ON my first morning in Sana, the capital of Yemen, the call to prayer didn't just rouse me from sleep, it rattled the window panes, seemed to shake the foundation of my hotel, and spread from minaret to minaret as if the entire Old City was an enormous echo chamber.
Then again, the Republican Party has the Koch brothers and every other rich bastard showering it (directly and indirectly) with money; the Supreme Court augmenting its Bush v. Gore disgrace with Citizens United opening up even larger floodgates of corporate political cash; right-wing talk radio from sea to shining sea; Fox "News," and an enormous echo chamber, etc.
Understated, shocking, odd and yet so very familiar, Familiar addresses the themes that resound through "the strange, enormous, echo-filled room[s]" of our lives.
The enormous, echoing hall was still fairly quiet, and it had the heady smell of recently poured concrete.
With its classical columns and enormous, echoing salons, the Capitolio weathered the following decades relatively well compared with other structures in Havana's once grand and now dilapidated centre.
The procession passes through an underpass and just as there is great pleasure in honking the car horn in tunnels these many people send up an enormous cheer, echoing off the walls.
Two heart-backed armless chairs were smartly upholstered with checked Indian silk of sapphire and ruby, and his enormous tufted sofa echoed the sapphire in chestnut.
Director Marc Webb has stated that the announced fourth film "may not just be a Spider-Man movie," and "there are so many ancillary characters, that have enormous, cinematic potential," echoing Pascal and Lynton's statements for expanding the Spider-Man universe.
Amazon.com has had enormous success with its Echo smart speaker that, by default, is always listening for its owners' commands.
I read Beth Rowan's article ("Frustrations of the Internet Age," April 15) on her frustrations trying to obtain a high-speed Internet connection with enormous sympathy since it echoed many of my own thoughts and frustrations.
Of course, any movie depicting a gritty, cyberpunk-y city sits in Blade Runner's shadow, but this one doubles down on the debt, crowding its skyline with enormous holographic advertisements — an obvious echo of the giant billboards that dominated Ridley Scott's futuristic Los Angeles.
