"The world is a lot less scared today," he notes, pushing back his chair and rocking slightly.
Tonal music shares certain energy-giving genes: one set of notes pulls in one direction; different sets of notes push in others.
Investors bought the benchmark 10-year notes, pushing their yield down, as the Federal Reserve's report suggested the recovery may be slower than some anticipated.
Chalmers was taken with the idea, and gave the paper back scribbled all over with notes, pushing Clark, among other things, to expand his notion of cognition not only to inanimate objects but to people as well.
As Margaret Atwood notes: "Pushing the sexual boundaries is distinctly thrilling for many a Munro woman; but in order to trespass you have to know exactly where the fence is and Munro's universe is crisscrossed with meticulously defined borders.
After the musician heard his notes pushing the virtues of "Bloke Coke", his entourage retorted: "Jack White was commissioned by Sony Pictures to write a theme song for the James Bond film Quantum Of Solace, not for Coca Cola... Any other use of the song is based on decisions made by others, not by Jack White".
Near the end of Brian Evenson's novel about a guy who may or may not have dissociative disorder and killed a bunch of people in the woods, it turns into this weird space where they are in a house and the house is covered with hundreds of little Post-it notes, pushing the novel deep into the brain damage arena, and totally shifting the possibility of worlds on paper.
If you see the teacher come by, turn the page to your notes, push the homework book off your desk, and pretend to be actively working.
When the home chord of B minor is finally reasserted in the brass, it has a hollow ring, its middle note pushed deep into the bass.
The information has gone wide, it's a note pushed under every reader's door: Literary fiction is in serious trouble.
