Notwithstanding the murky sound and sweaty milieu, the concert captures Prince at his primping, purple peak.
Notwithstanding the scandalized sound bites that accompanied its unveiling at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, this sluggish dawdle never comes close to being salacious.
Notwithstanding the scandalized sound bites that accompanied its unveiling at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, this sluggish dawdle from shack to swimmin' hole never comes close to being salacious.
Notwithstanding what it sounds like, MSCI was not offering a compliment to the poor Greeks.
At one point, he pulled his composition student Peter Gena into his office, showed him a new score and asked, "Tell me, do you think it sounds too much like Steve Reich?" Repetition notwithstanding, Feldman's music never sounds like Mr. Reich's.
Even less at Westminster: whether criticism of the 'Zombie Parliament' is fair or not, there is no doubt that the general legislative machine is running out of steam, notwithstanding the inevitable sound and fury that will accompany George Osborne's pre-election Budget in a fortnight's time.
This latest effort makes all the requisite noises (courtesy Nick Manning's industrious sound design) without sounding the jangled nerves that — caveats in the promotional material notwithstanding — we all know we want.
The "Perspectives" thesis notwithstanding, Schoenberg's Three Pieces Opus 11 sound nothing like Schubert.
The analysis is presented in the belief that sound policy-making requires that all energy options should be on the table, notwithstanding the fact that there are many other considerations, apart from cost, in the adoption of nuclear energy in Australia.
Tilted and Saint Claude sound particularly magnificent, notwithstanding her lengthy explanation of the latter song's genesis inadvertently raising hoots of laughter: "I didn't know his name," she says of the track's protagonist, "so I gave him one".
I heard plenty of good music in Beijing, but, the business with the Pac-Man mask and the cartoon themes notwithstanding, I didn't hear anything that sounded particularly alien, or specifically Chinese.
