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To some, it sounds ugly.
It sounds ugly and uncouth and unladylike, I know.
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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The problem with this urinal, which city officials call a pissoir (one of the few instances where a French word sounds uglier than its English counterpart), is that privacy-wise, it has none.
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.
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.
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