Sentence examples for on the overtones from inspiring English sources

The resolution quickly took on the overtones of a test vote on the flag-burning issue itself and passed, and as a result the Democrats filed a new brief this week addressing the constitutional issues but making no mention of the schedule.

Ushering in the next iteration of healthy-living consumerism, merchants are taking on the overtones of the medical, psychotherapeutic and fitness communities.

Reviewing the disc, Guardian music critic Andrew Clements described the work as "a vast elaboration of a single six-note chord based on the overtones of the note B flat" and added: "Stimmung is one of the masterpieces of the last half century.

While nominally an environmental issue, the matter has taken on the overtones of a trade dispute, risking tensions between German regulators and European Union officials.

"We wanted to play on the overtones during his confirmation hearing as to what he, as governor, did in terms of integration of the Missouri schools system, and also his role, as senator, in defeating Ronnie White, a Clinton circuit-court appointee.

Built on the overtones of a single chord, exploring the sounds of the human voice with everything from nonsense syllables to erotic poetry, this meditative tapestry of a piece is either a sign of its time (1968) or a pathbreaking achievement.

In his installations, at the HL Holocaust Center in Oslo and the Jewish Museum Berlin, among other places – the printed word take on the multifaceted function of the overtones of his doublebass, in varying states of motion and transparency, floating through the space through various means of projection, resonating now metaphorically, with the associations in our minds.

Rarely does the controversy take on the political overtones of the long term dispute in the public li brary in Farmingdale, L. I. Carl E. Gorton, a former member of the John Birch Society who is a member of the elected library board, has sought to ban from the li brary such publications as the Paris Review as well as American Civil Liberties Union literature and United Nations films.

The album, originally titled "Twenty-Four Songs," was first released in 1954 on the Overtone label.

He thought that he could hear chords in the murmurs of the forests and the lapping of the lakes; he once baffled a group of Finnish students by giving a lecture on the overtone series of a meadow.

The disclosure of the transactions immediately took on political overtones because of the involvement of the Swiss People's Party in bringing the matter to light.