It's because you're all doing a cross model synesthetic abstraction, meaning you're saying that that sharp inflection ki ki, in your auditory cortex, the hair cells being excited Kiki, mimics the visual inflection, sudden inflection of that jagged shape.

But, since 9 11, the tone has changed.

His daughter, however, has clearly softened the tone.

The tone at the beginning of the second Bush administration is different.

The sharp tone and fierce partisanship of the past 13 years have been cast aside.

Iran s leaders should begin by shunning hostile rhetoric.

In September, Bush made an unexpectedly low key speech to the UN General Assembly.

There is a marked difference in tone here from debates in much of the Western world.

Or are these simply the old stonewalling tactics? Does the government just want to buy time once more, now to make it through the America s presidential elections?

Strident rhetoric and a hegemon s disdain for the interests of smaller neighbors create only enmity, not harmony.

Moreover, while there is no willingness to accept Israeli hegemony, the tone vis à vis Israel is beginning to change.

The calls to curb speculation in derivatives markets or short sales have this flavor.

Let s hope that the late conversion to tough deficit rhetoric gets a lot of play.

Sadly, there is a disconnect between Poland s economic progress and the discourse and behavior of its politicians.

His insightful statement to the Council this morning set an appropriate tone for addressing the challenges before the international community on that important subject.

More strength for our Viennese blood, one of his election slogans, gives an idea of Strache s typical tone.

Meanwhile, negotiations offer Europe the opportunity to shift its narrative from the monotonous drone of crisis management to a genuine recipe for growth.

The US media and government focus their rhetoric on the possibility of Pakistan s nuclear arsenal falling into Taliban hands.

As re nationalization gained momentum, the public economic rhetoric changed and become statist.

And she has brought a fresh anti capitalist tone to the Front s rhetoric always a crowd pleaser in France.

The Gülenist media now set the country s new ideological tone, producing a steady stream of disinformation in their vocal support of the country s show trials.

The sound quality, or the sound of the sound is how I like to describe timbre, tone color they cannot tell these things whatsoever.

More broadly, New START will cement the new, more positive tone in relations between Russia and the West.

He sets the tone for policy discussions and helps shape the belief system within which policymakers around the world operate.

This is hard to take for members of the secular, Westernized Turkish elite, who have spent decades, if not longer, trying to prove their European bona fides.

From the perspective of the European Union (and many liberal Serbs), this narrative has the familiar ring of jingoism, obsessive self regard, and an enduring attachment to victimhood.

The general tone of the report would suggest that it does not take sufficiently into account the fact that Côte d'Ivoire has been at war for three years with consequences that we all know.

And it's important to know Igbo is a tonal language, and so they'll say the word igwe and igwe same spelling, one means sky or heaven, and one means bicycle or iron.

The Group wished to stress the importance of the External Auditor's recommendations concerning the application of the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service and the recruitment and evaluation of consultants and experts.

Indeed, while talking tough under the guidance of Nicolas Sarkozy s France, which currently holds the EU presidency, Europe has de facto resigned itself to Georgia s dismemberment.

During the Paralympics in London there have been more and more reports on against it all people or supercripples in the media. leidmedien.de explains how to get the tone right.

The current tone surrounding the peak oil debate is reminiscent of that surrounding the global war on terror, with the phrase you re either with us or against us recycled to polarize observers and analysts.

Why this sharp change in tone? Initially, most nations exiting from Communism reached out, almost instinctively, to their immediate pre Communist period.

One response that is often heard is a note of cautious optimism, captured in US President Barack Obama recent speech at the State Department when he referred to the promise of the future.

Perhaps the new data will cool the heated rhetoric about undervaluation and currency manipulation, and instead generate a substantive discussion about exchange rate flexibility and its benefits for China and the world.

But, while he has continued his softer tone since the election, he has not even bothered to ask for fast track trade promotion authority, let alone try to pump new life into the Doha Round of global trade talks.

Now that this video is out, with its clear and loud message which has receptive ears in some circles in Bahrain, let's wait and see how the Bahrain regime deals with this new escalation of real terrorism from people within its ranks.

More broadly, New START will cement the new, more positive tone in relations between Russia and the West. Indeed, we in Poland have adopted our own way of reconciliation with Russia, one based on dialogue and reciprocity.

It was a fine speech, and Europeans will duly applaud it but listen for the growing undertone of anxiety that this bold young US president has just helped himself to some more of Europe s clothes.

By 2011, anti globalization rhetoric had largely faded, and globalization is thought of as not something to be neither fought nor cheered, but as a fundamental characteristic of the human story, in which disparate geographies and diverse themes are inextricably intertwined.

The Fed chairman exerts global influence not only through monetary policy, but also through his words. He sets the tone for policy discussions and helps shape the belief system within which policymakers around the world operate.

One way to interpret China s elevated rhetoric and its tough response to joint US South Korean military maneuvers is as another indication that Chinese leaders have grown supremely self confident and are eager to throw their weight around.

The tone of populist movements, whether in Europe, Asia, or the US, would suggest that the elites are too powerful, that they dominate the little people, whose voices are drowned out by the liberals, the multiculturalists, and the city slickers.