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But I was not limited when I sang, and as air came up from my lungs, through my vocal cords and passed my lips as sound, it was the closest thing I had ever come to transcendence.
My tongue, larynx and vocal cords were still healthy and unaffected.
And if you pull the cords under the knot, you will see that the bow orients itself along the transverse axis of the shoe.
And a slinger is someone who has a leather pouch with two long cords attached to it, and they put a projectile, either a rock or a lead ball, inside the pouch, and they whirl it around like this and they let one of the cords go, and the effect is to send the projectile forward towards its target.
It was just as critical for me to be the first person in at a cafe nearby with extension cords and chargers to juice my multiple devices.
The specific sound of a speaking voice is the result of many anatomical variables, but it’s mostly determined by the age and health of our vocal cords and the size of our larynxes.
The larynx is a complex system of muscle and cartilage that supports and moves the vocal cords, or, as they’re more accurately known, the vocal folds.
Then there's this: "Love you, love your magazine, but can you please stop writing massive numbers as text?" [two and a half million ...] No. (Laughter) One last cri de coeur from a spelling stickler: ["Those long stringy things are vocal cords, not chords."]
It doesn't have the same physical limitations, in that it's not tethered to a lab bench with extraneous cords, large vats of chemicals or computer monitors.
Think about the moment when phones stopped being plugged into the wall by cords, or when computers left the mainframe and entered your home or your office.
Land mammals like us generate sound by moving air over our vocal cords when we exhale, causing them to vibrate.
MB: So when we make sound, we use the vocal cords to take air from the lungs and then turn it into a vibrating air column in the throat.
MB: So watch now as the vocal cords go from high pitch to low pitch.
That means the vocal cords, well over 2,000 times a second, are banging together just to make that sound.
There are no cords.
But there's always this illusion that if you buy this lamp, you will live in a world without cords.
But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life.
Normally, when we speak, the brain sends neurosignals through the nerves to your internal speech systems, to activate them and your vocal cords to produce speech.
Those cords under your desk, I bet everybody here has something that looks like that or those batteries.
You don't want those ugly cords coming down.
We call these Muir Webs after the Scottish-American naturalist John Muir, who said, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find that it's bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe."
We store potential energy to the elastic skin to make it move, or use active tension cords to make it move forward and backward.
I was in my bedroom with one of those long extension cords, calling all the dry cleaners in Winnipeg to find out how much they'd pay me for coat hangers.
Anne cannot stand the fact that their father have cut the cords with Lionel and therefore she run away from home.
If you like old telephones there are interesting scenes of dials, phones and even bizarre phone cords.
They even removed his vocal cords.
Carol Reed's "The Third Man" strikes all the right cords, establishing itself on so many different levels that it almost becomes untouchable.
For more than 50 years, humanity has warily eyed that lethal pendulum while statesmen debated how to mend its fraying cords.
The ability to create new livers, spinal cords, hearts, kidneys, and many other tissues or organ-based systems could radically decrease hospitalization time, relieve suffering, and prolong life.
Consider Apple power cords (the item that I lose most often), which are a huge source of profit for all involved.
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