Nontonal music has a lot of trouble smiling, much less laughing out loud, but Mr. Imbrie's Scherzando could be downright funny.
The Mark thing will make so much less sense out loud than it did when she did it, or even than it does now as she goes over it in her head.
"I don't know" is a state of mind men have often been taught to equate with weakness; it is something we've been conditioned not to acknowledge to ourselves, much less say out loud.
It still feels very strange to write that, much less say it out loud.
Mobula rays can reach heights of more than two metres (6ft 6ins), remaining airborne for several seconds, but their landings are much less graceful, creating a loud bang as they belly-flop back into the sea.
You're not supposed to admit stuff like this out loud, much less in a nationally-broadcast television interview.
SOUND LEVEL: Very loud downstairs, much less so upstairs.
Deadpool has, by all accounts, been a huge success: $300m taken in its first week on a comparatively modest $58m budget (the flabby, loud and much less enjoyable Avengers: Age of Ultron cost almost five times that).
In reality, bald eagles have a much less intense screech and that "piercing, loud cry" is actually another bird entirely.
Metal gears are louder, but are much less prone to stripping and deterioration than nylon ones.
