The last two movements of the B flat, which can often seem empty rattling after the profundities of the first two, took on stature and heft in her recording, perhaps in keeping with the subtext she finds in the work.
Ice in an empty glass, rattled by a hand in the air, is an announcement from a person with power to a person with less power.
Five minutes later we were riding the gentle arc of the tracks alongside the Los Angeles River, admiring the titanic graffiti lining the walls of its concrete basin, six or seven mostly empty cars rattling on behind us.
Then the drunk retiree and his wife next to me, slurped at their empty cocktails, rattling the ice while trying to hum along at different intervals.
That may come in handy for, say, empty-nesters rattling about in a big house who want to trade down to a smaller one.
Outside are plastic chairs from the closed bookie's next door and empty cans which rattle around in the wind.
It is the empty tin that rattles most.
I hated the cold spot in the bed and the empty hangers that rattled in the closet.
On the face of it, the Taylors, Hills and Turners presented themselves like a grown-up Brady Bunch so it was hard to take sides against them either, although over the ensuing months and years plenty of skeletons and more than a few empty bottles came rattling out of their closets.
So perhaps the gasps were a bit louder than they would have usually been when Orioles first baseman Chris Davis took the third pitch he saw from White Sox starter Jeff Samardzija hard to right field, straight through the empty flag court, rattling around against the tall, closed fences leading out to Eutaw Street.
