Some sounds are excruciating.
Soon, she said, the sound became excruciating, disrupting her train of thought while she was writing, and marring recording sessions by her husband, Spiros Soukis, a musician.
I know it sounds a bit excruciating — who wants to read or listen to Keats with a bellyful of sweet potato — but it actually turns out to be moving and very revealing about the inner life of everyone at the table.
If you are not on the insider track, there is a high likelihood that you will be subject to some ID checking, queuing, and excruciating sounds of rundown dot-matrix printers at the rental kiosk -- where your experience will almost entirely depend on the mood of the person on-duty.
The first "ambient music" was installed at La Guardia airport in New York in 1980 but Eno complained when Sao Paulo airport blasted his sounds at excruciating volume.
Authenticity in silent film accompaniment has many diverse and elusive meanings, but at least we can leave behind us the days of "silent" screenings and excruciating comedy sound effects being added to films played at the wrong speed.
Billy shares some of his experiences with his son by way of a 16-page drug trip that's as excruciating as it sounds, a yackety graffiti writer's way to Dullsville.
The sound of bones being sawed and snapped was excruciating the day our teaching assistant broke the ribs of one of them to extract a heart.
Uematsu has noted that the process of composing was excruciating, involving trial and error and requiring the sound staff to spend several nights in sleeping bags at Square's headquarters.
