Sentence examples for ear emphasis from inspiring English sources

A well-trained eye and ear — emphasis on the well-trained — can pick up signals a metal detector cannot.

It was all pretty benign until, halfway through, something in Shukman's narration caught my ear (emphasis mine): The problem with coal comes when you burn it.

The social psychologist Assumpta Mugiraneza does not disagree, but to her ear the emphasis is on the extremity of the slaughter.

He actually asked me to repeat my order whilst angling his ear slightly closer for emphasis.

As they drove to court, discussing their ears and their children, he marvelled at how light Joan had become; she sat on the side of his vision as light as a feather, her voice tickling his ear, her familiar intonations and emphases thoroughly musical and half unheard, like the patterns of a concerto that sets us to daydreaming.

And they have been strung tautly and closely in a fast-paced, ear-opening production that puts the emphasis on one of the most compelling musical scores to come out of the last four decades.

They have a tin ear for its nuances of meaning and emphasis.

There's an emphasis on meat and game (and ears and feet), though regulars know to save room for the amazing riz au lait.

But now, with acts taking place in one, two or three rings (sometimes not rings but borders of colored lights), the emphasis has shifted, perhaps unintentionally, to the ear.

Orpheus played with energy and emphasis, pressed the tempo at times and made the ear work overtime at sorting out individual lines.

He speaks passionately, but with a slow, plummy emphasis on even ordinary words that is distracting to an American ear.