They are my effort to make sense out of the senseless, to make cacophony out of cadence and cadence out of cacophony.
Holding placards stating "torture is wrong" and branding Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden a "Pentagon-sanctioned movie" the protestors made a cacophony of noise outside the Newseum centre in central Washington as journalists, politicians and members of US president Barack Obama's administration filed into the auditorium.
It's possible that the forces for quiet will lose, that in the future the only way to avoid being blasted by other people's cacophonies will be to make a cacophony of your own.
When it came time to announce the teams, the ensuing audiovisual cacophony made me feel as though I had been transported inside a pinball machine.
But some species, particularly larger birds that sing low-pitched songs, such as western tanagers, especially suffer from man-made cacophony, scientists report in today's PLoS One.
A city made wholly from a cacophony of Guggenheims (whether by Frank Lloyd Wright or by Frank Gehry) wouldn't look like New York.
English football has never seemed so avaricious as when the proposal was made public, to a cacophony of hoots and jeers.
In April came the highest test score in history, Lara's 375 for the West Indies against England, made amid the wild cacophony of the St John's ground in Antigua, to the beat of Chikkey's disco and a multitude of home-made musical instruments.
The Davos meeting may not be a bastion of democratic or transparent democracy and participation, but it is a place where solutions should be discussed and plans made to tackle the cacophony of crises that our planet in faces.
Almost the only leader to stand up for Ms Aubry was Ségolène Royal, the defeated Socialist presidential candidate in 2007 and hitherto a fierce rival.What to make of this cacophony?
The findings raise questions about whether the cacophony makes much sense when it erupts so often for no reason, disturbing sleep, wasting police time and putting law enforcement officers and the public at risk as officers race to answer alarms.
