Much to his astonishment, he found that he'd banished "black in all its overtones" from his palette, despite his traumatic past.
When it came, it was a squawking, ducklike sound, odd in its guttural overtones, yet paradoxically bright, shiny, and thin, like a drawn thread of hot glass.
But no film in his oeuvre could be more modern in its Freudian overtones, and the agnosticism it provokes in the viewer.
The monstrous mutations that ensue allow Burton to reference a handful of other scary movies, not just the Frankenstein pictures but Hitchcock thrillers such as The Birds and even, in its necrophiliac overtones, Vertigo.
Five decades ago, film critic Judith Crist described "The Haunting" as a "thoroughly satisfying ghost story for grown ups … completely contemporary in its psychological overtones and implications".
In the Champagne, with its overtones for next year's Triple Crown, two colts stood out: D. Wayne Lukas's Tactical Cat, who won the Tremont in the spring, and Scotty Schulhofer's Lemon Drop Kid, who won the Belmont Futurity three weeks ago.
The same scandal in London or New York, with its overtones of sexual-political malpractice might have resulted in the director having to issue some sort of cowed personal apology, especially as this year is supposed to be the festival's "year of women".
For the duet version, he assigned Ms. Jeanrenaud the whine of the gears -- a humming, gradually evolving melody -- and gave himself the trotting of the oxen: first a briskly twanged tune, then a long-repeated note, plucked in quick, unswerving rhythm until its overtones rose and surrounded the cello lines.
For instance, the fundamental absorption band of CO2 in the MIR is roughly two orders of magnitude stronger than its overtone in the near infrared region.
The latest example is Go Daddy, the internet domain registrar, who the project claims changed the sexist overtones in its adverts – which included naked women being painted - after it was targeted with #NotBuyingIt tweets for two years.
