Indeed, just how influential Young Americans was didn't become fully apparent for another decade, by which point hamfisted attempts to mimic its "plastic soul" sound – a white artist melding black funk with an art-pop sensibility, as heard on Fascination or Fame – had, for better or worse, become mainstream pop's dominant mode.
Even Pavin had a hard time today accounting for his choice, wandering around a rhetorical maze until he settled on a little nugget of karmic sensibility seldom heard in the game and one he might later regret committing to posterity: "It just came down to feelings".
In this instance, I wanted to create an aide-memoire of Eddie's unique approach to ignite my aural sensibility and hear in my head the rhythmic nuance of his playing.
When religious conservatives -- or those with otherwise delicate sensibilities -- hear the word "f**k" uttered in a movie, what happens?
The album closed with a cover of a minor soul classic, Timmy Thomas's "Why Can't We Live Together?," a direct plea for racial harmony that hinted at a political sensibility, easier to hear in later songs about immigrant workers and slaves.
From 2008 to 2014 she served as chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, a post which, especially, gives a sense of the reach of her humane moral sensibility; you could hear those qualities on her regular broadcasts for Radio 4's A Point of View.
Before the service, held at the same synagogue as the funeral of George Gershwin (in 1937), touches of Mr. Hamlisch's music and his playful sensibility could be seen and heard.
It was only with Bernard Herrmann [Hitchcock's frequent composer] that I heard a distinctively American sensibility.
But even on canvas, Mr. Meese's ferocious, scenery-chewing sensibility suggests that he will be heard from again, and again, regardless of one's wishes.
That's not what my liberal sensibilities want to hear.
