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With a tough, distortion-edged tone, he makes phrases push against the beat, and when he reaches one of his famous searing sustained notes -- the ones emulated by Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana -- he wrings emotion from it, squeezing its overtones down to a single clear pitch, then making it seem to rise an octave.

It had, too, its overtones of a class war (countryside versus a cosmopolitan, affluent elite), but above all, it was deeply rooted in bigotry: a hatred of the "other," and for the Shi'i and Iran in particular.

When they finish it (as they will: its overtones of both "Gossip Girl" and the Book of Ecclesiastes make it irresistible), they will have learned the territory.

Rice milk, for instance, is heat stable, but its overtones of sweetness make it unsuitable for savoury sauces and soups.

"It was Extreme Archaeology (with its overtones of tokenism) meets Indiana Jones (cue the improvised flaming torch and the destruction of the most important archaeological find ever to be made minutes after its discovery)" said Julian Richards - while admitting that he was glued to the screen.

But as the film pursues the metaphoric link between cutlery and concupiscence, with its overtones of risk and domination, it loses some of its insouciant accuracy.

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This document, frightening in its leftist-leaning naïveté and its overtone of naked appeasement of communism, was produced by a group called the Liberal Project.

The Festival of Mongolia features throat singers who make the eerie sound of two notes at once, a growling bass tone and its overtone.

BP-type: harmonic quake with unclear P and S phases, characterized by regular peaks of spectra, and composed of fundamental frequency and its overtone.

It can be seen that the behavior of Raman intensities of the fundamental and its overtone for mixed, cubic, and hexagonal phases are different.

The quasi-resonant Raman spectrum of Figure 6b, taken by exciting the irradiated zone with a low-power laser beam at 473 nm, exhibits the well-known first longitudinal phonon bands of CdS (1LO) and its overtone (2LO).

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