Unacoustic

The application of staccato chords has to be strictly limited in unacoustic places, but in resonant buildings, staccato chords, used judiciously, have a very fine effect, as they evoke the echoes from the building in a more effective way than a long sustained chord, however promptly released.

This unacoustic vastness swallows the earth sounds and produces the effect of silence upon the soul.

Few are like the Scottish fiddle-maker Amaryllis once met who had spent a cheerful life making violins out of oak (an impossibly unacoustic wood) on the happy premise that birds sing more beautifully in oak trees.

No wonder, for the pulpit had been placed in exactly the most inaudible situation, and the Hall, however well calculated for purposes of feeding, and holding examinations, was a most unacoustic place to speak in.

The deaf-mutes from a separate community among the hearing people. The most interesting question in their psychology is: What is their conception of the outer world? Of an unacoustic, mute world?

There are times when people prevent life's music from penetrating. There are situations, historical, personal, sociological, and political as well as psychological, in which whole peoples feel imprisoned in a leaden, unacoustic atmosphere.

Within the "unacoustic" languages issuing from "matter [Material]," there may indeed be a "material community of things" and this may occasion usages such as sculpture or painting that translate into "an infinitely higher language" still of the same specific material sphere.

When Owen Glendower sports various reverberations that lack sonorousness, such unacoustic micro-events do not fall into the work like random meteorites whose trajectories happen to cross the orbit of the writer's imagination. Instead the unacoustic reverberation is emitted from the work's core.