Inevitably, he whips out a lightsaber and it hums loudly.
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The kitchen is so loud, full of buzzes and hums.
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The melody Simon hums has a hymnal quality to it.
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The economy hums while storm clouds darken the White House.
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But inside the walls, a vivid, pungent, complex universe hums.
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Outside Yisroel's sparsely furnished office, the warehouse hums with activity.
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The Stone Roses' "I Wanna Be Adored," hums in the background.
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The station constantly hums, so he wears ear plugs every night.
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"I wanna love you every day and every night," he hums.
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The version here hums with fresh galangal, lime leaves and lemongrass.
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The project hums a sentimental tune, driven by the beat of memory.
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She sings in the kitchen, hums at the typewriter, purrs in bed!
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Out in the kitchen, the re-frigerator hums and the faucet drips.
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Mosquitoes use their wing-beat hums to find one another for mating.
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Will it be the fastball that hums by at nearly triple digits?
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It creates a self-contained world in which the amplifier always hums.
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The studio hums again with activity as artists dive into their projects.
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The air hums with the sound of cicadas and a chorus of songbirds.
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But her book was questing and inquisitive while Mr. Lubow's hums blandly along.
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An interesting thing about this system ... KS: Oh. It hums at me. Yeah.
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She sometimes hums softly but mostly whispers cryptic phrases and fragments of sentences.
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The music sounded like rolling waves—cool, ambient tones layered over electronic hums.
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It's not the same thing, but I can assure you—this little thing hums.
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It comes in a leather-bound box, has a powerful motor, and it... hums.
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And at every turn, it is the bigotry that hums with the greater evil.
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Each circular slab hums like a sweaty codpiece but smacks of delicious, complex creaminess.
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You won't be hearing from us in full dose till the new engine hums.
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MUCH of Syria lies in ruins, but Bashar al-Assad's bureaucracy of repression hums along.
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Or a chile aioli whose slow-burn heat hums in the mouth without igniting it.
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The one playing now is "Never Too Old," and Dad hums along, to Mom's disgust.
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"The noise is awful," Attenborough says as the cicada hums sweet nothings into his ear.
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What's that one with the crazy drum machine that goes [hums intro to "Blue Monday"].
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The book hums when he's managing a handful of huge variables at the same time.
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Then the drunk hums "O Night Divine" though Christmas is still a long way off.
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Before the earthquake, the muted hums of the chanting monks were familiar sounds in Norcia.
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Each photograph hums with a density of colliding lives, that never quite cross their divides.
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My grandmother hovers over the stove flame, fanning it as she melodically hums Kikuyu spirituals.
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A dehumidifier hums inside the evidence room; just outside, a small box dispenses rat poison.
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Inside the air-conditioning hums throughout the seven exhibition spaces and all the lights are on.
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Only male blue whales sing, and their hums can be about as loud as large ships.
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The Khmeimim airbase near the Syrian port of Latakia hums with fighters and bombers taking off.
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In the United States, high-profile hums have been reported in Taos, N.M., and Kokomo, Ind.
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The soundtrack hums with deep, tooth-rattling vibrations and the prairie sky is full of portents.
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In a meticulously handsome production by Doug Hughes, this is a play that hums with intelligence.
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Yet as the story hums along, we learn that Renu's boasting belies an ocean of distress.
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The sounds are distinct, and even big and small members of one species make similar hums.
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It's a type of (perhaps unconventional) white noise: light ambient hums that muffle perturbing or bothersome sounds.
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The album hums with a forward-moving energy, and an overarching awareness that nothing stays the same.
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Some works, like "Hums and Songs of Winnie-the-Pooh," for soprano and chamber ensemble, were whimsical.
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Ticker: HUMS&P quality ranking: B+Dividend payout ratio: 10.9%Dividend yield: 0.69%Source: Bank of America
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While I find most electric toothbrushes to be obnoxiously loud, this one barely hums in your mouth.
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It's tempting to not snap the window's latch and let it all out; it hums with energy.
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That much is obvious from her Disney princess-proportioned eyes, and her skin that hums with robotic activity.
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All the while, Gomez hums an unidentifiable tune while American Horror Story-esque music plays in the background.
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Those hums could interfere with some scientific research, including the work done by seismologists and even particle physicists.
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The other hums along at 150 mph, powered by a six-piston engine and a two-bladed propeller.
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For the most part, though, the action hums along, instilling renewed emotional heft in the film's last act.
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I can't remember the name of his ballad, something about [hums a unrecognizable melody], what one was that?
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The city hums with rumours of a new mediation effort led by a shifting kaleidoscope of foreign governments.
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Because we have a mind that hums and gets distracted, and comes in contact with so much stimuli.
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A civilization unto itself, with a rigorous hierarchy and unspoken taboos, the hotel hums with mystery and menace.
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At night time, the city hums with jazz music by the park and chattering by the movie theater.
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You can hear the Parrotheads singing it from beneath their feathers; you can hear it in their hums.
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And though no white people interlope to overstate the point, racism, internalized or otherwise, hums in the background.
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" If the book "hums throughout with hope and humor, the dark and the difficult are also always there.
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He brings back his immaculate hums on the title track, referencing the days he prayed his pain away.
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The blocks are even the same color as usual, and the familiar Tetris theme hums along in the background.
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Down a hill, in the heart of the town, is a plaza named "1915 Square" that hums with visitors.
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It skims along the surface, hums underneath the tension; it's sexy and louche, full of ambiguity and veiled promise.
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A generator hums to power the new brewing machinery, creating enough booze to fill 22016,22001 crates every two days.
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The team sit around the hut in the dark; a gasoline generator hums outside, powering the laser and computer.
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So create a backup, install the operating system, see how it hums and revert if the system is unstable.
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It's past midnight, but the parking lot at Dash faintly hums from the speeding cars on the 101 Freeway.
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"'The Wolf of Wall Street' hums with vulgar, voyeuristic energy," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
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"Marconi" really hums when Raboy details how his subject was implicated in the social and political effects of wireless.
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As this shaggy-dog crime story hums along, you can almost convince yourself that something interesting is going on.
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It rushes up from her diaphragm full of theatrical resonance and then hums along at a soothing, slow register.
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Caveri's soft hums of pleasure, a sign of approval in the universal language of grandmothers, made my heart jump.
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Nor can you do so when surrounded by the beeps and dings and hums of any number of devices.
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Britain's automotive industry, once ailing and plagued by strikes, now hums with the vibrancy of a global manufacturing hub.
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The same timing signals that GPS uses ensures that the global economy hums along to the same temporal tune.
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Even sitting still, the GT-R vibrates and hums like the brawling supercar killer it was born to be.
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The use and abuse of Classical antiquity, born in Greece and routed through Germany, therefore hums through Documenta 14.
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Whereas Lagos hums with diesel generators, Redemption City has a steady electricity supply from a small gas-fired power station.
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Most believe that economic growth just hums along until some identifiable cause makes it veer away from its "normal" course.
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It blocked out all the little hums, beeps, and noises in my space, so I could work in near-silence.
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Interspersed are olive and apple trees and birds, bees and bugs that fill the air with industrious chirps and hums.
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For the first time, scientists have recorded these hums and groans using highly sensitive seismic sensors buried in the snow.
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Payton wants an assured path to his future, and the unpredictability of reality stresses him so hard he practically hums.
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Ms. Salibi smokes, though only in private; reads Milan Kundera, the Czech author; and hums tunes from Jimmy Fallon's television show.
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Not a lot happens in Emily Schwend's "Utility," but its air hums with a tension that's just this side of despair.
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Twitter pulses at 6,000 or so tweets per second, whereas AppNexus alone hums at 3 million live consumer impressions per second.
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The revelatory drones, hums and even airhorns of "Demon City" are likely to crop up during Ms. Crampton's late-night set.
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In the video, Legend hums "Bad to the Bone" as he flirtatiously opens his costume to show off his ripped body.
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But while its business hums along, Alphabet faces a challenge that has little to do with its day-to-day performance.
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He jokes constantly throughout the game, hums tunes in the middle of battle, and never misses a chance to take a selfie.
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Tool emerged, a quarter century ago, as an awesome new kind of prog band: precise but unremittingly heavy, all rumbles and hums.
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As much as his fastball hums, he throws his other stuff — changeups, curveballs and those wicked new sliders — about half the time.
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Equally strange are the muffled drones of the wooden bullroarer from Papua New Guinea, which resemble the strange nocturnal hums of giraffes.
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And if "Lanny," even more than "Grief," hums throughout with hope and humor, the dark and the difficult are also always there.
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A young woman drew minor-key melodies out of a violin, while her sister, mother and father followed along with resonant hums.
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In the video, Legend hums "Bad to the Bone" as he flirtatiously opens his sleeveless red blazer to reveal his toned physique.
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City officials and scientists have investigated various potential causes of the hums, including industrial plants, electricity pylons, mating fish, and even mass hysteria.
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Past the lab where they work, down a quiet hallway and inside a windowless room, a beige freezer hums at –79 degrees Celsius.
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This isn't a silent machine either, and the fan constantly hums away, with the volume depending on how much you're doing with it.
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But, ever since that day, my person has been clouded by a lurking spiritual presence; it hums in the background of my life.
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In the desolate stretches of her synthesizer hums, there's a depressing reminder that most of what's beyond the stratosphere is just empty space.
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Hums similar to Windsor's have been reported in at least a dozen communities worldwide, including in Australia, England and Scotland, the study said.
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Mary Hums, a sports management professor at the University of Louisville, was one of those who had urged M.L.B. to change its language.
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Even as the rest of the city hums back to life, the unending flooding has turned their neighborhoods into a noxious, abandoned Venice.
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The pain these people inflict on one another in the name of love (and the denial of it) always hums beneath the surface.
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Underneath the betting, the home-county boosterism and the evening-gown weight lifting, a note of melancholy hums faintly in the background here.
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All but invisible to the public, Amazon Web Services hums quietly in the background of a huge and growing slice of American life.
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"I took acid and mushrooms / I did not transcend, I felt like a walking piece of shit / In a stupid looking jacket," he hums.
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The soundtrack is suitably frightening, providing ominous low hums while you're stalking, panicky synth when you're being hunted, and the game is deliberately paced.
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We promise that the next time he hums along to that song, he'll be thinking of the great Father's Day gift you got him.
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We promise that the next time he hums along to that song, he'll be thinking of the great Father's Day gift you got him.
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Even in their best, most-groomed PR shots, the dockless carelessness of these slimline electrified scooters hums with an air of insouciance and privilege.
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The year after their first published study of DNP, they offered an update on the drug's effects, in a report that hums with panic.
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During "Monsoon", the 5,00-capacity venue practically hums with the memory of her mother, a blanket of loss and acceptance settling over the audience.
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London, vibrant and second only to New York as a global financial hub, hums a siren song to the young and ambitious across Europe.
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Electricity flickers in the Twin Peaks morgue and in Gordon Cole's office and basically everywhere else; it hums above the Fat Trout Trailer Park.
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The coaster's new tracks run eerily silent, the faint hums of the rail car often drowned out by the high-pitched squeals of riders.
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The air hums with the sun's merciless beams, and in the summers people hover behind curtains, sucked dry, and sprinkle water on each other.
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But soon after, Sorkin the director settles into his groove, capitalizing on the script and the performers at his disposal, and the movie just hums.
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I stumbled into the the Basilica bathroom where I could hear a playlist of animal sounds and low hums reverberating through the minimalist industrial space.
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The former buzzes and hums, scratching petulantly at the strings, first expanding to thunder and fill the space, then shrinking to chime calmly and quietly.
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Alicia Silverstone goes above-and-beyond with the PG-13-friendly orgasm acting as the perfect '70s bop "More, More, More" hums in the background.
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A woman named Unique confidently stands in front of a crowd of young children, guiding them through the silly "hees" and "hums" of vocal exercises.
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Those policies seem aimed at voters who are still concerned about their day-to-day survival even as the economy as a whole hums along.
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That thought was happily obliterated when suddenly the speakers and all 10 monitors united in a digital chorus of hums and clicks, 0s and 20163s.
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As the outgoing British Prime Minister hums his way towards the exit door to make way for Theresa May, we've graded Cameron's time in office.
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On the east side, the sprawling Mosul University campus hums with activity from the 103,000 students — men and women — who are attending classes this fall.
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For many charities, 2017 is shaping up to be a good one for fund-raising, as the economy hums along and the stock market booms.
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To reach a platform with a midpoint view of the work, you ascend darkened ramps, on which ominous hums, bongs, and whooshes can be heard.
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In the basement of Brian Samson's house in Middletown, Delaware, computer hardware hums softly beneath monitors with scrolling lists of seemingly random numbers and letters.
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"Never Look Away" bristles with half-formed thoughts and almost-heady insights, and hums with an ambition that is exasperating and exhilarating in equal measure.
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In the first episode of our new series "Sound Mysteries," we look into the case of the mysterious hums that have vexed people across the globe.
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Portland artist Midori Hirose incorporated that past into her immersive installation, hanging a constellation of speakers from the ceiling that emanated a sedate chorus of hums.
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It's hard to think of a more heavenly link up than Kid Cudi's hums and Stevie Wonder's harmonica, with James Blake's voice to cap it off.
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House finches flit between palm trees and brown monoliths carved with depictions of bighorns, zigzags, and shamans; in the background traffic hums along China Lake Boulevard.
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Chicken wings, for example, are flame-grilled, with the blackened bits to prove it, and slicked with peri peri sauce that hums with citrus and spice.
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The branches are grayish and brownish — average American tree colors — while the trunk, particularly in sunlight reflected off snow, hums with a dreamy reddish-orange glow.
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The city hums with energy and possibility, offering a thriving environment for creativity that makes its negative aspects — the pollution, the traffic — not quite as noticeable.
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The Virgin's hands are rendered with heartbreaking, delicate clarity and the whole composition, aided by a robust architectural setting, hums with the import of Christ's conception.
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And now, underneath Scotland's cold, turbulent waters, a data center hums away, providing the Scottish isles' coastal communities with high speed cloud computing capabilities and internet connectivity.
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They confirmed that the internal chaos of volcanoes can cause very low-frequency hums, but the incredibly long 30-minute duration of this one was currently inexplicable.
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The hums are often compared to the sound of idling trucks, and for the people who can hear them, they can be maddening, causing nausea and insomnia.
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Nineveh province, Iraq (CNN)Captain T's sniper rifle hangs out of the truck window as he hums along to "The Warrior Song" blaring forth from his iPhone.
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This will allow them to create an even more detailed map of the hums across the U.S.Truly, the entire world is vibrating with the hum of humanity.
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While he talks on camera about his life or hums a tune or dances, viewers watching on their phones write messages that pop up on his screen.
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In each piece on Mr. Curgenven's new double-disc album, "Climata," recorded in Skyspaces across different countries, you hear a pair of mellow, subtly shifting oscillator hums.
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Downtown Detroit hums with development — a maze of detours around construction sites with luxury apartments, a new Nike store along a stretch of prime but empty storefronts.
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Our guides throughout are two figures, both called Coyote: part-human, part-animal, part-eternal beings who communicate in nearly wordless moans, hums, cackles, clicks and giggles.
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"Gospel" hums a mournful tune for the would-be hero of Thebes whose city now wants him back, if only to fertilize their soil with his corpse.
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Mr. Badalamenti's score now often takes a back seat to David Lynch's white-noise sound design, of electric hums and drones, a soundtrack of suspension and waiting.
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"I get anxious at times," said Aleman, who occasionally visits the parque Wi-Fi to chat for up to an hour as afternoon traffic hums along the streets.
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While all of this hums in the traditional Grey's fashion, the "hilarious" sub-intern hijinks distract from the serious matters at hand with their screaming and general failures.
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Sipping a beer and flicking through an issue of Barnes and Putney Time & Leisure, I hear a quiet duet of hums in the corner, which break into laughter.
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Meanwhile, Ben Burtt took audiences to a galaxy far far away in "Star Wars" (1977) by devising a lightsaber's hums and crackles, and a robot's bleeps and whistles.
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Downstairs, the hotel bar hums with longing from the "freaks and weirdos who want to get plowed by ghosts" as the Countess dreamily ashes into a martini glass.
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The Rhodes piano hums and glistens and flickers as though it's coming out of a busted old VHS tape, and Ashworth sings it in a run-down croak.
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While all DJs are used to the jet-lag-induced fugue that comes with their career, Dijon hums with the nervous energy that only the truly exhausted emit.
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The players change, the coaches are in slightly different suits and slightly different stages of physical collapse, teams come and go, but the whole of it hums along.
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It hums at low RPMs in a way that reminded me of a BMW i8 — two cars that have nothing to do with each other in form or function.
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"Enemies to the East, enemies to the South, enemies to the West, enemies to the North," Cersei hums, the same refrain we heard in the trailer for this season.
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To avoid the feeling of claustrophobia, Wheeler installed a subtle sound element, so the room hums at the frequency of pink noise, which is lower than its white counterpart.
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The office of the Belles Receptionists & Answering Service hums with ringing phones and the polite greetings of operators in a small building on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan.
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Later, a pretty piano chord progression, a potential crowd pleaser, appears and gets quickly discarded too, as does another big beat, all in favor of more plinks and hums.
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It sounds pretty real—it stammers a little, hums and pauses, and mostly nails the tone of someone mildly uncomfortable with being on the phone in the first place.
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Formally, they don't have noise cancellation features, but I've found that they block out New York City street noise and loud airplane engine hums at less than half-volume.
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This masterful half-hour reverberation ride recalls again the brilliance of Cage as it features Gérard Frémy on prepared piano mixed in with a stream of seductive electronic hums.
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But ultimately, whenever you wander from the energy that hums through the city and suddenly feel like the saddest version of being a grown-up, Midtown is with you.
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Even as the state's economy hums along, with unemployment at only 4 percent, Oregon has been unable to significantly chip away at its stubbornly high 16.5 percent poverty rate.
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Rather, I prefer Léger's work when it points at neurocomputing wetware, biorobotics, and AI-charged automation; when it hums away in the space between the mechanic and the organic.
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The sky hums, darkens, the wind hits my right side and trails across my body, my hair blows into my face no matter how I try to hold it back.
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As Stephen talks me through it, the engine hums with a distorted, single tone crackle, the rat-a-tat-tat of the guns piercing the screen with black and white.
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As Tracy — who, by the way, charmed her way into the warehouse — gets hot and heavy with the idiot who decided to neglect his duty, the creature hums into being.
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She handles her vocals with a prowess unmatched, powerfully bouncing throughout the record and equally serving us all the depths and hums that come with being a young woman today.
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The television hums with static as a very pregnant stoner rips bong hits and has bizarre visions of dancing furry creatures, strange doctors, and thumping music she can't quite place.
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Music by the German electro-classical composer Nils Frahm and Ben Lukas Boysen hums over long, elegant shots that dwell as much on the movie's environments as on its star.
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"I truly believe that the words we use shape the image of the world in which we live," said Hums, who has worked with Team U.S.A. during four Paralympic Games.
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As Sir Shadow hums for inspiration, his slender hand strikes a sketchpad with a silver marker and swirls deliriously, never leaving the page, as though he were signing a signature.
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Mr. Tuttolomondo also makes a cacio e pepe Sicilian pie, essentially a four-cheese pizza in which one of the cheeses is pecorino; the whole slice hums with black pepper.
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Peter Weir's adaptation of the Patrick O'Brien series, with land-based scenes filmed on the Galápagos Islands, "hums with humor, passion and life," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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They don't claim to be noise-cancelling, like Bose's other masterpieces, but the way they get your brain to tune into the noise and tune out exterior hums is pretty magical.
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Industries have fled the Midwest, opportunities have dried up, income inequality has risen, and many places around America are shells of their former selves, even as the national economy hums along.
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There aren't many positive aspects to the ritualistic dooming and glooming that leads up to every Olympics, but one is that, once the Games get going, everything pretty much hums along.
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Born in Ethiopia, Ms. Jernberg wove a keening Ethiopian folk song into her own assemblage of virtuosic vocal tricks: yelps, croaks and hums evocative of birds and of early Meredith Monk.
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By the time the novel reaches its cleareyed climax, cleverly undercutting its own promised happy ending, the reader is left with the impression of a work that hums with human life.
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AeroFarms' headquarters—sometimes referred to as its "world headquarters"—are in this building, some of which is taken up by a multiple-row, eight-level vertical farm that glows and hums.
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Global Health Simple cellphones can tell one type of mosquito from another by their hums, which may be useful in fighting mosquito-borne diseases, according to new research from Stanford University.
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The ambient sounds of mechanical blips, hums, and whirs mingle with patterns of foliage, footprints in the snow, typography, or spiderwebs, as machines enhance and illuminate organic forms in supernatural ways.
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The spare, sparkling "All I Need" is a forthright, downright prom-worthy love song—a relative rarity for Yorke—and the ghostly hums of "Jigsaw Falling into Place" have a serene gentleness.
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The spare, sparkling "All I Need" is a forthright, downright prom-worthy love song—a relative rarity for Yorke—and the ghostly hums of "Jigsaw Falling into Place" have a serene gentleness.
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Then, once they'd been trained on the day-to-day hums and pings of your domestic bliss, they'd be able to understand what's going on, identify changes and serve up useful intel.
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In this depressed former steel town in the Welsh valleys the local Wetherspoon branch—named the Picture House after the cinema that once occupied it, but known as "Spoon's"—hums with life.
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As Frances and Robert drive to their friend Diane's birthday party, Robert hums along to Coldplay's "Paradise" (perfectly ironic song choice) completely off-key until an irritated Frances turns off the radio.
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Probably the sense of heat, the way the box fan hums on the windowsill, the fluid motion of the camera as our character gets up off the bed where they'd been lying.
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Every time a guy starts talking to me, the encounter hums with the possibility that he is flirting for free; that the only thing he is down to pay for is dinner.
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On the mound he had Cody Allen, his phlegmatic killer of a closer with a four-seam fastball that hums at 333 miles per hour and a dirt-eater of a curveball.
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The movie hums along from set piece to set piece, with lots of shots of mountains and stumbling in the snow in between, and just enough character backstory revealed at key moments.
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Other countries have had their own hums, including Auckland, New Zealand; Bristol, in the United Kingdom; and Taos, New Mexico, and some research has implied that the hum could actually cause health problems.
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This year Lucasfilm is offering up a package of Star Wars sound effects and music cues for filmmakers to use in their productions, including everything from lightsaber hums and clashes to blaster sounds.
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What is classically good in "code-verse" is Ikeda's techno music, created from slight electronic hums and pops that build into gargantuan sonic textures, reaching the dazzling élan of a harsh Merzbow masterpiece.
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Soon the performers converge in a huddle in near darkness; their low hums build into shouts and then — boys will be boys — a free-for-all as they pull and push one another.
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MONTREAL — In an octagonal chamber at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, a spectator in a trance-like state hums Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" as numbers on a digital display leap up to 631.
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In no way is it the series' best episode (or even the season's best episode), but it hums along under its own power, staying a few steps ahead of catastrophe at all times.
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One of the most mysterious things is everywhere around us — in the gaps between planets and people and particles hums something that scientists and philosophers have spent a long time trying to understand: Space.
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Standing there, surrounded by the sounds and feeling of hums from movements both massive and tiny, I was very conscious of my place in this vast and unnerving world — in this spot, literally trembling.
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It hums past the University of Southern California and the nearby rose garden, past a mosque and stained-glass churches, and past turquoise graffiti shouting, "It's all love," in letters taller than many men.
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Culminating in a brilliantly appropriate stunt (labeled a "ghoulish plot" by one news outlet), "The Proposal" meditates on the meaning of artistic legacy and hums with the fear of being wiped from public memory.
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MARIMANTI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Stooped over knee-high rows of green gram plants at her farm in eastern Kenya, Grace Kaari hums to herself as she slices out weeds with a blunt machete.
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But although his writing hums with a vivid populism, his emotional and allegorical tale seems at times almost too safely well done to do justice to the ragged and tortured people whose tragedies it traces.
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It's a record that leads with atmospheric detail: echo effects, deliberate placement of sounds around microphones (a shaker up close, a whistled melody far away) and incidental or accidental buzzes, hums, distortions and radio transmissions.
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Douglas Grindstaff, an Emmy Award-winning sound editor who was pivotal in the creation of the indelible whistles, beeps and hums in the original "Star Trek" television series, died on July 23 in Peoria, Ariz.
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The soundtrack hums with well-chosen, not-too-obvious hip-hop, R&B and rock classics; the humor is knowing and naughty without risking serious offense; and an inclusive brand of meta-ness is practiced.
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But while much of the work of Zipoli has vanished in his native Europe, it has managed to survive in eastern Bolivia — along with his vast Baroque musical tradition, which hums through the tropical lowlands.
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Every time a Chinese firm tries to buy a big Australian business, be it a power company or a cattle station, the government hums and haws over whether the purchase should be blocked, with little consistency.
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Wind turbines and turbines in hydroelectric systems can produce these hums, which can get in the way when you're trying to study earthquakes, scientist Omar Marcillo from Los Alamos National Laboratory said in a press statement.
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Consider, for example, the title poem (poet xxv): someone introduced me to the silence of my room by leaving sand- bags all around my desk & one on top of my writing machine that no longer hums.
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Never mind: the most significant fact about him is that he comes from the refining and chemicals side of the business, which hums along so efficiently that ExxonMobil is widely considered the world's best "integrated" oil company.
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We know now that these strange sounds are caused by the vibrations of grains avalanching, at relatively slow speeds, down dunes, and that the grain size and speed influence the notes of these curious hums of nature.
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As U.S. President Donald Trump proclaims "America First" and Britain hums along to the words of "Rule Britannia," can a special relationship still exist between two states that seem to have decided to draw back within themselves?
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The past few years have brought folksy screeching, glacial silences, drawling speech, powdery bleakness and spiritual solemnity; last year, a keening Ethiopian folk song was tricked out with an avant-garde mixture of yelps, croaks and hums.
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A dark spot will yield gentle vibrations and hums of low frequencies; dragging your finger to an area of white light will increase the tremors from your screen and make your phone crescendo in a weird, alien warble.
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Her journalism hums with intelligence, wit and good judgment; I implicitly trust that she'll spin through the latest research and tell us which papers float to the top of the centrifuge and which sink to the sludgy bottom.
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Then the drab gray walls suddenly transform into the intricately detailed interior of a spaceship, which hums to life with a virtual chirping R2 unit and flight crew, and you are officially transported into the Star Wars universe.
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Many investors believe that as the global economy hums along in its ninth year of expansion following the financial crisis, growth and inflation are set to pick up, making commodities — like oil — the place to be in 2018.
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The looming sense that my body was not my own was a rite of passage that made me one with the fears of my mother and grandmother; Lady Saw's rage; and the silent hums of other Jamaican women.
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The hotel juts up as the most prominent new high-rise in the ByWard Market, a 19th-century commercial district that now hums with both artisan-goods shops and venerable Canadian department stores like Simon's and Hudson's Bay.
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This isn't a perfect movie — sometimes the machinery of plot-focused screenwriting hums a little too insistently, especially toward the end, disrupting the quieter, richer music of everyday life — but its clearsighted sensitivity makes it a satisfying one.
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But there's a reason why the crowd hums with static before an Arctic Monkeys show: watching them feels like both a return to being younger, and a realisation that the words you're singing along to still make total sense.
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Penick is a terrible name-dropper, but once you forgive him for all the mentions of golf legends like Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw and what they learned from him, his prose hums along at a grandfatherly, crotchety pace.
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But when you do, their form as something refined, bold, and sure — something that quietly hums, something that allows you to traverse them until you are struck by a loaded phrase — is what makes them so unexpected and disarming.
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The space hums with a sense of excitement — adults given leave to dabble in craft — and Kocher, decked out in a patchwork tuxedo suit with satin lapels from her fall 2019 collection, roams around the room offering up tips.
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Six months into the Trump presidency, two symbols of American financial might — the Dow and the dollar — have taken divergent paths, highlighting the complexities that investors face as the global economy hums, while Washington is enmeshed in political turmoil.
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This one's narrative engine hums along nicely, occasionally accelerating into farce, usually when Mr. Craig shows up, sporting neck tattoos, spiky bleached hair and an accent that sounds like the cause or the result of a badly sprained tongue.
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The newest algorithm hums along in near real time, analyzing market rates, home size, location, luxury classification and local events to determine the dynamic prices that make it a compelling alternative for homeowners used to figuring that stuff out for themselves.
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The bubbly bleeps of tracks like "Bottle Drizzy Tears" and the sunny hums of "I Get It" highlight the central joy of an enterprise like this: you'll never be as happy as when you get to be wholly and truly you.
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Any Asian person, especially women, will tell you about the pressures of growing up in many Asian households — the high expectations, the keeping up of appearances, and the toxic "model minority" stereotype that continually hums in the background of your life.
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"Tokyo Drifter" (21980), a gangster film with a musical number shot from under a dance floor and a theme song that its hero repeatedly hums, was Mr. Suzuki's impudent answer to a command by Nikkatsu to rein in his eccentricities.
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But the June numbers are at least some assurance that things aren't as bad as the May numbers suggested and that there continue to be potential workers out there who might join the labor force with an economy that truly hums.
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On a damp day in Asbury, New Jersey, Charles Rosen helps me climb over a fire pit and onto a grassy slope overlooking a field where a red tractor hums away, clearing the land for a new crop of apple cider trees.
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That's too late to have prevented the shocking Hoboken crash in which the locomotive plowed into a busy station like a whale emerging from the sea, yet another image of an unseen world of risk that hums beneath the soothing clicks and clacks.
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Front Row Center BERN, SWITZERLAND — Patricia Kopatchinskaja would rather be known for the passion and virtuosity of her violin playing than for the fact that she often performs barefoot — or that sometimes she hums along with the orchestras while accompanying them on stage.
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A quartet of recorded voices — Ms. La Barbara, Ms. Bell, Randy Gibson and Nick Hallett — droned in the background underneath a live sound world familiar from the works of Meredith Monk: throat clicks, buzzing, hums, tones that shifted from wisps to operatic cries.
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It was just one ordinary, leisurely moment on a border that hums with a continuing stream of migrants — and the easy rhythms of day-to-day life — amid a swirling national controversy over proposals to extend a massive wall along its banks.
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D'Metrius John Rice, 38, said the art community in Baltimore, where he lived before moving to Austin, hums because of "New York transplants, local creative talent and people coming back and forth from D.C." He has four abstract paintings in the show.
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The action hums along, even if you can't tell where it's going, and there's a welcome edge of humor (not abundant in this genre), especially in the performances of Mr. McShane and Pablo Schreiber as a tall Irishman who calls himself a leprechaun.
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Roger Cohen COCHIN, India — By various accounts there are five or six Jews left here, but Jew Town, as the area around the almost 450-year-old synagogue is known, hums with activity, and the synagogue itself is a light-filled sanctuary.
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And if it brings you joy to know that these whimsical products help to lessen the human impact on our environment, just wait for the satisfying sight of the pieces for each train or helicopter firmly clicking together as the assembly line quietly hums along.
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While the market hums along to meet much of the nation's infrastructure need – with an average $430 billion in municipal securities issued annually – experts are focused on removing policy barriers so that public and private finance can fit together more seamlessly and foster innovation.
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As the pressure from both parties intensified, plants and their pollinators formed increasingly specific relationships, hurtling each other toward aesthetic and adaptive extremes — a bird that hums and hovers like an insect, an orchid that mimics the appearance and scent of a female bee.
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But things get even weirder when he introduces the electronics into his setup—deftly battering different regions of a single drum head he hums and bounces from sound to sound, fluttering like the wings of a pollen-drunk butterfly looping from bud to bud.
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It hums a million small reasons to slough off your life and move there — 72 degrees and sunny (even when it's not), the city feels like it unfurls forever, offering the wild promise of self-invention, a frontier land of permissiveness and cheap avocados and good light.
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The move, along with a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign governments, immediately introduces another disincentive for an administration already struggling to retain top talent and raises the prospect of a vibrant lobbying industry that hums along as well as ever — but underground and hidden from disclosure, not eradicated.
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It asserts its authenticity in the plinths and joists of its architecture, in the bold intricacies of character and plot, but also in the only spot that truly matters: the prose, the synapses between subject and utterance, a language that hums along the taut cord of its telling.
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On "Love 2 Fast," a tart guitar figure combines with dazed background choral hums, Lacy's echoed mumbles, and interwoven sung verses to provide a suitably summery, yet ominous setting for another distorted, piercing, almost tinny guitar solo, bursting forth with a fiery passion that strangely complements such a relaxed song.
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Originally just an instrumental before he added Tove Styke's vocals, "Aftergold" sounds like a stroll through a jungle: there's far-off echoes that you can't quite place, subtle hums of happiness, dream-like harps, a melange of marimba and a complexity that leaves you wondering what's around the corner of every beat.
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James Grace, a senior director at Cox Automotive who previously worked in automotive interiors, said the biggest challenge for developing speakerless audio systems would probably be eliminating the vibrations, hums and rattles that so often emanate from interior parts, and properly integrating the sound-producing parts with the rest of the car.
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The rectangle opens like a mouth, and the blue silk sort of dances in and out of it, and an electropop vocalist hums in the background, "I've been havin' dreams," in a rumbly little two-step whisper that implies you shouldn't ask about the content of these dreams in a public setting.
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Yes, the question hums in the background at other moments, like when Kirsten is at the grocery store and sees a cooking magazine with Lucy on the cover—it's just so fucking weird how famous Lucy is—but it's in the car that Kirsten thinks through, in a realistic way, which steps she'd take.
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But the skits reveal her musical strategy, in both sequencing and composition, which is to place the full-fledged guitar songs in an environment of white noise, seeping static, electronic twitches and hums, and barely perceptible shimmers and echoes, stuck in a mechanical vacuum, or maybe just the outside world, where background noise always lingers.
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Heck, the first song on their first full-length album is called "Flower," with a grinding groove that's massaged by Cornell's third-eye-prying wordless hums and Kim Thayil's sitar-like guitar textures (a feature that would color subsequent tracks such as Superunknown's "Like Suicide," all the way up to King Animal's "A Thousand Days Before").
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In today's Houston, the closer you get to open saltwater, the closer you are to the city's true nature: despite what you might read in the tourist brochures and glitzy websites full of profiles of "hot chefs," it's really a city that hums along on international trade, much of it coming from the Port of Houston, on the city's neglected, but rapidly gentrifying east side.
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That the Dutch heavyweight still made it to the UFC in 2010 despite that work history is both an indication of his ability to keep a low profile after that disqualification loss—the third of a career that, after a TKO over Ricco Rodriguez this past weekend, still hums along—as well as how hard it is to find good heavyweights, even ones with bad tempers.
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" Lythcott-Haims, the author of "How to Raise an Adult," was the dean of freshmen at Stanford University, and she began writing poetry in 2007, after reading Lucille Clifton; the pacing of "Real American," staccato at times, rushed and frenetic at others, infuses the book with a lyricism that hums with the frustration and sadness she felt growing up what she calls "un-Black.
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So you get moments like this one with Rudolph and Stone, tapping on butter tubs in unison and singing Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend" using Erato's arrangement, their voices intertwining like wisps of smoke: The second the duo hums its last note, the two break into huge grins, like they can't believe their luck at getting through the tune in one piece, or that they got to perform it together.
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The world is a cacophony of screeches and honks and hums and stinks and sweetness and reds and grays and blues and yellows and rectangles and polyhedrons and weird irregular shapes of all sorts and cold surfaces and slippery, oily ones and soft, squishy ones and sharp points and edges; but somehow all of this resolves crisply into an orderly landscape of three-dimensional objects whose qualities we remember and whose uses we understand.
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Check out this poetic gem, from 1990's Under the Red Sky: Wiggle til you're high Wiggle til you're higher Wiggle til you vomit fire Wiggle til it whispers Wiggle til it hums Wiggle til it answers Wiggle til it comes Wiggle wiggle wiggle like satin and silk Wiggle wiggle wiggle like a pail of milk Wiggle wiggle wiggle all rattle and shake Wiggle like a big fat snake I don't care about categories like literature and great art.
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Their eager precision, their oooohs and ahhhhs and sighs and hums, the vanilla smoothness of their voices, as polished and feel-good as Broadway vocals (minus the enunciation) — are all throwbacks to Glee and High School Musical, whose late-'00s success proved, if only for a fleeting moment, that a diverse troupe of show choir kids could get revenge on their high school tormentors by finally becoming cool and taking over the world — which they accomplish by flattening classic pop songs into blandly idealized replicas.
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