I think I was expecting a God Almighty, earsplitting racket, so I was disappointed when all I could hear was a kind of intermittent whirling.
The music on the Apollo's sound system was rumbling, soaring, just short of earsplitting.
Facing prosecution on a charge of impersonating a law enforcement officer, Mr. Pitt, 30, might not in fact return soon to his ministry and its services, which are known for earsplitting playlists, strobe lights and smoke machines.
It is a new retail chain dreamed up by a South Korean clothing conglomerate that seeks to sell California-casual sportswear in an environment that looks and sounds, with earsplitting dance anthems, exactly like the inside of a Hollister.
They size up their attackers and draw out the appropriate weapon – an earsplitting scream, a filthy look, a well-connected slap.
The city, led by Mr. Bloomberg's predecessor, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, fought in court to reduce the disruption of earsplitting helicopter flights from the heliport, which was built before a thicket of residential buildings sprung up in the area along the East River.
– The end came the way the Denver Nuggets feared it could, with Golden State's Stephen Curry lobbing 3-pointers, Andrew Bogut crashing the basket and a hyper-charged crowd shaking the arena with earsplitting noise.
"COME ON!" he screams at genuinely earsplitting decibels.
While it may make them sound like wholesome chart-pop boys, the absence of druggy synths and hyperactivity on Epic Last Song appears intent on showing the world that there's more to this band than a satirical mash-up of techno, metal and anything else earsplitting.
To earsplitting roars as he charged down the back straight two weekends in a row, Farah seemed on a mission to turn every stereotype about plucky British losers on their heads.
The vocalizations of most parrots are loud, raucous screeches; generally, the larger the species, the more earsplitting the calls.
