Sentence examples for missed note from inspiring English sources

Mr. Biss favored fleetness over power, often letting tempos nudge ahead, with fingers barely depressing the keys, a penchant that worked particularly well in the lighter works but also resulted in an occasional missed note or smudge in passagework.

$23 Related Excerpt: The Shaking Woman (pdf) (sirihustvedt.net) Siri Hustvedts Web Site The missed note — that some memories are nearly universal — seems jarring, especially in a work so filled with dazzled yet sympathetic stories.

– Alarms missed note shown when Calendar is opened even when there are no missed alarms.

Made for a lot of missed notes and noisy squawks.

There was no mention of cheerleaders or whether missed notes would be subject to instant-replay review.

A modicum of missed notes and hesitations in the first half extended to wayward phrases in the second.

Stravinsky's perilous brass writing was played more spottily: spectacularly executed passages were offset by those speckled with missed notes.

I hate to sound like a stuffed boar, but these things — like missed notes in a piano recital or bones in the monkfish at Le Bernardin — matter.

The arrangements fully exposed his voice, complete with scrapes and missed notes as well as that vibrant falsetto, and it was all the more approachable for the flaws.

They forgot lyrics, sang out of key, delivered rank harmonies, missed notes, blew takeoffs and landings, and laid down clams by the dozen.

"The government was shooting at a moving target, and it aimed, shot and missed," noted William Kovacic, a professor at the George Washington University law school.