Word: aural
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Until now, she said, the public has tended to base its conceptions on what it sees rather than on what it hears whenever visual and aural information have conflicted. "I'm wondering if something natural might not happen as [the public] worries about the economy," she said. "Maybe they will want to hear TV sound more than they want to see TV visuals...
...Point of Collapse" is built around a synthesizer riff of which Depeche Mode would be proud, while "Ahead" mines the dance-rock territory of New order. The menacing "Feed Me" follows the style of latter-day quasi-industrialists SWANS without achieving the genuine horror of the latter's aural experiments. All the above-mentioned bands have each achieved their own niche in modern music. In comparison, Wire's avant-garde...
...YEAR is 1986. God is holding Oral Roberts for ransome. Unless God receives $8 million in unmarked bills in a plain brown paper bag with no coppers and no funny stuff, He swears to strike Oral Roberts down and legally change the names of Roberts` children to Aural, Nasal, and Anal. It is clear that God the terrorist has to be stopped. If not He might start hijacking airplanes...
Today those words still apply to too many conductors and their orchestras. Beethoven symphonies are wolfed down like bran flakes, high in moral fiber and good for the soul; meanwhile, less celebrated works are regarded as the aural version of empty calories. Here, apparently, is the enduring Toscanini legacy, and, according to Horowitz's plausible indictment, one that shows few signs of fading away...
white and Black and its aural tones are standard