Word: whined
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Ready to collapse under its own weight, MTA2 would be utterly dreary without Banner’s acute skill on the boards—check “Talk To Me,” whose clenched modem whine actually carries a hypnotic melody buried underneath the buzz. The music and message offer few answers outside of blind faith, but manage to turn things beautifully awry...
...Walkmen sound achingly lonely, but underneath the forlorn abstraction of Bows and Arrows exists a strong sense of worth and grandiose awareness that saves them from ever falling into the grating woe-is-me whine that drowns lesser bands...
...might have been the sound of wheels spinning in mud, or perhaps the chattering whine of a tortured transmission. Or it might have been the increasingly loud imprecations I was directing at my driver. Whatever the cause, we had suddenly become the focus of several hundred wild elephants. Those nearest began to stomp toward us, thumping their trunks on the ground...
...never thought I’d be one of those people who, at age 20, would start the obnoxious “when I was your age…” whine, lamenting that I didn’t own a cell phone with polyphonic ring tones or some other type of adolescent necessity when I was 14 years old. But what I do feel justified in saying is that when I was a tween—a category that roughly encompasses ages ten through 14—the number of media sources and cultural products that spoke...
...shares some of his gifts with other Australian-bred stars, from Nicole Kidman to Hugh Jackman, who have lately taken over Hollywood. They must hide within plain sight. Plain sound, rather: to suppress their native whine, they have to "act" every time they open their mouths. Yet like the rest of the world, the Aussies have been casing Hollywood movies since childhood. Because they know the territory, they can infiltrate an American character with a cat burglar's suaveness: entering without breaking...