Sentence examples for disruptive sounds from inspiring English sources
Reviewing a performance in 2009, Jon Pareles of The New York Times noted that the band "has always set up tensions between pop tunes, sung by Ms. Keenan with ingenuous clarity, and atmospheric, disruptive sounds".
Here is a sampling of readers' online postings about Farhad Manjoo's Home Tech column last week on earplugs, white-noise machines and other ways to counter annoying or disruptive sounds.
One of LIGO's systems responds to minuscule seismic tremors by activating a damping system that pushes on the mirrors with exactly the right counterforce to keep them steady; another monitors for disruptive sounds from passing cars, airplanes, or wolves.
White noise works by drowning out the disruptive sounds that might wake us up, like snoring, traffic outside our window or a neighbor playing music.
We all get used to living with aural annoyances, and often it's not until we lie down and try to fall asleep that we become aware of disruptive sounds in our environment.
(He was aided by Mark Grey's smoothly disruptive sound design and by the rough-edged intensity of the period-performance ensemble Ruckus, conducted by Clay Zeller-Townson).
Both the music and the recreated choreography convey the jarring impact of this invasion of disruptive sound and movement on a polite haute-bourgeois culture accustomed to Tchaikovsky's romantic ballets.
"I was actually kind of getting aggravated," Aldean said, recalling his initial response to the disruptive sound.
The results of the first experiment (N= 24) showed that the annoyance assessments were indeed altered by the experience of disruption, most strongly during, and to a lesser extent after task completion, whereas ratings of the non-disruptive sounds remained largely unaffected.
But Mr. Oestreich found himself more focused on the man seated directly behind him, who was connected to an oxygen cart or similar medical device that emitted what he called a steady — and apparently disruptive — ticking sound.
And as familiar as many of these tunes now are – the tartrazine rush of Lemonade; Bipp and its flipside, Elle, which upset the applecart in 2013 – Product still sounds disruptive, a sound pushing the limits of what constitutes pop and what is just an annoying noise you are inexplicably paying money for.
