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I had nowhere to go, she said, and her voice sounded ugly in her ears.
Besides, middle distance sounded ugly, and foreground and background didn't sound much better.
The howling of the wolves :sounded ugly to me :after the song of the swans".
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For myself, I can recall little in a lifetime of tuning in to public discourse which has sounded uglier than the relish with which he and George Osborne have both spoken of public service cuts.
To some, it sounds ugly.
It sounds ugly and uncouth and unladylike, I know.
He was, he said, "prepared to sound ugly as long as the meaning is fresh".
There has been an increase in volume, particularly with speech, but not so much in the hearing of music – which continues to sound ugly and disparate.
I asked the young woman behind the sales counter, "Who makes money from these sales?" She answered, "The artists," adding, "It sounds ugly, I know".
Meanwhile, just as the phrase "capturing the zeitgeist" now sounds ugly and stale (assuming it ever didn't), so a lot of Generation X has grown tired and perhaps over-familiar with age.
This sounds ugly at first.
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