Word: earshot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Europeans. Up in his study, within earshot of the singing students, was the man from whom the country expected an answer. For a long time President Eduard Benes had thought he knew where his home was. He was a European and a democrat. All his life he had believed in "synthesis." It was a faith, shared by millions of liberals everywhere, that the 20th Century's clashing opposites (even Communism and democracy) could be reasonably reconciled...
...surfaced, surprised and strangling, he gasped in the enormous drama of his new position. The ship, already out of earshot, went trudging remorselessly on her way. Inspired, Tomas Montanez did not even cry out. He saw a tern flying overhead and told himself, fiercely, that this meant good luck. He began to swim, and pray, and hoard his strength...
...strange breed, like the mothers of violin prodigies and child movie stars. They watch over their daughters like circling hawks, and fuss around them like anxious hens. This week, as usual, they will sit around hotel lobbies in St. Moritz, discussing other skating mothers who are out of earshot-and their daughters. Mrs. Scott is understandably possessive and protective of her daughter, but does her best to avoid the infighting among "skating mamas." She wants Barbara Ann to stay as she is: winning titles by trying harder and being more precise than her rivals. But it is Barbara Ann herself...
Last week whole symphonies of physiological sound were within earshot-as if the world wasn't already so noisy that a man could hardly hear himself think...
When safely out of earshot of Russia's secret police, Russia's patient, long-suffering peasants fitted new words to an ancient singsong tune: If there were no winter...