Sentence examples for background hum of the from inspiring English sources

"It will just be the background hum of the book".

Their presence as a kind of background hum of the city was pleasant and comforting.

It's the background hum of the famous graduation-party scene in Nichols's film "The Graduate".

The flight was eerily quiet, just the background hum of the plane and at one point a small baby crying.

The tinkling chains of flashing trinkets and plastic Eiffel Towers flailing from his arms momentarily drowns out the background hum of the city.

'I live with the constant background hum of the fear of death," says David Schneider, opening up his One to One (Radio 4) with Jenny Diski.

It was the background hum of Yonville, the sound of pointless activity, the sound of life just passing by, passing by without interest or protest.

As Charles Arthur put so well, "It's a sort of background hum of sexism; the level of droning that can drive women out of potential careers, and leave the 'brogrammers' baffled, looking at each other asking, 'Where are all the women?'".

And there is a persistent background hum of criticism about the accuracy or reliability of the enterprise, emanating either from aggrieved rivals (like Encyclopaedia Britannica) or more detached sceptics.

Then one of the chaps who has become part of the background hum of our lives moves to a new slot, or disappears altogether, and it becomes front page news.

Indeed, this is a country where repeated financial crises over decades have generated a steady background hum of anxiety for members of the middle class, who are one devaluation or layoff away from poverty.