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"scratchy" Definitions
  1. (of clothes or cloth) rough and unpleasant to the touch synonym itchy
  2. (of a record, voice, etc.) making a rough, unpleasant sound like something sharp being moved across a surface
  3. (of writing or drawings) done without care

407 Sentences With "scratchy"

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Even Donald's signature scratchy voice was present and accounted for.
Within minutes, calls for backup arrive on the scratchy radio.
It'll start to get scratchy, and very sore, very quickly.
Doing this turns those idyllic areas into weird, scratchy glitchscapes.
"Don't sit on it if it's so scratchy," I said.
And Grace favors a scratchy, sketchbook aesthetic with minimal colors.
It starts with a scratchy, dried out nose and throat.
"I wasn't satisfied with how scratchy [Cherry switches] felt," he said.
Can we all just agree they're super scratchy and really uncomfortable?
It felt scratchy, like I was coming down with a cold.
The film is scratchy and a bit jumpy, but perfectly legible.
The pulsating house music cut out with a scratchy vinyl zip.
Working is that much harder if your clothes are stiff and scratchy.
Even before this week, relations between the WCC and Israel were scratchy.
Was your throat a little scratchy the day you recorded your voice?
Scott draws his cartoons with an efficient and beautiful scratchy pen line.
But that doesn't mean you need to settle for scratchy, stiff linens.
I felt the scratchy panic of an addict whose dealer had left town.
It's cheap stuff that feels scratchy on your ears, and don't stay attached.
"You're talking to someone who never did drugs," Coon said, her voice scratchy.
Nothing pleased him more than listening to Gregorian chant on his scratchy gramophone.
Almost all the scratchy beauté sombre images depict devaluation of place and image.
Which, in turn, leads to the scratchy sensation Liu and other fans felt.
A tall man with a thin mustache and a scratchy rasp in his
Oh, and a ton of scratchy rustling and assorted brushing-against-clothing noises.
An Urban Outfitter's coffee table book with scratchy pastel illustrations on the cover.
She imagines being licked all over her body by a large, scratchy tongue.
His collage paintings are scratchy reinterpretations of pop culture and its emblematic iconography.
The fabric is often stiff or scratchy, and just doesn't seem very comfortable.
This green and pleasant land has rapidly transitioned into something brown and scratchy.
Because scratchy or smooth, jumpy or calm, I don't eat for emotion's sake.
In "Don't Hurt Yourself" her words are delivered with a scratchy-voiced squawk.
He described it simply as "scratchy" and hinted at a mysterious back story.
A lot of times, recycled nylon, polyester, and/or wool is awfully scratchy.
Annie, via email Dear Heloise: I have a problem: My towels are scratchy!
The brush can be dry, making scratchy lines, or it can be full.
Each painting presents a muted palette of scratchy orbs floating on bare canvas.
The relationship between them and civil society will, and should, be at times scratchy.
I'm definitely going to concentrate on Scratchy and my artists that I work with.
Before he got invested in scratchy, twisted experimental rap stuff, his tastes were different.
She credits the British designer Henry Holland with helping to make Itchy Scratchy happen.
By 2006, the year he stopped working with the publication, the line appears scratchy.
Charlotte was a "spectacular, freckly faced firecracker with a scratchy voice," her mother said.
The whole place is covered in scratchy artificial red roses sourced from dollar stores.
She felt her throat getting scratchy and realized her straw was made from pasta.
And if you find yourself having a scratchy throat on the plane, don't panic.
It begins with the violin playing almost gauzy, hushed high tones and scratchy effects.
Hemp has a scratchy, grassy look whilst milk fiber has a silky, murky look.
Scratchy relations with Turkey would be improved, and an issue that has split NATO eliminated.
Another was planted in the sand, scratchy bare legs splayed out in front of her.
A ding and a scratchy female voice announced that my flight was starting to board.
Much better than strapping scratchy cardboard to your face or a huge chunk of plastic.
For most people, a scratchy and sore throat is the first cold symptom to strike.
I'm so interested in how people can make that scratchy sound and keep that longevity.
As a thriller, "Widows" is unusually fractious, riven with fresh grief and scratchy with frustration.
When the violins and cellos enter, those instruments at first also play high, scratchy sounds.
But you don't need to go to the doctor for every sniffle or scratchy throat.
NORTHAMPTON, England — The British rapper Slowthai has a tattoo in scratchy letters on his stomach.
Her scratchy black and white lines look like German expressionist woodcuts, something from Otto Dix.
The result is itchy eyes, runny noses, a scratchy throat, and, in severe cases, constricted airways.
I watched the deposition — all 19 hours of grainy, scratchy videotape — more than two decades later.
I feel like when Mac puts keyboards on a record, I'd describe the tone as scratchy?
There are, however, exceptions to the idea that they're all pinchy, scratchy, and just plain restricting.
I have become the itchy-scratchy stressball of neuroses that the quantified-self industry subsists on.
We sat on their scratchy wool blankets and talked about religion and the war and America.
His correspondence could sometimes run to more than 30 pages, composed in a tiny, scratchy hand.
Mr. Colbert, when approached by a reporter, said that a scratchy throat prevented him from speaking.
Another prompt indicated that Red had a scratchy voice, as if withered from lack of use.
Collaborating with stoned-sounding, scratchy-voiced rappers in electronic soundscapes is one of her necessary skills.
American officials said it never would have been that high, but the opposing sides remained scratchy.
Grainy and circular, the sound in the dark could be that of a scratchy old record.
They get scratchy hospital blankets instead of nice purple fleece ones because of unnecessarily strict sterility standards.
I have a $200 fleece jacket that is comparable on the outside but inside is soooo scratchy.
His voice is scratchy with a soft undertone, and at times it recalls that of Mr. Lamar.
That's when you'll start to feel symptoms including sneezing, a stuffy nose, scratchy throat, and mild fatigue.
For the record, Swae Lee is the excitable one, his voice often contracting into a scratchy squeal.
Filling the scores were Mr. Zorn's characteristic jitteriness and scratchy energy, a sense of slightly satanic mischief.
But chemotherapy would make her skin sensitive, making beanies and scarves more practical than a scratchy wig.
All day they fight their way through scratchy mazes of lantana bushes that smell sharp and peppery.
Beset by a scratchy throat, he tried drinking water from a stemmed cup, but it didn't help.
He had an old fountain pen lying around for years, but it was always dry and scratchy.
His voice had scratchy moments as the concert began, though he did warm up along the way.
There are scratchy, sweetly awkward, black-and-white video clips of these early forays in the show.
You can bring back the warm, scratchy sounds of all that plastic by gifting him a new turntable.
Mr Trump would hardly be the first president to have scratchy relations with the intelligence services (see article).
The 33-year-old soprano had woken up the morning of her performance here with a scratchy throat.
Trump was scratchy with Price anyway because of his questionable advice and atrocious results on health-care repeal.
Warning signs of a trapped contact lens include sharp or scratchy pain, light sensitivity and redness, Steinemann said.
Hutch's nasally vocal delivery over scratchy, tinny instrument recordings played back like an album coming through a landline.
Mountainsmith Cotton Sleeping Bag Liner for $19 ($11 off): Bedsheets in hotels can be nasty, scratchy, or both.
At night, they sleep in rooms separated by gender, in identical metal bunks with identically scratchy green blankets.
The "Surplus," most of whom live on houseboats in "Flotsam Towns," have scratchy blankets, thought control and degradation.
The flaky edge and scratchy screen are annoying, but I could always use my AppleCare and get them replaced.
This treatment, which can be used for scratchy spots and your actual braids, is made with soothing aloe vera.
Trish remembered how scratchy that fabric was, how it seemed to gather heat in all the most uncomfortable places.
There are a few scratchy moments that hold Endgame back from being a perfect capper to this superhero saga.
In fact, the fibers are woven with argan oil to ensure scratchy thermals are a nightmare of the past.
Puke ForceBy Brian Chippendale (Drawn and Quarterly) Brian Chippendale draws beautiful things with his ratty, scratchy, shaky black lines.
On "Temple Sleeper," he strings together measures of a scratchy, high-BPM drum sample augmented by trebly synth progression.
Six months of cold dry weather, not to mention constricting boots and scratchy socks, have no doubt caused havoc.
For Chris Stapleton, it's a low, scratchy celebration of love, aided and abetted by his sterling-voiced wife, Morgane.
Rod Stewart, scratchy and loud, combed his hair in a thousand ways and came out looking just the same.
Near the end a sound appears, high and scratchy and insistent, raising the tension as the guitar feeds back.
The Momentums also deftly handle every weird, scratchy detail in "Can I Kick It?" by A Tribe Called Quest.
From the scratchy, wry tone of his voice, we know immediately the identity of June's new commander: It's Commander Lawrence.
Her lines are blotchy, scratchy, insistent, dense, clustered, curling, straight, skipping, winding, and repetitive, like a rain of black thorns.
General comfort is certainly important as well; you don't want a fabric that's itchy or scratchy (unless that's your jam).
Katchadourian eliminated all coherent language, leaving only inconsequential words like "um" and "uh" and the scratchy sound of radio static.
"A couple of years ago, we were filming [Flip or Flop] and my voice started to get scratchy," Miller said.
The minute you start hearing the complexity in music, that's kind of where you're getting into more "beard scratchy" territory.
Growing up near Phoenix, Heather Schwan sniffled her way through the seasons, with itchy eyes, scratchy throat and runny nose.
So why do we wind up buying cheap, scratchy sheets and lumpy pillows that do nothing for our spinal alignment?
But around the house, it's just Scratchy Husband Pasta, and we each make a version of it for the other.
They cultivate an interesting atmosphere, as well, occasionally cushioning the extremity with traditional Moroccan folk instruments or scratchy electronic moments.
"Cold Coffee & Cocaine" is comedy; Prince puts on a scratchy, tough-guy voice and starts a choppy, bluesy piano vamp.
The lens-making process can also leave uneven, scratchy surfaces that might not be visible but could scratch your cornea.
"Unconditional Love" and "Judas" foreground sweet, ascending/descending choruses while cutting them with warm, scratchy guitar distortion and fidgety drums.
He enters the darkened ring in ghostly greasepaint, throwing glitter in the air to the mewling of a scratchy French oldie.
The scratchy, scribbled dribbles that "Volubilis" employs owe a lot to a less solemn, that is, transgressive, approach to Abstract Expressionism.
I buy two butter croissants (one for me and one for N.) and a chamomile mint tea for my scratchy throat.
It was on his watch that Israel and the Holy See exchanged ambassadors in 1994, upgrading a previously scratchy diplomatic relationship.
Paak's voice, whether sung or spit, is scratchy and mercurial; in someone less practiced, it might sound comical or affected, but .
A weary, scratchy shout soon explodes into a serrated roar—a sore throat forcing air and exhortations out of aching lungs.
Calling the sequin gown "light, airy and not scratchy," Moore recently told PeopleStyle it was her "favorite" look of the season.
Mr. Ward's voice often starts out nearly alone, scratchy and shaky; by the end of the song, he's leading a multitude.
The bird will fly directly into it, leaving you with a scratchy throat and the urge to sneeze feathers all day.
Because of all the rivers and lakes, wide swaths of the Selous are impenetrable — picture green, overgrown, scratchy and thorny bush.
Tuesday: Gabrielle Hamilton's recipe for scratchy husband pasta, essentially a combination platter of cacio e pepe, aglio e olio and arrabbiata.
Some pointed fingers defiantly at men in the room, while others cried as they took turns speaking into a scratchy microphone.
The sounds lacked the scratchy and high-frequency waves of typical electroacoustic music, instead featuring more booms and springy, loud bleeps.
It brings back memories of lying on our tummies on scratchy carpet, dreaming of cake, candles and that fluffy buttercream icing.
After about 10 minutes there was an announcement, which, like most announcements on the subway, was scratchy and hard to hear.
There's a wide nozzle with a shallow, scratchy fabric for scrubbing, and a long narrow nozzle with a flip-out brush.
While wool might seem oppressively hot or scratchy, this isn't the wool your authentic Irish fisherman's sweater is made out of.
Gülen, a dour, balding proselytizer with a scratchy voice, had fled Turkey in 1999, fearing arrest by the country's military rulers.
On "Hurt You First," his drums are scratchy and almost claustrophobic, and his synths are icy but without any digital chill.
Ruban is scarlet and scratchy, the stuff we bought before a costume party to tie a letter "A" around my neck.
Cheaper imports will likely max out at around one inch and can be held together by screws or scratchy glue lines.
Rattling, scratchy percussion dominates, often centered around a rigid bassline plus various hisses and screeches muscling in and messing with the rhythm.
Assuming the distortion isn't in her throat, Tina Halladay yells into a scratchy microphone that transposes the aforementioned crunch to her vocals.
Sometimes having a nap in an Automat, listening to a scratchy gramophone record all dewy-eyed as if it were the Philharmonic.
It's got that sort of scratchy, dissonant guitar sound to it, which is something that we've learned from watching them as well.
That scratchy, earnest voice was a constant during those years, in our headphones and at raucous shows with his band Mischief Brew.
Readers not caught up on the story will feel very lost, but it's worth leafing through for Joe Infurnari's scratchy, hazy artwork.
So there was the lot of that, stuff like Carter USM, people using terrible puns, and making records that sound very scratchy.
When I pressed my face into the jacket, the well-worn fabric felt slightly scratchy and I got a whiff of cigarettes.
That is, until an even more troublesome symptom — excruciating scratchy eye pain unrelieved by drops — prompted an immediate visit to her ophthalmologist.
Dear Heloise: Tell designers that if they wish to have their names attached to their clothing, then use tags that aren't scratchy.
But after 89-plus years, one thing is almost certain: When he figures it out, his scratchy voice will make itself heard.
A wool throw that appears thick online could turn out to be disappointingly thin, and one that looks soft could be scratchy.
The track's much more good-natured than Omari's typically menacing music, with chilled-out keys taking precedence behind the rapper's scratchy singing.
It looks scratchy on an HD TV, like any old system does (have you plugged an N64 into a 1080p TV recently?).
They really let it rip on their 2013 LP, Part Ache, as the vocal styles oscillate between guttural growls and scratchy shrieks.
I'm glad I packed soup for lunch — my throat is so dry and scratchy and I feel like I'm definitely getting a cold.
Rather, he often renders a line in sections, depicting a kind of scratchy movement that adds a feathery edge to his linear elements.
Sure, the fabric was low quality, but for $30 slacks that look cool and professional, I could probably overlook the mildly scratchy fabric.
"We're in a battle for America's soul," Biden, his voice faint and scratchy, told a crowd at a high school south of Cleveland.
I eventually tracked down that weapons dealer and spent my own money talking to him over a scratchy long-distance line to Beirut.
Miller began to use his scratchy, cocksure voice differently, his raps growing more singsong, as a way of deciphering his ever-changing moods.
The only downside of pure wool is that it can be a bit rough and scratchy for those with sensitive skin, including mine.
"So much of this show is going to be hearing these men in that scratchy archival voice from the past," Mr. Abumrad said.
And as I was looking at these old, grainy and scratchy images, I saw my uncle, who died when I was really young.
An upholstered floor flaps up and down, bending the rules of physics while a scratchy soundtrack of feedback noises resonates in the background.
Stereophonics, a Welsh rock band, don't alter the song much at all — the main addition is lead singer Kelly Jones's signature scratchy delivery.
While they're less expensive than linen, they're not dirt cheap; in tests, Wirecutter found that really inexpensive percale sheets can feel very scratchy.
Opening with a saturated, scratchy chord that fractures into jitters, the score, conducted by Leslie Dunner, is most interesting in brief instrumental interludes.
Fauci answered that his throat had been scratchy and the lozenge he was having became stuck in his mouth, according to The Times.
Mr. Seabrook plays the guitar with a sharp and scratchy attack, as if he were clawing the notes off the instrument's wooden surface.
The six lived in nursing homes or walk-up apartments; they played mah-jongg or listened to opera or made scratchy independent movies.
This means we're not talking about gaudy, bright colors or scratchy, reflective fabric, but instead details that shine just when you need them to.
The other speakers and attendees also called me "Scratchy" for the duration of the day, a nickname I first heard in the fifth grade.
Needless to say, there are tons of factors (beyond appearance) that go into making a sweater cozy and dreamy — and not scratchy and annoying.
The gear shifter, which you use constantly, is shrouded in black plastic that's so cheap and scratchy it wouldn't pass quality control at Nerf.
London duo S4U have now essentially turned that feeling into three and a half minutes of dark, scratchy and sultry trap-inflected R&B.
I've seen them wash delicate cheeks using Original Source Mint and Tea Tree shower gel and wonder why they're mottled with red scratchy patches.
The works are completed (or elegantly defaced) with spray paint, scratchy daubs of black soap and big, velvety pours of the melted soap mixture.
Fauci later told The New York Times that his throat had been scratchy and the lozenge he was having became stuck in his mouth.
Let's say someone's on a long-haul flight to the United States and starts to have a scratchy throat or feel tired or achy.
Mahathir had an often scratchy relationship with the United States and other Western countries while Malaysia's longest serving prime minister from 1981 to 2003.
Fehrenbacher said some people tried to hide their coughs, though many had a lung-deep, rasping cough that indicates more than a scratchy throat.
"I used to like liquor to get me inspired/But you look so beautiful, my new supplier," she sings in an endearingly scratchy voice.
Flat parsley would never work (way too scratchy and not giving enough) but somehow curly parsley lends it the heat and smoothness it needs.
It follows a near-identical structure to "No Future / No Past," Baldi repeating a mantra over a scratchy, sinister guitar and Gerycz's ominous drums.
Ultimately up to you to determine whether you'll go for one of these treatments when that scratchy feeling starts to pop up in your throat.
I'm feeling tired, and my throat is a bit scratchy, so I suck on a lozenge I find in my purse and get to work.
It is the stuff of history books, of yesteryear, of scratchy black-and-white TV, of that newspaper which was already faded in my youth.
Running as an outsider candidate, Trump often promised to "drain the swamp," which is a metaphor for cleansing Washington of its corporate, back-scratchy insideriness.
My nana gave me one of her unfinished projects after I learned to knit—scratchy white acrylic yarn dotted with pastel pinks, blues, and yellows.
Mr. Pierce's voice has always been unheroic, seeming to fight its own scratchy hesitancy, in songs that contemplate pain, confusion, loneliness, estrangement and uncertain hope.
Elene's scratchy voice surged with emotion: Go be yourself Do what makes you happy Be whatever you Be whatever you want Yeah this is me!
A spokesperson told VICE News that 22 employees from 2100 different facilities began reporting symptoms of nausea, dizziness, tingling, and a scratchy throat starting Aug.
A spokesperson told VICE News that 29 employees from 10 different facilities began reporting symptoms of nausea, dizziness, tingling, and a scratchy throat starting Aug.
After listening all day to a scratchy boombox tuned to a hip-hop station, Abraha shops to the accompaniment of rock music from the Wallflowers.
She told a joke about a man who made a scratchy sound by rubbing two fingers together, as a way to keep the elephants away.
The lyrics, rapped and sung in an assortment of scratchy voices, juggle the bitterness of a crumbling relationship alongside career boasts and druggy, suicidal ramblings.
You're not given an explanation of what you're hearing, when the scratchy classical melodies were recorded, or what jazz musician was immortalized into this audio.
We are presented with the strangeness and puzzle of an outmoded war tableau, communicated as if it were some scratchy wax-cylinder recording, at times unintelligible.
His voice, coming to us via a low-fidelity intercom in the death chamber, sounds distant and scratchy, though he stands less than 10 feet away.
Culled from Special Collection, barely cleaned up at all, it introduced a wider audience to Willis's work, scratchy and imperfect though the songs may have been.
There were no scratchy background noises or dips in service and I didn't have to feel like the Verizon pitchman at any point during the call.
He was already an alcoholic, and then he became a cartoonist, producing scratchy images that blistered both those with disabilities and the people who pitied them.
Not to mention the cotton-merino fabric is also very light and breathable, surprisingly so (because in my mind cardigans are itchy-scratchy-heavy-wooly things).
But when I swiped it on, they didn't feel gritty or scratchy; instead, the tiny granules dissolved on contact while gentle AHAs did the real resurfacing.
Throw all the bleary eyes and mussed-up hair and scratchy stubble and disheveled clothes in the world at him, but it won't do any good.
High school and college runners who compete in indoor track meets often experience scratchy throats and burning lungs from the dry, overheated air in indoor complexes.
On one, kids can try to move a marble through a drawn-on maze, while the other is made of soft, scratchy material perfect for fidgeting.
The Art of Shaving Beard Wash and Conditioner Set, $30, available at The Art of ShavingSoap and water can leave his facial hair dry and scratchy.
While Stamaty's pages are scratchy, seething and dense, Hernandez's are clean and high-contrast, breathing effortlessly, their white spaces punctuated by dramatic patches of solid black.
It's in that space, that scratchy, uncomfortable place, where sparkling joy glistens up against something darker, that you can guess the true heart of Troye Sivan lies.
We wanted to make a record that was done in the studio but was still very lo-fi and scratchy and a little bit out of control.
But when you consider the words, and let Rihanna's impassioned, scratchy belt wash over you, Anti's versions are far from carbon copies of more traditional siren songs.
Peppy, silly hits like "Rio" and "Hungry Like the Wolf" had the Brooklyn audience dancing and singing along, ignoring some scratchy edges in Mr. Le Bon's voice.
His voice, many say, sounds like somebody who's lived a life: smog-thick and scratchy, often overwhelmed by the deft, mature way in which he channels emotion.
For the nearly 21865 re-enactors at Zoar, a weekend wrapped in scratchy wool and the culture of the 22017s was their idea of the perfect getaway.
It's jerky, it's fast, the soldiers look like sort of Charlie Chaplin characters, it's scratchy, it's got breaks in it, and that's what I'm used to seeing.
Instead, news trickled in over scratchy phone lines that the group the men thought were targeting them had attacked another community nearby, carrying off around 600 animals.
Somebody hung an extraordinary garland, a kind of lei constructed entirely of vegetables, around Walker's neck, which was a little scratchy but smelled deliciously planty and fresh.
New computer programs went one way, and data — including scratchy photos of new landscapes and the whispering moans of interplanetary plasma fields — came back the other way.
So I had to reach for a definition of cozy that didn't involve chenille socks or a big scratchy couch pillow or even my body at all.
Sampaoli said his players lacked a "clear idea" of what they were doing but he studiously avoided taking sole blame for their confusion throughout a scratchy World Cup.
At best, that scratchy feeling in the back of your throat or the constant sniffle you have in the middle of the night wakes you up only momentarily.
In other words, with each successive year, flyers' likelihood of suffering fatigue, sleeplessness, scratchy throats and eyes, and the jet lag to which these symptoms contribute will diminish.
The painterly works make use of varied brushstrokes, from wide swaths of lush color, to scratchy, aggressive mark-making, to neon lines so smooth they almost appear digital.
She talked constantly, in a scratchy, high voice, while gesturing with her hands; at practice, her coach regularly threatened to kick her out if she didn't stop talking.
For most of this century, it has been where I head during the dog days, when New York turns still and sullen under a scratchy blanket of heat.
"In my mind's eye, my father is always in a scruffy brown wool bathrobe; my cheek still prickles at the memory of his scratchy morning hugs," she writes.
Warning signs of a trapped contact lens typically include sharp or scratchy pain, light sensitivity and redness, but the woman had no symptoms once the shuttlecock injury healed.
However, searching for "virtual" proved fruitless, and "VR" turned up little more than an episode of Itchy & Scratchy, so we're just gonna say the redditor in question knows magic.
Still, the beeps and scratchy bursts are unmistakably recognizable to anyone who's heard the audio of Armstrong's "one giant leap for mankind," pushing into the present from the past.
Carrying his Kalashnikov, Maritz greets two rangers who emerge from the scratchy, sun-scorched grass escorting two poachers, one of whom wears flip-flops; the other, barefoot and hobbling.
While everyone else drank and watched cartoons, he and I sneaked up to his childhood bedroom, which was covered with band posters, trinkets from abroad and scratchy wool sweaters.
But back to the blackberries: Legend has it that when the Devil was kicked out of heaven, he fell straight into a horribly scratchy but surely quaint blackberry briar.
There were obvious signs of a scramble: Preet Bharara, the former federal prosecutor, shared his thoughts with CNN on a scratchy phone line whose signal dropped in and out.
Scratchy vocals and rustling overdubs didn't make this lo-fi to me but positively verbose: what was a soft song rang out like cop sirens, or madhouse dorm alarms.
Leon Russell, the longhaired, scratchy-voiced pianist, guitarist, songwriter and bandleader who moved from playing countless recording sessions to making hits on his own, died on Sunday in Nashville.
With the same jackets and scratchy sweaters on rotation, your seasonal staples now feel anything but fresh — even if you just took 'em out of storage a few weeks ago.
Many brands sew a name tag and content label into the rolled edge, which I find annoying and scratchy and too visible, but removal would cause the scarf to fray.
That decision was taken to improve Poland's scratchy relations with its European partners; the suave, English-speaking Mr Morawiecki is seen as a more convincing exponent of his boss's views.
We've become empowered...and yet in the United Kingdom we still have to go with a pencil on a Thursday to put a little scratchy tick next to someone's name.
The spikiness of the record astounds anyway; from plinky synthesizer to buzzy synthesizer to crunchy synthesizer to scratchy drum machine to the choked strain of Dreijer's voice, everything's an irritant.
Hold on a minute, said Mr. Grim, a 20-year S.E.C. veteran whose gaunt appearance was accentuated that day by a cold that had left his voice scratchy and weak.
And I wish everyone could have this pot of pasta I make for her sometimes when she is stressed out: Scratchy Husband Pasta, as it's known in our easygoing vernacular.
The "Chipmunks Christmas" record — that's the indelible mark in my childhood memories of the Chipmunks playing, and the scratchy record, and decorating the tree, and people coming over, and Santa.
Near the end of this year's hit Broadway show "What the Constitution Means to Me," the audience hears a scratchy old recording of an oral argument at the Supreme Court.
The initial scratchy relations between the young women shift dramatically over the course of a magnificently evoked party scene, rife with social taunts and the revelation of more family secrets.
That fizzy pop sound I hear when I tap my screen is so much more jolly than the scratchy clamor of wood on wood when digging through Scrabble's tile bag.
The default pads clad in mesh cloth are stiff, almost to the point of being scratchy, and felt more like cardboard than anything you'd actually want to put on your ears.
The little trash pandas tend to carry rabies and diseases that make them walk around like zombies, and they eat pretty much anything they can get their scratchy little paws on.
Years ago, if you wanted to watch a TV show from another country, you'd have to venture into the shadier sections of the internet for scratchy, pirated versions with shoddy subtitles.
Because it's not just the cold that's crushing your beauty soul right now: it's scratchy sweaters, socks, and scarves; short, dark days; and hats — don't even get us started on hats.
My colleague River Donaghey brought Krasdale brand toilet paper to my home and the low quality of the toilet paper led me to imagine a series of scratchy, thin pizza bagels.
To be fair, there is one melodious gag, which pops up when Daniels and her comrades are trying to decipher the transmission, scratchy with static, that was received out of nowhere.
But since I live in a city, my picnics are more likely to consist of a sandwich and iced coffee on a scratchy patch of grass at a public park. Whatever.
An episode from 1990 titled "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge" showed Springfieldians protesting against Michelangelo's statue of David being exhibited in the local museum, calling the artwork obscene for its nudity.
She seemed, if anything, less humbled by a valedictory experience than curious about what there was to take away from it besides a scratchy polyester gown and an unflattering tasseled cap.
The Saturday Profile STOCKBRIDGE, England — Alex Lewis had been enjoying pints of Guinness with friends one cold evening when his throat started feeling scratchy and he came down with the flu.
Sokurov digitally manipulates the images to appear scratchy, ceaselessly flickering, and curiously enough, showing the wavy lines of the "analog" soundtrack being "recorded" on the left-hand side of the frame.
Like Anderson Paak's, this is a voice whose edges seem rubbed off by scratchy sandpaper, allowing otherwise swallowed moans and grunts to trickle out the edges and run down his chin.
Kopp's scratchy, glittery hair ties collected harmful pathogens in their fabric and transferred them to her blood stream by aggravating the surrounding skin and hair follicles, leading to three separate bacterial infections.
Going by the kind of movies that have won in recent years— The Shape of Water, Moonlight, and Spotlight — The Favourite seems too wicked, too edgy and scratchy to take the trophy.
The record dips into a more mechanic lane on "Divided Youth (only lovers)" with a scratchy, distortion, almost mesmerizing in tone, with a specifically firm vocal pacing on the part of Crowe.
Or you could make Gabrielle Hamilton's scratchy husband pasta, which is essentially spaghetti aglio e olio that is also spaghetti cacio e pepe and, if that weren't enough, spaghetti all'arrabbiata as well.
While I wasn't a full-fledged party monster, I spent many a Monday morning conjuring a scratchy-throated voice to call in sick to work from the payphone in front of The Palladium.
The result is an array of five scratchy line drawings of feminine and winged figures: in one, the bird floats alone; in another, it appears to kiss a woman's face with its beak.
But in works like "Something to Hunt" and "Albatross" Ms. Fure takes the time to build these collections of sighing, scratchy and shuddering sounds into sophisticated textures that gradually take on profound expressivity.
At a minimum, his words implied that relations between the Patriarchs of Moscow and Constantinople, the two main poles of authority in eastern Christianity, could go from scratchy but functional to non-existent.
Wearing bib number 13, the dreadlocked Harlaut wiped out in his first run and a score of 75.80 after a scratchy second routine was 10 points short of a spot in the final.
Allergy symptoms can leave you with watery eyes, a runny nose, and a sore, scratchy throat for weeks or months if left untreated, but a cold will usually clear up in a week.
Produced in his unique homemade medium — stove soot and saliva on paper scraps — they reflect his peculiar blend of delicacy and rawness, with scratchy scaffolds of lines containing remarkably subtle and atmospheric tones.
However scratchy their relations become on Earth, Americans and Russians remain yoked together in space, and this will remain the case as long as the International Space Station keeps spinning round the earth.
His fiddle playing had the deliberately rough-hewed sound of rural tradition; his tone could be sweet or scratchy, his phrases songful and melancholy or propulsive and gnarled with ornamental turns and quavers.
At last, halfway through two days of doomy talk about trade wars and some scratchy exchanges about whether Westerners have a right to criticise China's leaders, a Chinese participant sounded an optimistic note.
One of the TVs is permanently stuck on TNT because no one knows where the remote is, and the other one has broken closed captions and the display is one-half scratchy static.
Mr. Leithauser is best known as the lead singer of the Walkmen, a scratchy workhorse of aughts-era New York City indie-rock, which went on indefinite hiatus a couple of years ago.
AesculaTech's founders say the condition affects more than 20 million people in America, who collectively spend $3.5 billion a year treating symptoms that can include a burning, scratchy sensation, discharge and impaired vision.
It's the first time the pair have ever produced a capsule of clothes bearing their own iron-on designs — as a way to show how Itchy Scratchy patches can be worn and styled.
Now in week three of my horrible cold, which is giving me this very scratchy voice today, still, we have in the red chair Chris Hughes, one of the co-founders of Facebook.
Grime today is no longer the grime of Risky Roadz DVDs, Stratford Rex hype pits, the bruised blue skies that framed Dizzee and Crazy Titch's infamous shoving match, or the oeuvre of Scratchy.
He was also sensitive to scratchy clothing, startled easily, and prone to epic tantrums as a toddler (the kind that could not be fixed by normal discipline methods like "redirection" or time-outs).
I felt that we'll probably be changing the instrumentation a bit and making it less so about the scratchy guitar-ness and maybe more kind of like a sort of electronic side of things.
The Pauls, which seem to be made entirely of gears and webcams, are seated at school desks; volunteer models inevitably look awkward as the robots' arms — which look like protractors — piece together scratchy portraits.
Her new collection uses plenty of the stuff, though not in the scratchy, rough-hewed way the word "wool" implies, nor in the slightly tomboyish, horse-womanly manner of some of her earlier pieces.
" Dig into that in the dub-like instrumental breakdown of "Honeybear," off 2006's Show Your Bones or the way Nick's scratchy guitar mimics a clock's second hand on the almost stressfully hectic "Tick.
She is discussing the ethos behind Itchy Scratchy Patchy, the playful line of decorative patches — and now clothing — that she co-founded with her lifelong friend, the British model Edie Campbell, a year ago.
Mr. Kane took the cleaning metaphor literally, magicking garbage bags into dresses (their ties turned to bows), washing-up rags into scratchy-looking knits, laundry bags into lace, and mops into silk-fringed shoes.
This approach is not appreciated by his boyfriend, Louis Ironson (a terrific James McArdle, who wears his character's guilt like a scratchy straitjacket), a legal clerk prone to endless bloviation on morality and justice.
A further dose of bound-and-waiting suspense arrives in Jessie J's willful, revved-down remake of James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)," with ticking electronic percussion and a shivery, scratchy vocal.
Not only did they wake me up each morning with their horrible, scratchy crowing, they fought incessantly among themselves, spreading bloody feathers everywhere and filling the farmyard with an ugly air of primeval violence.
Chris Maxwell sang lead on occasion, and the bright hooks of his songs like "Wide Open" contrast well with the wild-eyed absurdity of Sanko songs, which he often sang through scratchy antique microphones.
Just like cheap toilet paper is akin to public school, being forced to reckon with a thin, scratchy, undersized bath towel that doesn't close around your body is like showering in a zero-star motel.
Getting a demo cut is tough work: the cost, the slog, the hours of work to get a scratchy white-noise tape down that might do just enough justice for your sound to peer through.
"The lo-fi aesthetic and freaky vocal delivery makes for an unsettling experience, like being chased through the woods by a chainsaw-wielding maniac," due to its "distorted riffs and scratchy guitar solos," said Pandora.
As you might expect from a diverse group that ranges from scratchy-voiced white men in their forties to even scratchier-voiced white men in their seventies, other coaches' musical inspiration covers a wide spectrum.
For the generations raised after the First World War, it's hard to imagine the "war to end war" without also imagining the media produced in the trenches: Silent, scratchy black-and-white photos and films.
In the first, Mr. Sciarrino, clearly inspired by Paganini's dazzling violin caprices, writes an avant-garde equivalent, with whirlwinds of jagged, scratchy-toned arpeggios that flow into slinky, sliding tones, then erupt in staccato madness.
The loophole is a throwback to the days when the ultra-high-frequency TV spectrum — the part higher than Channel 13 — was filled with low-budget stations with often-scratchy reception over analog rabbit ears.
Mr. Serkis, without ever showing his face, nimbly displayed the manic and depressive mannerisms of the creature and combined them with a grating, scratchy voice to portray emotions ranging from extreme despair to intoxicating joy.
So you can imagine my surprise when I saw this one kid in my class named Mike wearing a black T-shirt with a scratchy scribble across the top and an illustration of dice underneath.
On men-only days there may have been cigar smoking and deal making (legend has it that mobsters liked the baths), but Ms. Lutchen remembers women wrapped in scratchy sheets who soaked their feet in tubs.
Mr. Cooper's "Cast" was too self-conscious an ending: music that blends nostalgic, jazzy ruminations with disintegrating stretches, trailing into a cosmic coda of Messiaen-like piano chords, scratchy violin phrases and a repetitive vibraphone riff.
All the [games in] 50 Short Games are sorta these scratchy, circumscribed, flat cartoons, so taken all at once it really made me wish there was more room for some kind of dreamy quality in there.
On Monday, Veterans Day, I'm thinking about the dish Gabrielle Hamilton calls scratchy-husband pasta, essentially a mash-up of three simple classics of the spaghetti repertoire: cacio e pepe, aglio e olio and all'arrabbiata, combined.
Sometimes there's nothing better than sitting in a smoky corner pub while listening to Nino de Angelo blast from a scratchy gramophone at a deafening volume while sipping ever-flowing cups of liquor with good company.
True, using only his mouth and hands, Tony is able to summon a church organ, a harmonica, a trumpet and, most amazingly of all, the fabled tenor John McCormack singing on a scratchy 78-r.p.m. record.
I call it "when are they gonna get to the fireworks factory?" television, after the 1997 Simpsons episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" (still one of the best TV episodes about the TV industry ever made).
Ideally, bristles should be soft enough at the ends to not feel scratchy or prickly on the skin, yet feature good rigidity or "backbone" so that they&aposre not too floppy to work up a lather.
The scratchy recording was disseminated overnight across social media, provoking a new wave of online criticism against the billionaire businessman's self-funded White House campaign just as it has begun to earn broader support in public polling.
While dry eyes and a scratchy throat may simply be a reaction to low humidity in fire-prone areas, she said, a cough, shortness of breath or lightheadedness could also be a symptom of something more serious.
Set against the darkness of dusk, the video sees Rundle, the wonderfully gloomy songwriter behind acts like Marriages and Red Sparowes, waxing about the hopefulness of mortality over the discordant yet sweet sounds of her scratchy guitar.
Hideki Matsuyama suffered a horror triple bogey seven at the third in a scratchy round of 74 and has plenty of work to do over the next few days if he is to successfully defend his title.
Vaquera's second addition was Ms. Taubensee, 28, who was another of Ms. Gallagher's interns; its third, David Moses, 24, a kinetic, occasionally frantic young man with saucer glasses and many scratchy tattoos, who interned for Eckhaus Latta.
In a scratchy wail, Mr. Cole led Dead Moon in ragged, macabre-obsessed songs, like "Graveyard" and "Dead Moon Night," that sounded as though they could have been made at any time in the last 50 years.
Getting to sleep can still be a challenge: There are no beds, only thin mattresses on the floor with no pillows or sheets, and heavy, scratchy blankets that create the feeling of sleeping with a dead horse.
Only the nature sounds avoid inorganic discord; otherwise, the scraped synthesizers in "Twilit," the scratchy drums in "Cupidwing," the modulated groans in "Rune," and the grainy static that envelops the album would all sound harsh in isolation.
He is from the Nuer ethnic group and a village in the country's north, near the town of Bentiu, where the savanna is relatively flat and the thorn bushes and scratchy elephant grass stretch to the horizon.
So if you want to scream your head off at a soccer game but don't have the time to suck on a cough drop to soothe your scratchy throat, simply nosh on one of these Kit Kat bars.
If you do wake up feeling like you have a scratchy throat, the sniffles, or any other allergy symptoms, then it is most likely something else in your bedroom that's triggering it besides your fan, Dr. Chen says.
The young girl would often go into a trance-like state where she would speak in deep, scratchy voice, claiming to be the ghost of a man named Bill Wilkens, who had died in the house years before.
Like the disco keyboards juxtaposed against the scratchy punk guitars in "Stay Hungry," the Byrne character's sudden rush of desire is most striking when contextualized by songs on which he makes a show of buttoning his top button.
We watch Billy Mitchell's scratchy, warping VHS tape intercut with his conversation with the owner of Twin Galaxies, and intercut with that is the head referee talking about how the score keeper must have integrity about anything else.
It started, as many of the more head-scratchy trends often do, at Fashion Week, when editors and bloggers the planet over like to bust out their boldest artifacts and strangest new obsessions for a little road test.
And the way dances around her Jerusalem apartment, singing along to a scratchy old LP, you would never know that a delicate surgery lies ahead, or that her husband has dumped her for a young, pouty-lipped singer.
Taylor, a rock 'n' roll nerd who worked alongside Douglas at Saturn Records, got his hands on a set of scratchy demos that Bob Dylan had recorded in a Minnesota hotel room in 1961, before his electric trip.
Mr. van Hove's version, brilliantly designed by his constant collaborator Jan Versweyveld, begins with scratchy projected newsreel footage of the 1933 Reichstag fire in Berlin, which destroyed the German Parliament building and cemented the power of Adolf Hitler.
Everything counters everything else, starting with the continual play of black against white and including the contrasts of brushwork, scratchy drawing and materials, among them hair, dog fur, rubber bands, a stuffed animal, plastic dolls and peanut butter.
"When people say they feel ill when they're on an airplane—with a scratchy throat—it's generally from the super dryness of the air," says Petra Illig, an emergency medicine doctor and aviation medical examiner based in Anchorage.
On Bark Your Head Off, Dog, her scratchy vibrato is at turns fragile and boisterous, often on the same song—and as the album unfolds, she leads her band through the many fascinating corridors of their own making.
But when the lights come up, you see that it is the tap dancer Caleb Teicher, caressing a sanded floor with his leather shoes: not a scratchy old record at all, but a young artist trying new things.
As promised, Make Me Know You Sweet generally tends more toward murky abstraction, embracing the sturdy stillness of long-held synthesizer notes and scratchy samples that circle one another and mark the passage of time like tree rings.
But scoop up a teaspoonful and rub all over your wet scalp, and it melts into a luxuriously fizzy paste-cream consistency that, combined with the satisfyingly scratchy texture of the granules, gives you a salon-worthy head massage.
And if you think about the logo of MTV with all those colors and patterns and the scratchy graphics, that clearly is close to the graphic designs coming out of Italy that were in context of which Memphis emerged.
Inhaling too much ozone (the main ingredient in industrial smog) can damage your lungs, make it harder to fight off respiratory infections, lead to chest pain, prompt shortness of breath or a scratchy throat, and can make asthma worse.
Before, shavers who required synthetic materials (perhaps due to allergies or a desire for animal-free products) had to suffer with stiff, scratchy nylon, but thankfully, newer material technologies have allowed for radical improvements over the past few years.
"It's All Gonna Be OK," which Noisey is premiering above, is nervous and twitchy, hallucinatory and repetitive with its scratchy and fidgeting guitar parts, until Gallo, sensing the growing unease, sings, "It's all gonna be OK." Good to know.
Sharif's scratchy abstract drawings from this time, generated by gamelike rules of logic, are among the earliest entries in the Sharjah show, along with photographs of performances which involved having conversations in toilets and stripping while walking up stairs.
Jessica Kiang, The Playlist: The very first image, even before the title flashes up in its scratchy calligraphic font, is a close-up of a woman's face as she burns alive — skin bubbling and peeling, eyes open and glassily, eerily calm.
When I first started living on my own in a crumbling studio apartment, I cut a lot of corners and shopped at the 99¢ store, but quickly discovered that scratchy T.P. just isn't worth the pain in the you-know-what.
For many exceptionally intelligent individuals, everyday stimuli such as a radio playing in the background, the colour or texture of food, a vibrant display on a classroom wall or a scratchy label in a piece of clothing can become almost unbearable.
Bon Scott, he ain't, but Axl's scratchy yowl does mesh quite well with AC/DC's trademark sound, and given the relative volume and clarity of the what's coming through that steel door, it sounds like his pipes are in order, too.
After the Nazi porn, I had definitely hit my personal saturation point, and as the crowd had thinned out a bit since it was late, I put three of the metal-and-scratchy-red-fabric chairs together and tried to sleep.
I imagined my father's life in the village as something out of late Tolstoy: a peasant culture of want, harshness, and discomfort; sledges chased by wolves through the snow, not enough to eat, everything scratchy and uncouth, nothing easy, nothing pretty.
The day that I realized I would spend most of my adult life in workwear is the same day I found myself sweating, rolling bags of ill-fitting blouses, scratchy wool skirts, and too-tight blazers into a donation bin.
Displayed alongside were a scattering of visual and auditory fragments that drew the viewer into the prisoners' cruel institutional world: a poem; a hostile blue light; scratchy sounds; and the picture of a Harlem school seen through a chain-link fence.
With an impressive tactile suggestion, Fischl conjures stiff, soaked tulle on flesh, conveying a loss so intense that the subject seems oblivious to the present moment, unmindful of a wet, scratchy sensation or that an expensive dress is getting trashed.
When we were children, she dutifully dragged my sister and me to the Lutheran church in Broomall, Pa., where we sat in scratchy clothes, listening to stories of talking donkeys, parting seas, multitudes being fed with a single loaf of bread.
It is always and forever a good time to make Gabrielle Hamilton's recipe for scratchy-husband pasta, essentially spaghetti aglio e olio e cacio e pepe e all'arrabbiata, which emerged from a smart column she wrote in 2018 for The Times.
JON CARAMANICA "No Halo" is the opening track and one of the best songs from the new Sorority Noise album "You're Not as ______ as You Think," a lovely and ruminative affair full of scratchy angst, murmured reflection and uncertain resolution.
Their scratchy guitar tones, blanky breathy singing, and underlying drones don't aim for a monolithic sound, as in shoegaze, but rather the flickering of electricity, sustained inconsistently, partially dropping out for extended intervals before zapping back on at high voltage.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Bay Area artist Colter Jacobsen's second New York City gallery exhibition, Essays, at Callicoon Fine Arts, is a beguiling onion of a show, with layer upon layer of intricacy lurking beneath its scratchy surfaces.
Scratchy ancient audio seemingly beamed in from another planet gives voice to many of the town's mechanized denizens, whose jaws and limbs look like they're going to break off as they move either glacially slow or all herky jerky like 19th-century tweakers.
The opening chords of "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel," an exuberantly silly rocket of a song, announce the specificity and eccentricity of their new sound: galloping drums, hyperactive picking, scratchy rhythm guitar, calmly echoey power chords overlaid atop the nervous base.
Or, at least what I would imagine a cashmere blanket would feel like — I'm not Gwyneth Paltrow, so my blanket textiles are limited to polyester "fur" and some warm but scratchy knit afghans my grandma made for me when I was 12.
The exact reason North Americans suddenly fell in love with upstroked guitars, horn sections, and scratchy-voiced dude vocalists for a few years is still unknown, but the dated goofiness of the subgenre has made for an easy punchline over the decades.
Even in this scratchy recording of an aria from "La Traviata," her voice is both crystalline and soft-grained, her Violetta a woman both realistic and dreamy, as in this note, in which innocent purity ineffably subsides into something richer and sadder.
To a scratchy rendition of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A.," mixed with clips of Mr. Trump's acceptance speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention, supporters cast themselves as "deplorables" and enthusiastic gun owners, and hoped for a glimpse of the president's motorcade.
As many of you know, Mr. Steinberg is one of the old souls behind the "Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project," and has put a tremendous effort into digitizing all of The New York Times puzzles that had been relegated to microfilm or scratchy PDFs.
For an hour every week, at the Social Dance after Mass and Sunday breakfast, with the smiling approval of Father Rector and Sister Hedwig, the seniors and the Mary Wards waltzed, mamboed, and cha-cha-cha'd to scratchy records on a gramophone.
But it's the foreground images — of the goblin bears, Dachau-like, and the turbulent, fascist darkness of crisscrossing, blotted seas — that enable this particular picture to reach beyond political aspersion, saying something in the scratchy language of line about the textures of fear.
I was five years old, it was shortly after noon and my family was gathered around my Grandaddy's big floor model radio, listening to a scratchy overseas broadcast that informed us that Pearl Harbor had just been attacked by Japanese bombers and fighter planes.
For anyone else the scratchy tape — on which Bloomberg argued that the only way to get guns out of the hands of young "minorities" is "to throw them up against the wall and frisk them" — would pose a potentially fatal blow to their candidacy.
It's also worth noting that one of the only places (if not the only place) to actually spend Sexcoin appears to be at the Sexcoin store, called "Sexcoin Maid," which makes this seem more like Itchy and Scratchy dollars for dildos than a legitimate currency.
For the study, published in the Journal of Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, nurses, doctors, and support staff at nine hospitals across Canada filled in online illness diaries during four flu seasons, recording symptoms such as a runny or stuffy nose, fever, cough or scratchy throat.
Koepka had snatched the lead with a birdie on the first hole and extended it to two strokes by the third but the 27-year-old imploded with a triple-bogey on the par-five eighth and finished the day fuming after a scratchy 73.
The wavering images in "Disco" are animated in such a way that makes the movement of the models appear seamless and smooth, which is simultaneously juxtaposed by the scratchy flickering variations in each new sketch, creating an interesting contrast of chaotic disarray and graceful linearity.
A scratchy rendition of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A.," mixed with clips of Mr. Trump's acceptance speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention, played as his supporters here celebrated themselves as "deplorables," enthusiastic gun owners and defenders of Americans from crimes committed by immigrants.
The album begins with "Hang on Me," a late-night call — at first just thumping and buzzing, later chiming — from a scratchy-voiced, drunken singer who can't stop thinking about crashing taxis and planes: "You and me, we're not from this world," she finally decides.
Often wordless for pages on end and drawn in simple, scratchy black and white (bar a few key pages), GLEEM occasionally turns into one big expanse, becoming a void as black as space itself in its attempts to articulate the overwhelming nature of isolation.
As a producer, he assembles choked sonic landscapes, hard to listen to not just because they're packed with scratchy electronic textures and abrasive screeches, but because they never stay in one place; he's always jumping around, smashing one beat and building another from the pieces.
Sharing the deep Texas bill on New Year's Eve: the scratchy-voiced, twang-loving, bruised-romantic songwriter Ryan Bingham along with Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, the band led by one of Mr. Nelson's sons that has lately roared behind Neil Young.
To go meant to put on a stiff, scratchy collared shirt, hand-me-down dress pants so oversized they made me look like a white, six-year-old MC Hammer, and a pair of black derby shoes that felt like they were carved out of wood.
When Mr. Taylor's "Spindrift" — set to Schoenberg's "String Quartet Concerto (after Handel)" — was revived on Wednesday, after six years, the solo violins (Krista Bennion Feeney and Anca Nicolau) sounded scratchy; and throughout the piece it was hard to feel any firm bond between dancers and musicians.
Rasana is tiny, about 20 homes, and walking through it takes just five minutes: past the dry, scratchy wheat fields that carry the whiff of cow manure, past the little brick houses that sit half-hidden behind walls, and, finally, past a small pink temple, now padlocked.
The reasonable expectation when Federer and Berdych clashed in just the third round of the Australian Open was that Federer would have to dig deep to have a chance after his six-month break from the game and his sometimes scratchy performances in the opening two rounds.
She's the ultimate "When are we gonna get to the fireworks factory?" character (so named because of a famous Simpsons gag about an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon that promises an explosive good time at a fireworks factory the characters never get to because they're derailed by other things).
South Korea's station is known as "V-24" to amateur radio enthusiasts who have tracked the source of the signal to a location somewhere south of the Demilitarised Zone separating the two Koreas, and has been known to begin with a scratchy rendition of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8.
By 1963, he was already working in a more poetic, associative register in "To Parsifal," which begins with what sounds like excerpts from scratchy maritime radio transmissions ("Pacific Standard Time, west, southwest, 14, partly cloudy"), an abrasive opening for what emerges as a meditation on the American West.
The novel begins as they pack the car for the trip, their conversation a scratchy back-and-forth of minor recrimination over who's responsible for walking Gerome, who should have emptied the recycling, the kind of complaints familiar to anyone who's ever tried to go anywhere with anyone.
Milhouse, frustrated by an episode of Itchy & Scratchy that never brings the titular cat and mouse to a fireworks factory promised by road signs, wails the line, and it's a stand-in for every time a story just keeps withholding the interesting stuff in favor of something else entirely.
After a torrid build-up to the tournament when he could not buy a victory followed by scratchy four-set victories in the opening two rounds, Murray has timed his return to form perfectly, taking down former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro in straight sets, then ousting Khachanov.
On a scratchy WhatsApp line from Guatemala, where he has passed much of his time out of power, Di Battista comes out swinging when I ask about Five Star's apparent rightward slide: "Today, whoever wants to take back sovereignty is considered a fascist, a nationalist, a populist, a demagogue," he says.
To the muhtar, the Karagumruk of old was a bucolic place: Ottoman houses made of wood, green-grass yards with "pools of golden fishes," mosques from which every call to prayer was beautiful (not some scratchy recording) and Turks who loved their neighbors, especially if they were Greek or Armenian.
"That Girl Is You" unfolds from introduction to obsession over a four-chord syncopated guitar riff, with Mr. Matthews playing nearly every part in the studio, yet there's an improvisational volatility to his voice — breathy and cagey, then rounded and courteous, then agitated and scratchy, then shrieking in wild-eyed falsetto.
Here, the slapped funk bass and the off-kilter drum machine and the scratchy, descending synthesizer hook combine in totally different ways to form a melancholy backdrop over which Prince alters and overdubs his voice, mixing in several chattering, dinky, sped-up permutations of himself to harmonize, scream, and cry with each other.
Just one stanza of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer," and I'm suddenly jetting back through time, reliving my entire childhood with her: seeing The Nutcracker while wearing scratchy tights and a fur muff, the gatherings every December at the weird buffet restaurant in Copley Place, the Christmas carols playing endlessly.
Standing at the door of the school kitchen clad in a purple sari, Ms. Sahu said that when she got the phone call urging her to vote for the B.J.P., she gave a quick response over the scratchy line: "I told them, 'You should raise our income or we will not vote.'"
At Indu Fashions, where shoppers remove their shoes, sit on the floor and assess outfits that salesmen unfurl in front of them, I bought the first thing I tried on: a peacock-colored gown with a mesh back and gold embroidery that felt scratchy but looked too regal to return to the rack.
What I did do — because I wanted to have a little bit more rasp to my voice — I would take shots of whiskey and I would scream really loud to try to get it as scratchy as possible or be around people who were smoking in a cloud of smoke and inhale.
Everywhere you look, things are happening to denim: The model Edie Campbell and Christabel MacGreevy outfitted one-of-a-kind pieces with patches from their playful line Itchy Patchy Scratchy; Vanessa Seward recently introduced high-rise jeans with the wearer's name embroidered on the back pocket; and now, the cool-girl denim brand M.i.
Business Insider correspondent Harrison Jacobs visited the island and found that in order to really enjoy it, you need to be able to spend a lot of money, as evidenced in his stay in the cheapest spot he could find, which ended up being a sparse room with scratchy sheets that cost $130 a night.
In another room, "Nixon" (93) — composed of a pair of Cathode-Ray TVs playing magnetic-coil-distorted clips of President Nixon's speeches — blends wonderfully with "Random Access" (1963), through which visitors are invited to place an audio head unit against a cassette tape, emitting a user-generated scratchy tapping sound that evokes a muddled message.
Mr. Black was a mainstay of the New York scene in the 1990s, but these days plays mostly in Europe; he's associated with excitably scratchy bands involving electric instruments and a rockish vocabulary, but this group, with the pianist Teddy Klausner and the bassist Thomas Morgan, is one of the better new extensions of jazz's long piano-trio tradition.
Actual, proper coffee is one of my few indulgences, which is the way you get through being young and poor in London: you save like hell, buy value pasta and scratchy toilet roll, and then you choose one or two things you're going to spend your money on no matter what, things that make the rest bearable.
Scouting Report Dover Street Market will close on Thursday and Friday, reopening Saturday for its seasonal New Beginning with new product introductions (Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Nike Air Max 243 collaborative sneakers, a Junya Watanabe Man x Carhartt WIP capsule collection), new brands (Nicholas Daley, Itchy Scratchy Patchy), new installations and updates to existing spaces.
It's a march (with her trademark double-time verses) that starts out crisp and hollow and then builds and thickens with layers of keyboards, synthesizers and stately chimes — until, at the end, all the musical opulence suddenly falls away and she's left with just the piano and a scratchy morning-after voice, wondering just what she seeks.
Inside were generic versions of all the trappings a layperson might assume are necessary in some sort of doomsday outbreak scenario: scratchy white coveralls, an N95 mask (which may not properly filter out airborne coronavirus particles), plastic goggles, disposable gloves, shoe covers, a hair net, tape to secure the coveralls, a biohazard bag, and antimicrobial hand wipes.
This was a place where every kid was put into a scratchy, stiff uniform and handed some Brasso and told to polish the belt buckle and shown a room and a barracks, so at 19503 he never would be in his family's home again until he was a student at Fordham in college, and all the kids who went there had trouble adjusting.
For today, the elegant kitchen belonging to Campbell's mother, the fashion stylist turned architect Sophie Hicks, doubles as the Itchy Scratchy HQ. The minimal space's white walls serve as a counterpoint to the irreverent aesthetic of the brand — which began on a whim, and without outside investment, as an antidote to the samey, normcore looks that have become so dominant.
While the writers of The Ferrante Letters explain early on that their project of collective criticism is about making visceral "the texture of togetherness," it is over the course of reading the letters (and bonus essays) that we realize how scratchy and uncomfortable that texture is, particularly for ambitious women looking to make their own unique marks on the world.
Read Music, Speak Spanish is characterized by a pace almost alien to Bright Eyes, and its scratchy electric guitars and always-propulsive percussion provide a backdrop for a biting, anti-capitalist lyrical agenda—delivered in a snarl instead of Oberst's usual lilting tones—which defines the whole album (the physical copy of the LP even contains a lyric insert laid out like a legal contract).
But in the form in which "Flight" was presented on Sunday — the printed program called it both a "world premiere" and a "work-in-process" — the succession of recorded voice-overs, archival images and scratchy string-quartet interventions held all the appeal of those educational sideshows you find in museums, which you submit to just for the chance to sit in a dark room and rest.
Cunningham dancing in and around the chairs—he was joined in his dance by a dog, who as an interloper, created his own time brackets; [Robert] Rauschenberg either standing before his paintings or playing scratchy records of Edith Piaf and others at double speed on an ancient wind-up phonograph with a horn loudspeaker; [David] Tudor playing a prepared piano and a small radio. . . .
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So on Wednesday he filled the gilded, mirrored halls of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris's city hall, with the scratchy howls of Deep Purple, and amid it all focused on … doodles: hand drawn pen-and-ink sketches by his studio that consisted mostly of feathers and plant fronds, with the occasional peacock eye winking in for good measure, reproduced in what seemed to be their original Bic shades.
The exhibition features such pieces as "Collage" (1976), with its central, dark-pink section and typically tidy stitching-together of mostly rectangular fabric components; "Untitled" (1985), a patchwork of off-white blocks topped off by a single black diamond (which Mark Baron cut from a larger, patterned piece of cloth; his mother did not feel capable of "violating" it herself); and "Untitled" (1983), with its scratchy, primordial markings and brown outline of a slender human form.
Yeah, it goes back to that initial ... Well, it wasn't the initial concept; it was actually a concept that came about once we saw the footage and things, is that we decided that we have to present this film as realistically as we can, in the sense of making the film, which has always been black and white, it's always been jerky, it's always been scratchy, making the film look like it was shot today, but it was shot 100 years ago.
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Mr. Young has a scratchy voice, but he bolsters it with tons of melodic ballast, turning a song that's desperate at its core into something majestic: In case you didn't knowBaby I'm crazy 'bout youAnd I would be lying if I saidThat I could live this life without youEven though I don't tell you all the timeYou had my heart a long long time agoIn case you didn't know "In Case You Didn't Know" comes from Mr. Young's soothing, approachable self-titled debut album, which was released in February.

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