that it has been recorded by numerous artists, including "David Bowie and the Stooges [who] both cut fascinating takes on the song". Bowie's later 1977 song "'Heroes'" was influenced by Reed's writing.
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Conversely, Paul Trynka of Classic Rock magazine singles out "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" as the one song that "embarrasses" on an album that is otherwise "packed with beautiful, small-scale moments". Trynka labels it "George's own Frog Chorus", with reference to McCartney's 1984 children's song, "We All Stand Together", and adds: "its clunking glam evokes those horrible 70s TV shows where DJs drool over dollybirds in hotpants."Paul Trynka, "George Harrison The Apple Years 1968–75", Classic Rock, November 2014, p. 105.Paul Trynka, "George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968–75", TeamRock, 8 October 2014 (retrieved 27 November 2014).
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Gavin Martin of Daily Mirror called "Battlefield" one of the most "epic metaphoric ballads" ever made by Tedder. Shereen Low of The Belfast Telegraph described it as a "radio-friendly song", while Ryan Brockington of New York Post called the song "simply pure pop magic". Michael Slezak of Entertainment Weekly described "Battlefield" as "gorgeous", writing, "when Sparks hits that 'Better go and get your armor' bridge, you can practically feel the wind whipping through your hair." Johnny Dee of Virgin Media wrote that it was one of the song's "you cannot help but reach for any available nearby hairbrush and sing along to", despite calling the bridge a "clunking pedestrian pace and corny advice".
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In April 2018, as part of a review of the play The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich, Letts suggested that Leo Wringer may have been cast "because he was black" and criticised the Royal Shakespeare Company's “clunking approach to politically correct casting". In response, in a joint statement, the RSC's artistic director Gregory Doran and its executive director, Catherine Mallyon, accused Letts of holding a "blatantly racist attitude" and criticised his “ugly and prejudiced commentary”. In July 2019, in a review of David Hare's production of Peer Gynt at the National Theatre, London, Letts made an unfavourable comparison between English actor Oliver Ford Davies' "fruity purr" to "the whining Scottish accents". Scottish actor James McArdle, who starred in the play's title role, commented that "to go for our accents like that is something else.
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The Variety reviewer wrote: "Neil Simon's new play is a strained, sentimental comedy-drama that will hardly burnish the reputation of the veteran playwright, or of Manhattan Theater Club, where it is clunking across the stage in a stiff production from artistic director Lynne Meadow."Isherwood, Charles. Rose's Dilemma" Variety, December 18, 2003 Elyse Sommer of CurtainUp wrote: "The fantasy element and the use of celebrity characters may seem like an established writer's brave venture into new territory. Alas, this turns out to be a false promise since nothing in Rose's Dilemma comes off as fresh and new... In Rose's Dilemma there's no danger of missing anything since the laughs come at greater intervals than ever before... Typical for Manhattan Theatre Club, this is a handsomely staged production, well-directed by MTC's artistic director Lynne Meadow.
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Film critic Kenneth Turan, in a review written for the Los Angeles Times, also expressed disappointment, criticizing the film's "humanoid aliens", stating that they are "as ungainly as the movie itself, clunking around in awkward, protective suits." He called the content "all very earnest", but added "it's not a whole lot of fun". Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film one out of four stars, and he comment "Battleship is all noise and crashing metal, sinking to the shallows of Michael Bay's Armageddon and then digging to the brain-extinction level of the Transformers trilogy." Other critics were less harsh for Battleship: Writing for Time, Steven James Snyder was somewhat positive because he had low expectations of the film. He wrote, "The creative team behind this ocean-bound thriller decided to fill the narrative black hole with a few ingredients all but absent from today’s summer tent poles – namely mystery, nostalgia and a healthy dose of humility" and described it as "an unlikely mix of Independence Day, Pearl Harbor, Jurassic Park and The Hunt for Red October".
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The programmer would then load the source tape into the reader, and while this, too, was being read in, and spilled out all over the floor, the programmer could be busy winding up the Minisystem tape, into a tidy reel again, using a hand-turned winch. Eventually, once the source tape had finished being read, the text editor program would prompt for a new command, which was the invitation to edit the program. Though having changed little in effect over the decades, editing has changed enormously in feeling: only one line of the program was 'displayed' at a time (physically printing it out on the paper); inserted text was printed below the point in the line where it was being inserted, and the rubout key merely crossed-out the text that was to be deleted; the string-find and string-substitute facilities were very rudimentary; and the teleprinter worked at 110 baud (making an enormous clunking and whirring racket as it did so). At the end of the edit session, the new version of the source program would be output: both as a typed listing, and as a new punched tape.
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