Sentence examples for on one listen from inspiring English sources

They're bright and kaleidoscopic and a little too cerebral to be enjoyed wholly on one listen, but they pave the way nicely for the main attraction.

As Smith says, "We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once".

Spurred into action by its arrival a day earlier than expected, harassed reviewers reviewed it on first hearing, and commenters and bloggers complained that it was ridiculous to offer opinions based on one listen, then offered their opinions about it anyway.

At 52 minutes, Divers is a sprint compared to the three-disc marathon of 2010's Have One on Me; but such is the poetic intensity of her lyrics, the confected luxuriance of her arrangements, and the themes and motifs tying the songs together, that it's hard to take in on one listen.

Cardinal Law, who sat in on one listening session and was briefed on the others, said afterward that some parishioners had asked him to resign.

Arianna and Liane will also be doing smaller group and one-on-one listening sessions to get your feedback directly.

"He clearly stands among the greatest pianists of our time or any other," one newspaper said of his first performance with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood last summer, before describing "ornaments like an iridescent spray rising into the sunlight from the deep wave of the music," and going on to, "One listened with misty eyes, which gave way to goose bumps".

It's a model of the importance of rereading (and God knows we treat books lightly – we wouldn't, after all, expect to know a piece of music properly on just one listen), knowledge and innocence so much part of its structure as to make it a knowingly different book on revisiting.

In exchange, DigSin actually collects customers' personal information, advertisers pay "actually more about a quarter of a cent more akin to what you would get for one listen on Spotify," and the artist actually gets a mouthful of shit.

However much one distrusts environmentalists, it is harder to discount the scientists… depending, of course, on which scientists one listens to.

It's the conversations between two talking heads yelling and no one listening on TV.