So it's best to put on gentler sounds.
By 2 a.m., the racket yields to the gentler sounds of residents calling it a day.
As the professional musician brought the gentle sounds of her African harp to patients' bedsides, I witnessed the warming responses of relatives, staff and patients themselves.
Ah, the gentle sounds of courtship as presented by John Patrick Shanley, a man who has never shied from the notion that love hurts.
We awaken to the gurgling sound of a small creek; even with the windows closed, the gentle sounds of the rhythm of water making its way downhill reaches my boys and pulls them outside to explore.
But unlike the gentle sounds marketed by labels such as Windham Hill, this music offers more attentive listeners a great deal more - an active, participatory listening experience that can refine, and intensify, one's conception and perception of beauty.
Built to accommodate the creation of Ms. Woodham's large-scale works, the space will resound to gentler sounds when the Hanoverian Ensemble play duets and solos as well as trios on period instruments.
The effect is quite mesmeric, and while there may be a few accusations of pandering to the mainstream with gentler sounds, Staind should still be around when the tribes have dispersed.
The saxophones invaded the hall with their gentle sounds and gestures until the very end of the piece, when the quartet suddenly played loud, repeated notes, abruptly silencing the chorus of saxophones.
While the more than two hundred color images in Charleston cannot do justice to experiencing a lush Southern garden with its visual and tactile feasts, gentle sounds of running water and birdsong, and sweet fragrances, they can serve as an inspiration and guide to planning a garden or perhaps a memorable vacation in the Carolinas.
The gentle sounds of cooing pigeons that usually fill the open-air market have been replaced by nervous chatter among the market's remaining stall owners.
