| 单词 | tinny |
| 例句 | His voice came out tinny, and I grinned. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z A little later one of those songs from the sixties came on, refreshingly tinny, made in a day when not all studio sound was automatically reduced to perfect resonance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z From the highway, you could only see people far away like ants and hear the tinny music playing on the loudspeaker. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When I pinch him, a red mark stays behind, and his cry is high and tinny a sound that hurts my ears. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The bodyguard’s voice was tinny and faint until Felicia increased the volume. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your hair must be”—Miss Grund grimaces and reaches up to her own head, as if patting down soap bubbles—“tamed. You never know how they might feel about a redhead. Especially that tinny shade.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The announcement from the Ministry of Plenty ended on another trumpet call and gave way to tinny music. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The music is tinny and crackly—partly because of the cheap sound system—but I still like it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We listen to some music off my iPhone, the speaker tinny. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The rug being out and the draperies down, the piano sounded tinny and alive. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I can hear the tinny echo of her feet and mine as we land on each step. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Butler’s voice came back tinny through the speaker. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She points to my headphones, which are still on the balcony and still playing; she can hear the tinny blare of guitars from inside. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z From down the street a tinny- sounding radio oozed out a slow blues. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice sounded funny still, tinny and far away, as if she were speaking from the bottom of a dark well. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The news had cut to commercial, and through the line Mrs. Richardson could hear the tinny jingle of the Cedar Point ad on the McCulloughs’ set, a fraction of a second behind her own. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His voice was tinny on the radio, but the strength came through. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But the screen is dark, and the sound isn’t tinny or distant. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z There was the clank of a flashlight falling, then the tinny scrape of it rolling until it came to rest against the wall. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z His rope was improperly tied; his bell had a tinny unimpassioned sound. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Sound of troops at route step, shuffle in the dust, dull clink of mess kits, a band in the distance, tinny, forlorn, raw call of a cow in the sunlight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The familiar, tinny music of Emerald Hill Zone pops up. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It came from Nanna Marrigan, who said that food served with cheap utensils tasted tinny. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I could hear the tinny sound of music coming from her headphones. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z A faint, tinny sort of whistle was coming from somewhere. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A surly grunt sounded above the tinny ring of metal. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A beer can sailed from the roof, then another, which hit one of them on the head with a tinny sound. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She asked if he was breathing, and I asked Mom, and she said no, and the whole time this totally incongruous soul song was crooning tinnily through his earbuds. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Glass briskly reached up and took down an object from the bottom shelf and dropped it, with a muffled, tinny bang, into the wastebasket. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Stop and get your hands up!” demanded a voice, tinny and amplified by a loudspeaker. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A loud, tinny voice attacks us from behind. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Comfort!” he called in his tinny, puny, scrawny voice. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His voice, when he finally answered, sounded tinny and sluggish, the words drawled so that each syllable was stretched into two. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A shrill, tinny whistling was filling the room. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The tinny sound of the television news echoed in the hallway. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It was Julie’s voice, speaking very clearly, but it had a tinny sound—it was a record. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It was far away, tinny, like the speakers in a drive-thru. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z As she’s opening the top drawer of her dresser, a percussive thumping under her comforter turns into a tinny version of Daddy Yankee’s “Impacto.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z His voice sounded tinny and rusty, like he hadn’t had a drink since he’d been built. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It was then, in the back of that tinny little car, that I experienced for the first time something like desperation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Good afternoon, ladies,” she says again, her voice now tinny and flattened. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There were other sounds too—like an old- fashioned film projector and a tinny voice narrating. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Worse, she’s taken up ice dancing; she goes to classes at the local indoor rink, and tangos and waltzes in time to tinny music, holding hands with other women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory, echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z The words had an underwater warble and there was still a tinny ringing in his ears, but he could hear. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Walking around the other way, I was startled to hear a hollow, tinny music coming from the common rooms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Truly harrowing,” Henry’s voice says tinnily over the speaker. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It makes a tinny sound against the counter. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Stupid elevator music floats from the tinny airport speakers. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z There's a thick metal-and-Plexiglas divider between the front and back seat, plus, the driver's listening to some tinny music. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She caressed my arm as the music box played each tinny note increasingly slower. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The tinny sound of circuit-phones echoes from the other side, and I can feel small vibrations against my cheek. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Molly can hear the voice of the woman on the other end of the line, a tinny melody. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In the cavernous stadium, the cheers seemed distant, tinny. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At the sole cafe, vintage Bollywood music spilled out of tinny speakers. Himalayan refuge: Tibetan traditions find a second home in India’s Dharamsala 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z But her phone’s mic was unreliable, producing a tinny sound, so she was asked to change devices and return for another test. How the Met Opera Is Throwing a Gala Concert With Smartphones 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z He sits down at the piano and clumsily bangs out its opening melody, singing a verse or two with tinny force until Bill can't stand it anymore. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Atmosphere is conjured with emergency instructions replaying on a tinny radio, and the occasional visits from the radioactive humans tottering around outside are a welcome diversion. ‘Aftermath,’ a Postapocalyptic Tale by Peter Engert 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s tinny and thin, a completely inadequate representation of Prokofiev’s dynamic, powerful music. The Best Soundtracks of All Time 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z He was all over the talk shows, too, sometimes singing his songs in his slightly tinny voice, sometimes genially mocking his less-than-glamorous appearance. 'Paul Williams: Still Alive,' still singing 2012-07-12T18:15:05Z So it smacks of that tinny, 1990s inconsistency: rebelliously rejecting frilly conformity one minute, wallowing in it the next. Beauty and the Beast: feminist or fraud? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z He strokes “their tinny hair” and makes them “talk to each other in imagined conversations.” In 1980s Glasgow, a World of Pain Made Bearable by Love 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Bony children bobbed in the water, and tinny music drifted from a stall where glistening mahi-mahi was on offer. In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Best musical moment: I loved the scene in which Delmond and his colleagues played trumpet in the recording studio with their headphones on, the brass blasting out over the tinny strains of the backing track. Treme: season one, episode two 2011-02-25T23:00:00Z The album is largely just her singular voice and guitar, but it pummels with intimacy and tape hiss as raw whispers turn to wails and tinny riffs clang until they break. Feist Wants to Ask You Some Questions About Sadness 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The tinny beep of motorcycles means, “Hey guys, I’m over here, be careful please.” Road worrier: A reluctant driver takes the wheel in famously chaotic Phuket 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Critics have pointed out that “Cubatón,” like other iterations of reggaeton, can be musically grating in its tinny repetition, and lyrically misogynistic in its vulgar depictions of women. Forget Retro. The Men of Havana Embrace the Reggaeton Look. 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z 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 One jester played rock from a tinny speaker. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z "Broken" opens with disjointed, tinny sounds that retreat to the background and provide a discordant twist to an otherwise catchy, straightforward chorus. Review: Depeche Mode evolves, doesn't violate past 2013-03-25T17:10:40Z The real news about “The Grand Design” is how disappointingly tinny and inelegant it is. Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God 2010-09-07T17:30:00Z Avery Fisher Hall’s acoustics often muddied the film’s dialogue and singing, and the film voices sounded a bit tinny beside the three-dimensional orchestra. Music Review: ?West Side Story? Orchestral Film Screening - Review 2011-09-08T22:05:59Z Even today, many data-compression algorithms and bluetooth speakers disproportionately affect high frequencies and consonants, and women’s voices lose definition, sounding thin and tinny. A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z His clothes jarred with the buttoned-up reputation of his instrument, a courtly ancestor of the modern piano that sounded tinny and harsh under many hands, but silky, lush and bright in his. He Was a ‘Bad Boy’ Harpsichordist, and the Best of His Age 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z It sounds like a barnstorming swing band filtered through the tinny radio speakers of 1930s America. All-Star Orchestra Records Series for WNET 2012-08-31T21:48:03Z The recording is sometimes rough and tinny, though surprisingly clear at other times. My father recorded young Bob Dylan: How the historic "Minneapolis Party Tape" was made 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z If there was a weak link, it lay in the piano — perhaps in the instrument itself, which sounded particularly tinny and hard-edged under the fingers of Jan Lisiecki. Philly beguiles with symphonic power 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z He's taking these quite 'cheap' sounds – tinny synthesisers, digital drums – and making them greater than the sum of their parts. Guardian first album award: Rustie 2012-02-09T20:00:04Z Inside the church, an African American man and three women are listening to a tinny iPhone rendition of Polly singing the phrase, “community of hope.” I gave a famous rock star a windshield tour of D.C. — and didn’t know who she was 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z And although the song draws no concrete conclusions, the tinny drum machine and childlike keyboard drones make these philosophical musings hypnotizing. R.E.M.’s 10 best songs after Bill Berry: Daring, brilliant, underappreciated 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z But “Nixon by Nixon” is also structured as a brief history of the Nixon presidency, and it alternates the darkness of the tapes with the brighter, tinnier tones of newscasts and interviews. ‘Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words’ on HBO 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z The characters are tinny and flat, and the period detail is slathered thickly on, as if to hide some vacancy. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z Jedward's song "Waterline" is pretty odious fare, both tinny and thumping at the same time. This is pop? A look at wacky Eurovision contenders 2012-05-25T12:31:04Z And the courtroom scenes, formerly a Kelley specialty, are tinny and theatrical. ‘The Undoing’ Review: Murder, Actually 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z It had a cheap, tinny taste but I took a greedy sip as I reached for my phone. The hour you are most alone: how I got trapped by poverty and depression 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z My ears perked up when the tinny sound system played the theme from “Mission: Impossible.” In Spain, finding peace — and paella — on Mallorca 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The crowds came, and they still do: sipping Haitian rum, chatting in French and dancing cheek-to-cheek to the tinny rhythms of compas music. The Caribbean ?roundup: In the Caribbean, Away From the Crowds 2011-11-11T19:50:00Z The chronic hazard with Streisand is sudden rushes of sap and saccharine, and that’s only exacerbated when the sound supporting her grows tinny and synthetic. Streisand at Verizon, still in one-of-a-kind voice 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z There was a distinct shimmer that ran through the night’s final three selections, the tinny “Bejeweled,” the spacey “Mastermind” and the needling “Karma.” Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z The kids wove around us on the ice, shouting to one another; tinny pop music played over outdoor speakers. How to Follow Your Dreams and Burst Into Song 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Its sound is mercurial, almost like a synthesizer in its mutability: now a liquid stream of notes, silvery and flowing, and now a tinnier rasping beat. Loosening its tie, NSO debuts a steelpan work and its composer 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Authenticity is conspicuous only by its absence in the tinny revival of “The Real Thing,” which opened on Thursday night at the American Airlines Theater. ‘The Real Thing,' With Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Opens on Broadway 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The omnipresence of vibraphones, strings and high winds became tinnily enervating over two hours, and I longed for the throaty bass clarinet that grounds Reich’s classic “Music for 18 Musicians.” Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z But for me, the idea of propelling myself around the perimeter of a small, crowded indoor space to a soundtrack of tinny music never held much appeal. Searching for a River to Skate Away On 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z At one point, she and her band members all played tinny looped melodies from their cellphone speakers; another song began by reeling off the countless Spotify playlist titles using the word “chill.” At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z A telltale click and tinny, faraway voice heralded the most dreaded of callers: a telemarketer. Hello? It’s ‘Telemarketers,’ Here to Tell You About an Amazing Scam 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z She is better in defense of what she loves than she is on the attack, when she can sound tinny and ad hominem. Review: Jessica Hopper Looks Beyond the Boys and Their Bands in a New Book 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s a contrast with the shops along the front toward Dreamland, where Beacon Bingo sits next to the tinny din and flashing lights of the Fabulous Showboat arcade. Britain’s oldest roller coaster is ready to ride after a $30 million park makeover 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The piano’s sound was a little tinny over the stream, but the performance was inspired, and moving. In a Pandemic, Musicians Play in Empty Halls for Audiences Online 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z On “M&M,” the Jamaican producer Rvssian serves up an ominous synth that sounds like a video game console on its last legs, tinny and fading. Cécile McLorin Salvant Branches Out, and 7 More New Songs 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z “The recordings are better and bigger and have more depth. The original ‘Nommos’ actually sounds kind of flat and tinny compared to the new one.” Craig Leon Rerecords Two Synth Classics 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Weirdly, though, the Globes seemed, er, plagued by glitch after glitch: winners on mute, intro and outro segments that were off, tinny sound in general. The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Like much else that used to sound like common sense, they have a tinny, clueless ring in present circumstances. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Director Gabriel Barre’s young cast, as usual with these non-Equity tours, ranges from promising to very good, though it’s impossible to reconcile its sturdy singing with the irritatingly tinny sound of the computer-processed score. Review | ‘Amazing Grace’ lumbers into the new Museum of the Bible 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z With the steel guitar’s tinny bite, the music hinted at blues and old-time country, while the acoustic guitar moved it into folk-pop. Music Review: Folky Strokes, With Dabs of News, Video and Static 2010-12-08T23:03:00Z The other night, the cast as a whole sounded somewhat tinny, especially at the start, as if perhaps battling the intense amplification needed to counter the noise of helicopters overhead and the like. Elle Woods Returns to London in a Revamped ‘Legally Blonde’ 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z And the production is authentically tinny and flat, just made for 60s radios. New band of the day ? No 971: Hunx and His Punx 2011-02-18T17:13:29Z Underneath that is familiar Sonic Youth territory: scraping and scratchy guitars, tinny plinks and plucks, pleasing noise. Music Review: 'YOKOKIMTHURSTON' a weary creation 2012-09-28T17:46:06Z But on the plaza, much of the magic was lost to the ambient white noise and the sound system’s tinny amplification. Review: Roomful of Teeth Duels With Sounds of the Financial District 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It’s a far cry from the palatial arrangements of Pet Sounds, but it’s still nice to see the band moving away from the cheesy keyboards and tinny drum machines of albums like Summer In Paradise. Beach Boys' 'Radio' Tunes Into Summer Nostalgia 2012-06-05T10:45:30Z The guitar sounded like synthesizer, the keyboard like a guitar, drums sparingly hit with mallets by Daniel Franz abetted by tinny backing drum machines. Concert review: Beach House at Showbox 2012-10-05T16:31:07Z Their two great singles still sound thrilling but much else of their limited output sounds tinny and even juvenile. Readers' panel: Sex Pistols 2012-06-01T10:32:26Z The sustained fun began only after the curtain rose for the second act to find him playing a tinny upright piano on a nightclub set. Music Review: Harry Connick Jr. Performs on Broadway 2010-07-16T21:19:00Z His voice on tape was sharp-edged and tinny and intensely British, trembling with what felt like a tremendous weight of repressed anger. Will Sheff: The First Time an Adult Took Me Seriously 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The recorded version of Lies may be a tinny, Tubeway Army homage, but as tonight's opener, it's a bottom-heavy rave track. Chvrches – review 2013-05-01T17:09:00Z In the end there were more than 50 — recorded, unfortunately, with the blurry video and tinny sound of a smartphone. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in November 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z I’ve listened to it on headphones at home and on road trips, tinny car speakers straining at high volume. A Cast Album I Love: ‘Hair’ 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Finding themselves suddenly all alone, separated even from bandmates, many discovered they had traded sound-checked P.A. systems and flattering stage lights for tinny laptop microphones and the cramped rectangular screens of smartphone cameras. Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Here, though, Grande's voice sounded tinny and small as she struck exaggerated poses that suggested someone dancing along to the VMAs at home rather than performing on the program itself. MTV Video Music Awards 2014: Beyonce shows the stars how it's done 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z You need a film, however lame, to distract you from the caramel popcorn smell and tinny piped music. Edinburgh's festival of non-discovery 2010-06-21T15:50:00Z Even 21 years after Stock, Aitken and Waterman last worked together, they remain perhaps pop's most reviled producers, their wilfully tinny sound symbolic of all that went wrong with music in the 80s. Various Artists: Pete Waterman Presents The Hit Factory – review 2012-07-05T14:29:01Z So was the music, Marlene Dietrich and other World War II-era idols singing tinnily on a CD player. At Home With Mark Hogancamp: In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal 2011-04-06T23:25:26Z Anna Calvi, the impressively twiddling guitarist with an equally impressive set of lungs, struggled with tinny, muted vocals and guitar, though she stormed through debut single Jezebel regardless, and Desire even prompted a singalong. Field Day ? review 2011-08-09T10:53:42Z But the amplified orchestra, reduced to Broadway pit-band size, sounds thin and tinny. Critic?s Notebook: Did ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? Meets Its Goal? 2012-01-14T00:31:27Z The walls shake with hefty bass and anything on the record that sounded tinny suddenly booms. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night six: Techno Pop 2013-02-13T12:05:42Z Their own music became the tinny background to a proto-Snoop Dogg lifestyle of swimming pools, women and deals made on a brick phone. Get rich or die tryin': how hip-hop changed the world 2011-08-10T14:29:52Z When one of these scandals breaks, there is always something a bit tinny about the outrage. Why did no one speak out about Harvey Weinstein? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The only drawback was the taped music, Tchaikovsky rendered tinny, especially uninviting in the moments before the curtain rose. Review: Fall for Dance Opens With Miami Ballet and Che Malambo 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z He found it in a National resonator guitar, a brand of dobro that has the hard, tinny sound of a banjo. Ray Davies on 50 Years of ‘Lola’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Either the sound was too tinny or too boomy, too muddy or too clinical, too loud or not loud enough. The Hollywood Bowl's magicians of sound 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the idyllic mood is sundered every so often with tinny canned music blared over loudspeakers attached to lampposts throughout. The Most Ambitious Park in Russia 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z So I sat in my therapist’s office listening to a tinny rendition of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon through my phone, set on the arm of the sofa. I've spent years taming the OCD monster. Coronavirus has ruined everything 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed. Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus 2013-06-02T20:00:00Z Sometimes Eric's observations sounded tinny, like, would he really notice what some random person was wearing? ArtsBeat: Desperate Dad: Amity Gaige Talks About 'Schroder' 2013-02-06T19:55:31Z Some of the scenes that feature the author’s combative mother have a tinny, cartoonish ring. Patricia Lockwood Is a Priest’s Child (Really), but ‘From the Devil’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The song kicks off on a chilled-out vibe with a muffled keyboard melody, then quickly turns into a psychedlic anxiety attack, shot through with manic blips, smeared static and auxiliary tinny/buzzy melodies. Ladies and gentlemen, Seattle's Keyboard Kid is floating in space 2010-07-21T21:31:00Z See: one day’s tinny short rib soup, basically hash served with horseradish and a spoon. Review | Succotash is a looker, but the cooking needs some polish 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The tinny little rental car skittered over the pocked surface, shuddering with the impact of every rock. In northern Arizona, ups and downs in the land of canyons 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z No tinny football commentary or muffled sounds of sawing and cursing. Rachel Whiteread still casts a spell 2013-04-11T10:35:32Z It starts with a tinny music-hall bounce that swells into a rich, chunky rhythm, accented with a chirping, distorted vocal that sounds trippy and modern. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Early in “W.E.” you hear a tinny female voice wafting from the ether to wax breathless about the Windsors. Movie Review: Madonna?s ?W.E.? With Andrea Riseborough and Abbie Cornish 2012-02-03T00:14:32Z In bed that night, I woke up to mysterious tinny chimes. Iquitos, Peru: Wet and Wild 2013-09-13T17:49:30Z The verbal juxtaposition of manic depression seemed to capture the texture of his experience; "bipolar" sounded tinnily conceptual by comparison. Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader – review 2013-05-06T07:00:01Z Only the characterless base village was a letdown, with its weird empty plaza piping tinny pop music to nobody, and fast-food restaurants where chairs were on tables by 8.30pm. Ski safari in Utah 2010-12-18T00:07:45Z He takes it, and Burnham cries robotically as a tinny version of the song about being stuck in the room plays. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The hits Bulletproof and In for the Kill are still arrestingly tinny, counterpointed tonight by the rumble of fans singing along, while the new material contains the kernel of something juicier. La Roux – review 2013-03-29T17:06:00Z We pretty much all agreed that Roma was meant to be seen on a big screen, with great sound, rather than a tiny computer screen and tinny speakers. 'We saw Bill and Ted 17 times': films that drew readers back to the cinema 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z They’re back from a tour, the drivers going “honk, honk” on the tinny horns and waving like celebrities. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain A simple bass beat, a tinny guitar, and finally, singing. I'm not like them, but I can pretend (Obviously, this is an essay about Kurt Cobain and Nirvana) 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z This is an exhausting, one-note book, but the tinny, grating note Pein repeatedly strikes may nonetheless be one the world needs to hear more often. The Fate of Most Silicon Valley Drones: ‘Live Work Work Work Die’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In its tinny, fizzling, trebly way it was bolt of electricity, a threatening weapon, the sonic manifestation of furious emotional energy. My favourite album: Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy by Billy Bragg 2011-08-24T14:13:00Z His debut disc, “Within and Without,” folds back on itself in not unlikable tinny repetition; “Paracosm,” released last year, was psychedelic and strong. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Here, the nostalgic merrymaking of the music fitted oddly with the bright ribbon of young string players ringing the Kronos players, and the amplification created a tinny, booming sound. Music Review: Kronos Quartet’s Wide Interests Project From the Stage 2014-03-30T22:19:45Z He played some music from his phone, tinny and muffled. How I became an adventurous woman 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The quality is frustratingly tinny – but it's one of the funniest podcasts out there. The Podfathers (and mothers): top 10 comedy podcasts 2010-06-23T13:06:00Z But as she continues to speak, this artificial, slightly tinny quality matches how she is describing her situation. Theater Review: Cynthia Nixon in ?Wit,? at Manhattan Theater Club 2012-01-27T03:01:00Z “Turn right in 200 meters,” comes the tinny, digitized voice of Arabic Google Maps. While other countries turn Syrian refugees away, Canadians are taking them home 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z An explanation offered after a calamity – "you make my wife cry, and I don't like it" – sounds tinny and baseless, since he gives no outward sign of caring whether his wife cries or not. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-25T08:01:30Z It sounds like the work of a band, albeit a ramshackle one who favour cheap equipment and the sort of tinny din designed for 70s radios. New band of the day ? No 947: Cloud Nothings 2011-01-17T17:09:39Z So does perfume, a loud conversation, the tinny leak of music from earbuds. Life with migraines: ‘It feels like a creature is pushing itself through my skull’ | Anna Altman 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z "The thrill," said one, whose first download was by Smashing Pumpkins, "even when I listened to the music through my mum's tinny computer speakers." Napster: the day the music was set free 2013-02-24T00:05:22Z The tinny sound of snares crawls up the back of my neck like a spider. You don’t have to give up restaurants, museums or shopping during Madrid’s Holy Week 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z That means 12 hours of screechy, tinny audio. How to survive 12 hours on a plane while wedged into your coach-class seat 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Tired of tinny sound, echoes, inaudible dialogue or just bad audio in your home recording efforts? How to Make the Audio in Your Projects Sound Better 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z His voice, filtered through an unseen distortion device, sounds a little tinny. Does this new robot-staffed chocolate emporium signal a themed restaurant comeback? 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The TV broadcasting Arsenal's game against Manchester City produces a tinny sound. 'We can't stop watching' - Arsenal's reluctant rebel fans 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z You hear a tinny lullaby in the parking lot. Perspective | RIP, Choco Taco, a triumph of culinary kid logic 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The speakers are standard laptop fare: volume is acceptable but not amazing; bass is audible but somewhat tinny. Framework Laptop (2022) review: promises kept 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s as vacuous and absent of real content as its empty, tinny CEO and promoter, Norman. Perspective | Golf at St. Andrews is real, which is why it has no room for Greg Norman 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z And then there’s that dreadful under-screen speaker, which still sounds tinny in most cases even after Google tried to improve it with an “adaptive sound” setting. Google’s Pixel 5 was the last of its kind 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z While game audio is crisp and immediate, the headset’s identical 40mm drivers still sound a little flat and tinny without much depth or punch for music and movies. The Rig 800 is still the most comfortable wireless gaming headset I’ve tried 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In the background, I could hear the tinny voices from the TV and the pounding of my heart. Perspective | Caring for my aging mother has helped me live in the present 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The Fire TV Cube is also not the best smart speaker by itself, either, with devices like Amazon’s sphere-shaped Echo Dot sounding better than the Cube’s tinny built-in speaker. Lenovo’s excellent Chromebook Duet has dropped below $200 for the first time 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z I never got Christian’s last name and subsequent attempts to find him by phone left me once again listening to tinny music for longer than seemed fair. Opinion | What I learned from one man’s help and civility 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z You assume that if the headphones sounded tinny or smelled funny, at least a few of the thousands of reviews on the page would have said so. Opinion | What You Don’t Know About Amazon 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z It might taste a little tinny, but its heart is in the right place. Review | I tried one of Dolly Parton’s new cake mixes, and it got me out of my 9-to-5 funk 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Both mornings this weekend, the tinny sound of pickle balls being hit woke many of us who reside in the apartments surrounding the Bitter Lake Playfield. Rant & Rave: Seattle-area residents express support for Ukraine during war 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z TAIPEI, Taiwan — The canary-yellow garbage truck rumbled along the narrow street, past bubble tea shops and squat apartment buildings, blasting into the chilly night air a tinny rendition of Beethoven’s “Für Elise.” When You Hear Beethoven, It’s Time to Take Out the Trash (and Mingle) 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z This audio is sharp, sometimes even to a fault: the snazzy processed sound can make the Wyze Buds Pro’s highs too tinny in songs that heavily rely on electronics. Wyze Buds Pro review: budget Bluetooth buds worth buying 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z It no longer rang with song, or, if it did, the songs were all patriotic, stirring anthems that rang tinnily from the speakers on all the lampposts. Opinion | Big Bird is a communist 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Her work has seen her visit a snake-infested island dubbed the most dangerous in the world, test great white shark detectors in a tinny, and meet isolated tribes in the jungle. Western Australia blocked out COVID. Now what? 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z You can use Dolby Access to jump between equalizer presets for gaming, movies, music, and voice calls — the gaming and movies profiles sound a bit tinny on these speakers. Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 review: overpriced and underpowered 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z With Alexa in the Ecobee, it often picks up the request over any other nearby Echo speaker, and I get music playing on its tinny speaker instead of the Echo Studio I’d intended it to. "Hey Siri, where’s Alexa?" 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Supporters pump emerald flags aloft as an acolyte sings the candidate's praises through tinny speakers. Former U.S. foe likely to emerge as kingmaker in Iraqi election — with tacit American backing 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The sun would come out only to glare tinnily down on an anonymous central square crossed by old people whose hunched shoulders announced the difficulty of their lives. My Accidental Visit to the Pandemic’s Party Capital 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z If you listen closely, you can make out the tinny chatter of Vietnamese and Cambodian variety shows, Cantonese pop songs from the ’80s and Mandarin-language newscasts in the swap meet’s eerie, still air. Chinatown's swap meets and what defines a neighborhood 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s perfect for small rooms where space is at a premium, and it will sound better than the tinny speakers found on even some larger, high-end TVs. A four-pack of Tile Bluetooth trackers is $55 today 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Then suddenly, there she was on Thursday night as a tinny version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" echoed across Ariake Gymnastics Centre. American gymnast Sunisa Lee takes Olympic gold 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Auditory tests are available, too: Some plastics sound tinny when tapped; others, stolid and dull. Museums are in a race against time to keep plastic art from falling apart 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z T-Pain is known for heavily Auto-Tuning his vocals, producing a tinny and distorted sonic effect that has become popular across various genres of music. T-Pain says he battled depression for years after Usher insulted his music 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z They easily beat the Spin 713, which sounds tinny and thin. Lenovo Flex 3 Chromebook review: good price, bad screen 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z “We the jury ... find the defendant guilty,” came the judge’s voice over the tinny speaker. In D.C., the guilty verdict in Chauvin trial is met with cheers, tears and relief 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Finally, the audio isn’t great — it’s tinny, bass is almost nonexistent, and there’s not enough volume to fill a room. MSI Prestige 14 Evo review: fast but flawed 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z The speakers are not great, though — music was tinny with thin percussion and nonexistent bass. Acer TravelMate P6 review: a suitable business partner 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z First, the audio from the B15’s two speakers isn’t terrible and works just fine for video calls, but it delivers tinny percussion and practically no bass. MSI Summit B15 review: average business 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z The White Stripes and Outkast played on a tinny sound system, while about 100 boys tossed beanbags and hung out in the winter sunshine. This high school reopened two months ago, with no COVID-19 outbreaks. Here's how 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Even now, about 150 years later, the quality of your gear can mean the difference between a tinny, nearly unrecognizable noise or a fully realized aural experience. The Verge’s favorite audio gear 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z There’s not an overwhelming amount of bass or tinny highs — everything is delivered delicately. The best wired or wireless gaming headsets to buy 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Netflix explains this is often a problem of loud background noise making content hard to hear, combined with weak and tinny phone speakers that sound bad when you try to put up the volume. Netflix update makes your Android phone’s crappy speakers sound better 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The Strix won’t replace a good external speaker and percussion was a bit tinny. Asus ROG Strix Scar 15 review: powerful portable gaming 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z They laughed and pointed and didn’t notice when the music turned hollow and tinny and Topsy’s voice echoed above the midway though she had stopped singing. On a Summer Night in Selma, an Eerie Carnival Comes to Town 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z I’ve tried two other brands’ helmet audio systems and they both sounded tinny and terrible. The best snowboarding gadgets for 2020 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z This proved to be the loser of the bunch, with an overwhelmingly tinny flavor marring each sip. Review | The hard seltzer market continues to expand, but many of the newest products fall flat 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z In sleepy suburbs, they marched and bobbed down empty streets to the beat of music from a tinny cellphone speaker or the windows of a support vehicle in their growing caravan. 25-day walk to D.C. brings racism, arrests and a sense of urgency for March on Washington activists 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Your fellow citizens don’t want to hear both sides of your personal conversations at 90 decibels, especially the tinny audio from your phone. Rant and Rave: Reader urges others to keep their speakerphones off 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z The music was tinny and even at maximum volume was just barely loud enough to be heard from across my living room. Acer Chromebook Spin 713: the Chromebook to buy 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Recorded at the same session as Transmission, it is off-key and strangely tinny, features a reedy garage rock organ, and is notable mainly for Stephen Morris’s hyperactive drumming. Joy Division: all of their songs, ranked! 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The tinny sound of cellphone music wafted from the bridge, where a shirtless farmer wedged a plastic chair against the railing and leaned back, feeling the night breeze. First a pandemic, then the floods: Villagers in southern China face devastation again 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z There was a constant, tinny buzz of a drone hovering overhead, which many in the crowd assumed belonged to law enforcement authorities. As protesters railed against police violence in Louisville, another black resident was killed 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The sound will still be kind of tinny, but at least it will be loud. Hire a D.J. and Turn the Music Up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z But the tinny audio recordings he posted in the WhatsApp chat did not reassure the families. The day the pirates came 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z Like a Hallmark musical greeting card, upon opening, one might expect “The Star-Spangled Banner” to play on a tinny loop. Why artist Pilar Castillo made this hyper-real but very fake U.S. passport 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z At times, I found the video hard to watch: the sound is slightly tinny; she's recounting familiar points we've already discussed; most of all, though, there's an optimism about her impending path to victory. Where science enters the courtroom, the Daubert name looms large 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z “Guitar wouldn’t work, horn was too harsh, violin felt tinny, we needed something low key and deep,” recalled Harris. Plaschke: Cellist Ben Hong hit just the right notes at the Jan. 31 ceremony for Kobe Bryant 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z An electronic substitute for fleshy vibration is why this re-creation “sounds tinny,” Bodony said. A 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy speaks again, with some high-tech help 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Trump is going Tuesday to Wildwood, a seaside resort known for its busy boardwalk and the tinny recorded voice on its trolley-like people mover - “Watch the tramcar, please.” With Trump’s help, NJ’s Van Drew courts former foes 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Trump is going Tuesday to Wildwood, a seaside resort known for its busy boardwalk and the tinny recorded voice on its trolley-like people mover — “Watch the tramcar, please.” With Trump’s help, NJ’s Van Drew courts former foes 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z “I think we got them all,” the astronaut said in a flat, tinny voice. The game 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Finally, “The Star-Spangled Banner” warbled out, tinny and thin, as Spanberger, hand now over heart, sang along. Hope and High Drama: A Year With Two New Democratic Congresswomen 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Sometimes that keyboard is so tinny it sounds like one of those toy ones played by kids. Review: Beck shoots into the galaxy for latest trippy album 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The town’s soundtrack of tinny grinders was drowned out by the roar of gushing water. Drawn From Poverty: Art Was Supposed to Save Canada’s Inuit. It Hasn’t. 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z The repeated nervous twitches of Muhammad’s hands; the sounds of mortal combat and tinny shouts of victory in the video game; London’s white coat, so big it accentuated her extreme thinness. An Omani Novel Exposes Marriage and Its Miseries 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The original game was also blighted with a terrible, tinny synthesized soundtrack, which is now fully orchestrated. Dragon Quest XI and Ni no Kuni make the Switch an even better JRPG system 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z But her tinny outrage and Tyler’s own dogmatic logorrhea begin to feel like exhibits in a playfully prickly riff on the inauthentic, the massaged and the cagily appropriated when telling stories. Review: ‘The Plagiarists’ is an adventurous comic thumping 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Plus, some of its displays are wildly outdated — such as the creaky animatronic saber-toothed tiger that is forever devouring a giant ground sloth, its tinny roar on permanent loop. Three design teams propose La Brea Tar Pits revamp. The mammoth's future? Uncertain 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z One of the reasons I tend not to mind the tinny hiss of other people’s headphones on public transport is that I am a horribly nosey person. Angela Merkel: you’re on hols, so less of the despotism please | Rebecca Nicholson 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z I don’t think they are bad by any stretch, and they run laps around the speakers you get on most Windows computers, but they are noticeably tinnier sounding than on other MacBook Pro models. Apple’s new entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro is an obvious upgrade 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z The OSC stated that in one Feb. 19 interview on "Fox & Friends," Conway “insinuated that Senator Booker was ‘sexist’ and a ‘tinny’ ‘motivational speaker,’” and claimed Warren, D-Mass., was “’lying’” about her ethnicity. Kellyanne Conway says critics employ Hatch Act to 'silence' her support for Trump 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z He cited in particular, comments she made about Democratic candidates, including on “Fox & Friends” in February where she called Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., “tinny” and “sexist.” Dems vote to subpoena Kellyanne Conway at fiery hearing as GOP slams 'political spectacle' 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z As he listens to the first four words she has ever spoken to him through the tinny speaker of his phone, he grins. 'When I try to talk to my grandad words won't come out' 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z That being said, they are not great speakers; sound was decent but somewhat tinny. VAIO SX14 review: Lots of ports mean business 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z This Goldilocks version is meant to attract buyers who find the CR-V too small and tinny, and the Pilot too big and pricey. Honda's Passport is a big, blocky SUV that performs better on the road than off 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z With a voice deepened from the tinny recitals he offered as a child, he praised al Qaeda’s franchises and other militants. Hamza bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s son, in crosshairs as al Qaeda re-emerges 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z With a voice deepened from the tinny recitals he offered as a child, he praised al-Qaida’s franchises and other militants. Born into al-Qaida: Hamza bin Laden’s rise to prominence 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z However, it does display the equally fascinating liger, a hybrid cat named Shasta from the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City , as well as an eight-foot-tall Kodiak bear that greets guests with a tinny growl. You’re going where? Provo, Utah. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z We also found that 20 minutes of simmering eliminated any tinny taste in the tomatoes and allowed the chickpeas to turn from crumbly to creamy. This vegetable curry has bold flavors to keep everyone happy 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z No shouts from warehouse staff, or tinny radios playing pop hits. Inside Ocado's burning robotic warehouse 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z There’s the Unicorn, who speaks in a tinny voice, like a broken Siri. Celebrity Delirium on “The Masked Singer” and “The Other Two” 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Then, there was a tinny, machine-like sound effect of a door opening, and a garish collage of unnatural creatures proliferated on the screen one after another, as if someone were pounding an ancient stamp. A young journalist, an old lady, and a vintage e-pet reunion 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Cosigned by fellow Northern Irish dance darlings Bicep, Holly Lester shares their enthusiasm for warm analogue jams over tinny digital tech. Tunisian techno, Xitsongan rap and Satanic doo-wop: the best new music of 2019 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z We argued, we made up, we exchanged gifts in our tiny cramped room and danced to tinny Christmas music played through a mobile phone. We flew to New York to create a Home Alone Christmas. Careful what you wish for | Phoebe-Jane Boyd 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z A tinny karaoke version of “Deck the Halls” piped through the department-store speakers. The Queen of Christmas 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z He tried to imagine events back home in Saraqib: the sweltering Friday demonstrations; the tinny sound of Muhammad Haf’s amplified voice. Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z In the first few seconds of the opener, “Yasmeen,” you can hear the fads of the time—tinny, anxious drum machines, virtuoso squiggles of synthesizer. Reconsidering the Harp 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z A song by Digitonal, downbeat and electronic, played tinnily from Martin’s portable speakers. Inside the booming business of background music 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z His voice echoed tinnily from loudspeakers around the ground. Dulwich Hamlet: the improbable tale of a tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Then, from clear across the room, the toy keyboard suddenly lights up and plays a tinny, terrifying melody. Hunting ghosts with L.A. goth-rockers Death Valley Girls - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Applause from the crowd rang out, rendering as tinny in a cathedral not built for the sound. Meghan McCain, Forged in Her Father’s Image 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z As I unpack, I imagine my other things emerging from their boxes, hearing the tinny music, seeing the green numbers. Letter of Recommendation: Clock Radios 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z If we rewind to only a couple of years ago, truly wireless buds were huge, ugly, didn’t hold a connection well, and sounded like an indistinct mess of exaggerated bass and tinny treble. Wireless headphones are improving faster than anything else in tech 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Making phone calls, you’ll hear a slightly tinny quality to the audio, indicating that the speaker also wasn’t a priority. Xiaomi’s new Poco F1 undercuts rivals with a low price and high-end processor 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z That tinny drone from the top deck of the bus screeching out of a mobile speaker - it's known as sodcasting. Phone etiquette: How not to lose friends 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z An amateur singer was torturing a guitar somewhere in the building; tinny strains filtered down to the cafe where we sat. Masculine Dads Raise Confident Daughters 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z It comes from open car windows, through the doors of bars late at night, or played tinnily through leaking headphones on buses. Songs of the summer 2018: our writers pick their favourite tracks 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Flashbacks, overlapping and interacting with the present, tell the story; they’re punctuated by the tinny bleat of sheep, the endless green damp of the fields, and the resolute fear in Wilson’s eyes. SIFF 2018: The best of the fest’s third week 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “I’m afraid I have rather bad news,” the tinny voice on the other end of the line says. A devastating and brilliant adaptation of the “Patrick Melrose” series 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The wind seems to blow from a direction not marked on any compass; new, fresh, music carries far on it, imbued with a lonely splendor I never hear in the flat, tinny light. Read an excerpt from Luna author Ian McDonald’s heartbreaking new time-travel romance 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z That patrician Britspeak is gone, replaced with a slightly tinny, perfectly American accent; her posture is a little slouchy and her manner casual, yet you see an underlying tension from the opening scenes. Claire Foy is unnerving in ‘Unsane,’ Steven Soderbergh’s shot-on-an-iPhone thriller 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z She was following a truck trundling down Sydney's Oxford St, its speakers belting out a tinny version of Tom Robinson's call-to-arms anthem Glad to be Gay. How Sydney's violent first Mardi Gras spurred change 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z You are thinking of the notes left at your door in the night, of the tinny whispers from forgotten pay phones, of the clandestine theater leading to this moment. The details of the world’s best fantasy golf league, previously secret, have been leaked - Golf Digest 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z The Echo is probably fine if you want a soundtrack for your dishwashing or showering, but it sounded tinny next to the HomePod. Review | Five things to know before you buy an Apple HomePod 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z It sounded tinny and halting, like “Heather’s” younger sister, but with a trace of something idiosyncratic and human at the base of the sound. How a new technology is changing the lives of people who cannot speak 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Things sound tinny, but it gets the job done if you need to pay attention to your environment. B&O Play Beoplay E8 wireless earbuds review 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z “They were all stringy and slimy and had a tinny taste,” she recalled. Perspective | A tech expert now works to keep people from terrorizing themselves with toxic foods 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z They also are aware that they sound tinny hailing Hillary Clinton as a feminist icon when she participated in smear campaigns against Bill’s girlfriends and prey. Opinion | Roadkill on Capitol Hill 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Chris Williams was about 30 metres from the kayak in a small aluminium tinny with his son. 'Spine-chilling' screams as father saves teenage daughter from 4.5m great white 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z The original Pixel’s headphone audio was awful: it made everything sound tinny and uninspiring, no matter what headphones I plugged into it. Pixel vs. Pixel 2: the five biggest changes 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z “Kate,” he says, his voice tinny on speakerphone, “it looks like you’ve had another great year. And those pensions are really starting to look good.” Money and marriage: ‘Last year my wife earned 100 times more than me’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Buy this beautiful beige box, tinny speakers included, and get this Amazing Multimedia Software Bundle! with it, for an added value of some hundreds of imaginary dollars. Bundling the $1,000 iPhone with free Apple Music and iCloud storage would be genius 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z As an ice cream truck rolls slowly past playing a tinny, lachrymose version of Korobeiniki, Bridgeford makes a point to pray not only for the young man, but also for his killer. Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? - BBC News 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z “I reckon he’s dragged her over the back of the shark to get her into the tinny,” Williams said. 'Spine-chilling' screams as father saves teenage daughter from 4.5m great white 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Last summer, six months before my mother died, I walked into her bedroom, and she greeted me with a tinny hello and a big smile. At the end of her life, my mother started seeing ghosts, and it freaked me out 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Revis plucks some tinny notes around the bridge of his bass then digs into a solo. The Playlist: Drake Shows Off His Latest Obsessions 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z They may be placing their order or greeting a friend, reciting a poem or giving directions, but all I hear are tinny, whispered threats. Let me sleep when I die : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z One was a twenty-minute-long “movement”—a writhing composition of dubbed bass and tinny blips that forced rave drums under jazz chords. Richard Russell’s XL Recordings Empire 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The Fatih station is on a wide avenue in the heart of Istanbul and has the tinny, sinister ambience of many bureaucratic buildings. Inside Turkey’s Purge 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Out in the real world, with cars whizzing past or air-conditioning units humming, both solutions sound pretty much the same: tinny and thin. How to Make Cheap Earbuds Sound Like $200 Headphones 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The reception was clear, The Times reported, but one reporter’s wife told him, “Your voice sounds a little tinny … There’s no resonance. I knew you weren’t calling from a regular phone.” New York Today: A Belated Budget 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Listening clubs are a new way to experience recorded music played through high spec hi-fis, an antidote to the tinny noise often heard on computers or phones. Are you missing out listening to MP3 music? - BBC News 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z So would a tinny speaker outside a restaurant piping an instrumental version of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” in the key of G. New York’s Noises? It’s Music to Her 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The tinny, 1980s synths and overbearing backing vocals on Leonard Cohen's original version of First We Take Manhattan have not aged well. Six of the best Leonard Cohen covers - BBC News 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z In a tinny "millennial voice" she asked him to explain to young voters why they should bother. Samantha Bee asks Obama for a scary Halloween story. He responds: 'Donald Trump could be president' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z His half-electric “Bringing It All Back Home” album had been released that spring, and our tiny, tinny transistor radios were just starting to play his latest mesmerizing song, “Like a Rolling Stone.” An (almost) eyewitness account of the night Bob Dylan made history the first time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z His voice was audibly weary, even when heard through the tinny connection outside: "There is no gas. There. Is. No. Gas." A ghost town in Florida: In the shadow of Hurricane Matthew 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Suddenly, I heard an audio recording of her own voice through the tinny laptop speaker: “This is the first time I have shown my life-altering birthmark to anyone.” What the cleaner saw | Lizzie Feidelson 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z A cheesy love song blares out from tinny speakers as a young couple nervously walk hand-in-hand past rows of empty seats in the Larnaca civil wedding hall. The island where thousands go to get married - BBC News 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z This is typically an imaginary problem: Ooh dear, the new Kia Soul sounds tinny. 2017 Aston Martin DB11 Review: Your Gran Tourismo Awaits, Sire 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z At one point, a single, tinny voice shouted “Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!” but when the chant failed to catch on, the voice disappeared. Watch Protest Erupt Over Flag-Burning Outside GOP Convention 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z One encounters both “the cut of anger” and the “tinny cut of fear.” Cults and Carnage in the Summer of ’69 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z The music arrives first: a tinny version of the Polish classic “A Maiden’s Prayer,” followed by two canary-yellow garbage trucks, then two open-bed recycling trucks. Taiwan: The World’s Geniuses of Garbage Disposal 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z There is no television at New Motibagh; a few of the older wrestlers own smartphones and occasionally play Hindi songs, at a low volume, on tinny speakers. Even in fast-changing India, kushti wrestling is a wellspring of power, pride and identity 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Sound quality is not that much better, either, as high frequencies sound tinny and low-end extension is lacking in a big way. Onkyo's headphones teach the folly of brand loyalty 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The tinny soundtrack, a mechanised take on metal, tapped into the rise of industrial music. Doom was video gaming's punk moment 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The tunes stream from your iPhone to the speaker, which sounds just as tinny and terrible as you would think. Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: The Technology We Love to Hate 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z “My mother always said, ‘God, you are just so like him’,” he says, as a tinny scooter buzzes by outside the window, a few floors below. Lindsay Kemp: ‘I was destined for stardom … I’m still waiting for it’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The previous year, Tiffany had released a tinny cover of Tommy James’s “I Think We’re Alone Now” and an ambling ballad, “Could’ve Been,” both of which had been conceptualized and produced entirely by her manager. The Teenagers Shaping Pop 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Rubio’s voice sounded tinny, but his words were rich with nostalgia as he recalled knocking on doors when he ran for city commissioner here. Rubio’s parting shot at Trump 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Electronic music plays fast and tinny from a boombox as colored lights swirl across the ceiling. Art collective builds a dream house in Santa Fe with millions of dollars — and junk 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z You can imagine my disappointment when the performance was submarined by a microphone mishap, one that introduced unexpected, tinny plonks to the mix and seemingly pushed the British star out of tune. Grammys 2016: Ranking last night's best performances 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The young women sway to the tinny rhythm, gorge on a lavish feast in a palatial setting and pout at the camera. Pussy Riot Video Mocks Russian Prosecutor Accused of Corruption 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z One effect of the unaffected animus toward Cruz is to throw into relief everything that is artificial, dishonest, and tinny about the rest of the Republican primary campaign. The Republicans Still Look Small 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The All American Diner plays 1950s rock’n’roll through a tinny speaker, the retro booths are traditional red and the burgers are suitably oversized. Inside Lavasa, India's first entirely private city built from scratch 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The camera zooms in for a close-up on her face and we briefly hear the tinny sound of music leaking from her earbuds: “Eight Miles High,” by the Byrds. Shark? No, owl. Imagining one way to rid Bethesda of its swooping raptor. 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z It's amazing how music originally played on tinny, 8-bit synthesizers scales up perfectly to fit the massive, rich sound of a full orchestra and choir. Listen to a full choir and orchestra blast out Zelda themes for Stephen Colbert 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z When he plays the same sound re-filtered to match the more jagged sawtooth wave, it’s tinnier, more abrasive. Inside the world of audio branding with Skype’s new pings, bounces, and pops 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Neon signs blared overhead; tinny music from open-air karaoke competitions mingled with the scent of street food. Calls For More Autonomy, Or Independence, Grow in Hong Kong 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z It was a last resort, and the tinny call quality and guffawing from people around me ensured that it was an action not to be repeated. My summer with the Apple Watch 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z If the car booming the song drove too fast for you to catch the rhyme, the song's tinny, elemental backbeat cut through the air like a tracer bullet. Twenty-seven years later, N.W.A is still pushing hard, pushing buttons 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z This is one of the first inventories in verse of a distinctly New England winter, its “needless glow” awakening the tinny chirps of native snowbirds. How Ralph Waldo Emerson Changed American Poetry 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Two boys standing on a cart pulled by three donkeys round the corner of a dirt track, and the driver's tinny cellphone blares out, garish against the gentler sounds of twittering birds. Kenyan chief's Twitter feed helps round up stolen cows and lost phones 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z But what the diaspora lacks in numbers, it makes up for in organisation and the volume of its dissent, which rings across social networks and tinny internet radio stations. The reckless plot to overthrow Africa's most absurd dictator | Andrew Rice 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Tsonga finishes the next two off with no fuss, and the vocal French contingent are in good – if tinny, this is Queen’s and the acoustics aren’t especially hot – voice... Davis Cup: Andy Murray v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga – live! 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z They worried that aluminum body panels might be tinny and not as robust as the traditional steel ones. 2015 Ford F-150 leaves pickups' rough-riding heritage in dust, is best on gas, towing, hauling 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z That’s not to say the remark, however politically tinny, would hobble his shot at becoming the third member of his family to claim the presidency. Jeb Bush's "Longer Hours" Remark Will Haunt Him 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Given his past experience with audio compression, he expected the mp3 to be a tinny and unusable bust. How Steely Dan and the NHL Revolutionized Music 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Does the tiny speaker module actually sound good, or will it just double down on your phone's tinny audio? The Nexpaq modular smartphone case will let you add lasers to your mobile 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Tsonga finishes the next two off with no fuss, and the vocal French contingent are in good – if tinny, this is Queen’s and the acoustics aren’t especially hot – voice... Davis Cup: Andy Murray v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga – live! 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z I recall a “drum” that would play tinny, electronic music, rather than an actual drum that would reverberate in response to a baby’s pat. If an Expert in Day Care Can't Find a Good One, Can Anyone? 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z What is more extraordinary is the intent behind this tinny civics lesson—to tell a foreign power, one with which the United States is at odds, not to listen to the American President. Congress’s Poison-Pen Letter to Iran 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z One day, the blues singer Steve Miller, newly arrived in the Bay Area, struck up a conversation with Meyer, who habitually complained about the tinny sound that accompanied rock-and-roll spectacles of the era. The Photoshop of Sound 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z By fall, the first hamburger would arrive in Chicago, as would the first machinery for making chocolate commercially and the first tinny version of Alexander Graham Bell’s phone. I will fix your heart: The greatest Valentine’s Day medical story ever 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z It sounds good enough to make a robot-person’s voice audible, but music comes through shallow, tinny, and compressed. Amazon Echo review: listen up 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Music and films benefit hugely from the boosted sound-level that doesn’t come across as tinny or flat as most other external smartphone speakers. Nokia Lumia 830 Vs HTC Desire EYE: 2014's Best Mid-Range Phones 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Yet even more than his face, it’s Carell’s voice - high, tinny, and frighteningly odd - that lingers in our heads after the credits roll. Review: Trio of top actors shines in ‘Foxcatcher’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z "Fresh sardines are completely different from the tinny, salted canned kind," Mendes writes. Is Portugal ready for its moment? If George Mendes' 'My Portugal' has its way 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Take a phone call today, and the quality of the sound will be the same as it was a few decades ago: sometimes fuzzy, sometimes muffled, with a tinny, robotic characteristic to it. Phone calls are about to get the HD treatment However, she conceded that voices on some audio books can sound "tinny". Dozens offer to read for blind man 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z The cheap manufacturing costs mesh well with DIY ethics, while tinny sound quality isn’t such a barrier for hardcore music that thrives on low production values and high compression. Is the Cassette Renaissance For Real? Is there anything more irritating than having to share the upper level of a bus with a tinny 50 Cent album track? Six steps to perfect mobile phone etiquette 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z When I visit the children's ward there are the colourful mobiles, wall friezes and the tinny sounds of piped nursery rhymes. Suspended between life and death 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z Restless-legged children kicking the upholstery off the back of your chair, tinny hip-hop leaking from headphones, grown men in sombreros happy-slapping each other, are all perils of flight. Forget the Knee Defender, here are the dos and don’ts of aeroplane etiquette 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Australia is known for its hard-drinking men and women rarely seen without a "tinny" of beer in hand, but something is changing. The rise and fall of Australian slang 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z "The title of the song says it all," she says, playing the ballad through a tinny speaker on her mobile phone. How Mexican mothers identify sons lost on the trek to the US 2014-04-24T00:11:23Z But their performance is purposely amateurish, and the song is barely audible on a tinny old Victrola. Broadway Bummer: The Play’s Not the Thing 2014-04-24T00:00:54Z Night was falling over the harbor, and the tinny recorded sound of a bugle echoed across the docks. Strange Invasion: On the Ground as Russia Takes Crimea From Ukraine 2014-03-13T10:00:43Z The song was heard twice in the spot, first in a tinny, low-energy way to signal how “most 100-calorie yogurts are made with artificial sweeteners and ingredients,” as an announcer intoned. Advertising: Selfies, Pizza and Promoting Brands at the Oscars 2014-03-04T03:52:38Z But maybe there is another approach to the frustration of waiting on hold for hours while tinny music assaults your ears: Just get a travel agent, some people are advising me. Sour Notes on the Interminable Wait for an Airline’s Aid 2014-01-20T20:09:46Z One mission is played in the side-scrolling format of a classic arcade game, complete with clunky, pixelated graphics and tinny synthesized music. Video game studio launches 'Saints Row IV' under new corporate ownership 2013-08-18T05:00:00Z All was quiet, except for the tinny sound of news broadcasts emanating from the hundreds of television screens around the neighborhood. Egypt: Shocked, Scared, and Still Divided 2013-08-15T16:52:18Z Self-preoccupied people hit the right notes, but often so hard that they sound tinny. Op-Ed Columnist: The A-Rod Problem 2013-08-06T01:16:29Z Vendors play what to some ears are rather tinny tunes to inform potential customers they are approaching. Ice-cream van chiming rules relaxed 2013-07-11T17:35:05Z So most TV sound is simultaneously muffled, and tinny. Are Soundbars Worth It? 2013-07-09T15:28:00Z The tinny sound of an ice-cream van lifts itself above the hum of traffic. On watching my son play cricket 2013-05-17T10:35:03Z The morning sun streamed in through the doorway, and classic rock pumped over a tinny radio. City Room: Rushing to Replace What a Storm Took From the Beaches 2013-04-28T15:00:27Z Now whenever I turn my back, another screen pops up, another window and volume button with a squawking, tinny soundtrack. Children and apps: Should we fear the iNanny? 2013-04-27T08:01:35Z As the commentary from a mundane race card echoes from a tinny speaker above our heads, Geraghty brings out his phone. Barry Geraghty: 'I couldn't choose between Sprinter Sacre and Simonsig' 2013-03-11T11:57:57Z I like when it’s really tinny and blown out sometimes. Meet The Man Inside The Madwoman, Gayle Waters-Waters 2012-11-19T15:33:10Z Quality of sound, though, is a bit on the tinny side, but if you just want to play a YouTube video or TV show for you and a friend, the speakers should do well. No bragging rights yet for solid Nexus 10 tablet 2012-11-08T02:46:20Z I also had hearing problems and all sounds were tinny and annoying. Bell's palsy - your stories 2012-11-06T00:23:21Z In many of the world's cities, irritated commuters might tut at the tinny leakage from a fellow traveller's earphones but on Jamaica, no-one bothers with earphones. The loudest island on the planet 2012-09-27T00:10:12Z Navigating the media center was easy, and the screen's display was decent, but the sound from the speakers was tinny and small. Gadgetwise: A Tablet That Moves Closer to Becoming a Laptop 2012-08-31T00:03:52Z Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images It's the soundtrack to Tel Aviv beach life: an incessant thwack-thwack-thwack heard over the rhythmic rush of waves and the tinny beat of a thousand iPods. London 2012: Lack of medal hopes leaves Israelis looking to other nations 2012-08-06T10:16:28Z All the specs in the world won’t tell you if the keyboard’s too cramped, the screen is not to your liking or the speakers are tinny. Tool Kit: An Updated Guide to Laptop Shopping 2012-07-11T23:19:32Z The tinny, forlorn Hank Williams playing in the background of this ambush scene is perfect for this very reason. New 'The Last Of Us' Trailer Shows Our Heroes Not Quite Alone, Still Forsaken 2012-05-16T16:28:34Z He clicked again, and the tinny gurgle of an ice cave filled the speakers. Is Silence Going Extinct? 2012-03-15T22:17:17Z Highlights include a console that plays his tinny, animated voice and the rope his mother — hounded by a greedy landlord — purportedly used to hang herself. ?Lei Feng Day? Draws Chinese Cynicism 2012-03-06T02:46:25Z It had an unusually tinny sound, due to fact that it made its way through the interstices of a closed visor. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 2012-01-27T03:00:22.100Z People in the crowd, instead of listening to the speakers, most of whom had the tinny vehemence of party agitators, were peering around at each other. Memo From Moscow: In Russia, a Change in the Dynamic of Protests 2012-01-02T02:27:12Z If a student’s tone is tinny because he’s hitting with the tips of his fingers, I tell him to use more meat on the string. Jefferson Airplane Bandmates Teach Guitar to Rock Star Wannabes 2011-12-07T10:46:06Z The footage is grainy and the audio tinny, as if to spotlight how antiquated such optimism now seems. Does Romney's New Anti-Obama Ad Play Fair? 2011-11-22T19:05:36Z Joe's lack of contrition when he says "in hindsight, I wish I could have done more" shows that his success-with-honor motto can sound rather tinny at present. What sports readers are saying 2011-11-19T06:59:07Z His worst moment: More than once, sounded a bit tinny, a little whiny. Grading Last Night's Republican Debate 2011-09-08T05:30:18Z Through it poured the tinny blare of a gramophone hooting a comic song, mingled with rumbling laughter and raised voices. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Scissors grinders have a bell, also, with a flat, tinny sound, like a cow that forever jerks its head with flies. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Then something remarkable happened: The Yemeni national anthem began playing from a tinny loudspeaker nearby. Magazine Preview: Yemen on the Brink of Hell 2011-07-21T01:01:35Z My wife and I found the Sound Screen’s sound to be less tinny, and thus more soothing, than that of other, cheaper white-noise devices. Home Tech: Noise-Canceling Devices for a Good Night?s Sleep 2011-07-07T15:11:26Z My wife and I found the Sound Screen's sound to be less tinny, and thus more soothing, than that of other, cheaper white-noise devices. Noise-canceling devices for a good night's sleep 2011-07-07T05:58:04Z As sunset approached, a tinny warning blared from a loudspeaker atop the mosque in the village of Khirbet al-Jouz, across a cow pasture from the tent city. For Syrian Refugees, Shelter of a Precarious Sort 2011-06-17T01:53:46Z There is no excuse for why you would want to listen to tinny music, except if you were establishing territory. Why do people play music in public through a phone? 2011-06-14T10:46:11Z The voice, first heard from a pitch-dark stage, sounds feminine and oddly tinny. Theater Review: Live, From Sag Harbor, Darrell Hammond in ?Tru? 2011-06-12T00:55:51Z There was something really romantic in following a fancy into such a lair, and the longer the plaguing clock sounded its tinny march, the more vibrantly alert he felt, in the anticipation of her coming. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z The staple of any traffic jam, the tinny second-hand Japanese imports with a switched steering wheel known as "ticos", are fast being replaced by gleaming new SUVs. Leadership race 2011-04-09T00:01:54Z And third, if you’re used to the tinny bleats of a built-in speaker, the power and richness of the sound is a grabber. State of the Art: Wireless Speakers Set Free Your Mobile Music 2011-03-23T21:16:56Z The phonograph made “tinny” and “harsh sounds,” and was also described as being “unduly loud.” The ultimate addition to your vintage vinyl collection 2011-03-22T19:45:00.490Z She couldn't have been more unlike the rather tinny character portrayed in Sally Bowles. Life is a Cabaret 2011-03-19T00:22:11Z The tinny clatter of his alarm clock jarred him out of deep sleep the next morning well before the usual time. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z They need to be comfortable, and the sound quality shouldn't be tinny. One True Thing: The Cubicle Earphones 2011-03-03T22:00:00Z President Hosni Mubarak started to speak, a tinny version of his voice leaking from speakers like the scratchy audio from a newsreel. Hopes Dashed, Protesters? Anger Spills Over 2011-02-11T03:02:13Z Prayers sing from tinny radios and women walk by in headscarves. As doctors fought to save lives, Pfizer flew in drug trial team 2010-12-09T21:30:00Z It's not meant to be a huge dollar amount, but it's nice, not cheap and tinny. How to Choose a Holiday Gift for Your Staff 2010-11-24T08:20:00Z Sky Sports News is its own self-contained world, with no night or day and no variation in mood beyond an unvarying pitch of amiable, tinny excitement. Barney Ronay: Is there ever no sports news on Sky? 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z "Please lift the bride's veil," the robot said in a tinny voice, waving its arms in the air as the newlyweds kissed in front of about 50 guests. I-Fairy robot weds Japanese couple 2010-05-16T15:30:00Z There is some unexplained shouting and the tinny, amplified voice of a woman who seems to be warning people to stay indoors. In Bangkok, Gunfire Outside a Reporter?s Window 2010-05-16T12:20:00Z To many expert ears, compressed music files produce a crackly, tinnier and thinner sound than music on CDs and certainly on vinyl. A Musical Revolution, With a Cost in Fidelity 2010-05-10T01:20:00Z The first indication was the tinny roar from the away end. Manchester United 4-0 Stoke 2010-05-09T17:14:00Z The instruments are sleek, handsome and light, but they sound tinny. A hammer -- yes, that low-tech tool -- helps mold noses of Japan's bullet trains 2010-03-28T04:00:00Z So when General Khan heard the tinny, rat-tat-tat music welling up from the crowded lanes of the bazaar, he saw it as a sign that normality was returning to Peshawar. Pakistan Anti-Taliban War Eases, Opens Window for Reform 2010-03-03T09:40:00Z Glass shattered by a suicide bombing sounded like tinny chimes as vendors swept their sidewalks. 2010-01-27T07:34:00Z He went to the brook and got it for her, raging inwardly at the thought that he could not even offer her a drink out of a vessel that wouldn't taste tinny. Stranded in Arcady Russ continued to murmur his thoughts, his voice ringing tinnily in Burl's earphones. The Secret of the Ninth Planet "They've got the big trap out of the ship," said the distant, tinny voice of the crewman. The Giants From Outer Space An enormous tinny voice, more than human, filled the air. A Feast of Demons Jonathan heard his own voice played back by the recorder, tinny and slightly nasal. Rough Translation But before he could assess such new values and verbalize the new generalization the antiquated warning system of his ship twanged tinnily. The Instant of Now A thin, tinny voice somewhere was calling him. The Secret of the Ninth Planet For a minute I didn't get the connection; then I realized that the announcer's voice was rasping and tinny—hardly that of the regular newscaster. Robots of the World! Arise! There was nothing deep toned or solemn about the chime; it was rather tinny, but she liked it. The Wishing Moon The cry echoed tinnily on the rocks and fled on the wind. Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly? They left with the tinny laughter filling their minds—and the last words of the monstrous entity. I'll Kill You Tomorrow He stared into the tinny surface, and it seemed to take on new echoes of light and shade, following the chromatic changes of the music.... Melomaniacs The little robot stepped back, clapping his hands together with a tinny bang. Robots of the World! Arise! The stainless steel walls threw back tinny echoes. Two Plus Two Makes Crazy A clanging cymbal in the energetic hands of a deck steward boomed at the doorway, withdrew and gave up its life in a far away, tinny clatter. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Alan put down his fork with a sharp tinny clang and stared levelly at the First Officer. Starman's Quest A flicker of light from the dying fire in the stove fell on the face of the alarm-clock ticking tinnily on the shelf. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good There was a tinny scream, and a six-inch needle shot up instantly through the surface. The Judas Valley There was no question about it, the phonograph was gone, yet faintly, like a sinking moan, she heard, she was sure she heard, the thin, tinny sounds of a Sousa two-step. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Minutes later it faced the long runway, a tinny voice from the control tower spoke out of a loud-speaker under the instruments, and the plane roared down the field. Space Platform There are a few places open—merry-go-rounds and hot-dog shops—and tinny little trickles of music come out of them, but the big noise is the wind. It’s like this, cat A voice spoke tinnily from Jackson's lapel communicator. Watch the Sky She had had him for two days now, and he had quite recovered from his tinny imprisonment. Cricket at the Seashore Her voice sounded tinny and tired in the earphones of my fishbowl. A Spaceship Named McGuire Determined to hold up through the high-G even though nobody watched, he went on and on and up and up, his radio voiced the progress tinnily. Instinct "It is a nice trick to give that peculiar tinny sound to a whisper." The Shadow World Against the scene a jazz band flung a whine and a stumble of tinny sounds. Erik Dorn "But he wants to sue the city," a voice said tinnily. The Impossibles A familiar voice came tinnily out of the receiver. Brain Twister This time it was a short-range shell from one of our own guns—there was no mistaking the wheezy, tinny sound of its passage through the air. Pushed and the Return Push If this be true, thou little tinny page, This thing thou tellest to me, Then all the land in Bucklesfordbery I freely will give to thee. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series And above it all, insistent as a bugle note, reaching the basement’s breadth, from hardware to candy, from human hair to white goods, the tinny voice of the piano—gay, rollicking. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story By proper training, deaf mutes can now be taught to speak, though their voices sound flat and "tinny," like a phonograph. A Handbook of Health "Ah, Madame!" said the Baron Giraud in a voice that may be described as metallic, inasmuch as it was tinny, "these young people!" Dross His war-cry was a tinny bleat: the cry of a soul bursting with sardonic merriment. Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters So Joe had to watch his instruments and listen to the tinny voice behind him and steer the ship against accidental wobblings as the Earth fell away behind him. Space Tug He began to ease himself into bed again, when he heard the sound, tinny, a little rattle. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town A tinny voice said with formal cordiality that he did, indeed. Operation Terror He was close enough to her that he could hear the tinny, distinctive ringing of a namerican circuit at the other end. Eastern Standard Tribe However, they love it, and the dismal piano beats a tinny accompaniment. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front There was dead silence in the ship, save for a small, tinny voice in Joe's headphones. Space Tug He listened attentively, heard something else, a tinny sound. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Here all along I had figured it was the tinny taste of the can, which shows how ignorant one may be touching on vitally important matters. One Third Off In the utmost quiet did Brook and Lloyd stand there listening to the tinny voice. Scorched Earth And above it all, insistent as a bugle-note, reaching the basement's breadth, from hardware to candy, from human hair to white goods, the tinny voice of the piano—gay, rollicking. Every Soul Hath Its Song Beyond, the wired tennis-courts give forth a musical, tinny note when attacked. Murder in Any Degree Amory stepped outside the door and shivered slightly at the late night wind—a wind that stirred a broken fender on the mass of bent metal to a plaintive, tinny sound. This Side of Paradise There was a harsh, bass note in the voice that made the diaphragm at Aubrey's ear vibrate tinnily. The Haunted Bookshop Just as Brook finished his thoughts to Lloyd, there was a tinny and hoarse voice come from behind the door. Scorched Earth The words were so stilted that she had the sensation of throwing metal disks on a stone floor and waiting for their tinny clatter. Star-Dust From the direction of "The Yellow Lantern" came a hilarious uproar, subdued somewhat by the distance, out of which arose the strident notes of a tinny piano beating blatantly the measure of a turkey trot. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale Later the music will let out a tinny blaze of sound. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago It had an odd, tinny sound like cracked metal. The Vision of Desire Only far in the background there could be heard the tinny sound of hand-to-hand sword fighting. Scorched Earth There was a hurdy-gurdy rattling tinnily through the morning that must have played on uninterruptedly through this strange demise of hers. Star-Dust There was nothing—no sound—save that interrupted, stertorous breathing from above, and the tinny jangle of the piano from the direction of "The Yellow Lantern." The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale A tinny, nasal voice with a whine and a hoarseness almost hiding the words. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Grey, ferocious demons, with dim, tinny eyes, came to her, taunted her, and acted without reason. The Created Legend In a booming, but tinny sounding voice, the guard spoke to the strangers and Empal. Scorched Earth The almost threadlike wires, strung on a wooden frame, gave forth a thin and tinny sound which would instantaneously bring the hands of a modern audience to its ears. The Duke of Stockbridge The east wind brought the booming toll from Magdalen tower very distinctly to the ear, closely followed by the tinny chime in Fellows' Quad. Kathleen They greeted me heartily, but their heartiness had rather a tinny sound, and I could see that on the whole they regarded me as one of those things which should not happen. The Clicking of Cuthbert His pride, as he bore in the dishes, was beautiful to see; and it was a good dinner, though rather tinny. Olivia in India I'm not gold, my dear chap, but the tinniest dross that ever was made. The Bars of Iron Hugh Campbell, you know as well as I do that there is nothing but tinny water left in that kettle. The Happy Adventurers Is there still the piano? with the tinny treble,—indeed, the whole atmosphere, was it not tinny?—You agree with me?—I have not forgotten. The Beetle The cans gave the oysters a curious taste,—tinny, or was it more like solder? What Katy Did at School If an attempt is made to analyse the music, you may discover sounds sharp as those of the fife, deep and hollow as drum-beats, sonorous and acrid, tinny and mellow. Confessions of a Beachcomber I'll be home in time to make the pudding sauce," her mother said, "but open it early, dear, so that it won't taste tinny. Saturday's Child Even little Trotty shrilled out her tinny treble, without knowing in the least what the joke was. Australia Felix Little creatures seethed round about her, making a shrill, tinny clamour; others clustered about the skirts and trousers of their parents. Crome Yellow The day of weighing out pepper and salt was over; never again would the tinny jangle of the accursed bell smite his ears. Australia Felix |
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