Sentence examples for ground note from inspiring English sources

Love is the ground note; we cannot do without it or the sorrow of its changes.

Distrust — a dubiety of commitment and avowal — is his ground note.

It is usually tuned to the tonic, or ground note, of the raga (melodic framework).

His voice, explaining and interpreting, became the ground note of the trip.

Reporters on the ground note that much of the capital city's key institutions – including the airport and national state TV – appeared to be under the control of forces loyal to the government.

After a while you'll discover that the great ground note of New York — the basso continuo — is traffic noise, which is more tire whoosh than engine sound, punctuated every now and then by the clank of a car passing over a manhole cover.

"Early Breakfast is an amazing training ground," notes the programme controller.

The veteran Republican lobbyist seemed less concerned about the campaign's rudimentary footprint on the ground, noting that the Republican National Committee, state party and local parties "have always been the backbone of our get-out-the-vote effort".

Aside from the near totemic number of reproductions, the Spinario might be the only bronze to survive 2,300 years above ground, noted first in the 1160s atop a column outside the Lateran Palace in Rome.

In Tristano's "Wow," the melody, in four, was laid over a waltz rhythm; piano and trumpet played Tristano's galloping, whorl-like lines, while saxophone and bass played the ground notes in unison; and the drumming was in half-time.

John walks through a few simulated searches in rough ground, noting that piles of pebbles can warn locals of hidden bombs ("or turds"); using the BMW to demonstrate checkpoint technique ("basically old-school Northern Ireland-type car searching, which is coming back in vogue"); and dispensing Rumsfeldian principles ("you're looking for the absence of the normal and the presence of the abnormal").