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Topic: Shrill


In the News (Mon 6 Oct 08)

  
  The Hindu : Karnataka / Mangalore News : Shrill horn menace rages in Mangalore
Shrill horns are an assault on the ears of pedestrians.
While there are reports that two-wheeler riders have started using earplugs to protect themselves from shrill horns, drivers of four-wheelers roll up the windows of their vehicles to escape from the noise.
But the drivers seem to be oblivious of this and continue to sport fancy for shrill horns even as pedestrians, schoolchildren, and patients are inconvenienced.
www.hindu.com /2004/05/02/stories/2004050208700300.htm   (384 words)

  
 Shrillness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some instruments, like the piccolo have a shrillness in the upper register; thus notes there are mostly used for ornamentation.
Although any pitch, high or low, can be shrill, the terminology usually is applied to sounds high in the whistle register, where the difference between a musical note and a blood curdling scream can be thin.
The term "shrill" can be used as an insulting descriptive, used in the context of someone who is often angry and rude.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shrill   (147 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
INTRODUCTION Shrill is designed to operate like one of the computerized jukeboxes that you might find at a bar these days.
After you do this be sure to run 'sync' so that the metadata gets written to disk (otherwise shrill will not be able to see it), and then run 'reset' so that the albums will be reordered in alphabetical order (or else the album names will not match up with the tracks).
Shrill will always pick the largest image file in the directory (by file size), so keep this in mind.
bobcopeland.com /shrill/README   (1040 words)

  
 Is there no sin in it?: Shrill, defined   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Almost always, the word shrill is deployed in circumstances in which the listener realizes that, to engage complicitly in conversation with the speaker would require an admission of privilege.
"Shrill" is usually a way of saying, "The movements you make with your mouth convict my complacency and self-absorption.
For a recent faculty meeting, the organizer brought a great deal of tasty food and drink, since it was the lunch hour.
istherenosininit.blogspot.com /2006/10/shrill-defined.html   (879 words)

  
 Shrillblog
It is traditional for holders holders of this chair to carve a giant ice sculpture of a menacing cephalopod, or of whatever else their shrill unholy madness drives them to create.
Paul Krugman: Shrillest of the Shrillest of the Shrillest of the Shrill
Duncan Black is shrill: Eschaton: As we've seen w...
shrillblog.blogspot.com   (3792 words)

  
 The Hindu : Shrill horns drive Mangaloreans mad
Mangaloreans are known for their resourcefulness, civic sense, and their spirit to fight injustice, but every day they are unknowingly facing a human rights violation of a different kind.
He told this correspondent that his office was flooded with complaints about shrill horns, and sooner or later the use of shrill horns would be discontinued and instead the low intensity electrical horns or bulb horns would be used.
The district authorities are content with the "sham" shrill horn control measures undertaken once in a while in the city.
www.hindu.com /2002/12/14/stories/2002121401450300.htm   (556 words)

  
 shrill - definition by dict.die.net
shrill adj : high-pitched and sharp; "piercing screams"; "a shrill whistle" [syn: piercing, sharp] v : utter a shrill cry [syn: shriek, screech, pipe up, pipe]
Skirl.] To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.
To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.
dict.die.net /shrill   (119 words)

  
 Shrill: a Perl-GTK Jukebox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Shrill is a kiosk-style digital audio jukebox written in Perl, designed with simplicity and ease-of-use in mind.
Shrill is released under the GNU General Public License.
Mserv's handling of vorbis metadata is pretty poor, so I have included in the distribution a script called ogg_meta.pl, which will create all of the proper files from vorbiscomment data.
bobcopeland.com /shrill   (125 words)

  
 Hot and shrill evidence in health care
These findings are shrill indeed, but not shrill enough when you consider another recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine which informs us that in a systematic study of the reporting of drugs to the media, over half failed to report their potential harmful effects to patients.
That's right, the paper denouncing "hot and shrill" got all the adoring media attention while the other (which defended the embarrassing figures obtained in medication error related deaths, citing additional disturbing problems in allopathic care as well) was left out in the cold.
The point is to be able to fund this research and then to be certain that it is conveyed, digested and understood by the proper parties.
www.chiroweb.com /archives/18/19/26.html   (1149 words)

  
 News Hounds: Exposing Those Shrill Democrats
Hannity, always complaining about the "shrill" Democrats, who disgrace their party, whipped up a montage of his favorites, to show at the end of the show at 9:56PM.
There was anger in the voices, but I detected no shrillness.
However, I do concede, that shrillness is in the ear of the listener.
www.newshounds.us /2004/08/19/exposing_those_shrill_democrats.php   (231 words)

  
 The reasonable and the shrill at Pandagon
For reasons yet unknown, the increasing reasonableness of the Bush administration—with their spying on Americans, the promotion of torture, and the starting unnecessary wars under the auspices of “fighting terrorism”—some formerly reasonable moderates are beginning, if I may co-opt the Editors’ term, a little bit shrill.
John Cole is the latest casulty to fall into the temptation that is unhinged liberal squawking about insignificant issues like giving up our last claim to be a leading light of democracy because it turns out we’re actually the sort of nation that gives the green light to sadistic torture.
Sure, in order to avoid actually agreeing with a crazy liberal about anything, she has to completely and totally ignore any of the content of what Clinton say, lest she slip up and admit that despite the disarray of his socks, everything he said was true.
pandagon.net /2006/09/25/the-reasonable-and-the-shrill   (2385 words)

  
 Shrill! - ZDoom
As the marine bursts out of the shattered pod he quickly notices the invasion on Earth has already begun.
Shrill is an unknown level-number yet mappack that is being developped, so far, solely by Paul (or Nmn).
The idea of this mod is making the player battle against tons of enemies in opened environments, using fast weapons, fast monsters, which equals to lots of Action.
zdoom.org /wiki/index.php?title=Shrill!   (343 words)

  
 Shrill Rhetoric - Michael P. Tremoglie l- MensNewsDaily.com™
At the time he was complaining about the shrill rhetoric of talk radio hosts.
In order to help Senator Daschle and Joe Conason in their quests to eliminate shrill rhetoric from the public discourse I have cited some quotes they might not have noticed.
In fact, for sterling examples of shrill rhetoric we need not examine statements other than those made by liberal Democrats the very same month Daschle as complaining.
mensnewsdaily.com /archive/t/tremoglie/03/tremoglie102803.htm   (1026 words)

  
 Do you like the shrill tenor??   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But I don't think it necessarily has to be "shrill" to be above F or G above middle C. Depends on the tenor.
Shrillness is not good musical quality no matter how you cut it.
It was shrill and realistically out of his (or anyone's!) range, and done for effect.
fcnforums.christianity.com /m_1419183/tm.htm   (2883 words)

  
 shrill. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
High-pitched and piercing in tone or sound: the shrill wail of a siren.
Producing a sharp, high-pitched tone or sound: a shrill fife.
Sharp or keen to the senses; harshly vivid: shrill colors.
www.bartleby.com /61/50/S0375000.html   (97 words)

  
 More People Join the Ranks of the "Shrill": Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
For some time now the official line of the Washington establishment has been that the critics of Bush are 80% correct on the substance, but that they are "shrill" and that their thoughts are corrupted by "Bush hatred." But the ranks of the "shrill" are growing.
The only shrill sound I hear is the endless whining of right wing pundits and Fox news.
PK would be less shrill if he would focus more on what Bush should be doing instead of what he is doing wrong.
www.j-bradford-delong.net /movable_type/2003_archives/002840.html   (3981 words)

  
 Media Matters - On imbalanced "Hardball Hotshots" panel, Scarborough called Sen. Clinton "very ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Her husband, of course, extraordinarily charming, but there is a shrillness in Hillary that comes out on TV whenever she gets excited about something.
What some would describe as shrill in a woman, the same may describe as just being loud in a man......it is tougher for a woman when she is being passionate to not come across the way Scarborough is describing, I guess that's reality.
At the LEAST, a characterization as "shrill" is a subjective judgment, contained entirely within the ear of the listener, and informed by that ear's agenda and partisanship.
mediamatters.org /items/200602140012   (2543 words)

  
 William K. Wolfrum » Blog Archive » You can never be too thin or too shrill
Let it hereby be known, that as of now, you cannot be too shrill.
Be shrill - thousands and thousands of war dead and the U.S. Constitution will thank you.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 at 12:00 pm and is filed under Politics, satire.
www.williamkwolfrum.com /?p=119   (188 words)

  
 The SHRILL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The name comes from the reaction of Democrats to the 2002 elections results and their conclusion that their message could not get out because of the alleged conservative bias in the media.
The definition of shrill is a high pitched, sharp, piercing sound; and a synonym is ‘strident’.
It is difficult to watch a full hour of the snide, mean spirited, DNC talking points rhetoric coming from Begala and Carville.
home.comcast.net /~rkreger/Shrill0301.htm   (1652 words)

  
 essays & effluvia: Shrill Blonde Harpy
This particular harpy also pens weighty tomes when she is not publicly espousing her enlightened values, and I have found these volumes even useless as a source of fuel during the winter, as they seem to burn a cold, bitter fire...
I don't know exactly which "shrill harpy" you are referring to but I am 99.9% sure that whoever she is, she is NOT Blonde.
Still, she's clearly shrill and definitely harpy-ish in tone and argument (though not as fully formed in the art of shrieking as the grand blonde one -- sort of Shrill Blonde Harpy-lite).
bigpicture.typepad.com /writing/2003/08/shrill_blonde_h.html   (1159 words)

  
 OrdinaryGweilo.com: Shrill voices
This one (Shrill alarmism - subscription required) is up to Simon's normal high standards:
Especially not given that Inhofe is a staunch conservative who has "received almost $300,000 in campaign donations from oil and gas interests and nearly $180,000 from electric utilities since 1999" (according to American Prospect).
The only shrill voices I can hear are from the like of Mr Patkin and Senator Inhofe.
www.ordinarygweilo.com /2006/10/shrill_voices.html   (512 words)

  
 CNN.com - Daschle says 'shrill' talk radio spurs threats - Nov. 25, 2002
Sharp and "shrill" commentary from some talk show hosts has led to increased threats against public officials, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said Wednesday, counting himself among those who have received such threats.
Daschle, D-South Dakota, would not elaborate on the kinds of threats against him, but said that as Republicans criticized him throughout the year, the threats went up.
The outgoing majority leader said the ability of radio talk show hosts to gin up emotion among their listeners is akin to religious fundamentalism outside the United States.
archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/11/20/daschle.threats/index.html   (627 words)

  
 Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: The History of the Shrill
That is not shrill which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even shrillness may die.
I guess it started, I think, with that extremely strange and not-very-analytical Svengali of the Bush Social Security reform plan, Peter Ferrara, who wrote back in 2001 about "the fierce, shrill, and unreasoned denunciations of allowing workers the freedom to choose a personal-account option for Social Security may impress the gullible...
Only the bought-and-paid-for have not joined the ranks of the highly critical who have been driven into shrill unholy madness by the mendacity, malevolence, incompetence, and disconnection from reality of George W. Bush and his administration.
delong.typepad.com /sdj/2006/07/the_history_of_.html   (2010 words)

  
 dooce: License to Shrill
Over the weekend she had been grabbing at both of her ears, and so I decided to take her to the doctor to find out if she was suffering from an ear infection.
And I have to tell you that a baby with an ear infection is one of my worst nightmares, right up there with being tickled to death or being force-fed fl licorice, The Worst Tasting Taste In all of Tasteland.
But I was almost hoping that she had an ear infection because then they could give her an antibiotic and it would heal and the systematic shrilling of my soul would come to an end.
www.dooce.com /archives/daily/05_13_2004.html   (562 words)

  
 The Politburo Diktat: Shrill Meter
Both parties claim the other side is more shrill, less civil.
Bush is almost FOUR TIMES as likely to be the object of shrill, uncivil usage.
It might be interesting, if possible, to compare the shrillness against Bush during his first term to the shrillness against Clinton during either of his terms.
acepilots.com /mt/archives/001343.html   (664 words)

  
 Shrill - dKosopedia
Shrill is a description used by conservatives to deride women politicians and activists for the crime of beign assertive and articulate.
For example, Colleen Carroll Campbell on March 1, 2006 described New York Senator Hillary Clinton as "shrill" twice on Fox News Live.
This page was last modified 18:42, 1 March 2006.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Shrill   (64 words)

  
 Bob's Links and Rants: Coalition of the Shrill
Three years ago, those of us who accused the administration of cooking the budget books were ourselves accused, by moderates as well as by Bush loyalists, of being "shrill." These days the coalition of the shrill has widened to include almost every independent budget expert.
Some not usually shrill people think that Mr.
Bush will simply refuse to face reality until it comes crashing in: Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, says there's a 75 percent chance of a financial crisis in the next five years.
www-personal.umich.edu /~bgoodsel/post911/2004/09/coalition-of-shrill.htm   (147 words)

  
 Shrill and Unstable Fox
Anyone who hasn't been living under a rock knows that Fox News (like the Bush Administration) is adept at saying one thing while doing another.
(Its other motto, "We report, You decide," should be "We Distort, We Decide.") Fox is also a network filled with particularly shrill, mean-spirited and politically-motivated characters.
Ironically, in their complaint against Franken, Rupert Murdoch's lawyers perfectly described Fox's leading personality and Franken-antagonist Bill O'Reilly, "...he appears to be shrill and unstable.
www.thenation.com /blogs/edcut?pid=883   (246 words)

  
 The SHRILL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Imagine was commented on line by line in SHRILL 0304 on March 14, 2003.
I clipped it out and intended to include it in a SHRILL prior to the 2nd anniversary of 9/11.
Coming in SHRILL 0315: My first I Told You So, and a great column by Thomas Sowell on Racial Censorship.
home.comcast.net /~rkreger/Shrill0314.htm   (2194 words)

  
 The Poor Man Institute » Shrill
Since I have never visited here before you must excuse me for first thinking that you were speaking of the president as being shrill.
Calling anyone who disagrees with the maladministration “shrill” is a bit of snark, based on the tendency of right-wing pundits to call moderates and liberals “shrill.” It is akin to fl people calling each other “nigga.”
The way Bush Co. is bullyng your country, maybe its about time somebody was shrill, rather than a milquetoast pussy like Kerry.
www.thepoorman.net /2006/09/19/shrill-6   (414 words)

  
 The Poor Man Institute » Shrill shrill shrill shrill shrill
Among other things, he charged that he had been the target of retaliation for his refusal to go along with the agency’s intelligence conclusions.
Gavin the posthumous eating of faces is nothing if not shrill.
Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.
www.thepoorman.net /2005/08/02/shrill-shrill-shrill-shrill-shrill   (651 words)

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