The results suggest that we may have an automatic sense of "hierarchical meter"—a pattern of strong and weak beats that governs our expectations of music, the researchers write in the February 2017 issue of Brain and Cognition.
Jones has received numerous comparisons to Cormac McCarthy for his sense of minimalist meter and ink-black tone, and for once the comparison bears more weight than just being about strange country people.
When you feel you are under the control of an unfriendly system, check your values, check your sense of personal power meter.
In Maurice Pialat's astringently naturalistic drama, from 1985, Gérard Depardieu, playing the Parisian detective Louis Mangin, exuberantly careens through the station house and the city at large as his self-confident swagger, hypersensitive bullshit meter, and sense of entitlement meet his venomous effusions of racism, sexism, brutality, and indifference to the law.
Songs generally can be considered organizational mnemonic devices in the sense of structuring information according to meter and rhyme, limiting the possible lyrics that would fit and thus making recall easier (Bower and Bolton, 1969).
They employ rhetoric where they sense a hurricane, they try to be eloquent where they sense fury unleashed, they strive to maintain the discipline of meter where there's only a deafening and hopeless silence.
There is an Eliot-like elongation of the poetic line, and a sense of surprise when the rhyme and meter are maintained; there is also the clear influence of the English Metaphysical poets, who laced their love poetry with philosophical speculations — in Brodsky's case, always relating to time and space.
Touching the measurement under the scale bar translates the measurement into meters, providing some sense of reference.
"They know the art of meter tampering".
No meter, no money!" And indeed, he reached down and turned on some sort of meter.
