She's introduced quietly, with her shoes clacking gently against the hill.
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From a nearby room sounded the clacking of an old-fashioned typewriter.
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I loved the sound of the disks whirring and the printers clacking.
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He came towards me, shaking its head and clacking its 2-inch tusks.
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A bicycle hummed down the street, the chain clacking as it passed me.
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With a quick tug, Mr. Wimberly got a loud, clacking announcement out of them.
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There's tiredness accompanied with abrupt stillness after a long evening of constant clicking and clacking.
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A pair of exquisitely groomed Arabian horses emerged, their hooves clacking on the dusty pavement.
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"You said this is a weapon," the man says, clacking the trash grabber in the air.
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Even if there was no conversation, there was the comfort of someone clicking and clacking alongside.
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I could hear conversations, as well as the clacking of high heels in an adjacent room.
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"This world is fucking depressing," she tells me, her red acrylic nails gently clacking against the table.
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It's an artificially intelligent animatronic skull telling you about the weather through a set of clacking teeth.
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The clacking of tiles is interspersed with the players' occasional shouts of triumph or despair — all day.
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Distant murmurs and slamming doors mingle with the clacking and oceanic undulations in Masahiro Sugaya's unobtrusive score.
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But the wash of bullets that follows is loud, booming, and thudding, clack-clacking with helicopter speed.
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This weighty tablet, phone or computer accessory features round keys that make a satisfying clacking sound when pressed.
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Not in these tight tercets, tumbling down the page like a Jacob's ladder clacking to its dubious standstill.
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They'll twitch, break free, and run away, clacking across the ceramic tile: clippity-clop , clippity-clop , clippity-clop .
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I also heard the click-clacking of heels overhead from guests walking around, as well as housekeeping's vacuum.
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Mr. Clapton offered husky swipes across the strings and clacking single-note plucks, enacting both elegance and exertion.
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The persistent clacking of tiles is a sound familiar to anyone who has been around people playing mahjong.
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A local resident posted video of the herd clacking their hooves down the residential street, and it went viral.
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A wave of low, electronic sound washes against clacking percussion; bells chime in slow conversation with long trumpet tones.
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As the shuffling beat progresses so too does the melody, which layers in stabbing synth keys and large clacking percussion.
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Look no further than this provocative Styles feature, which still had keyboards clacking more than a decade after the fact.
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Johnny Mathis's version delights for its sleek, clean string section, sleigh bells jingling along, and actual hooves, rhythmically clicking and clacking.
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" She observes, "You can hear my high heels walking on / Clickety-clacking through the night / I'm carrying my bag of bones.
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It's the sound of stiletto heels clacking against dancefloor, of a high ponytail's swish, of a tight halter strap thwacking against clavicle.
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The movie also tries to understand Churchill through his use of language, with the sound of typewriters constantly clacking in the background.
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By 1900 a host of companies were producing them, and soon the cacophony of clacking keys was transforming workplaces across the globe.
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I am likely working on my laptop, clacking away with my index fingers because I never learned how to type, not properly.
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It's demoed on the Devolver lot, opposite the LACC, using an old Amiga keyboard, the clacking taking me back 20 years and more.
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Even on my laptop's tinny speakers, the sound is unmistakable: the click-clacking, slip-sliding sound of a Rubik's Cube whipping into shape.
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Frugal Traveler I awoke sometime before dawn to the soft, rhythmic clacking of the train, pacing steadily through the heart of South Africa.
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His aesthetic stretches broadly, incorporating everything from mesh crop tops and flowing wigs to careful stubble and click-clacking nails that curl like lashes.
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Vestaboard has posted a video showing how each character block rotates through the flaps, producing that lovely clacking sound when the display changes messages.
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They provide great sensory input and make a clacking sound when your baby moves them around — even adults will find it soothing play with.
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Even if Apple were able to turn out a perfectly reliable butterfly keyboard with decent key travel and quiet clacking, nobody would trust it.
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His children harbor happy memories of the sound of his typewriter clacking and the smell of the popcorn that he liked as a snack.
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One reason is that sources hear a keyboard clacking and are reminded that a journalist is keeping track of what they say — not helpful!
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They chug along metaphorically toward some unknown destiny but invariably headed to the universal end game of death, clinking and clacking, dancing and weeping.
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In 2010, when I pitched the 4chan story, I was sitting on a dorm room futon, clacking out a pitch email from a busted laptop.
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In fact, the technology is on its third generation, which added a rubberized membrane designed to fix ongoing issues and reduce that loud clacking sound.
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Anyone who prefers the analog satisfaction of handwriting over keyboard clacking will appreciate the obsession shared by some of the world's greatest mathematical minds: Chalk.
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Then there's also my personal favorite: the sounds of clacking, shaving, cracking, and scratching as found in this "making fire with IKEA products" YouTube video.
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The only time it was "quiet" was when the Mahjong table came out and the only noise you'd hear was the click-clacking of tiles.
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Just the term itself invokes a feeling of wobbly nervousness and the image of glossy, high heels click-clacking down the hallways of tiled corporate offices.
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As ASMR videos have sped across the internet, artists have started making their own versions, inducing shivers with soft sounds like clacking, cracking, scratching, and whispering.
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But Rostov is an optimist: The cramped room will at the very least keep him away from the Bolsheviks below, clacking out directives on their typewriters.
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Another feature called Voice Enhance will eliminate distracting background noises, whether it's someone clacking on their keyboard (we all know that person) or someone eating lunch.
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And even with the relative absence of sound, the experience was still satisfyingly tactile — I didn't hear the keys, but I felt them clacking under my fingers.
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He took a cup of coffee to his work area at the back of the lanes, where all those Sherman Pinsetters were clacking and whirring, and collapsed.
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The Saturday Profile BEKASI, Indonesia — Spike heels clacking on the concrete floor of the patients' cells, Nova Riyanti Yusuf strode grandly into the Yayasan Galuh Rehabilitation Center.
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Dillard sees (or does not see) windshield wipers in the desert, ''clacking dry as hoofbeats over the glass'' and ''hurling themselves from side to side like dancers.
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For centuries, its narrow cobblestone streets were lined with showrooms and workshops, and the clacking of sewing and weaving machines was heard in courtyards day and night.
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In this new comedy about the clacking sport of snooker (it's like pool and also not), directed by Daniel Sullivan, a star player risks getting snookered himself.
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They stuck their heads in and worked their giant lips; we could see, deep inside their mouths, tiny sets of teeth clacking away in anticipation of food.
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They walked past the purveyors of stamp papers and affidavits, typists clickety-clacking on stools, barristers-at-law in flapping gowns, pillars of wadded files bound in twine.
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His workspace suits him better than his previous one: an open-plan office where he felt constantly assaulted by the din of phones, clacking keyboards and chatty colleagues.
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I even know maniacs who seek out the browner bananas, presumably because the most extreme version of that muffled clacking has some sort of ASMR quality for them.
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The famous, clacking boards were once used in train stations all over the world, but advances in technology have retired most of them in favor of boring digital displays.
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The keyboard also sports Cherry MX Brown switches, which give a tactile bump when pressed, so you can really be reminded of the clacking from placing down Scrabble tiles.
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We've been clicking and clacking on some kind of keyboard since the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer launched in 1873, and the design of keyboards has become fairly consistent.
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The video shows the orange-and-black drone buzzing through the skies, claw-like grips clacking open and closed in anticipation as it sights its prey -- a metal patio chair.
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Next thing, an old Mustang rounds the bend, robed in dirt, full of dogs, and the wipers are on, the wipers are on, clacking dry as hoofbeats over the glass.
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You have a scene in Episode 14 where Sarah Palmer is in a bar and we hear the sound of billiard balls clacking in the background, but they sound distorted.
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The clacking of the checkers on the hardwood points was the music of honest thought, resounding in silence as it navigated the fortunes told by the pips on the dice.
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As we all tittered at Chuck's just-a-little-too-on-the-nose costume, however, Bernie Sanders (or, more likely, his social media team) was furiously clacking away at the keyboard.
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The main mill building still has the springy hardwood floors and original wooden joists installed in its heyday, but no clacking of looms has been heard here for over three decades.
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As he played, fingers clacking across the keyboard, his eyes flicked periodically from the screen to his chat monitor, so that he could keep up a steady patter with his audience.
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PARIS — The rough-hewn sounds of clacking spoons, twanging banjos and humming fiddles might seem to be something of an anomaly in a city known more for Edith Piaf's sensuous lullabies.
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You can see these trolls squinting into screens, clacking away on keyboards, making their fake content show up in bad fonts down the Facebook feeds of gullible people all across America.
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Le Sia cooks crayfish and other shellfish — lobster, shrimp, and Dungeness and snow crabs — by boiling them first and then clacking them around in a hot wok with one of seven sauces.
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I had spent some 39 years of my life believing I knew how to walk, but click-clacking down the streets of Kinosaki, Japan, in geta sandals, I wasn't so sure anymore.
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There was an apple green cable coat crafted from molded rubber; a flouro pink slipdress encircled by acrylic swirls like Saturn's rings; and a skirt made entirely of multicolor, clacking plastic tags.
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As players warmed up amid a cacophony of clacking flippers and bonus-point bells, plungers were pulled back and released, sending silver balls springing into rapid routes and ricocheting off blinking bumpers.
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Locks tucked atop his head, Lil Yachty, whose face is usually obscured by the clacking tentacles, proved unrecognizable even to those who may have binged on his whimsical music videos or Instagram account.
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The dozens of black women engineers and mathematicians (though most of the women were given lesser titles than their qualifications merited, such as "assistant" or "computer") received a separate room of clacking machines.
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It is written in the raspy, clacking language of the local Khasi people, which is more closely related to Khmer, Cambodia's main language, than it is to the most widely spoken languages in India.
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For the folks creating and covering the future of cars, the Vegas show is merely the nose-bloodying jab that sets up the jaw-clacking undercut: the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
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The students who congregated nightly in piazzas have been forced to move outside the city wall, replaced with temporary visitors like me, heading to Airbnb with their roller suitcases click-clacking on cobblestone streets.
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Then came those classic rows of flip panels — their continuous clacking was part of commuters' soundtrack — above the terminal's elegant, stone-framed ticket windows, providing times, tracks and statuses for Metro-North Railroad trains.
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While guests nibble on pastries and fruit in the morning, the hippos heave into each other in the water, occasionally smashing their tusks together to create a startling clacking sound in early morning tussles.
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Not only are the visuals absolutely terrifying, but the video has some really delightful audio, including the deafening buzz from the wasps, as well as the repeated clacking of the bugs landing on the GoPro.
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The crow's "Caw!" is immediately recognizable to the human ear, but the birds actually have more than 20 different calls, not even counting the "subsong" sounds they make: clacking and cooing and rattling and clicking.
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The mouse-clicking and mechanical keyboard-clacking of engineers offered a light hum as I marched down the hallways with a team of Intel execs and employees guiding me through increasingly strict levels of security access.
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The children of BBM will remember asking boys/girls they like for their pin, and if they're lucky, getting it, clicking and clacking those godforsaken buttons into the night, lying in bed, cursing school, talking about music.
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Probably no stranger to the feeling himself, editor Ben Watts compiled 50 of the best films featuring a fight with the blank page, with a soundtrack brilliantly re-edited to include the rhythmic clacking of typewriter keys.
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Those may be the clacking heels of "Pretty Woman" (starting July 20, at the Nederlander), a musical adaptation of the 1990 movie, with songs by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance and direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell.
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He waits on the sidewalk and when the congressional office buildings open in the morning, with staffers clickety-clacking past, he takes his place outside a hearing room and drops his puffy coat on those hallowed floors.
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From the main square, our preferred route into the labyrinth was via Makina Girgir, the tailors' road, so named for the sewing machines that line it, girgir being the onomatopoeic word for the clacking of the needles.
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So instead, I smear the toasted bread with mustard, mix grated Cheddar with a little chopped red onion, green chiles and cilantro, and leave it all under the noisy, clacking broiler at the bottom of my oven.
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"[The web] was giving consumers access to information and databases that they knew existed because they either saw or heard professionals over the phone clacking away on a keyboard accessing that information," Barton told Wired in 2013.
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To fulfill the second objective, Graves used no instrument which contained metal or plastic, and in some cases recorded non-musical sounds: the rustling of leaves, the clacking of stone against stone, a hand tapping on an animal's jawbone.
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Living In 16 Photos View Slide Show ' Like the Metro-North Railroad trains clack-clacking across the brownstone trestle on Park Avenue in East Harlem, the neighborhood seemed to be a place on the move on a recent afternoon.
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" Johnson also warned that voice connectivity will be in every room and almost every object, and that "a future Alexa will pretend to take orders, but this Alexa will be watching you, clacking her tongue and stamping her foot.
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Though few employees comprehend the nature of "the product" they're helping birth, Mildred begins to perceive its nature through harrowing premonitions of nuclear fallout, which intrude upon the novel's screenplay efficiency (you can almost hear Mildred's banging, clacking keys).
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Settling in at a River North restaurant with a small group of mostly black professionals, I hunched over my laptop clacking out a story on deadline as CNN announced Obama's historic win, his countenance glowing from the oversized TV screen.
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There's not a huge difference between the actual decibel levels between the two, but the older model's more staccato typewriter clacking sound has become more dull and less harsh on the ears, which likely makes it sound that much quieter.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Her heels clacking impossibly fast, a dancer slides across a Flamenco stage in Madrid, while in a Catalan town a burly man in a faded red shirt helps anchor a seven-layer human tower topped by a tiny girl.
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On original pieces and, unexpectedly, covers of jazz standards ("Ruby, My Dear" and "Four"), he played little flurrying obbligatos and flights around a single note, softly splitting tones or warbling or breathing through the horn while clacking on its keys.
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The zigzagging layers of warm live drums, snippety drum machines, and assorted clacking percussive instruments don't bounce so much as stagger around, surging and receding in intricate, aggressive patterns, always pushing in some direction — a reflection of the Afrobeat influence.
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The keyboard is available for pre-order starting today for $160, with delivery expected sometime this August, but it's probably better suited to someone who works from home, by themselves, without any co-workers to annoy with their incessant clickety-clacking.[Massdrop]
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Developed by Dana Calvo, "Good Girls Revolt" revels in those details, from its perfectly chosen song score (for those who remember "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and "Spirit in the Sky") to scribes clacking away on manual typewriters in neatly pressed suits.
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Doodads, gigantic skateboards, dogs patient, dogs soft, a woman clacking her wooden bracelets on a glass display case like she's typing "board member!" in Morse Code—and here, on top of that, New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck recording the scene in her sketchbook.
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But while many members are lulled by the sound of ocean waves or the mellow clacking of mah-jongg tiles, there is one group — 60 or so regular players — that prefers the staccato slapping of a rubber ball between paddle and wall.
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Eight years after South Africans blared away on their plastic vuvuzela horns when they hosted the contest, Russians are hoping fans at the tournament it hosts starting on Thursday will celebrate by clacking their "lozhkas" - spoons that beat out an insistent, but quieter rhythm.
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The album is studded with field recordings and idle noise, and some of its most exciting sequences are dependent on physical presence: Blais' breath, the thudding and clacking of the piano's keys and pedals, the heavy air of the room in which he's playing.
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In the three episodes made available to critics, "Million" dabbles in "This Is Us"–style schmaltz; in "thirtysomething"–style "let's all talk about how being married is boring sometimes but also good"; and in "Damages"–style ominous computer clacking indicating business scandals might be afoot.
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His descriptions of the 1990s and early 2000s awakened my memories: the ambitious men with their pagers clipped to pleather belts; the young women click-clacking in heels and half-rolled pantyhose; the endless questions about life in America, especially how much everything cost.
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Silvery oversize parka layers shadowed ornate brocade; a long spaghetti-strap gown was veiled in lace and trapped under a PVF bustier; an apple green cable coat was actually constructed from molded rubber; and a skirt was made entirely of clacking multicolored plastic tags.
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KUTZTOWN, Pa. — There are only a few dozen international students at the medium-size university nestled here in the Berks County hills, where the clacking hooves of horse-drawn Mennonite buggies can be a more familiar sound than a car horn on the local streets.
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From my second-class seat (about $16.50, again booked through Visit Sri Lanka Tours), I could enjoy the percussive clacking of the train as it wound through the intensely lush, hilly terrain, with row after row of perfectly manicured tea plants dotting every slope.
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But, when you listen to Bevan's solo stuff, particularly her early work, there are elements of baroque pop, gently strummed guitar, click-clacking percussion and a dreamlike quality anchored to her breathy voice that sound worlds apart from the music she tailors to fit other acts.
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Samples of footsteps clacking across hardwood floor, clinking silverware, and open air collide with one another, crafting abstract spaces and narratives that couldn't reasonably exist in the real world—it's a dizzying and disorienting effect, but one that primes you to absorb the record's more melodic moments.
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Here, he locks into a beat Burial co-produced with Four Tet that's a perfect hybrid of the two artists' strengths; Burial presumably supplies the washes of drone and the clacking drum samples, while Four Tet accentuates the beat with crisp, trebly synths and auxiliary percussive sounds.
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I can feel my most masculine in a colorful women's blouse, my biceps bulging through its sleeves, whereas the softness of a men's cashmere scarf, or the clacking sound of men's ornate black leather dress shoes (which sound like high heels) can conjure in me a more feminine sensibility.
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Not only do these buds have built-in noise canceling, which is a relief for city-dwellers like me trying to escape the ever-present sounds of traffic, subways, or construction, they totally eliminated the clicking and clacking I heard from my coworkers typing next to me in our office.
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It is perhaps useful, as writers sit clacking at laptops, to hear the story of someone else who spent their life asking editors for checks needed yesterday and trying to write a sentence good enough to make a buck while hoping something better was cooking in their brain in the background.
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Composed outward from a hypnotizing loop that alternately sounds like dulled synthetic bells and oddly EQ'd hand drums (or both at once), Nik Dawson sets things moving at an obstinately plodding pace, eventually orbiting the central motif with a nasty pair of clacking and oscillating buzzes in the higher frequency range.
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The loom shed originally contained a small prayer hall at its western end, but the weavers complained that the clacking from the looms disrupted their prayers, and so Jubair Hasan, 39, one of Archeground's principals, approached the factory's owner for another patch of land on which they could build a mosque.
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" In a bravura passage, sitting at his desk listening to the clacking of typewriters up and down the street, Severing muses that he can "pick out the coded signatures of men whose work I know: a cuckold theater critic, a dime novelist at play, a shut-in literary essayist, a freelance advertising writer.
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With the amount of clacking it takes for them to get it out and ready to go on the little table, which it takes up in its entirety, they only have about ten minutes of viewing time (always sport-related, but a really dead sport like cricket?) before they have to alight.
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The recording opens with a mushroom cloud of blown-out, booming drone that wouldn't be at all out of place streaming through an Orange amp on an early SUNN 0))) album (or on literally any Striborg-esque raw black metal recording), then segues into a sort of low, ambient clacking sound—the "thunder" itself.
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While the chime of "You've Got Mail" in the film's first few minutes may evoke some laughs, and the clacking of computer keys acts as a type of nostalgic ASMR, the slow smile that spreads on Kathleen's face the first time she meets Joe (before he's "Joe Fox," just "Joe") has never been more familiar.
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The famous Istiklal Avenue, one of the world's most appealing pedestrian spaces with its cobbled pavement and little red trams clacking down the middle, bells dinging, can be covered over on a crowded weekend night by an inescapably dense, mile-long cloud of secondhand smoke, hovering between the elegant, tall buildings on either side.
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But as Eric Limer shows us over at Popular Mechanics, check out what happens when someone tries to do this on a Facit ESA-25 mechanical calculator, with the cover helpfully removed so all the internal workings are exposed:The machine pretty much goes insane, its gears and cogs hammering away in a nonstop frenzy of clacking. WTF?
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His first performances in the studio were apparently so incandescent that the engineers didn't pay attention to the sound of his vest buttons clacking against his guitar — the only distraction in his very first take of "Simple Twist of Fate," which rises from and falls back to a stoic near-whisper, like a startling rumor being passed along.
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Maybe it was the sounds: not only did I hear Turkish, but there were snatches of German, French, English, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, even Afrikaans and all sorts of other tongues, mixing with the sounds of wind-blown chimes, sizzling food, meowing cats, honking car horns, revving scooters and motorcycles, and high heels and boots clacking against the pavement.
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Granite-colored clouds largely gave way to blue skies on Monday, and zipping winds and clacking rains were replaced by a different soundtrack: the helicopters that roared and hovered above Wilmington; leaf-blowers and chain saws that cleaned up Charlotte; and the soft swirl of the still-rising Cape Fear River that menaced Fayetteville as it flowed under the Person Street Bridge.
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The light box, along with the shelves and desk cubbies stuffed with books and the paperwork lying everywhere, gave the impression of a publishing office from an earlier time — if not the days of clacking typewriters then the '90s at least, when producing a magazine was more tactile and everyone's main concern was what would go into next month's issue, not whether there would be one.
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It's not the sort of detail that really informs the watching, but it's there once you know it, the same way you might remember, in the moment when Bynum's body finally can't do any more, and he's hanging from a peg attached to a clacking metal arm twenty or so feet above a pool of water waiting for his grip to finally give, that the reason Bynum's name is familiar is that he's the competitor who, in an earlier season, revealed that he cannot swim.
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