Sentence examples for ear opener from inspiring English sources

For those people intimidated by or just put off by opera, "Master Class" could be an eye and ear opener.

Pine's voice is a particular eye and ear opener.

The minimal poems were eye openers, ear openers and mind openers, and no one else was doing anything much like them at the time, and no one has since.

Daníel Bjarnason's Qui Tollis was an amazing ear-opener.

All in all, he says, he hopes that the event will be "a bit of an ear-opener".

Not only was it an eye-opener that he was quite effeminate and crawling on the floor with dry ice, but it was an ear-opener, too.

For those who think the term "chamber music" defines something intimate and small-scale, the 25th-anniversary program of Chamber Music America should be an ear-opener -- for its length alone.

The Chamber Music Society's concert at Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday evening was a real ear-opener in terms of repertory, and it included some beautiful performances, not least of Hanns Eisler's highly obscure "Roman Cantata".

The Atoms of Language, by Prof. Mark C. Baker of Rutgers (Basic Books, $28), is for linguistic heavy hitters, but his discussion of the Navajo "code talkers" is an ear-opener.

And the juxtaposition of a Vivaldi concerto for two violins (Op. 3, No. 8, featuring Mr. Lin and Mr. Silverstein) with Bach's similar work (BWV 1043, featuring the Kavafian sisters) proved even more of an ear-opener.

His 2014 ECM debut, Mboko, was an ear-opener of sacred music that teemed with pockets of slow-pulse quiet and fractured chordal pounces, single-note meanderings and rushing tumbles.