How To Use Unison In A Sentence
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At least one type of signal in the set of signals is synchronously averaged to provide an unisonous output.
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But the extended prayer in unison is a metallic Procrusteanism, which absolutely defies the rationale of the whole business, which is the communication of meaning.
Leap Year -- Day
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The straining bearers like a string quartet, taking the burden up in unison, at a nod from their leader?
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John smirked knowingly as his compatriots gasped in unison.
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They then performed a sports commentary in complete unison, mimicking well-known sportsmen and commentators with deadly accuracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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In unison, we all broke out in a stirring rendition of the Canadian national anthem.
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This opens strikingly with the high voices singing unaccompanied in unison.
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Three of the biggest unions, Unison, the Communications Workers Union and the GMB have tabled motions at their annual conferences next month calling for members to disaffiliate from Labour.
Archive 2008-05-01
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It was a hybrid of pointe work and pseudo-oriental port de bras woven into unison formations.
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As a corollary to their sequestration, the sisters have developed a kind of incantatory and interchangeable speech, often speaking in unison.
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New from Unison, a modern matelasse collection called Fulton.
Apartment Therapy Main
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Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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The music opens impressively with its main - nay, only - theme: three descending tones, blazed out maestoso in unison on the brass.
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Dressed in short smocks and wide hats, they move in unison through the hay, practicing labor as ballet.
Crosscut
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Naharin makes his impact using straight-to-the-heart music and spine-tingling unison phrases from his reckless dancers.
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When these elements are working in unison, they can provide maximum performance, efficiency and roof life.
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The frantic and furious beating took on the dimension and character of a collective crew of railroaders pounding spikes in unison on a stretch of track.
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She grabbed Steve's sleeve, their eyes in unison watched the ball sail through the air and high over the net.
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So the Credo leads from a gently flowing opening to boldly dramatic effects, emphatic in the use of timpani and with the Crucifixus bringing a striking unison passage for tenors and basses.
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Basically, from what I'm gathering from this article, its about how complex biological (and even non-biological systems) spontaneously act in unison.
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I'd be disappointed at the Opening Ceremony if there weren't a million - well, let's be realistic, 10,000 - bouzoukis being played in unison.
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Wherever they played, crowds turned up to goggle at the Japanese children playing perfectly in unison.
The Suzuki Method He Imported Keyed a Music Revolution
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Both Becca and Kade saluted as soon as they caught sight of the Admiral, snapping to attention almost in unison.
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In unison, as a hundred languages choired below them, the imaginary stars and planets lifted into the higher regions of air, sputtering and fading as they caught a sudden wind and scattered, in a babble of fire and voices, over the bay of Istar.
The Dark Queen
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However the rousing spectacle of so many dancers performing heroic choreography in unison should not be missed, even if it does not bear repeated viewing.
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Imagine unbridled joy when band and thousands of fans belt out the feel-good chorus in perfect unison.
The Sun
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Next, send them out on to the ice floes of the frozen Baltic and get them to shout - in choral unison - at a stranded 10,000-ton ice breaking vessel, and you have got something called Mieskuoro Huutaja (Men's Choir Shouters) ... a new art form, and it is taking parts of the world by arctic storm.
Boing Boing: February 1, 2004 - February 7, 2004 Archives
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The pure and fine essential qualities of the voices, the dizzying harmonies, the fugal calls and responses, the strange relief of the unisons, and above all the free, natural mien of the singers, proudly aware that they were producing something beautiful that could not be produced more beautifully, conscious of unchallenged supremacy, -- all this enfevered him to an unprecedented and self-astonished enthusiasm.
Clayhanger
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With the minimum of fuss, two masseurs, working in unison, applied hot medicated oils over my body and set about the task of coaxing the knots out of my protesting muscles.
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Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Though Allianz may be friends with Dresdner and Munich Re, they do not act in unison.
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Its various repertoire covers a wide range of musical works from unisonous songs to polyphonic compositions of the Renaissance.
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But seeing them dance and performing in unison, not a step out of place, makes one believe that they can hear the music in their head.
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Eventually, slower rhythmic unisons prevail and then a hocketed pattern of single notes emerges.
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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison. Jane Austen
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Imagine unbridled joy when band and thousands of fans belt out the feel-good chorus in perfect unison.
The Sun
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Reed and bassist Josh Abrams lay down propulsive grooves, over which vibist Jason Adasiewicz floats spiky harmonic patterns; this gives alto saxophonist Greg Ward and cellist Tomeka Reid plenty to work with once they break out of their unison melodic lines and turn to improvising.
Chicago Reader
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The local government branch of Unison produced high quality publicity.
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They were protesting at what they see as management's victimisation of a Unison union convenor and a senior shop steward.
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Masur simply, a bit austerely intoned the opening chorale of the Adagio, creating relief for the violins to effortlessly make their line in allargando unison to follow it very compellingly.
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"Let my right hand wither, " more than 300,000 voices cried out in unison.
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There were thousands of birds that flow in unison and laded on this one tree.
There's Something in the Air
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"What? " the children cried in unison.
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The horse leapt out of the stable doors, kicking them open in unison with the thunder.
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They punched the air and shouted in unison to the speeches of their leaders.
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The international community is ready to work in unison against him.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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In the pool her charges, Eloise and Sarah, continue to rehearse their routine, a complicated sequence of turns, scissor-kicks and dives, all done to music, in unison, and with precision.
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Unison maintained the turnout figures were similar to those in recent strike ballots.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Good morning, Mrs Crawford,' the children shouted in unison.
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Only unison singing of the Psalms was permitted.
Christianity Today
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For example, Unison Industries kept an advanced electronic ignition system for light aircraft off the market.
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Politicians make for an unedifying spectacle when they are cattle-prodded by party policy into squirming and writhing in unison.
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They kneel on straw mats in their dark clothing and chant in unison with a Buddhist priest.
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These were written for unison congregation and keyboard.
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What marks the Copper family tradition as distinctive is that this collective singing was not simply unison singing.
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It opens with a dramatic chorus sung by the mob before the cross, and it ends daringly with a unisonal descent of the voices that carries even the sopranos down to
Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
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In their hands they carried heavy ferruled canes, with which they tapped the pavement in unison as they went; and their boards bore the above legend in front and a further huge poster at the back which read:
The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective
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Members of the Unison union have voted to re-elect Dave Prentis as their general secretary.
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The finale is a headlong, moto perpetuo tarantella in additive rhythms, the marimba's breakneck acceleration echoed by the quartet: the unisono final phrase for the quintet was breathtaking.
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In goodness of heart, and in principles of piety, this exemplary couple was bound to each other by the most perfect unison of character, though in their tempers there was a contrast which had scarce the gradation of a single shade to smooth off its abrupt dissimilitude.
Camilla
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Liverpool council lifted the suspensions and the threat of sacking to a Unison union convenor and a senior shop steward last week.
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I speak, of course, of Riverdance, with its scantily clad females dancing in unison with men, in a vulgar display of wantonness and unbridled lust.
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As is common in all combat sports in Thailand, the crowd roared in unison with every punch the local fighter threw, regardless of whether it landed or not.
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This time, by contrast, the prospect of a two-speed Europe is bound to undermine Europe's political cohesion – and thus its ability, when necessary, to act in unison.
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One of the tenor saxes also played the lead in unison with the clarinet, but an octave lower.
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Another redhead came and both of them widened their eyes in unison, looking more and more like two bolls of cotton, when they saw me.
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Two voices chorused as the sound of two hands hit in perfect unison.
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Women in cowgirl dresses sway to the music, mouthing the words as they step backward and forward in unison on the stage.
Thai Noon
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The misterioso tremolo opening of the third movement was particularly effective, likewise the unison string cantilenas and some wonderful feather-light arabesques on piano.
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They are the cynosure of all eyes with their remarkable somersaults cutting across each other's paths in perfect unison.
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Margie and Gillam said in unison from the back seat "Lang --" but Ginny turned swiftly and began explaining in a low voice that "Pardon my French" was Texas for "Point taken and appreciated.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994
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The asymmetric rhythms of their unison duet invigorated the music's persistence.
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The box was fashioned of antique burnished rosewood, with brass cylinders and myriad bells all working in perfectly refined unison.
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Together, these analyses demonstrated that the rearrangement is a result of precipitation, and that clouds belonging to this kind of system rain almost in unison," Feingold adds.
Softpedia News - Global
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The team swivel and dive in perfect unison.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bushes rustled sharply, there were five twangs in unison and five arrows shot out of nowhere and flew at him.
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From the very first scene, when those little orphan girls begin banging their buckets on the ground in unison singing It's a Hard Knock Life, they had me.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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The system uses combinations of moves on the right analog stick or both analog sticks in unison (to shoot while deking) to produce a specific deke result.
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Only unison singing of the Psalms was permitted.
Christianity Today
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But unlike a regular dimmer the Leviton was able to dim all the bulbs in unison in a light fixture with multiple bulbs and when dimming rooms where multiple lights are controlled by one switch.
Today's bright ideas win 'Lighting for Tomorrow' contest
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Meanwhile, out on the business side of the "security" lines, phalanxes of outsiders contract politzei, ninja-turtle-like in their black riot armor and helmets are advancing in half-step shuffle mode, all in unison while beating their riot batons upon their shields in the rhythm of their dirge-like gait, putting Tiananman Square to shame by comparison.
The Invasion of Pittsburgh
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Occasionally they pair up for dazzling unison lines, giving the lie to any idea that this is just some after hours jam session.
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The governments acted in unison to combat terrorism.
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In unison, we asked the proprietor how he ended up so far from his homeland.
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But around 1450, or even before, composers and performers started to use a contratenor bassus, derived not from the discantus but from the tenor, beneath which they sang alternate 3rds and 5ths, beginning and ending with a unison or octave, and with the cadential octave preceded by a 5th; to the resulting tricinium a new kind of contratenor altus might also be added, by singing alternate 3rds and 4ths above the tenor, beginning and ending with a 5th, and with the cadential 5th preceded by a 4th see exx.3 and 4 below.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Two have already submitted reports recommending it go ahead and the third is said to be'in complete unison with them '.
The Sun
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Explode outward and upward, lifting your head and arms in unison.
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Music, cinematography, and direction all work in unison, creating a sequence of terrible beauty.
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The oars bit in unison; the dory surged -forward, gaining headway, rising up the face of the capping sea.
AMAGANSETT
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In stringed instruments, additional strings of wire that vibrate in sympathy with a unison note or one of its partials, bowed or plucked on the main strings, adding a shimmer to the sound.
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A remarkable passage in unisons and octaves follows which leads to a fugue bristling with cross-rhythms.
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They then performed a sports commentary in complete unison, mimicking well-known sportsmen and commentators with deadly accuracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both men nodded in unison, but I could sense their concern.
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I am pleased to report that the various committees are now working in unison to thoroughly investigate this matter.
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With the Scherzo we are back to bare unisons and octaves, though now assertive, but the G with which the music starts makes the key unambiguously clear as C major.
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We are great spontaneous sniggerers and we can do it in unison without any prompting from one another.
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Try to sing in unison if you can.
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Couples fall into a conga line and unison foxtrots.
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Greek frontman K'noup's melodies in and out of rockish flirtations and massed unison celebrations with some of his eight bandmates.
LA Weekly | Complete Issue
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'Good morning!' the kids replied in unison.
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Intonation, a command of decrescendo and true unison, and just plain running out of breath become the technical challenges singers must meet.
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Suddenly there were fists pounding on the tables, rattling the pints of Adnams, as the bald and the paunched yelled in unison, Were so pretty oh so perrrettya-vaya-cant.
What's Going On
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They nodded in unison; the contempt in James's eyes was not missed.
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These rendered plainchant in unison (the boys, where available, singing an octave above the men), either as a body or antiphonally across the choir.
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They are supposed to be foolproof and guaranteed to keep horses and jockeys safe, and to open in unison.
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#373 patrick5-the thought of their drool hitting their keyboards in unison is rather an entertaining one.
Think Progress » Palin aide refuses to criticize Limbaugh by name when calling his ‘retard’ comments ‘crude and demeaning.’
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‘Don't worry, Father,’ they chorused in unison.
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To this day unisonous singing has survived in Hevsureti, Tusheti and other mountainous areas.
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‘The staff have made it quite clear that they are unhappy about this move to Barnsley,’ said Peter Hall, convenor for trade union Unison at the fire and rescue service.
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And, in unison, they must be warming autumnal souls all round the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the end, Zhang's king has been crushed under the weight of his own laws, facing a fearsome, unison chorus of thousands of warriors calling for blood.
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There is an overdependence on unison writing between the alto and bass, and most of the drum lines are unimaginative and monotonous.
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The tunes passed across the generations by memory are sung in unison without any musical accompaniment.
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marching in unison
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Two huge English gals with shoulders like walruses breasted the waves in perfect unison.
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In unison the heads of the troops snapped in her direction, and for one astonishing minute she endured a march-past of the most comical and grotesque antics and expressions devisable by man.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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The bold opening of the Concerto on fortissimo wind in unison brings thrilling attack, leading to a very approachable work built on sharply rhythmic, often angular material.
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Next to the honor of fair Scotland, my counsin Helen is the goddess of my idolatry; and she would forswear my love and kindred, could she believe me capable of feeling otherwise than in unison with Sir William Wallace.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The earliest recorded uses of choral singing are for Christian worship, in particular the unison singing of plainchant.
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Watch them as they clasp hands and run down to the water's edge; see them prancing playfully where the waves die on the sand, while devoted swains launch the floating mattress upon which it is their custom to bask so picturesquely; see them now as they rush into the green waves and mount the softly rocking thing; observe the gleam of their white arms as, idly, they splash and paddle; note the languid grace of their recumbence: chins on hands, heels waving lazily in air; hear them squeal in inharmonious unison, as a young member of the
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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Still controlling the agitated spool with her left hand, she detaches the end of yarn with the same hand from the spool, and by means of a patent knotter harnessed around her palm she joins together the two loosened ends, one from the little distaff and one from this large spool, so that the two objects are set whirling in unison and the spool receives all the yarn from the distaff.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls
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Facing the national flag, the students in uniform T shirts carrying the words of" Non- remunerated Blood Donation Volunteers" sworn in unison to bid farewell to their puerility and usher in maturity .
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There can be no flubs or hesitations as both men say many lines together, in exact unison, to an unrelenting rhythm.
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The entire P.E. class groaned in unison, and my moan was the loudest of all.
Runners
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PNM members gave picong as UNC MPs stood up not in unison, but one by one, and sometimes very, very slowly, as was the case of Kelvin Ramnath.
TrinidadExpress Today's News
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The students gave him a rapturous welcome, chanting in unison: "We want the king!".
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The powerful effect of unison movement and the speed with which show steps are performed makes the choreography visually exciting to the audience.
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I love it when the Republican propaganda machine decides to go with some idiotic lie, and everyone one of their propagandists picks up the meme, and they begin chanting their lie in unison.
Think Progress » Beck Touts Conspiracy Theory That Obama Is Buying Health Care Vote By Selling Judgeship
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Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin.
Wildwood
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There's a gorgeous chorale variation for brass and, most boldly, a full-unison restatement of the ground.
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‘You rock, Reid,’ Ben and Josh said almost in unison, patting him on the back simultaneously.
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The men were chanting 'hai-hai' in unison now and it was louder than before.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elsewhere in Hungary unisonous singing gained momentum around 1540 with the advent of the first Protestant reformers.
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Also, look for any octave doublings or unisons, circling or otherwise marking them between the staves.
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The logic - unassailable, really - of using a single typeface family takes us back to unison plainsong.
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He urged the whole nation to promote a unisonous regional development in the country in the next five years.
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When all five participants take in a deep breath, and particularly when that action is performed in unison, the lifting procedure is much easier.
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When the action gets good, the crowd chants in unison, fists pumping in the air.
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singing in unison
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The wheat rippling in the sun waved at me in unison.
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That is why housing worker unions such as Unison are hostile to the plans and yesterday angrily began their campaign for a ‘no’ vote.
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They sear across the ice, moving in unison as if some magnetic force holds them together.
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The instruction was followed immediately as they stepped out in unison before moving one step to the right.
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Most of the melodic material is given to the primo player, and the secondo player is left with page after page of primary triads played in unison or arpeggiated or a bass line doubled between the hands.
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He watched as they surfaced four times'in perfect unison' before disappearing and swimming away.
Times, Sunday Times
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The music of dawn floated in through his open window, a gentle melody of two or three seraphic pianolas playing, in unison, a lost song of an eternally troubled composer, whose name is not on one's lips, but in the sky.
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The box was fashioned of antique burnished rosewood, with brass cylinders and myriad bells all working in perfectly refined unison.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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These electrons will oscillate in unison with the incoming light wave and can affect or modify the passage of light through matter in several ways.
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The oars bit in unison; the dory surged -forward, gaining headway, rising up the face of the capping sea.
AMAGANSETT
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Champagne corks were popping in unison with the fireworks as people celebrated.
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There is an overdependence on unison writing between the alto and bass, and most of the drum lines are unimaginative and monotonous.
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The women screamed in unison all eager to be the object of Joe's attention if only for a second, but all too timid to volunteer.
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The icy cliffs echoed the crashing volley, as both barrels poured forth their deadly hail almost in unison, and the huge animal settled down amid incarnadined waters and ice crimsoned with his life-blood, shot to death through the brain so skilfully that scarce a struggle or a tremor bore witness that the principle of life had departed.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields
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They then performed a sports commentary in complete unison, mimicking well-known sportsmen and commentators with deadly accuracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘We're really sorry,’ they squeal in unison from their police interrogation rooms.
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The finale is for full orchestra with unison horns and trumpets rousingly playing Purcell's theme at the end.
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Imagine unbridled joy when band and thousands of fans belt out the feel-good chorus in perfect unison.
The Sun
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The failure of both sides of his face to act in unison shows that his real feelings don't match up with the image he is putting across to the public.
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A.apted and arranged for unison, two or four part chorus by N.A. M. A.dante moderato
The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book
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a large company of rooks — & their croak is always in unison with mine.
Letter 141
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A large dugong and calf had just surfaced for air and I turned round in time to watch their rounded torsos arc in unison and with a swirl of their tails, they disappeared.
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On stage, they perform in near-perfect synchrony and unison.
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Members of the GMB and Unison also want more protection from Bradford Council for binmen and street cleaners who are suffering attacks as they work.
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It allows my animus and anima to express themselves in unison.
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A mass meeting of over 500 Unison members held at the end of November voted unanimously to ballot for further action in support of the social workers.
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They had spoken in unison, with quickly flashing grins sliding onto their lips.
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Don't waste your vote," they whine in unison -- as if our votes are not quadrennially wasted on those marvelous occasions when they are actually counted and recorded.
The Nation: Gore Vidal for Dennis Kucinich: A farsighted populist and pacifist.
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The horn section of the RAAF Central Band blow in unison during the first concert of the Tour de Force II Tour.
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Let us join in chorus, just this once, harmonised or in unison, for I care not, and state our position for all Infinity to know and comprehend.
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January 27th, 2007 at 5: 11 am PST leaving a smug nest of do-gooders behind to fix all of our problems by complaining about them in unison typical right-wing rant. this blog’s author attacks companies all the time for all sorts of stuff, but gosh forbid somebody else do it, then it’s a just ‘a smug nest of do-gooders‘ trying to ‘fix all of our problems by complaining about them in unison‘.
Do The Smug Thing
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Unison and strong voices are required to make a national issue of the whole fiasco!
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72,000 pairs of hands clapped in unison to the song.
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Even Clive was asleep by now; snoring in unison with Landon.
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It was man and long-suffering wife in total unison.
The Sun
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Most of the time, when we hear ‘Gregorian chant,’ we hear long stretches of unison singing.
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For example, Unison Industries kept an advanced electronic ignition system for light aircraft off the market.
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There is an overdependence on unison writing between the alto and bass, and most of the drum lines are unimaginative and monotonous.
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Greg and I paddle in silent unison, gliding the canoe, matched in motivation and intent.
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'Good morning, Mrs Crawford,' the children shouted in unison.
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And when David Ortiz capped the comeback with a bases-loaded gapper that drove in three runs, she and I rose in unison with the crowd, jumping up and down, pumping our fists and shrieking with delight.
Starr Gazing: Family Traditions
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Together, these analyses demonstrated that the rearrangement is a result of precipitation and that clouds belonging to this kind of system rain almost in unison," said study team member Graham Feingold of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder,
Livescience.com
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Then, presaged by a unison line of sax and trumpet, the rhythm kicks in.
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The failure of the vocal solo in the field of artistic music of Europe might be traced to the establishment of the unisonal chant in the service of the Roman Catholic Church.
Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
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Watch it with friends and let the subtle observational humour win you over until the smile washes over your face and you laugh in unison.
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The team swivel and dive in perfect unison.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two fiddles sang out in unison—a wild, hectic reel—and it was as if a puzzle box was opening itself before his eyes, each note a key to an unfathomed existence.
FALSE MERMAID
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The students gave him a rapturous welcome, chanting in unison: "We want the king!".
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The men were chanting 'hai-hai' in unison now and it was louder than before.
Times, Sunday Times
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This approach may have been the source of several basic qualities of shirei Erez Israel: The songs are suited for community sing-alongs, dictating the need for a simple textual and musical structure, uncomplicated melodies, uniformity of subject matter and ease of performance (chiefly monophonic and unison singing), thereby enabling diverse audiences of varying ages to sing them.
Hebrew Song, 1880-2000.
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Unison congregational responses alternate with vernacular stanzas sung by a cantor.
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I am pleased to report that the various committees are now working in unison to thoroughly investigate this matter.
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"Sorry, " they grumbled in unison.
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“We've just been to see Scarlet A,” the women said, nearly in unison, to the deskman once they were inside.
KILLING COUSINS
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The word ‘semel’, formerly thought to indicate a return to unison singing after a passage of gymel, is simply an alternative to that term.
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The company beat out rhythms with their canes, hoisting them overhead and twirling them in unison, their footwork crisp in Morse code mode.
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An enormous dense cloud of the insects swarmed out of their dwelling in angry unison.
