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"muffle" Definitions
  1. muffle something to make a sound quieter or less clear
  2. muffle somebody/something (up) in something to wrap or cover somebody/something in order to keep them/it warm

199 Sentences With "muffle"

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Unlike standard earplugs, they don't in any way muffle sound.
Yet the Venice Commission's opinion will be hard to muffle.
Perhaps doing so was necessary to muffle the industry response.
She's bubbliness incarnate, with enough optimism to muffle my apprehension.
A blue blanket is beneath his feet to muffle sound.
He then covered her mouth to muffle her screams, she claimed.
The rifle was equipped with a suppressor to muffle its report.
But that may muffle the very real dog whistle her words conjure.
Hop into Forzavista mode, get in the car, and it will muffle.
Mr Schlaerth's idea is to reflect and muffle the worst-offending waves.
Mr. MacLagger said he keeps the windows closed to muffle the noise.
Carpets with thick padding could muffle the sound of scurrying puppy feet.
Yet we still ought to be careful not to muffle free speech entirely.
And when I do hear it, I now have the tools to muffle it.
At the school, the doors and windows muffle the sounds of the traffic outside.
The firms were also charged, in different hearings, with trying to muffle conservative voices.
He had a suppressor on the weapon to muffle the sound, the chief said.
The muffle-shaped gel patch enhances its delivery of skin hydrators and collagen boosters.
You'll no longer muffle games or movies while holding the device with two hands.
Some, in a crisis, must lack the laugh or muffle it for long enough.
If you muffle different opinions, I won't believe in what I see in the media.
And we're hoping that developed countries don't muffle around to get their way on it.
My hope is that the cushion will both muffle any sound and trap any odor.
Some described trying to muffle the noise with curtains or blankets, often to little effect.
On the other hand, the commitment to niceness had a tendency to muffle aggressive criticism.
The party could be gambling that half-measures can muffle dissent for a few more years.
And even with the sleepbuds inserted without a track playing, they manage to muffle the sound.
We popped the wine in the bathroom while repeatedly flushing the toilet to muffle the sound.
Consider purchasing a small fan or air filter to muffle out other noise around the house.
For others, it's to muffle the silence, to forget the destruction, and to mask the fear.
And they can also muffle a soldier's hearing, making it harder to locate and evade threats.
The ensemble numbers are rollicking, too, though the actors, playing instruments onstage, sometimes muffle the lyrics.
When his father came on Saturdays, he turned up the bedroom radio to muffle her movements.
Its 519 rooms have triple-pane windows to muffle the sounds from the runways in view.
He drank prodigious amounts of alcohol to dim his heightened alertness and to muffle his sorrows.
Inside the buildings it's often eerily quiet as walls muffle the gunfire, the constant background noise.
She attempts to muffle Dee Dee's cries and focuses on the lighthouse painting next to the tub.
There's one speaker on the bottom, which is loud enough but easy to muffle with your palm.
The sleepbuds will play sleep tracks that don't entirely tune out the noise but rather muffle it.
It's a type of (perhaps unconventional) white noise: light ambient hums that muffle perturbing or bothersome sounds.
"I didn't know you could lock it, so you can keep it on permanent muffle," he said.
Researchers are given headphones to muffle the sound as they study the interaction between the wind and waves.
Speakers that won't muffle the sound, or make it feel strange with a series of hisses and pops.
When she tried to scream, she said, he clapped his hand over her mouth to muffle the cries.
Defeating Golden State will require discipline, talent, (lots of) luck, and the ability to muffle a fireworks display.
In similar tests, my Bose headphones sounded great on the train, but they, too, couldn't muffle loud braking.
The QC35II muffle the sounds of commuting, like subways and noisy streets, but everything is still largely audible.
He covered her mouth to muffle her screams, she said, and she feared he might accidentally kill her.
In an attempt to muffle out a line of dialogue spoken by a child, Sparling suggested inserting some chirps.
Some investors, however, worry a higher threshold would muffle legitimate shareholder concerns and lead to other damaging rule changes.
Because the Sleepbuds were designed to muffle unwanted noise, they specifically play sounds like raindrops or a water stream.
China's efforts to steer, muffle or control the media have produced alternative news sources that subtly, indirectly skirt restrictions.
The new system, unveiled this week after footage of its demonstration leaked online, will greatly muffle the aircraft's sound.
When he had houseguests, he would turn on music in the bedroom to muffle any noise she might make.
But when photographer Mattia Michelli visited, he had to stuff cigarette filters in his ears to muffle all the gunfire.
Not only will the sounds muffle her from grumpy passengers, but it could soothe her as white noise as well.
He's already made similar noises this time around, and Jokowi is hoping for a landslide that would muffle such claims.
Not only will it keep stuff out and help insulate the room, but it will muffle noise from outside too.
So why is it so taboo for people to make absolutely no effort to hold in or muffle a fart?
Schlesinger said it's important that the device not muffle or distort other sounds, which can be disorienting for the patient.
He placed his hand over her mouth to muffle her calls for help as his friend turned up some music.
Those who dislike that style often hide their routers in places like closets that could muffle your WiFi signal's strength.
This sounds like the motor would be way too loud, but the sound diffuser was also upgraded to muffle noise better.
It's so good that we stay for a few more rounds, to muffle the scent of the Maroilles on our breaths.
Staffers who are as loyal to Mook as to Clinton tried to muffle concern about reports of their boss' possible demotion.
There are simply too many other things — like technology, worker productivity and aging — that can either muffle or overwhelm their impact.
So, when Marie Claire U.K. revealed the official perfumes worn by both royal brides, we couldn't even pretend to muffle our joy.
Google says it paid particular attention to the fabric, so that it wouldn't interfere with the speaker's acoustics and muffle the sound.
The poll also found that 73 percent of gun owners support restrictions on silencers, which muffle the sound of a gun shot.
They were O.K., but all of them had the telltale blandness of milk, which tends to muffle flavors instead of brightening them.
So they used glass cutters to score a circle, which they covered with duct tape to prevent shattering and muffle the sound.
Such structures could muffle political risks but are far less efficient than the model of globally integrated firms that thrived in the 2000s.
Maybe these memories are so painful that filtering them through fiction is the only way to muffle the hammer blows to our consciences.
Targeting less flighty corporate clients and longer-term asset managers may also muffle some of the noise, though that will take time, too.
Or behind a new technology to muffle the blast of a pistol, even if tens of millions of firearms are sold each year.
Fear is very front and center, and so when the fear part of our brain is aroused, it tends to muffle our rationality.
It was also a far cry from the screeds the company routinely dispenses these days to try to muffle journalistic — and indeed political — enquiry.
She said the only reason the state had adopted the plans was in order to end the litigation and muffle the voices of minorities.
To optimize the new test kitchens for filming, they have been outfitted with overhead lights, blackout curtains and acoustic paneling to muffle outside sound.
Ms. Baccay gripped the microphone with both hands, leaned her forehead against it and covered her face with a white towel to muffle wails.
Because the Hero2400 doesn't need a case the microphones have membranes in them that keep the water out but also muffle the sound a bit.
Blending engine and body, together with design tweaks such as a specially shaped long, thin nose, can muffle a sonic boom before it gets going.
Taking Final's earphones out on a busy London street, I find they muffle the growl of surrounding cars and buses without ever muting it completely.
But the dark-suited human barricade could do nothing to muffle a marching band that clattered unseen, somewhere along the street, playing a stadium anthem.
In an account published by The Washington Post, Ford said Kavanaugh held his hand over her mouth to muffle her screams during the alleged assault.
When he said that his New Year's resolution was to eat pasta every day, Penny raised her hand to her mouth to muffle her laughter.
Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) said silencers muffle the distinctive sounds of a gun and make it more difficult to identify where shots are coming from.
The woman threw a blanket over a young daughter to muffle her cries as she sprinted to the neighbor's house and banged on his door.
On top of all that, fiber materials have practical applications: they can be worn, they can muffle sound, they can provide heat or prevent heat.
The beds, which are generally around six feet long and two and a half feet wide, are partitioned by heavy curtains meant to muffle noise.
You will probably have to muffle both door-bell and telephone if you can put yourself over as a gay, interesting, and up-to-date person.
Yet this has done little to muffle what is now a nationwide uprising against the rule of Omar al-Bashir and his 30-year-old kleptocracy.
Experiments on animals had identified two mechanisms within the brain stem that, respectively, muffle and boost pain signals before they reach the rest of the brain.
Seldom does a day go by when you don't hear people bitterly complaining about how much trouble it is to muffle the sound of their shooting.
Paul was wearing protective earmuffs to muffle the sound of the mower, two sources told the New York Times, which prevented him from hearing Boucher's approach.
She recounted that an allegedly drunk Kavanaugh and a friend got her in a room, shut the door and turned up the music to muffle her protestations.
For music I picked Speedy Ortiz's Major Arcana and let it loop over and over through crummy EarPods under a pile of socks to muffle the noise.
Until now, the company has relied on the passive version — using the unique combination of over-ear cups and in-ear buds to muffle out ambient noise.
In Safran's factory in Casablanca, workers assemble nacelles—structures encasing engines under aircraft wings—and fit honeycomb composites that help to muffle the screams of jet engines.
When I pulled the blanket over my head to muffle the sound of his crying, my wife would hoist herself upright and return to his room alone.
At the printer: The hum of the printer will muffle any sobs as well as your co-worker's loud and explicit conversation about her cosmetic skin graft.
But such efforts have done little to muffle calls for the line's second phase (running to Manchester and Leeds) to be scrapped in favour of a cheaper alternative.
Renderings show a skylight in the roof, as poorly-lit areas muffle gesture communication, and curved rooms with interior-facing windows to allow for signing across the building.
They drilled 16 holes into the concrete roof of the vault, stuffed them with explosives, and covered them with burlap sacks filled with dirt to muffle the sound.
Before congressional lawmakers give in to the gun lobby's latest twisted demand, they had better ask themselves why they would want to help muffle a shooter's deadly deeds.
Additionally, the success of coaxial cables in providing fast internet access to users around the world helped muffle some of the need for a massive satellite internet network.
The razor-toothed, spindle-legged interlopers are frightening, but it's almost creepier to watch Blunt and Krasinski's characters calmly prepare to muffle the first cries of their newborn child.
They also have an added layer of red felt on the sole that was meant to muffle the sound of her dancing on the yellow brick road, she said.
He also directly addressed the portrait painted by Dr. Blasey of a drunken young man who tried to rape her and muffle her screams as she pleaded for help.
Her big confirmation of Native American blood offended some Native Americans, did nothing to muffle or muzzle Donald Trump and left many journalists — me included — questioning her tactical smarts.
The current government has used existing laws to muffle dissent from Arabs and Jewish leftists — including, for example, a politically motivated police investigation of a Breaking the Silence spokesperson.
But try as they might to muffle them — through alcohol, drugs and those pacifying fantasies O'Neill called "pipe dreams" — the voices of recrimination in their heads can never be silenced.
Buoyed by rich investors who want faster private jets, these startups are testing new technologies that could muffle the sonic boom that occurs when an airplane breaks the sound barrier.
This lets you filter out certain sound frequencies and amplify others, which ostensibly means you could muffle the annoying woo boy behind you but turn up the music on stage.
When we ate, I had to explain that something has to play in the background to muffle the thwacks of utensils and chewing or my head will spin exorcism-style.
He became increasingly hyperactive and angry, sometimes even dangerous: I once caught him pressing his hands against Grace's face in an attempt to muffle the shrill sound of her crying.
There are also concerns that a highly unpopular Mr. Poroshenko has seized on the crisis to lift his flagging political fortunes and muffle his many critics before the presidential election.
The impeachment is the reason they approved it ... and the reason is they want to muffle down the impeachment because they're embarrassed by it and they couldn't get the votes.
They can help muffle the sound of a bullet leaving the barrel of a gun, but they can't do anything about the "crack" of a bullet breaking the sound barrier.
The Republican caucus, meanwhile, tends to do just the opposite; it muffle moderates and amplify ideologues — which is one reason the Tea Party achieved substantial obstructionist success during the Obama years.
His impeccable dress softens the impact of his height, in the same way a vast pinstriped sheet might muffle the presence of an elephant or an atrium-size Alexander Calder sculpture.
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Ford detailed her allegation that Kavanaugh drunkenly brought her into a bedroom, pinned her to a bed and tried to take her clothes off, using his hand to muffle her screams.
"White noise can overlap with the surrounding sounds and muffle them so that the snoring won't feel that annoying," said Alex Savy, certified sleep science coach and the Founder of SleepingOcean.
There are two speakers, and they sound good and get loud, but they're super easy to muffle with your palms when you hold the Fold in landscape mode to watch a video.
But the decision was also practical, a response to the acoustical challenges (isolating the sound, accounting for an echo) of an auditorium designed to muffle footfalls, as is usually desired in ballet.
The clothing in the closet acted as a sound buffer, though not enough of one to muffle the outbursts of a neighbor or the flushing toilets and running showers in other apartments.
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and now the FBI, the woman says that Kavanaugh tried to force himself on her while they were at a party and covered her mouth to muffle any protest.
Since I was at work, I went into the bathroom and heaved huge sobs into coarse paper towels, waving my hand under the automatic hand dryer every 12 seconds to muffle the sound.
The piece involves very soft sounds played on an array of violins, from traditional to experimental, and used various standard mutes (brass pieces fitted on the bridge of the instrument to muffle sound).
Worse yet, the New York State Theater had been built for the New York City Ballet, and its architect, Philip Johnson, had been instructed to somehow muffle the noise of the dancers' feet.
He instead seemed to want to muffle the controversy in a blanket of vague sympathy and lukewarm language, sidestepping the specific questions of why his office had not prosecuted the case more aggressively.
Little Elliette, nestled in the arms of her grandmother and wearing a pair of pink earmuffs to muffle the noise, danced along as a family friend held an umbrella to keep her dry.
The curtain is there to muffle the piano's sound, to accommodate a neighbor for whom the practicing of a world-class pianist is not the thrill it would be for you and me.
Halden has a different structure: a campus design, where inmates move from one building to another and are surrounded by lots of windows; construction materials help muffle noise and take advantage of natural light.
Christine Blasey Ford said that, at a high school party in 1982, Kavanaugh groped her, tried to undress her, and covered her mouth to muffle her screams, while Kavanaugh's friend, Mark Judge, stood by.
Ford told the Senate panel that she thought Kavanaugh was going to rape her and might accidentally kill her when he allegedly put his hand over her mouth to muffle her cries for help.
Ford told the Senate panel that she thought Kavanaugh was going to rape her and might accidentally kill her when he allegedly put his hand over her mouth to muffle her cries for help.
In a post on Instagram, Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, mocked Ford's accusation that Kavanaugh drunkenly pinned her down, attempted to remove her clothing and covered her mouth to muffle her screams.
I suppose it is straightforward, but my hypothesis is that people forced to muffle their feelings and thoughts are in peril of burying those inner perturbations so deeply that they can't unearth them anymore.
The "crystalline lines" (as Rexroth called them) have taken on a bit more of a burr, which does not muffle their "plangent sounds" but does place them at a lower frequency on the audio spectrum.
I believe we all could get back a few minutes (or hours) of our day if we stopped spending so much time clenched in a bathroom stall fiddling with toilet paper to muffle our farts.
Pops of pink may soothe my raging soul as a quiet rebellion, but it won't erase the cultural attitudes driving me to muffle my screams of frustration into a rictus smile that passes for polite.
Nor can the public depend on the word of Mr. Trump's handpicked attorney general, who has a long history of trying to muffle Republican scandals and whose view of executive branch authority is alarmingly broad.
And his skewering of it is absolutely glorious, starting with the decor: The dining room, deep in the hotel, is a broad space of high ceilings and coving, with thick carpets to muffle the screams.
At the same time, it's pretty clear what her answer to that "Does Money Talk?" subtitle is -- the only question being whether anything, at this point, can be done to silence or at least muffle it.
Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to muffle political dissent in recent years, using tough new cybercrime laws to sentence offenders to prison terms for online posts deemed insulting to rulers or threatening to public order.
There are items like tape to tighten up a collar that sags toward impropriety, felt dots that muffle the provocative clack of pumps and cloth tubes that can extend a short sleeve into something more acceptable.
I'm not sure whether this means I should look into having a baby or if it's the exact opposite: that I want to be babied, to muffle the sound of my adult anxieties scrabbling at the door.
Christine Blasey Ford, who attended an all-girls high school while Kavanaugh attended Georgetown Prep, says that Kavanaugh pushed her down on the bed, covered her mouth to muffle her protests, and tried to remove her clothes.
The Moody's case has fueled concerns that governments in the region are increasingly trying to muffle negative research, with the Indonesian Finance Ministry in November penalizing JP Morgan following its issuance of a negative report on Indonesia.
Christine Blasey Ford went public last Sunday with an allegation that Kavanaugh pinned her down and tried to remove her clothes at a high school party in the 1980s and covered her mouth to muffle her screams.
Judge Kavanaugh is accused of pinning Dr. Blasey to a bed, groping her, trying to remove her clothes and covering her mouth with his hand to muffle her screams while drunk at a party during high school.
Just ask yourself: What aspect of our hunting "heritage" would be preserved by removing restrictions on the sale of firearm silencers -- a tool of wildlife poachers and other criminals who want to muffle or otherwise cloak their handiwork?
A recently leaked Apple service document obtained by MacRumors confirms what many already suspected: the newly introduced silicone membranes discovered by iFixit that are beneath the keycaps on the new MacBook Pro keyboard aren't just there to muffle sound.
Falcon feathers are stiff, like jet-fighter wings, for stability at high altitudes; owl feathers are soft and barbed, to muffle their descent on prey; sandgrouse feathers soak up water, so their chicks can sip them in the desert.
Even Trump — who time and again would muffle bad news for Clinton with his own comments or actions at the time drawing attention back to him by a clicks-and-ratings obsessed media — didn't step on Clinton's bad week.
Mr. Brown told Mr. Grissom to block the door, and then put on pornography and loud music to muffle any noise before the two proceeded to engage in sexual acts with some of the women, according to the lawsuit.
In emotional testimony, Dr. Ford described vividly a memory of more than 30 years ago in which, she said, a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and tore at her clothes while covering her mouth to muffle her screams.
They are not the clearest or loudest-sounding speakers on a tablet â€" the iPad Pro's quad speakers are better in my opinion â€" but they are front-firing, which makes it almost impossible to muffle them with your hands.
This eliminates the baneful pinkie terror of having a rough USB-C port rubbing against your finger, and it also opens up a space in front of the bottom-firing speaker so you don't muffle it when holding the phone.
"Angered at the child's refusal to calm down, he picked the child up and covered its mouth with his hand to 'muffle' the crying," Tabor alleged of Hobbs, adding that the boy fought back by hitting and scratching the man.
Another example is the Kremlin's threat of cutting off oil and gas to Europe, which is dependent on Russian energy, to try to muffle European criticism of the Kremlin's seizure of Crimea in 85033 and its support for eastern Ukrainian secessionists.
Ford, a 51-year-old research psychologist, alleges Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, groped her over her clothing, and tried to muffle her protests during a teen party in the early 1980s when she was 15 and he was 17.
Federal agents seized the tape earlier this year during raids on Cohen's properties, the paper said, amid a Justice Department investigation into Cohen's involvement with payments made to women to muffle potentially damaging stories in the midst of the campaign.
All I could do was shut my eyes and arch back, dying and shuddering as I exploded with a new kind of pleasure, moaning into the ceiling, his tongue lapping relentlessly at me, my hand over my mouth to muffle my cries.
According to researchers from Bristol University in the United Kingdom, who published their findings in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) this month, there's a simple explanation: deaf moths often grow fur designed to muffle the sounds they make.
You could even muffle New York City if you lie in bed, put two speakers on either side of you, fill them with white noise, pop a Xanax, turn on a fan, jam in earplugs, and smother your head with a pillow.
Even if there had been more shouts and murmurs, it would have been a challenge to make them out given the poor acoustics that muffle noise even when a crowd is much bigger and more boisterous than it was for Saturday's final.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads From Edvard Munch's iconic 1893 painting to Vito Acconci's 1971 performance piece "Sound Barrier," in which he aggressively tried to muffle the screams of a collaborator, the scream has been an existential inspiration for countless artists.
To stanch anger over Dr. Li's death, and the deaths of the many others his warning might have saved, authorities have doubled down on the very tactics that drove the fury in the first place: using the internet police to muffle the most outspoken.
For those who have loud children or live in an urban environment, a pair of noise-canceling headphones, like the $400 Bose 700 over-ear headphones or the $105 1More DualDriver BT ANC earbuds, can muffle out many unpleasant sounds to help you focus.
For those who have loud children or live in an urban environment, a pair of noise-canceling headphones, like the $400 Bose 700 over-ear headphones or the $105 1More DualDriver BT ANC earbuds, can muffle out many unpleasant sounds to help you focus.
The Domes proved an ideal place to watch the five-hour gala in all respects but one: The glass that the Met installed to muffle the noise of the fans that cool the lights meant that almost none of the music could be heard.
He also offered a series of anecdotes — including one in which he described how he stuffed a towel in his mouth to muffle screams as he received pain-easing shots in the bottoms of his feet, and once almost needed to have a leg amputated.
And so, outfitted with customized, scanner-compatible headphones that would pipe in the sound clips and muffle the deafening clanks of the vibrating coils, I settled onto a gliding platform bed to be conveyed into the cylindrical bowels of the $3 million machine, and the experiment began.
Because I live in such a strange setup and the walls in my apartment are paper-thin, I've found myself gravitating toward the quieter sex toys in my bedside drawer — or trying to muffle the sound with my blankets when I inevitably forget to charge those ones.
The problem with the early episodes — written and directed by Jim Mickle, who also made the film "Cold in July," based on a Lansdale novel — has to do with a slow pace and a sameness that muffle the humor and menace we expect from smart noir.
Or the metal bar he said Mr. Dahmer used to beat him, or the motor-pool rope to tie him down, or the scars, still visible on Mr. Capshaw's cheeks after nearly 133 years, from Mr. Dahmer trying to muffle his screams with a clenched hand. 1.
The nomination had initially seemed to be a safe bet, but became imperiled after Palo Alto professor Christine Blasey Ford came forward with allegations that Kavanaugh held her down, groped her, and covered her mouth to muffle her screams during a party when they were both in high school.
The White House-brokered briefings were expanded at the 11th hour to include an afternoon session for bipartisan members of Congress, but that gesture did little to muffle criticism from Democrats who said the sessions played into the hands of those trying to undermine the Robert Mueller probe.
But 45% of white women still supported Kavanaugh's nomination according to a Quinnipiac poll, so it bears repeating: no matter how good you are at their game, if you get in the way of their power, they will muffle your screams and tell everyone they were never even there.
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Kavanaugh's nomination initially seemed like a safe bet in July, but became imperiled in September after California professor Christine Blasey Ford came forward with allegations that Kavanaugh held her down, groped her, and covered her mouth to muffle her screams during a party when they were both in high school.
She says she was staying with her aunt when a group of women came into the house, blindfolded her, stuffed a rag in her mouth to muffle her screams, and pinned her to the ground by her arms, legs, and chest while her clitoris was sliced off with a knife.
Those two statements alone aren't enough to muffle the entire league's activity over the next 48 hours, but the strain these ostensibly motivated organizations will go through, coupled with the fatalism inspired by the Golden State Warriors' unimpeachable dominance, helps explain why this year's deadline might be less captivating than usual.
"In my daily life, the goal was to muffle the anxiety that I'd feel as I tried to drift off to sleep knowing that, at any point, what little money I had in my bank account could be garnished by the IRS," he told online investing service Wealthsimple in 2017.
Dr. Blasey testified that the memory that had traumatized her repeatedly over the years was one of forced silence: Judge Kavanaugh, a 17-year-old high school athlete, putting his hand over her mouth to muffle her screams for help as he pinned her to a bed and assaulted her.
"In my daily life, the goal was to muffle the anxiety that I'd feel as I tried to drift off to sleep knowing that, at any point, what little money I had in my bank account could be garnished by the IRS," he tells Laurie Woolever of Wealthsimple, an online investing service.
Inside the arena, the crowd was sparse, and the music played during tests, as dressage rides are called, could be categorized as Retirement Community Lite, mostly orchestral versions of rock standards chosen to perk up the place or to muffle sounds that might otherwise distract the horses (a challenge because of patrolling helicopters).
Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman who accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, described the terror she felt more than 103 years ago, when, she said, Mr. Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, tried to rip her clothes off and clapped his hand over her mouth to muffle her cries for help.
Many of the men in the party may travel a lot and the reversible ostrich travel pillow, handmade in Spain, filled with silicone microbeads to muffle sound and block light, can be a welcome accessory to carry along; the pillow can be used as a neck support or an eye-mask head pillow.
That provision allows Hong Kong "to enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government" — or, potentially, to invoke China's national security interests in order to muffle political dissent in the city or the local separatist movement (an offshoot of the 23 Umbrella Revolution).
During a Senate hearing last month, Dr. Blasey, a university professor and research psychologist, described a chilling scene at a high school gathering more than 30 years ago, when, she said, a young, drunken Mr. Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, tried to rip off her clothes and placed his hand over her mouth to muffle her screams for help.
At its highest in 403 years, that turnout may muffle talk of a "democratic deficit" undermining the legitimacy of the EU. As the Union faces unprecedented slights from the United States under President Donald Trump, hostility from Russia under President Vladimir Putin and anxiety over the rising trading power of China, a revival of its citizens' interest, however muted, and a containment of its critics, is welcome for supporters of the bloc.
The book persuasively illustrates what an ineffectual congressman he was, apart from cozying up to the Koch brothers, Betsy DeVos and other rich Republican donors; the clumsiness and vanity of his one term as governor of Indiana, for which he did something that predecessors hadn't and "ordered up a collection of custom-embroidered clothes — dress shirts, polo shirts, and vests and jackets — decorated with his name and the words Governor of Indiana"; the strong possibility that he wouldn't have won re-election; his luck in being spared that humiliation by the summons from Trump, who needed an outwardly bland, intensely religious character witness to muffle his madness and launder his sins; and the alacrity with which he says whatever Trump needs him to regardless of the truth.
North Korea was no-show for summit planning meeting in Singapore last week, White House reveals Harry J. Kazianis: Trump had to cancel the North Korea summit Ingraham blasts giddy, Trump-hating media on North Korea Kim Jong Un 'must be having a giggle fit': Pelosi, Dems mock Trump for pulling out of summit SEETHING OVER &aposSPYGATE&apos: The FBI and Justice Department on Thursday held a pair of high-level briefings for lawmakers in an effort to ease Republican pressure over the Russia investigation , amid President Trump's outcry over revelations that a confidential informant made contact with several of his advisers during the 2016 presidential campaign ...   The White House-brokered briefings were expanded at the 11th hour to include an afternoon session for bipartisan members of Congress, but that gesture did little to muffle criticism from Democrats who said the sessions played into the hands of those trying to undermine Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
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The famous poets came for us they came on us or some of us at least on some of us they did not come their poems were beautiful or not but either way we learned to call them beautiful they came like honeybees to hyacinths to some of us they came in some of us the ones they called unreadable but fuckable or readable and fuckable others were unfuckable the flip the fat the fierce the frayed the flawed the frail the flunky the funny-looking radical unshaved the frumps the flabs the poets came for us their genius sprayed on us they preyed on us they said they'd pray for us like honeybees they dumped their load of gold on us like god they shot their wad on us they called us sweeter than their wives with softer skin they called their wives by telephone their hands over our mouths to muffle us they shuffled us like decks of playing cards and settled into hotel beds their socks and underwear and undershirts cast upon the shore and then we'd stumble out the door ●

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