Sentence examples for trick the ear from inspiring English sources

"We trick the ear into thinking it is listening to something pleasant," said Mr. Nicolino, an electrical engineer, amateur musician and audio bug, who created the device when a freeway was built near his home and he realized that he could mask its roar with the sounds of ocean waves.

She's designed installations with quadraphonic sound before, but when you expand to this many sources, you can really move the sounds around in subtle ways that nearly trick the ear.

But by timing the speakers to release her voice at slightly different intervals, Mr. Lehrer tricks the ear.

Even just a quarter-note rest tricks the ear, shocks the system regardless of how many times its been heard before.

This mix holds down the same key as the vocal line (C minor), though the synth kicks off on the third of the scale, almost tricking the ear.

In the folk-song-like Armenian chant "Kovia Yeroosaghem" and in "Meh Khosk Unim Iltimazov," based on a text by the 18th-century poet Sayat Nova, the very different timbres of the two plucked instruments played tricks on the ear, with the dry, glassy kanun heightening the lyricism of the oud to the point where it appeared to sing.

In Mr. Eckardt's piece, which evokes a mischievous, fiddle-wielding elf from Swedish folklore, the violin plays tricks on the ear with erratic jumps and ever-changing tone colors, while the piano for long stretches seems to bide its time before pounding out a low tumble of notes.

There are technical limitations to how well we can trick the eyes, ears and other sense inputs as to the reality of AR and VR creations.

Much of it plays in high registers; much of it tricks and delights the ear by giving the impression that the soloist is performing on several violins at once, or that marimbas and other percussion instruments are tucked under the strings.

PLAY-ACTION PASS A fancy way of saying fake handoff; much like the quarter-behind-the-ear trick, this fools defenders regularly even after all these years.

Though not all performers of the coin-from-the-ear trick employ elaborate forms of misdirection, it is a good idea to draw attention away from the palm hand.