It drums drown on the rooftops, drowning out the sound of speech.
Bullies were drowning out our smart commenters.
The delay between flashes could also give the females a chance to get a word in, flashwise, without being drowned out by the males.
But as for you, resolve to keep a quiet time... Then your souls can speak to you without being drowned out by the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
After all, six-inch fake toenails simply are not accessible to anyone who needs to, you know, walk and Lombard sees the set as an opportunity for artists to elevate the medium to the level of avant-garde sculpture, without being drowned out by the consumer market.
But being isolated means that astronomers can detect its light directly without it being drowned out by a star's glare.
And then I turned around and returned to the world of hair-trigger outrage, condemnation, consternation, pessimism, gloom and impending apocalypse; which is to say, America and social media, where it sometimes seems an encouraging word is rarely heard without being promptly drowned out by a dozen angry doomsayers prophesying rains of fire and blood.
Imagine a Woody Allen movie without a clarinet to drown out the neurosis, a bad day without your go-to playlist, or never being able to unwind with your favourite album again.
Sure it's hard to talk about religion, politics, reconciliation, and urban poverty without seeming patronising, or being drowned out by boos; but through his role at World Vision, and directly to his 11,050 followers, Costello provides a consistently balanced and sensitive perspective on some of Australia's most sensitive topics.
