| 单词 | tinkle |
| 例句 | He kept pouring the little chain through his fingers, its links making a tinkling sound. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a tinkle and a crash as the pieces of Mary Ann’s head hit the floor. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z And before the thunder followed, in a pause while wind and rain held back for one brief moment, she thought she heard, fading in the distance, the tinkling little melody of the music box. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A few seconds later the beaded curtain behind the counter tinkled into life and Ernesto Barbarossa appeared in person. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I lay down on it, my eyes closed, listening to the sounds around me: matches lighting, glass jars tinkling together, liquid falling into glasses. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Or send needles of ice tinkling blue through my brain when he looks in my eyes? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as soon as the shop bell tinkled, I would slip the chocolate back into the display, the coins into the register, and this made Mrs. Diamant chuckle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The inside of the car filled with her tinkling laughter. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Murmurs and sighs, shuffling noises, the tinkle of something small breaking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Tee-hee,” Rachel started up again, “okay, sure, let’s do the audition. But first I have to go tinkle.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z There came the tinkling of ice in a glass, the shrill of bells. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Them foreigners,” she said, staring up into the obscurity where the bell tinkled. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny could hear the tiny tinkle, seemingly far away, of Miss Lavinia’s spinet. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when he heard the tinkle and clatter of glass he did not move. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Ice crackled off his clothes and fell tinkling onto the floe as the rest of the crew drew the two halves of the floe together again by hauling on a rope. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She gives me a small shove and disappears, the bells on her ankle tinkling. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She checked her hair in the reflection in the glass, then marched into the shop, setting the bell tinkling again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z "Yes, you're quite right," I said, giving my glass a tinkling twirl. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And there it teetered for a few seconds before finally toppling over and falling with a sharp tinkle on to the desk-top. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “No, no, silly boy,” said Fleur with a tinkling laugh, “I mean next summer, when we — but do you not know?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Dumbstruck, I waited in the street while she bought licorice drops, which she selected one by one, with that tinkling laugh of hers, tossing some into her mouth and handing others to her sister. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah? Well? Don’t that count? Ain’t that love? You want me to tinkle you under the jaw and forget ’bout diem sores in your mouth? Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He played with relish, sleeves rolled up, smiling at his work, tinkling from the low ranges to the high with the tricky syncopation of a tap dancer going up a Ziegfeld staircase. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There was complete silence, but for tinkling glass, crackling fur, and the sudden release of breath. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Once the tinkling of the last brick had stopped echoing in the room, I gazed around. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I heard the tinkle of a bell in the distance ahead. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Kamala clapped her hands loudly, so that the golden bangles tinkled. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The thin tinkle of the mandolin made a sad sound in the warm shop. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad saw patients in the back room of the house, which had metal cabinets for his nested lenses that tinkled like glass wind chimes when you opened and shut the drawers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a pleasant, mellow-toned bell, but even the airiest, tinkling chime can be rung insistently and in a panic, and that was unmistakably the type of ringing this was. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Her tinkling laughter was somehow stronger than our nervous ones. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw it wobble, then it tilted, then it toppled right over and fell with a tinkle on to the table-top not twelve inches from Miss Honey's folded arms. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He roared so loudly that the crystal in the chandeliers tinkled, and every bird in the great room shrieked, and Lyra’s ears rang. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then in the whirl of dancers, I heard Cristiana’s tinkling laugh. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The more the feeling increased, the more I couldn’t get out of my mind a tall plastic tumbler full of club soda, ice tinkling inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The hair of the wives was piled high about the room, eyelashes fluttered, and ice tinkled in full cocktail glasses. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, sweetie, I’m a bartender. They make me tinkle with the civilians.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The sky seemed to reach into the exposition, and somewhere glass shattered, not the gentle tinkling of a window extinguished by a stone but the hurt-dog yelp of large sheets falling to the ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Her faint tinkling was the only sound to be heard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He laughed again at the look on my face but then we heard footsteps and the tinkle of ice in an advancing cocktail—Francis. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Before I know it, she done pulled down her panties and tinkled in it and I’m chasing after her with half a dozen horns honking and a man in a hat taking pictures. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The water trickles back into the bowl, a clean, clear sound, a familiar tinkling. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z A little bell tinkled, and a blast of chilled air hit us as we walked in the door. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Glass tinkled; she felt the impact afterward, the firm, cool glass, breaking through. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I left the parlor to the accompaniment of the inviting clash of crockery and the light tinkle of teaspoons, and went upstairs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Just then, Barbarossa pushed himself through the tinkling beaded curtain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The antler bells tinkled lightly as James stepped back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z At night, the trees clapped together in the wind and made a delicate tinkling sound. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Like when you feel like the tinkling wind chimes at the beginning of a song or like the squeaking sound when fingers move across guitar strings. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Then, like a small circus tent pulling up its stakes and dropping soft fold on fold, the silks rustled, the mask descended, the silver claws tinkled on the stone path. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A tinkling bell rang somewhere in the depths of the shop as they stepped inside. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The hare tinkled a small brass bell on the bedside table. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Pycelle lifted a tiny silver bell with thumb and forefinger and tinkled it gently. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It hovered for a few moments, then suddenly it dropped to the floor with a tinkle and broke in two. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z A soft, tinkling melody rose from the far end of the room, where a figure in white clothes sat hunched over an old wooden piano. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He shook his jacket, and Meggie thought she heard a quiet, desperate tinkling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The answer came with the sound—an almost quiet moan mixed with a sharp tinkling that he realized was the wind pushing water spray ahead of it in a kind of horizontal frothy rain. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The bell tinkled as he slammed the door. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Her tinkling really got on your nerves, too, and she tinkled almost all the time if she didn’t get what she wanted. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The “boys” would only be patient so long with Rachel’s “tinkle.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He moved his bony hands in his pockets, which were tinkling with new dimes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And it’s thinking of that tinkling sound that makes me wonder if those boxes don’t have something to do with her sneaking up to those rooms every other day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Seeing as your boy is so young, and El Jefe has been pardoning most minors . . .” He swilled his drink around so the ice tinkled against the glass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sand road now changed to crystal brick, and BaiMa’s hooves made the sound of tinkling bells. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He recalled every detail—an oleander bush with peach-colored flowers, an adobe wall with paloverde trees draped over it, a fountain tinkling into a copper basin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some buses are honking already, and a few cyclists are tinkling their bells, but the city isn't all woken up yet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A tinkling of bells from a horse’s harness floated from the street over. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z You can hear their cars, an occasional shout, and a strange metallic tinkling. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z That show’s Library was a monumental edifice, with towering marbled halls and tinkling fountains, like the lobby of some five-star hotel. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z A tinkling doorbell rang and both mistress and elf jumped. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z When it finally did, Miss Crofts tinkled her bell. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere a bird cried, and up on the hill the tinkling sound of a cowbell rang. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A small cluster of older ladies clutching pocketbooks, their hair carefully coiffed, probably on a shopping expedition from some province or suburb, smile and coo when he tinkles the opening of “Moonlight Serenade.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The falling stream vanished into a deep growth of cresses and water-plants, and they could hear it tinkling away in green tunnels, down long gentle slopes towards the fens of Entwash Vale far away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Whether it will pick up the saved or cast out the lost is unclear yet to Pupo, who picks up his empty glass and, for comfort, tinkles the ice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The antler bells tinkled lightly as James stepped back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Above the hiss of shower heads and the slap of feet on tiles, a high, thin tinkling reached my ears, a sound almost like the tapping of champagne flutes before a toast. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A flock of fairies twinkles past like floating Christmas lights, their laughter like tinkling bells. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Once again, the tinkling melody of two bangles filled the hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z On the table there was a little Japanese pagoda with glass pendants that tinkled with strange musical tones in a draught. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z With the delicate tinkling of silver on porcelain, she rests her spoon on the saucer and finally looks at Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then faintly, as if it was blown away from them by the breeze, they seemed to catch a dim ringing, as of small bells tinkling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The little bell tinkled once, faint and clear and invisible. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the grass came a soft silvery tinkling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "And high above the putrid corpse a crystal chandelier is tinkling. It tinkles and twinkles, but not one breath of air stirs in that gloomy tomb of a room." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z It was held in the deserted Headmaster’s house, and Mr. Patch-Withers’ wife trembled at every cup tinkle. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat in an uneasy silence, the tinkle of silverware and the indecipherable hubbub from the surrounding tables the only sounds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Downstairs, the bell over the front door tinkles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Every time they shuffled forward another place, the bells on their collars tinkled brightly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As we walk down the street to the river we hear the women laughing, tinkling and bright in the night air. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Emily heard a tinkling noise she couldn’t put her finger on until James jumped back onto the porch and held out his reindeer antlers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z "I guess so," ' she said, and she laughed like tinkling bell s as we watched my big, lumbering buffalo make Iris way to the water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I am vaguely aware of tinkling as the mirror disintegrates around us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z With his face burning and his head bowed, he walked through court after court, hearing that voice roaring ahead of him, hearing tinkles of laughter on every side. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The sound was almost musical, as if we were under a waterfall of tinkling diamonds. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The front door slams, sending all the glass lamps into a furious tinkle. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z As the bell tinkled again, Borgin slammed the door behind her and put up the closed sign. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Yezzan’s name was incised into the metal in Valyrian glyphs, and a pair of tiny bells were affixed below the ears, so the wearer’s every step produced a merry little tinkling sound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And then—flutes and tinkling cymbals, a sounding gong and drums! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a blue smock and rubber shoes, but when she was around him Jaime was convinced he heard the tinkle of the glass beads she used to wear. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Carefully he took it off and held it up, and the gems on it glittered like stars, and the sound of the shaken rings was like the tinkle of rain in a pool. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Casinos encourage this tendency by making sure that every quarter that’s won in a slot machine causes lights to blink and makes its own little tinkle in the metal tray. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All around him, Seth heard the tinkling of miniature bells. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A Salvation Army girl in her red-and-blue bonnet tinkled a bell on the corner, and when she looked at Singer he felt obliged to drop a coin into the pot beside her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They tried to hide it by putting their hands over their mouths, but their laughter escaped through their fingers and fell tinkling onto the table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The crystal chandeliers swayed with their usual tinkling, but no one so much as looked up. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You could hear the tinkle of ice in a lemonade pitcher. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z At last, with a quiet tinkle, she gave up. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She strikes tinkling notes at the top of the keyboard and then ones in the middle. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z For a few seconds they looked at each other, then the man staggered upright, the many empty bottles at his feet clattering and tinkling across the floor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z We were always able at some point each day to call in at a bakery or post office, to hear the tinkle of shop bells and eavesdrop on conversations we couldn’t understand. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A faint breeze tinkled in the wind chimes on someone’s porch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He was still upon the ground, but his arms were long, and his huge hand held me fast while the bells of his hat tinkled with the force of his exertion. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Next moment, the bell over the door tinkled loudly as Malfoy stalked out of the shop looking very pleased with himself. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Brass ribbons tinkled like water and made me realize I needed to use the bathroom. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Bells began to tinkle; at their sound the priests began intoning the prayers, one taking up where the other left off. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He answers, and as I let the coin tinkle onto his plate, I feel proud. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It tinkles like bells, and I pull out my phone immediately, certain I’ve left the video playing in my pocket. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The beads and the bracelets made tinkling sounds. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z His snorting laugh and the tinkle of a bell carried down through her open window. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Johnny guessed what the little tinkle was he heard. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of it—the tinkle of joy in the midst of our bleak American winter—was startling. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Piles of gold so high you could climb them like mountains and slide back down, trailing tinkling sounds and flashes of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The patio is sex segregated—the men sit to one side, smoking their cigars and tinkling their rum drinks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Someone lifts a rack of glasses that tinkle together like rain. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z One moment there were solid wooden walls and the next moment it had fallen with the cracking of wood and the tinkling of glass and the screams of people inside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She just looked at the clock on the wall and when it was exactly nine o’clock, she tinkled a bell that was like the one my mother used to call the servants. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They tinkled lightly and I could feel them twirling around each other, humming against my cheek. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The bullock cart lumbers up, the bells around the animals’ necks jangling, they have tiny bells fixed to caps on the tips of their horns too, which tinkle as they move. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a gorgeous thing, delicately fashioned of gold and hung with bells that tinkled as she moved her arm. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z From the branches hang hundreds of wind chimes, which account for the tinkling I heard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a womout musical box. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was a tinkling little melody, and in a few moments it stopped. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the familiar sound of a mug clinking against the water jar, then a tinkling crash of broken pottery. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z A few of them were kind of quick and tinkling, and another was like that smell in the springtime after a rain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I imagine a tinkling sound, the locket striking the glass, even though the fabric in between makes contact impossible. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he turned and disappeared down the shadowy road, and as he went he whistled, very softly, the tinkling little melody from the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Lenny stooped, and Doreen went flying up on to his shoulder, and her glass sailed out of her hand in a long, wide arc and fetched up against the pine paneling with a silly tinkle. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Her tinkling sounded shrill and angry as she flew around him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The altar bell tinkled and we knelt; we bowed our heads and with our right fist softly beat our hearts, saying we believed in the mystery taking place before our eyes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Inej was glad she didn’t have time to dwell on the unwelcome familiarity of the silks on her skin, the horrible tinkling of the bells on her anklets. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Now he could definitely hear voices, not to mention the tinkle of a bell and the opening and shutting of a door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Glass tinkled; pieces of wood were ripped, groaning, from a wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The glass ones, the mirrored ones, the ones with chandeliers that quiver and tinkle like each rise and fall is a tremor. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z From down the hall came the sound of tinkling silverware and the scrape of a chair being settled in its place. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z From outside comes a light tinkling, fragments of glass, perhaps, falling into the streets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A daylong picnic in the flower garden that tinkles with wind chimes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Laughter tinkles from nearby, a door slams, a child shouts, and beneath it all, the low murmur of conversation thrums. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Harry thought he heard the tinkle of bottles as Slughorn bent over the pincers, apparently examining the enormous hairy head. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Every movement set the cups and saucers to tinkling in warning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Seeing all the lights and hearing all the tinkles, it’s not hard to get the impression that everyone’s winning. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He smelled ether too and heard glass tinkling. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The door chimes tinkled as we trooped inside. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I heard a pop and a tinkle of glass. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Something tinkled against the porch and I picked it up, gazing at it from time to time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He leans all the way inside, and as he does, he hears a chime, twin bells tinkling both above and below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The dull tinkling of broken pottery echoed around the barn over and over, until the last milk bottle remained. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Sure enough, Neville had no sooner reached the shelf of teacups when there was a tinkle of breaking china. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The house was dark and a rocking chair added an un-harmonious sound to the delicate tinkling of the chimes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I heard the unlikely tinkle of a cow’s bell. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I would have liked to have sat across from her when Fats Waller, tinkling the keys of the piano seductively with his thick, powerful fingers, rolled his big eyes at her. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z This time it tinkled its way faintly through the little melody three times before it faded. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He launched one bangle over your head, and as you slowly raised your hands to try to catch it, he sent the other flying so fast, it struck you before tinkling to the floor. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z This was the way Chinese offered congratulations on special occasions, and the greeting, as it was repeated, sounded like little bells tinkling. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The fairy looked down at him, tinkled something that he couldn't understand, and settled on the side of the kitchen cupboard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z "Yes, you're quite right," I said, giving my glass a tinkling twirl. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As Biff dried his face and hands a breeze tinkled the glass pendants of the little Japanese pagoda on the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z On that, she walks out, the bell tinkling behind her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Another tried to snake around the edge of the table, but Ayanna’s staff, flaring with golden light, struck out and jabbed it in the collar until it disintegrated into a tinkle of blackened fragments. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She crouched beside the parapet and trailed her hot hand in the limpid water, letting the tinkle and splash of the fountain make her mind a harmless blank. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The tinkle of a spinet, low voices, laughter. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a tinkling sound: it was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Laughter burst out from behind my back, and I held in my smile while arms jostled one another and feet ran out the door, setting the shop bell tinkling. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The pair left the shop and remounted their creatures, Isagol holding up her bracelet so the moons tinkled like bells. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The door opened to a complicated tinkling of bells. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z His narrow eyes were puffy with crying and as he sniffled, dozens of rings tinkled along the lobes of his ears. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I almost expected the chandelier to start tinkling. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Her voice hung in the air, hung in my ears, dangling, tinkling like a wind chime in an almost nonexistent breeze. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He laid down his fork and his strong black fingers gripped the edge of the table; there was silence save for the tinkling of his brother’s fork against a plate. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s even an antique cradle with Mister Johnny’s old baby bonnet and silver rattle that I swear I can hear tinkling sometimes on its own accord. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Somewhere behind her Marie-Laure hears the tinkling sound of ten thousand keys quivering on ten thousand hooks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A small string at the upper end of the harp broke with a high-pitched tinkle and curled up like an ivy tendril. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He served me tea and biscuits in a tea set that tinkled and rattled at every touch; he treated me like a grown-up; and he told me a story. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Emily heard a tinkling noise she couldn’t put her finger on until James jumped back onto the porch and held out his reindeer antlers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z An ice cream van drove into the street, and with it a tinkling melody. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Piggy's glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z And the keys off to my right can become morning and sunshine and tinkling laughter. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Delia reached over and flicked the golden rings with her forefinger, making them tinkle against each other. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Our host beamed and disappeared back into the kitchen, and I heard a cabinet squeak open and the tinkling sound of glasses being set up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Nobody but Uncle Jack, perhaps, who sometimes embarrassed her unmercifully in front of company with a tinkling recitative of her childhood felonies. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z All Tally heard was the tinkle of Az stirring his tea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Listening to the tinkling of the drops the hobbits fell asleep. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Except for the tinkling of shards, the room is quiet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Her bracelet tinkled, calling communicants to the altar, but the only one in the temple had been excommunicated from the Faith because of his parentage and continued mopping. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They entered the store, tiny bells tinkling as the door opened. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z She heard a gentle splash and a tinkling sound. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Her dangling earring reflected the rays of the streetlight like tinkling glass Chinese ornaments. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sound of men stamping overhead as they run about. There is the creaking of a chain, and the loud tinkle as the check of the capstan falls into the rachet.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Assistant Principal Stephen Jacobs offered a curt smile to Mrs. Torrance, whose head had swung toward him, her beads tinkling again. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He was a slave in a golden collar, with little bells that tinkled cheerfully with every step he took. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I saw them smile, laugh—it was nothing; the light of the candles had as much soul in it as their smile; the tinkle of the bell as much significance as their laugh. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Behind him he could hear the men’s talk and the tinkle of their spoons against the cups. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It made me want to dance and shout, and I could hear tinkling instruments somewhere in the distance as the man stepped into view. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Each lie they told fell from their lips and scattered on the ground, tinkling and glittering like broken glass. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The hot air tinkled the silver bells that decorated the white artificial Christmas tree that never dropped a single pine needle in the Perfect House. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z When I pushed open the door to the shop, a much smaller bell tinkled, and a woman looked up from her perch behind a counter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z After him came Weary, clanking and clinking and tinkling and hot. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a ford here and the stream ran tinkling over the dean stones, only a few inches deep. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The last sound Johnny heard was the fairy tinkle of the spinet. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The little boat sank into the water once more; clanking and tinkling, its chain slithered back into the lake too. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The tinkling sound was getting louder, more prominent. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z On a crystalline fall day you can almost hear the tinkle of fine crystal, the rustle of silk and wool, almost smell the expensive cigars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The tinkling sounds are the spoons hitting each other in the breeze. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z No ornaments ever graced her body; there was about her no tinkling, no shining, and no softness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The bells tinkled as more customers came into the shop. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The ice shattered and fell to the ground, tinkling like pieces of falling stars. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z His snorting laugh and the tinkle of a bell carried down through her open window. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A bell tinkled as Maribel and I walked out, and before the door even closed behind us, I saw the boy again, still slouched against the wall, holding his skateboard upright. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “Seems perfectly all right, doesn't she? She can fly and scold and make tinkling sounds, all the things those stupid fairies do.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her golden dress makes a tiny tinkling melody when she moves. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z There was a crunch and then a tinkle. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z A metallic tinkling intermingled with new screams as hundreds of the pitching stakes outside uprooted, unable to bear the tent’s new strain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Her bangles tinkle cheerfully as she claps her hands. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Sounds floated over: a clink, a tinkle, a voice, a wisp of music. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z "I have won no victories," she tried telling her handmaid when the bell tinkled softly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Suddenly he heard the tinkle of water, a sound hard and clear as a stone falling into a dream of dark shadow. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z As she spoke, the thousands of little bells and chimes which covered her from head to toe tinkled softly and, as if in reply, the telephone began to ring, too. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z As usual, she looks plump and respectable, but for all her prim and proper, Aibileen can still tell a dirty joke that’ll make you tinkle in your pants. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We had always spent Christmas at home, with bells tinkling in the streets, and warm smells wafting from the kitchen. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z And then the sudden sharp contrast of quiet sounds, like tinkling crystal. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Each time, as teacup rattled against saucer, as spoon tinkled against edge of cup, I asked questions. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Victoria Forester laughed at the skinny shop-boy, laughed long and loud and delightfully, and her tinkling laughter followed him back over the hill, and away. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The bell of an ice cream truck tinkled over the wall, fluttering in the cooling evening air almost like a butterfly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face had a little color in it now, but, although he spoke three fairy languages, he understood not a word of what she finally said in her faint tinkling voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The cold thing in his hand chimed once: a crystalline tinkling like the bells of a tiny glass cathedral. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I smell the sugary Cuban coffee Mami must be making, hear the china cups tinkle in their saucers. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She pulled out a match, but as she did something else fell out, landing with a tinkling sound before rolling under a nearby bureau. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Meggie wanted to put her hands over her ears so as not to hear the feeble tinkling sounds the fairy was making. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The cheerful tinkle of steel drums now mixed with Luno’s odd piggish grunts, the wiry stranger swinging a deck mop with painful accuracy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It fell in a tinkling, jangling mass to the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding it tight against him to muffle the tinkle, he jumped to the stool, to the floor, and out the crack. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard laughter, the slosh of wine being poured from a bottle, the tinkle of butter knives tapping porcelain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There was the faint glug of wine being poured, a tinkle of decanter on glass rim, a murmur of thanks, and then Sir Charles seated himself on the sofa, inches away from Will. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With each small wave, pebbles washed up on the beach and tinkled back down. A relatively undeveloped island off Puerto Rico mainland offers solitude (amid unexploded bombs) 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z After several measures of throat-clearing, the music resolves into a happy emulsion, the organ humming along beneath the main theme in the strings while a piano tinkles prettily above. “Babe”: Pig at the Philharmonic 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The finale puts up a braver front, even introducing the tinkle of the triangle. Resigned Director of Minnesota Orchestra Takes Spin at Old Job 2014-03-28T06:27:13Z After the 9am news, Evans told us that another apology was coming and it did, restating how nauseating the morning tinkling of ivories habit seemed. Radio review: Chris Evans 2011-01-31T07:59:01Z The slow middle movement was especially alluring, with a violin-and-flute duo playing a contemplative melody over a drone of bass clarinet and cello, with high tinkling piano sounds above. Music Review: MoMA Summergarden Series Opens With Contemporary Works 2013-07-08T20:52:46Z Or, more precisely: as a resonant body capable of dispersing delicate music box tinkles. International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at the Armory 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z At the bottom, I heard a tinkle, looked down, saw a coin; looked up and saw him bent over double, hand clutching his gut, a satisfying sight. The Celebrity Interviews of Yesteryear 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Near the boardwalk, I heard a tinkling sound. In Wildwood, my final summertime fling The star of the show is the enthralling two-level metal carousel that spins more and more quickly as melancholic, tinkling circus music plays along. Michael Cooper's retrospective, Cathy McClure's 'Midway' at BAM 2011-07-28T19:32:10Z Metal mess plates, punched with the names of some of the fallen climbers, tinkled gently in the breeze. 2010-01-14T18:35:00Z I could already hear the sounds of the Friday night partying, the tinkling laughter, the clinking of glasses. Adventures at the Clown Palace: Stand-up comedy helped me confront my depression and cultural taboos 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Some airlines have experimented with what Spence called “sonic seasoning,” like playing tinkling music or offering plates and glasses that make that sound, because it brings out the sweetness in meals. Airlines aim to trick your taste buds at 30,000 feet 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z But the designer, 31, opted instead for bells, tinkling on woven straw shoes and suggesting the wandering travel trail of a Parisian girl. Special Report: Fashion: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga Mixes Heritage and Style 2011-09-29T17:18:23Z Amid bubbly synthesizers, cooing backup vocals and the tinkle of a toy piano, “Another Time Lover” breathily envisions a fantasy romance “on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.” The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Songs range from languid and loungey to defiant — set to subdued electronic beats and the tinkling of piano keys. After grief, Bebel Gilberto recovers her zen with new album 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z As he moves deeper into the song, there is a sudden cymbal tinkle and the band stands arrayed behind him. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z With its tinkling, bell-like sound, you’d think it was a xylophone or marimba, but the celesta is an upright keyboard instrument, about the size of a spinet piano. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z It seems appropriate to find Desiree tinkling a triangle during “A Weekend in the Country,” that great closing number to the first act that has a social and sexual geometry all its own. A ‘Night Music’ of Heightened Harmony, and Pub Theaters That Put Actors First 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Slow-motion footage and piano tinkling are not enough on their own to create drama, and worse, the somber narrative tone is at odds with the tense joy created by the interactive play. ‘Watch Dogs,’ an Adventure Game From Ubisoft 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z As the final piano notes tinkled over the end credits, the audience clapped when Mr. Soderbergh’s name appeared, only to applaud louder when Michael Douglas’s did. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: A Sympathetic Tale of Marriage and Celebrity 2013-05-21T14:47:41Z The instruments come together, haltingly, in a rising scale, and it soon becomes apparent that they will finish out the octave, leaving only a tolling tinkling bell in their wake. Review: John Luther Adams, Lauded and Played at Columbia 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z In her work, even the sounds of tinkling bells carry unexpected weight. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Local folk music tinkled from the public address system. A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa’s Past, and Future 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Crafted from humming guitars, tinkling pianos, militaristic drumming and occasional orchestration, their fifth album is beautifully subtle and grows in power with each listen. The National: High Violet 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z Harry's embittered bluster dissolves almost immediately, and she begins responding to the woman's plight on a human level, and the score signals Harry's thaw by tinkling in our ear. "Harry's Law": Has David E. Kelley finally run out of steam? 2011-01-24T15:01:00Z Dairy cattle grazed on the slopes, their bells tinkling madly. | Switzerland: Hiking the Alps of Goethe and James Bond 2013-05-01T18:06:17Z Will the show's maudlin, tinkling piano chords eventually seem preferable to the ludicrous credits sequence of faux-church paintings set to a swelling orchestra? HBO's The Leftovers: intense, unpredictable, occasionally brilliant 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z “Leave the Door Open” is an smooth ’70s era R&B throwback that just hits the right notes, from the tinkling keys to the first lines of the song: “What you doin’? Where you at? Grammy predictions: AP writers debate who’ll triumph Sunday 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z The notes were few, as a large orchestra thinned to the tinkle of harp, mandolin and celesta littering soft, ethereal drones in the select strings and winds. Mahler's 'Song of the Earth' and sky and sea, the L.A. Phil way 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z There’s a funny wink to hyper-Romantic excess when a glockenspiel tinkles above the fray at the end of the finale. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z He does so with pleasure, and off they ride to the tinkle of bells braided into the mane of her steed. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z Yet the Dutch duo made their reputation with extraordinary and complex shows, like Russia dolls peeling off layers of clothing or cowbells tinkling in an unlighted room. Fashion Review: Cabinet of Curiosities 2013-07-04T16:56:14Z The sizzle of olive oil and the tinkle of bellini bubbles is almost too much to bear. Midsomer Murders 2010-05-05T07:00:00Z I don’t know about you, but I tend to think of a “salon” as an intimate pastel-carpeted, gilt-edged place with soft lighting, murmuring clerks and perhaps the pleasant tinkle of teacups in the background. Critical Shopper: At Macy’s, Shoes Reign on the Second Floor 2012-10-02T21:36:00Z The main body of the piece began when players started blowing sustained drones on long tubes; thwacking drums; and playing delicate, tinkling riffs on gongs, among other sounds. Review: A ‘Sonic Great Wall’ Breaks Down Musical Barriers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The Impromptu is structured like a Baroque passacaglia, with an insistent chorale-like theme put through myriad tinkling, brash and eerie variations. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Apart from a distant tinkling during the final credits, which might be some sort of folk song, there is no music, just natural sounds. In the Fog – review 2013-04-27T23:07:06Z What’s richer is a subsequent dance, presented in four separate windows to a soundtrack of tinkling piano. Review: In ‘Return the Moon,’ Theater Between Phases 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Sunday, however, brought fewer light moments; the atmosphere in the audience seemed less engaged; and, oddly, the counterpoint of numerous audience cellphones tinkling their merry melodies during the show was considerably more extensive. Seattle Opera’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ unleashes gloriously perfect storm 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Simkin is the better actor, but his death scene was over the top; by the time he finally collapsed and flopped onto his back, the theater tinkled with giggles. Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Brings a Precise Pairing to the Met 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z But for all the skill, it's mainly an evening of academic interest: it's extraordinary to see the most humanist of directors commanding a tinkling, anxiety-causing, mechanistic drama. Swallows and Amazons; Get Santa!; The Animals and Children Took to the Streets; A Flea in Her Ear ? review 2010-12-19T00:06:17Z For the final section, a wondrously strange and tinkling Fantasy on Shakespeare’s “Tempest” for full chorus and orchestra, the scrim was raised, and blinding light filled the stage. Music Review: Chicago Greets Its New Maestro, Who Arrives With Unusual Fare 2010-09-24T16:47:00Z At this point, Rogers, in his genial, friendly manner, explained the concept to children, a soft piano tinkling in the background. ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ at 50: 5 Memorable Moments 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z I suspect that a person who is bold enough to tinkle in public will not be much dissuaded by a sign prohibiting the behavior. Social Q’s: His, Hers, Ours 2014-03-28T16:46:53Z The arrangements hark back to the down-home understatement of 1960s country, placing just the right piano tinkle or steel-guitar turn between verses. Are You Listenin’? New Holiday Albums From Sarah McLachlan and Others 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z “They gallop, leap, jump and tinkle in our ears.” Frank Galati, Mainstay of Chicago Theater, Dies at 79 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Land of CanAan's best moments are the most straightforward: the simpler, driven Try My Best, which combines dramatic strings and tinkling piano, the ethereally beautiful Find Your Way Back or sublime instrumental Repetition. Marques Toliver: Land of CanAan – review 2013-05-16T21:20:01Z True, there was a distinct tinkle when Lena Dunham appeared as Kinky Sue, in what seemed like an in-joke after her SNL sketch parody. Death by boldness: has Scandal got itself in a crisis even Olivia Pope couldn't fix? 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z This production opens with the title song, which enters on a horror-film tinkle, and then mingles tenderness and pain in the sweet agony of its waltz. A Restaging of “Lolita, My Love,” the Musical “Too Dark to Live” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z And from the Capitol in Raleigh to the gas stations of Greensboro and cafes of Charlotte, she plans to tinkle in men’s toilets galore, tweeting and taking selfies as she goes. How to use a urinal like a lady: a trans woman's rebel tour of North Carolina 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z But I associate these ringtones — tinkling fifths, a quieting run of quavers, long trills — with annoyance, not potential for musical development. Anne-Sophie Mutter Plays ‘Ringtones’ 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Offended by Tate’s tardiness, Vidal abandons the interview and glides away, stranding the reporter between the tinkling temptations of his minibar and the insistent goading of Villechaize to stay out all night. “My Dinner with Hervé” Is a Testament to Peter Dinklage’s Charisma 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z It's not so much a search for a key, Mankell explains, but rather a 'hunting for the slightest sound of a distant tinkling from a bunch of keys.' Henning Mankell is gone, but he leaves enduring legacy with Wallander novels 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z At dusk, amid the pre-show chatter and the tinkling of thousands of wineglasses, it was almost possible to overlook the choking clouds of dust coughed up by tour buses rumbling nearby. In Israel, Opera Echoes From Rocks and Ruins 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Glasgow is washed windows, with soap suds dripping down the panes; London is the tinkle of the bell the altar boy rings in Catholic mass. Experience: I taste people’s names 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Scott Joplin’s ragtime piano tinkled softly in the cafe, the greenhouse, and in a 1930s house that has been turned into the garden’s Museum of Botany & the Arts. A Florida Garden Brings Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Work to Life, in Bloom 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Pelosi: It goes to show you: You get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer beat Donald Trump at his own game — reality TV 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z As the New York Times critic Jon Pareles observed in his review, “The music drones and burbles, tinkles and undulates, taking its time and lingering over instrumental stretches.” 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s the only wood boat there, and the gleaming mahogany stands out among the uniformly fiberglass fleet while 1930s jazz tinkles out of the cabin. Matthew Rhys Hits the Seas 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The music drones and burbles, tinkles and undulates, taking its time and lingering over instrumental stretches as if people are still willing to experience a whole album from start to finish. Music Is a Sanctuary From Chaos on Yo La Tengo’s ‘There’s a Riot Going On’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Someone’s cellphone rang, and for a moment I swore it tinkled Mr. Rogers’s theme song. Teaching civility: two daring assignments It began as a brilliant parade, led by eight warriors, “their saddles glittering with silver ornaments,” Grinnell wrote, “and their bridles tinkling with little bells.” Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z It begins with repetitive chords and tinkling riffs in the high range of the piano, like delicate sounds from a distant pagoda. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble at MoMA’s Summergarden 2012-07-09T22:28:41Z The ovation was enormous, so Mr. Matsuev played an encore, showing his delicate side in a gently tinkling account of Liadov’s “Music Box.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic, at 15,000, With Stravinsky 2010-05-06T21:19:00Z On Tuesday, the company plans to launch a sister product: “Icon” underwear “for women who tinkle” — i.e., pregnant ladies, new moms or any other woman with urinary incontinence. What makes an ad for ‘period-proof’ underwear too risque? 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z They are the first words she sings, actually, just after the tinkle of wind chimes and piano that announces the gospel-leaning title track. New Music 2011-06-13T22:00:32Z Bryce, a tourist honeypot in summer, was empty when we trekked in the next day: the only sounds were the drip-drip of melting snow and the tinkle of falling rock shards. Ski safari in Utah 2010-12-18T00:07:45Z All the sticky, awkward cubes of ice floating together, tinkling, their frost thrown off to the side of the glass, and the vodka cold and unctuous in her mouth. Two Good Books: Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark and Edward St. Aubyn's At Last 2012-02-15T21:23:51Z Wind chimes gently tinkled through the Grand Palais, which was transformed into a snowy mountain retreat with wooden cabins, white smoke spiraling from chimneys, elegant pine trees and mounds of faux snow. Perspective | Chanel says goodbye to Karl Lagerfeld gracefully, in a stunning winter wonderland 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z On it, Martin tinkled the ivories on a song called I Don't Want You to Die. The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – review 2012-06-23T23:05:18Z It takes about a year to get what Roth calls the “perfect clunk and tinkle” — the Goldilocks zone between rock rebellion and night-night calm. It’s got a good beat, and you can fall asleep to it 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Lindstrand then arrived to tinkle Happy Birthday on a music box, before drifting airily through wordless vocal impressionism over the sounds of pealing bells and then into the simultaneously lyrical and dissonant Quiet Nights. Django Bates 50th Birthday 2010-10-06T20:59:00Z Now a month old, he nurses contentedly in the pavilion near the tinkling of falling water. Ukrainian artist makes cultural stand at Venice Biennale 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Being very old, its floorboards creaked, and brass bits and pieces tinkled. My quest to be more Welsh 2011-07-29T23:07:29Z The harpsichord, on the other hand, added not more than the faintest glittery tinkle. Hip harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani goes for Baroque but is unfortunately hard to hear 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Like the organ in “Positively 4th Street,” the tinkling celeste punctuates another of Dylan’s revenge fantasies. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The Nirvana Percussion Choir, I’m sorry to say, expanded its repertoire and played a wan self-styled lullaby full of soft drum strokes and triangle tinkles. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z As guests and candidates talk about their burden of resentment and the intractability of the dependent classes, cutlery clinks, stemware tinkles, a cork pops. You Got Served: A Waiter’s-Eye View of Mitt Romney 2012-09-19T12:00:55Z The tinkling Another Love has already been used as a BBC trailer. Tom Odell – review 2013-03-04T18:44:20Z The resulting imbalance meant that in the serene Adagio, Ms. Mullova seemed to be enacting a pas de deux on her own, the oboe’s part reduced to a distant, tinny tinkle. Review: A Perfectly Acceptable Slice of Bach 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The dinner-table chatter went dead, and I noticed that the portly, jacket-and-tie-clad man next to me kept nervously stirring his vodka stinger, the clink of ice tinkling a counterpoint to the groans from the stage. 2010-02-11T23:23:00Z The more traditional elements involved rustling runs, skittish riffs and high tinkling figures that evoked pagoda chimes, all splendidly played. Review: Daniel Lebhardt Shows Daring Command in a New York Debut 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z In “Let the Corpses Tan,” a man squints, a woman tinkles and time passes very, very slowly as guns fire and the sun glares. Review: In ‘Let the Corpses Tan,’ Bullets Fly. People Die. But a Story? No. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z As the lights dim against the night, truck engine tinkling cool outside, they watch The Hurt Locker, then all the Marvel films, that Bourne one Renner did, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Oh Jeremy Renner, you only have thousands of versions of yourself to blame for your app's failure 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s a decades-crossing, literate soap opera, full of the tinkle of casually dropped famous names and chiming wit. Theater Review: Simon Gray’s ‘Common Pursuit,’ by Roundabout Theater Company 2012-05-25T02:01:01Z At 10 a.m., the front bell tinkled and Mike leapt to his feet. It’s Memorial Day weekend. One of the mattressiest times of the year. 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Vilmos Zsigmond’s roving, impressionistic photography lends the film a dreamlike quality – all tinkling wind chimes and rain-streaked windows and fractured reflections, not to mention some rich exterior scenes in the autumnal Irish countryside. My streaming gem: why you should watch Images 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z But the music is ominous — all minor chords, twitchy percussion and detached keyboard tinkling. Beyoncé and Jay-Z: The State of the Union Is Strong 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z So instead of pointing a neat stream toward bricks, the stream scattered and showered down seven stories in a deluge of echoing tinkles. Never tell anyone what I just did 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Before he ambles back through the shambles he turns on the hot plate, starting a pot of water that will boil with a metallic tinkling sound for most of the late afternoon. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z But "A Better Tomorrow" still oozes the minor-key menace for which the group is known; it's unmistakably a Wu-Tang project, with tinkling pianos, lumbering grooves and mysterious bits of dialogue lifted from obscure kung-fu movies. Wu-Tang Clan looks to past, future in 'A Better Tomorrow,' more works 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z "They might think they've made a mistake...but they wouldn't dare say it," he said over the tinkle of cowbells, adding that the best outcome would be a narrow rejection of the initiative. Swiss shrink from radical limits on immigration in November vote 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The soundscape, by Hahn Rowe, charges the action with bursts of static, industrial hums, the accelerating bounce of dropped objects, a tinkling between breaking glass and fire. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z As Granny O’Toole told my cousins and me, ice tinkling in her G&T as she charmed the drawing room: “If they’d had the pill 50 years ago, there’d certainly be a few less O’Tooles.” In praise of my cousins – all 39 of them 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z It is a tiny musical box that plays the Internationale, and its fragile tinkling is transmitted through huge loudspeakers. Manifesta 9 – review 2012-08-28T12:59:00Z Light jumps and rapid barefoot pounding punctuated the curving, gentle bharatanatyam style of classical Indian dance, with its velvet footwork and tinkling ankle bells. Surprises pepper the musical mix in Ragamala’s ‘Song of the Jasmine’ 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z All enjoyable enough, with the swelling music, Maggie Smith and tinkling china, but it's difficult to see, nuanced snobbery aside – "What is a weekend?" – what the general thrust is going to end up being. Commonwealth Games 2010-10-02T05:45:00Z Fifty solid minutes of listening to music-box tinkling in a white Chelsea gallery with white padded walls, flickering lights and headless white mannequins hanging from the ceiling. On the Runway Blog: A Contemplation of Insanity at Thom Browne 2013-09-10T00:36:42Z Just when the playing seems to be logically winding down, someone tinkles a chime, or strikes a chord, or hits a downbeat and everything revs up again until the next false pause. Art in Review: Stan Douglas: ‘Luanda-Kinshasa’ 2014-02-13T22:54:28Z I found the tinkling music-box recording by Hung I Chan so grating that it was hard to concentrate on the dance. Ben Munisteri Is Back, Out of a Time Warp 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z For decades, my husband and I regularly consumed a bottle of wine at dinner; now, I’m tinkling ice cubes in a glass. Perspective | I drank every day. What kind of effect was it having on my kids? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z It was an enchanting scene with piglet puppets, waving stars and tinkling chimes. As anti-vaxx dispute rages, attention turns to California's Waldorf schools 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z So many people complain about noise in restaurants these days, but here, there was no merry tinkling of ice, no laughter; every footfall was muffled on the carpeted floor. A Taste of Charleston, Old-School and New 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z And then, over the box’s strange, mechanical tinkling, you hear a man’s voice—the sweetest you’ve ever known—imploring you to better serve your God: “Lift him up, that’s all.” Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Logan Hill: With two ice cubes tinkling in her gin and tonic, while Ted flies her there! ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: The Woman in Room 503 2013-05-13T13:20:23Z It’s a wintry, melancholic scene made somewhat sadder by the tinkling of some dolorous piano music. Review: ‘12 Days’ and the Rights of the Mentally Ill 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z In “American Dreams,” Julia Alvarez recalls a childhood candy store and its “tinkling bell that tattled I was coming in the door.” Review | How do you define authenticity? A poetry collection explores a modern problem. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Then, quietly at first, individual performers started blowing through conches, twirling plastic tubes and shaking boxes of tinkling bells to produce an array of drones and whistles, some of them evocative of bird calls. Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The simple design, evoking cornfields and wild flowers, and the tinkling piano music are a wee bit tasteful. Skintight – review 2013-07-22T17:49:16Z Both are played by running a mallet along the inside in continuous motion — an action that requires full engagement of the performer’s arm and torso and produces tinkling rushes of sound. To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z “Hazy Light,” the opening movement, is indeed misty-textured and intriguingly amorphous, with crackling, tinkling orchestral effects and a violin part that shifts between slinky lyricism and rhapsodic bustling. Review: New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall With Anne-Sophie Mutter 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z “Hoover Dam” starts with a Beach Boys-inspired carousel of tinkling notes before sweeping you over the edge and plunging you into the blaring guitars and drums at the heart of the song. Sugar's Copper Blue Reissued: 20th Anniversary of Bob Mould's Groundbreaking Album 2012-07-24T14:00:09Z As the show got into a groove, I kept noting the way Collier’s piano was in unintentional duet with the tinkle of silverware on plates. Live Music Is Back! (Live Music Is Back?) 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z The beat is a tinkle, not a gloomy horror soundtrack, and even though Cardi is rapping with ferocity, she’s also stepping gingerly; the subject is her heart, and she doesn’t want to fracture it. Cardi B Is a New Rap Celebrity Loyal to Rap’s Old Rules on ‘Invasion of Privacy’ 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z There's more here than we've heard on TV, but the tinkling bells and cellos of Hungry Face and unsettling guitar intro to The Huts work perfectly over a full-length album. Mogwai: Les Revenants – review 2013-07-25T20:45:00Z Or even just have a drink off the lobby, glowing with wood beams and couches and chairs arranged in discreet circles, as a piano player tinkles old standards. Hollywood Gets Its Groove Back 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z As the end approached, the music settled down and thinned out, until there seemed to be only tinkling chimes, like the actual bird calls that had been part of the music all along. Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The oom-pah-pah beats and tinkling timbres keep taking detours into odd syncopations and dissonances. Toy-Box Trio creates a lilting, lurching soundtrack to a carnivalesque world 2010-06-11T19:45:00Z “It was pretty magical to see the ribbons waving and hear the bells tinkling,” Ms. Wilson said. ‘The Odds Were Stacked Against Us’ 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z “Everyone is sticking the tinkling sound of ukulele under their commercial,” said Jim Beloff, who wrote “The Ukulele: A Visual History.” Ukulele Crazy 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z I’m fully grown now, but the comment still tinkles lightly on the piano of my mind. My dad said I wasn’t black enough. At last, I know what he meant | Raven Smith 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Each instrument cut through the air with its own vibrations — splashes, thwacks, tinkles, knocks — for a cumulative effect that was captivating to experience live. Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z To a soundtrack of jingling bells and sprightly piano tinkling, Mrs. Trump glides silently through the White House summoning our attention with her gestures. Perspective | Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations are lovely, but that coat looks ridiculous 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z You remember that mysterious feeling when the Crumb begins: a glistening piece with tinkling chime-like sounds, eerie spiraling figures and thick, plush chords. A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z The sounds Ms. Auster played alternated between droning and tinkling; though not melodic like music, they were pleasant to listen to. So You Think You Can’t Meditate? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Gliding on peaceful ocean vistas and plaintive indie ballads, whimsical conversations and tinkling French ditties, “Etienne!” encourages us to brake for sunsets and smell the daisies. | 'Etienne!': Rodent Road Trip and Human Bonds 2010-09-02T21:40:00Z But as the Steinway tinkled and voices filled the room, vibrations rose from deep beneath the earth, like a musical giant shifting in its grave. Young Socialites Conjure the Ghost of Leonard Bernstein at the Dakota 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Braids, from Montreal, played rhapsodic songs, with stretches of tinkling Minimalism cresting in rock and surprisingly blunt lyrics, that reward long attention spans. Critic?s Notebook: Bands Dream Globally, Play Locally 2010-10-24T23:00:00Z And she bemoans being separated — even by her own choices — in the torchy “Around the Tree” and in the tinkling march “No Holiday.” 15 Fresh Takes on a Classic Tradition: The Holiday Album 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Fall field crickets and tinkling ground crickets may announce their presence. Spare Times Listings for Kids for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z We are in London, a long way from Charlottesville, and a piano tinkles nearby. Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The book describes how one night, a golden ladder appears at the girl's open bedroom window with her grandmother, hair flowing down her back and silver bangles tinkling on her arms. President's sister puts their mom in picture book 2011-04-12T11:13:09Z “Two Virgins” offers a cheerful, sometimes goofy, tapestry of sound — whistling, piano tinkling, a Mellotron, an electronic drone enhanced by tape loops, reverb and other effects. Yoko Ono’s Vintage Sonic Blasts Still Sound Like the Future 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z They generated all sorts of plunks, rustles, tinkles, scrapes and clangs, in a piece that ambled through a hushed metallic junkscape of isolated sounds and turned rhythmic as the players traded little high plinks. Music Review: Alternative Guitar Festival at Rockwood Music Hall - Review 2012-01-15T23:43:32Z Accompanying sighs of relief will likely be the subtle tinkling of ice. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z She launches herself, backwards, arching, twisting, tumbling downwards and away in slow motion, accompanied by some familiar piano tinkling. TV Review: Dive 2010-07-09T05:45:00Z Schubert decorates the slow movement with exquisite tinkling high notes that usually are made to serve as the musical equivalent of illuminating a scene with magical starlight. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z While chairs crashed about and cups and spoons tinkled, “Petlyura” would crawl up to me on all fours, let out a wild shriek, and sink his sharp teeth into my leg. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It's not exactly the sweep of ethnic dance in "The Nutcracker," but Hynd's tight little catalog helps the ballet break loose from the tinkling flutes and chandelier sparkle of the story. 'Merry Widow' by turns intoxicating and flat in romantic outing 2011-02-17T14:49:00Z The very pivot of the film—a mind-control scheme to which Chris is being subjected—involves hypnosis, which Missy accomplishes by way of a distracting object, a spoon tinkling in a fancy teacup. “Get Out”: Jordan Peele’s Radical Cinematic Vision of the World Through Black Eyes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Each of the new songs looms within a larger, obsessively detailed ambience, a realm of magnified creaks and rustles, children’s voices, tinkling music boxes and shadowy orchestras. Playlist: New CDs: From Rye Rye, Maga Bo, Sigur Ros and Cold Specks 2012-05-25T21:06:59Z It billowed and throbbed, tinkled and crashed, swooped and pealed around the grand space. Oneohtrix Point Never’s Quest to Make Music That Freaks People Out 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The New Museum is alive with the sound of music, as well as talking, chanting, spitting, electronic tics and sputters and, occasionally, the tinkling of 47 small bronze bells. Aural Installations Take Over New Museum 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The earthiness of jazz has been replaced by a fey tinkling. From the Observer archive, 29 November 1959: how to take pizzazz out of jazz 2012-11-24T00:05:25Z Spectacularly imaginative royal jewelry dates from this time: belts made from cast-gold cowrie shells; anklets hung with tinkling gold feline claws. An Ancient Egyptian Show That’s Low on Bling but High on Beauty 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z A little girl kicked a bottle cap through the bandstand; the metal skittering across the asphalt became an extended iridescent tinkle. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z I would give it 10, but for one thing: the tinkling piano. TV Review: Dive 2010-07-09T05:45:00Z Gentle, sombre piano music tinkles in the background, as he sagely advises, “It’s all right to feel sad, but the pain goes away.” The long life of digital shorts: an ode to Saturday Night Live's viral highs 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Much like the 8-bit calypso tune that is Mario and Luigi’s constant companion as they dart through their vivid environs, the tinkling, sashaying instrumental leitmotif that accompanies “The Real Housewives” is their trademark. The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z “I’d start to hear something like the tinkling of fairy dust, if that makes any sense. Then I’d see little dark spots, going from the outside in, until it was one big black spot.” Martine Rothblatt: She founded SiriusXM, a religion and a biotech. For starters. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z External sounds and sights bleed into this exhibition, which also resonates with the whir and creak and tinkle of sculptures in motion. When It Comes to Calder, the Same Piece Is Always Different 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The music unfolds with strange, angelic tinkling figures in the high strings and upper octaves of the piano, broken up with volleys of rhythmic energy. Critic’s Notebook: Under Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai Festival Enjoys Long Scandinavian Nights 2012-06-12T21:53:19Z Once Keith hears her tinkle the ivories, he recognises a kindred spirit and starts to wander around with a watery smile on his face. Sundance film festival 2013: Breathe In – first look review 2013-01-21T17:42:59Z The score, with its tinkling music box lilt rousing itself with ever more urgency, flowers with originality. 'Amélie's' magical bread crumbs lead to storybook ending in musical's Berkeley premiere 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z He picked up a spoon and tinkled it against his glass. How psychopaths take over 2012-10-13T17:00:00Z Moments after a guru prayed for “new ideas,” a meditation chime tinkled and a flicker of a smile broke through Don’s trance. Shifting From ‘Mad Men’ to Strong Women in a Series Finale 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Ivories are tinkled, snares echo, thanks to producer Byron Lee. Readers recommend: Songs about the police - the results 2011-03-24T16:42:45Z “The mint and the ginger really tinkle your nose,” said the 46-year-old of the spices present in the shooter. Please stop snorting cocoa powder 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z As she stands watching her inanimate inamorata, you can hear the tiny tinkling sound of scales falling from the eyes of the poor, dear, dim girl. World Of Lather: a month in soap 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z There are the traditional tinkling pianos building tension in the background as the narrator searches for clues as to where the police went wrong. Could A Very Fatal Murder kill off the true-crime podcast? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z But “Split,” a final quartet set to intermittent tinkling sounds, was suddenly much better. Dance Review: Soaking Wet Is Presented at West End Theater 2010-05-14T22:20:00Z A wispy tinkle of harpsichord and it's over – "like a wink," says Salonen. Salonen, CSO scale majestic heights of Bruckner symphony 2011-03-04T18:35:00Z The reflecting pool, where people tossed pennies, is now complemented by a tiny weir whose tinkle of babbling water adds a sound feature for the visually impaired. A 21st-Century Renaissance for Ford Foundation Landmark 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z And that sometimes gave the music a kind of cool, counterintuitive, miniaturized feeling — free jazz as music-box tinkling. 2010-01-15T04:14:00Z Here a delicate melody is accompanied by a tinkling piano that suggests an heirloom music box, but with slightly off harmonies and hypnotic spiraling riffs. Music Review: Marilyn Horne Celebrates Young Singers at Zankel Hall 2012-01-21T00:03:22Z The harpsichord, folded into the texture, emitted an appealingly gentle tinkle. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Bursts of tinkling metal madness somehow mesh with the overall darkness of the slow second movement. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Because of pandemic limitations, Zubieta recorded each part by himself; the edited piece, with its pinprick tinkles and squalls of booming rushes, now haunts the gallery at regular intervals. To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Frenetic volleys of percussion rapping, chiming and tinkling seem like animated commentaries on the vocal lines, not intrusive interruptions. Review: Decades Later, a Classic Concert Gets a Redo 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z But “it goes to show you: You get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you.” How Nancy Pelosi turned the condescending ‘feisty grandma’ meme into a political weapon 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z And I'm taking piano lessons, so you'll see me tinkling the ivory a bit. Michael Douglas looks at life as a "Solitary Man" 2010-05-25T12:34:00Z Nothing was worse than the soft tinkle of a piano. REO Speedwagon will save us 2012-08-08T01:00:00Z And then to fall asleep to the summer sounds of the sea: a lullaby of waves lapping against rocky shores punctuated by the rhythmic tinkling of sailboat halyards. For a real taste of Midcoast Maine as it was — and should be — head to Damariscotta 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Eventually we heard the faint tinkle of cowbells, the clap of horses’ hooves, creaking caravan wheels, the strains of flamenco guitar, voices singing in unison. Flamenco and Fervor: Inside Spain’s El Rocío Pilgrimage 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The event was a celebration of Mr. Buatta’s life, complete with Champagne and a tinkling electric keyboard. Book Party Anxiety, Writ Large 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Another tinkle of music — and there was the same outfit made up in cloth. Special Report: Fashion: Lanvin Under the Willow Tree 2011-03-04T19:17:10Z A touching duet on Nilsson's He Needs Me with Guatemalan singer Gaby Moreno, a spritely tinkle through Anything Goes and Parks heads straight to the bar for a drink with Wainwright. Van Dyke Parks – review 2013-05-07T18:08:24Z Natasha’s romantic delirium is rendered in jarring cuts and tinkling sounds. A Peerless ‘War and Peace’ Film Is Restored to Its Former Glory 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z On the one hand, it would seem a bit of a contradiction to be tinkling your gold bells at the same time as regularly posing for pictures with surface-to-air missiles. Steven Seagal is now in charge of Russia-US relations. Is there anything this man can’t do? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The introduction of “tinkle” makes it — well, rhetorically, it accomplishes a lot of things. How Nancy Pelosi turned the condescending ‘feisty grandma’ meme into a political weapon 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The gentle tinkling of cowbells is a sound almost everyone associates with Switzerland. Swiss village of Aarwangen in ding-dong over challenge to cowbells 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The brassy tinkling of livestock bells rings out over a vast plain of dry grasses near the community of Rocky Ridge, Arizona, close to the border between Navajo and Hopi lands. Navajo sheep herding at risk from climate change. Some young people push to maintain the tradition 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z “They’re sitting up in that governor’s mansion tonight, I bet you money, tinkling their little glasses, smoking their cigars,” Presley said, imitating someone holding a tumbler of whiskey. Democrat Brandon Presley seeks big turnout in Nov. 7 bid to unseat Mississippi’s Republican governor 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Locals and tourists lined the way, snapping pictures of the sheep that wore tinkling bells around their necks. Sheep flock to Madrid's streets on ancient herding route 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The soundtrack bounced around the room, a composition featuring sounds of moving fabric, and, at one point, the tinkle of a triangle instrument – just as clothing with triangle cutouts was shown. Coperni adorns futuristic lineup with AI pins at Paris Fashion Week 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z But what if those bells are right outside your bedroom window day and night, and rather than tinkle gently, clang loudly around the necks of 20 or 30 cows? Swiss village of Aarwangen in ding-dong over challenge to cowbells 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z That’s because a couple of ensembles actually did feature what looked like shards of glass artfully adorning a skirt or a top, and leaving a tinkling sound in their wake. At Proenza Schouler, bleached denim, sweaters-as-scarves, echoes of wind chimes: NY FASHION PHOTOS 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z The tinkling of sheep bells floats in the air, announcing the movement of 1,000 sheep and some goats through an ancient Spanish transhumance — or livestock migration — route. AP PHOTOS: A shepherd keeps up the ancient rite of guiding sheep across northern Spain 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Walking past tombs, I hear the tinkle of bells. Walking the Appian Way: a stroll through time on Rome's ancient road 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z A melancholy, tinkling piano melody served as the soundtrack for Nikki Haley’s announcement that she was running for president in 2024. Perspective | Nikki Haley’s blurry presidential ambition 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Bacharach wrote more than 500 songs, many featuring a tinkling piano and subtly seductive horn hooks. U.S. composer Burt Bacharach dies at age 94 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z The sprinkling of stars is conveyed by the tinkling of wind chimes, while the widespread interstellar gas and dust draw out sustained stringed notes. The sounds of science: What scientists can learn by turning their data into sounds 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Even classical music was often “pretty tinkling in the background,” as Wald puts it. Why mood music playlists are the soundtrack to anxious times 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Best to avoid gifting tinkling models that irritate rather than soothe. 12 days of holiday gift-giving ideas for the gardener in your life 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Millions watching - who until then thought a piano was just for tinkling - simply gaped. Obituary: Jerry Lee Lewis 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Two days later, shell casings and shards of shrapnel from the battle remained scattered around the streets, tinkling as the Ukrainian soldiers walked over them. In Southern Ukraine, Signs of Low Russian Morale Amid Retreat 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Soon, the air is alive with the deep thump of the tuba, the tiny tinkle of the triangle and everything in between, melting into a soothing melody. Back to School and Back to Normal. Or at Least Close Enough. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The young Queen Elizabeth II, not long out of her teenage years, with the glow of youth and a tinkling bell of a voice, pledged her life to duty. Perspective | After a lifetime of vivid symbolism, Queen Elizabeth II faded to gray 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z She seems very kind, admits to not understanding “technology” and, on the way to the bathroom, uses the word “tinkle,” which is adorable. Jennifer Coolidge has been a big deal for years; with an Emmy nod, she's starting to believe it 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z On the flat, straight highways of middle America, you’ll often see a Chevy go by with a sticker in the window portraying a cartoon scamp tinkling on a Ford logo — or vice versa. Opinion | Ford might have just turbo-boosted our electric-vehicle future 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Life’s soundtrack was the tinkling of bells on cows herded by local shepherds. Women of Lesotho’s garment industry lose jobs, hope in COVID 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Gail is constantly distracted by the tinkling of a bell in the old servants’ quarters of her house. Review: Terrifying racism-in-academia is trapped in the far less frightening horror of 'Master' 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Walking in this area created a tinkling noise, from shorn pieces of metal from the destroyed vehicles, shell casings, broken glass and other debris. In sweatpants and sneakers, civilians get rifles and join the fight 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z She finished without incident in 1 minute, 14.30 seconds and stood alone for a few seconds as a cowbell tinkled and a television camera focused on her from a few feet away. After heartbreak, Mikaela Shiffrin finds some satisfaction with ninth in super-G 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z And, music to my little ears, ice cubes tinkled cocktail glasses to the tune of Perry Como singing “Silent Night.” Opinion | Why this is still the most wonderful time of the year 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z At first, things were the same as they had always been — the casual grousing as they set up the tent, the tinkling notes from the ice cream truck, the whistle of bottle rockets. Nathan’s legacy: He got new lungs after covid. Now comes the hard part. There’s only so many ways to make guitar tinkles. Good 4 who? How music copyright has gone too far 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Walking up to the airport’s civilian terminals Tuesday meant navigating past razor-wire cordons and overturned vehicles set up as a makeshift roadblock, with dozens of spent bullet casings tinkling underfoot. Taliban declares victory as Afghans assess what's left, what's next, after West's exit 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Your eyes dart from package to package as the theme song from “The Little Mermaid” tinkles in the background. When in Tokyo, forget everything you know about 7-Elevens and convenience stores 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z When she paused to puff, the sound of tinkling wind chimes scored the silence. How She Transformed a Viral Twitter Thread About Sex Work Into a Sinister Comedy 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z He eventually delivered a Nobel lecture in the form of a spoken word piece with added piano tinkling and references to the plays of William Shakespeare and Homer's hero, Odysseus. Bob Dylan: 80 things you may not know about him on his 80th birthday 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z Also unveiled then was an old Catholic religious medal depicting five saints and a “tinkling cone,” a small copper alloy decoration probably made by Europeans for trade with Native Americans. Archaeologists find rare, nearly 380-year-old English coin during Maryland dig 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The dogged caretaker, Albert Kothe, regularly labored up the steep hillside with a load of gently tinkling replacement lightbulbs buttoned inside his shirt. Sick of loud noises and bright lights? Sorry, L.A. has always been like that 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z “The pond tinkles like music,” she told me. Snapshots From a Swimming Friendship 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Some of the nuts landed with a metallic tinkle. ‘There’s good fire and bad fire.’ An Indigenous practice may be key to preventing wildfires 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z In that upper deck, Tresp could just imagine “the tinkling in the glasses, the cigarette smoke, people dressed up. It was just glam.” From its plush upper deck to its 5-star menus, the 747 — now in range for its final approach — defined luxury travel 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z A walk through a hallway is punctuated by tinkling sounds that one staffer identified as expressing “childhood wonder.” After months of lockdown, Artechouse’s cherry blossom show is a breath of fresh air 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z For this reason, the time to stop a riot is not when flames are dancing to the crash and tinkle of shattering glass. Opinion | The death of George Floyd reveals a sick brotherhood of the badge 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z But without power, policies are tinkling cymbals: ahead is the long, hard slog of solid and skilful opposition. With Keir Starmer in charge, Labour can hold the Tories to account again | Polly Toynbee 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z With the sound of teaspoons tinkling on saucers and hissing espresso machines over gentle indie music, you won’t believe it’s not Starbucks. Solitary refinement: a lockdown survival guide 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Ms. King suggested that he tinkle the piano belonging to Mr. Colbert’s bandleader, Jon Batiste. ‘Today’ Show Goes On, With a Homebound Savannah Guthrie 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z We’re sitting on a step on a street buzzing with motorcycles and the tinkle of bicycle bells. In the rubble of Taiz, all roads to a normal life are blocked 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z In live recordings from the club, like Monk’s playful bebop classic “Nutty,” recorded there in 1958, you can hear the tinkling of ice in cocktails and the hum of conversations. The Lower East Side in 8 Songs 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z “Hello, it’s me, your co-worker, Hertz Enterprise,” one man says, moving his arms robotically as soft music tinkles in the background. Hudson Yards Is Coming for Your Soul 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z A tinkling bell on the worn wooden front door, announces a new customer’s presence. The Hütte: A Melting Pot Of Swiss, Appalachian Culture 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z “A little help with the little things,” the ad concludes, as make-you-cry piano chords tinkle in the background. Tech company Super Bowl ads said as little as possible 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z "There was a tinkling noise. I looked up and saw a hole in the window. I saw this smoking thing on the floor," he said. Pub bomb deaths 'brushed over' without inquest 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z That was a thing he loved: Little, tiny tinkling while the suspension was groaning and lurching and the engine was roaring. Filmmakers: Behind the wheel of a very human race in 'Ford v Ferrari' 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Embracing its twee touches, including a tinkling playful score by Alex Somers, the film finds its way into an eerie, magical fantasy space that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Review: Shia LaBeouf bares a tortured soul in autobiographical 'Honey Boy' 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The sound of someone tinkling the ivories has become commonplace at UK railway stations. Why do people play pianos at railway stations? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The tinkling of that sweets truck suddenly sounded insignificant. “God’s Caravan” 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z As she told her colleagues in 2018, on the way to winning back control of the House, “You can’t get in a tinkle contest with a skunk.” Trump and House Democrats are ‘crossing the Rubicon’ with impeachment showdown, and nobody knows where it will lead 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z A bell tinkled as I pushed through the back door to Cora’s porch, propped open by an old book. Opinion | The Trick to Life Is to Keep Moving 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Rhoda meets Mary Richards, played by the show’s namesake, when Mary moves into the turreted Victorian house where Rhoda has fashioned a home in the attic, fringe beads tinkling in the doorway. Valerie Harper, actress beloved as the chronically single, irrepressibly funny Rhoda Morgenstern, dies at 80 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Variety magazine compared it to the “lilting tinkling of bells.” Russi Taylor, voice of Disney’s Minnie Mouse and ‘Simpsons’ staple, dies at 75 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Light rain above tinkles musically, reaching a crescendo when heavier storms pass. A growing sensory smog threatens the ability of fish to communicate, navigate, and survive 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The tobacco companies, of course, did not spend half the commercial time listing, with tinkling piano background music, all the possible side effects of tobacco. Opinion | Cancel TV’s prescription drug ads 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z It is the tinkling piano riff that gets you. Why is A Thousand Miles the most referenced song in cinema? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Got a handful of change tinkling annoyingly in your pocket? Perspective | Closing the lid on the Treasure Trove, a downtown D.C. jewelry store 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z White House tapes record him slurring his words amid the tinkle of ice cubes. The mental rigours of being US president 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The Mirror Group always had the largest pockets and a reputation for using them vigorously amid the bright lights and tinkling pianos. Observer archive - Fleet Street at closing time, 6 March 1988 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z “My best moments in the kitchen are when I hear the tinkling of silverware, people laughing and talking,” Atkinson says. Yup, Seattle’s restaurants have gotten noisier. How to reverse this trend? We’re all ears. 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Following the meeting, Christmas music tinkled and several housemates prepared dinner while she stared out the window. In Rehab, ‘Two Warring Factions’: Abstinence vs. Medication 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z She also primly likened the meeting to “a tinkle contest with a skunk,” adding, “I was trying to be the mom.” Pelosi vs. Trump: ‘Don’t Characterize the Strength That I Bring,’ She Says 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Interesting features, the newspaper said, included a men’s lounge with a fireplace and “a patio for women with a tinkling fountain, a college section for the youthful male, and in the children’s section a circus.” Historic home of clothier Desmond's is ready for its comeback on Broadway 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z As Pelosi said, according to the aide, “It goes to show you: You get into a tickle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you.” Analysis: A rancorous first glimpse of new Trump-Dem dynamic 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z We used to sit in green armchairs and let the images, unaccompanied by piano tinkling, flicker across the screen. “Time for the Eyes to Adjust” 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Also: You’ll never have to take it for a walk — though it can still simulate taking a tinkle. The ultimate holiday gift guide At which point the screen dissolves, wind chimes tinkle and we head back almost exactly 10 years to the first of those new-age derbies. Manchester derby has been skewed by a decade of Abu Dhabi investment | Barney Ronay 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “You can’t get in a tinkle contest with a skunk,” she told colleagues. How Democrats won the House 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Far from disappointed, that small tinkle of stardust made my summer. Essential California: Election day! - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, hanging above us in the trees and tinkling in the breeze, are 172 bells, an airy antidote to all that hard rock. A mountain for Merseyside: why have Las Vegas boulders landed in Liverpool? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Inside the big ever-changing patterns that build to an extraordinary climax there are hundreds of titillating instrumental details, tinkles and tweets, fleeting melodic lines, scraping large plywood planks. Review: L.A. Phil begins season in earnest with Andrew Norman's game-changing 'Sustain' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z It’ll even lift its back leg and take a simulated tinkle. Review | Aibo the robot dog will melt your heart with mechanical precision 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z What you hear in the street instead are thetweeting of birds in the camellias, the tinkle of coffee spoons and the sound of human voices. 'For me, this is paradise': life in the Spanish city that banned cars 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z In the pause after she pronounces each, Dieter strikes together two palm-size Buddhist meditation chimes, producing a tinkling that quickly evaporates. Hospice workers find peace in helping patients find comfort at the end of life 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z And we look out at the sweetly tinkling bells and the dangling messages of hope written by children, blowing gently in the Maltese breeze. A mountain for Merseyside: why have Las Vegas boulders landed in Liverpool? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Although the setting, with perfumed tissues, tasseled pillows and the soft tinkle of teacups, seemed to encourage an exchange of heartfelt relationship advice, I was pretty sure her question was rhetorical. Can a Woman Head a Household in Dubai? Our Reporter Ventures to Find Out 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Hence the book’s tone, bright, silvery, bracing—tinkling at times. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z |
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