We are inventing traditions to unite us, something that is neither country nor suburb but somehow straddles the two.
The other reason why she brought me onboard, and asked me to write text for the Biophilia apps is that I think what she is doing is uniting something else.
Something to unite the masses, with added crowd sounds.
"In a crazy world where rich and poor, black and white, Christian and Islam are divided," Mr. Ehrlich said, "musicians try to create something to unite the world".
But given the depth of the challenges their country faces, they will need to find something to unite them that runs deeper than temperament and shared antipathy, and to dip into their traditional source of strength: patience.
But she said the committee had to do something to unite the Democratic Party in November, especially when it comes to keeping the voters happy in the battleground state of Florida.
Finally, something to unite the generations: music has always kept around the same level of danceability (yes, a real attribute used by The Echo Nest and its clients to measure how likely songs are to instigate twisting, potato-mashing, vogueing, daggering or all four).
The vastness of the landscape, a population of immigrants with different cultures and languages, a federal bureaucracy that lacks the magisterial trappings of monarchy — this is a country that needed something to unite it, and, however improbably, Ozersky convinces us that the hamburger has done just that.
We needed something to unite us.
But now that he is the the president-elect, Shenoy said, he hopes Trump will do "something to unite the country".
