' Lay your 'big thing that can connect to the internet and lie flat' flat in a well lighted area.
Instead of going toe to toe — or as Murray says, "flat, flat, flat" — he subjects his opponent to an unsettling mix of topspin and slice, hard and soft, low and high, angle and depth.
"New York City politics is flat, flat flat," she said.
"My first inclination is to say flat, flat, flat," Ms. Woods said.
Sharps were flat, flats were sharp, naturals were unnatural.
Frequency-flat ("Flat STF") and mirror-frequency-rejecting STF ("Selective STF") designs are simulated.
The opening fanfare is based on chains of fourths, adorning the initial B-flat-major triad with E-flats and A-flats.
In the next several bars, more dissonances accumulate, sustaining tension: F-sharp against G, A-flat against G, E-flat against D, B-flat against A-natural.
It comes to rest on an F-major chord, whereupon the trill steals in, beginning on a low F and trembling between the notes G-flat and A-flat.
The orchestra thrice plays a sequence of three chords — B-flat major, A-flat major, E minor — which echo, in a muted, darkened way, Scarpia's signature harmonies as heard throughout the opera.
He wrote "I Get a Kick Out of You" for Ethel Merman, in "Anything Goes," when he discovered that her best notes are A-flat, B-flat, and C-natural, and that she has an engaging manner of throwing herself away in the last few bars of a song.
