Sentence examples for in overtones from inspiring English sources
Also in keeping with the period, there are strikes and a kidnapping, as Mr Pujol is taken hostage by his workers (partly over a dispute about the toilets in one wing of the factory, which, for me, ushered in overtones of Carry On at Your Convenience).
The sound was multi-dimensional; layered with noises thrumming at alternate pitches, and rich in overtones, it seemed to be the byproduct of a genuine mechanism — combustion at the intensity of high-energy rocket thrust.
The sound was multi-dimensional; layered with noises thrumming at alternate pitches, and rich in overtones, it seemed to be the byproduct of a genuine mechanism combustion at the intensity of high-energy rocket thrust.
There's a scene in the middle of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" that's so mysterious, inspired, rich in overtones, and tenuously attached to the movie surrounding it that it virtually shouts its presence as the writer and director Rian Johnson's embedded showreel, his flourish of personal purpose and creative power amid the two and a half wearying hours that serve as its frame.
The effect was of a primordial drone in which overtones clashed and warbled, phasing in and out in waves, chaos seeking order.
And the singer, Attila Csihar, appearing halfway through the 90-minute set and staying through the end, did his extraordinary part in this ritual, singing in deep overtones, murmuring indistinctly and whispering like a dying man.
The president went after Sen. Gillibrand, who had recently called for his resignation, in a tweet drenched in sexual overtones.
Free jazz improvisers typically phrase in chromatic intervals and harmonies, and some achieve atonality while playing in microtones, overtones, multiphonics (simultaneous notes played on one horn), and tone clusters.
From time to time they would carry on a conversation among themselves in audible overtones which tended to distract some of the speakers and disturb some in the audience.
Figurative work here comes wrapped in psychological overtones.
But many past cases have been rich in political overtones.
