Sentence examples for lingering sound from inspiring English sources

The Chinese classic known as "The Book of Rites" contains a famous description of a zither on which "one string is plucked, and three others will reverberate in murmurs so there is a lingering sound".

Yet the lingering sound of gunfire sent Annie Joe running frightened through the woods and into a group of four or five men with AK-47's on their shoulders.

You will lay before me your disappointment and sorrow, and I will say, "Do not give up". You will feel peace as you watch me wander out of the clearing and disappear into a copse of trees, leaving you to wonder whether you even saw me to begin with the only lingering sound that of Bill steadily crunching a Kind bar as he follows.

This quality of yiyin, "lingering sound," has been used by Chinese scholars and critics for centuries to praise a certain evocative or suggestive quality in a poem, painting or other work of art: that is, a work of apparent simplicity that carries within it enormous resonances and reserves of feeling.

You will feel peace as you watch me wander out of the clearing and disappear into a copse of trees, leaving you to wonder whether you even saw me to begin with — the only lingering sound that of Bill steadily crunching a Kind bar as he follows.

If you play one of those notes and then stop the string with your finger, you will hear the sound lingering.

Cable news showed over and over the interview Ms. Hunter gave the show "Extra" in 2007, about her time on the Edwards campaign, lingering over one sound bite in particular: "He is so open and willing to try new things".

By then, it is dazzlingly clear that the visual language of American musical theater is as powerful and as lingering as its sounds and stories.

But General Manager Mike Milbury said he did not want any lingering doubts and sounded as if he was not budging from the original prognosis of late December to early January.

Life spins by so fast, it's like a dress rehearsal for lingering memories with your sound seriously missing.

You could question his speediness at times: in the opening C major Prelude, he played the arpeggiated figures so quickly that the lingering overtones made them sound almost like solid chords.