acoustic

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Some say the concert hall has some of the best acoustics in the world.

She is analyzing the acoustic properties of the auditorium.

The acoustics permit everyone in the auditorium to hear someone speaking in a normal voice at the podium.

A historic venue with fine acoustics—which also happens to be in the 8th…  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Women enter through a side street and are "acoustically and visually separated" from the men at all times within the building.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

A fan turned almost imperceptibly against the stained acoustic tiles on the ceiling.†  (source) Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, 2005

It would take me six days to get home, six undays of staring at acoustic ceiling tile and watching television and sleeping and pain and wishing for time to pass.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

But although the acoustics in the Assembly Hall were poor, those outside the room were admirable.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

While the room was very old, the acoustics were perfect, and there was a balance and precision to the space that seemed almost magical.  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

It was at a hall in town, a place that usually showcased local bands, so the acoustics were terrible for unamplified classical.  (source) Gayle Forman, If I Stay, 2009

The tone on this one is wonderful, and this room has great acoustics.  (source) Kiera Cass, The Heir, 2015

The acoustics—the audiences—it triggers something—I go home, I hate everyone, I talk to myself, have arguments with myself in different voices, I'm upset for days.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

Hurd's was dark and shabby, but it was comfy—the pews were wide and worn so smooth that they invited instant dozing; the light, which was absorbed by so much stone, was gray but soft; the acoustics, which may have been Hurd's only miracle, were unmuddied and deep.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

Damien White, son of Nemesis, lived up to his namesake by wreaking vengeance on an acoustic guitar.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle, 2016

He was riffing about on his acoustic guitar.  (source) Gayle Forman, If I Stay, 2009

Outside the Papal Palace, she spoke nearly without pause, the names of all the saints and popes and cardinals spilling from her as we strolled through the cathedral square amid the flocks of doves, the tourists, the African merchants in bright tunics selling bracelets and imitation watches, the young, bespectacled musician, sitting on an apple crate, playing "Bohemian Rhapsody"— on his acoustic guitar.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed, 2013

Yousef honked, and a man of about twenty-five bounded down the steps carrying an acoustic guitar case.  (source) Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King, 2112

In better acoustical conditions they could have heard conversations.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

They lay still, hoping not to be discovered, but it was quiet, so quiet they imagined they must be in the countryside—for they had no experience of acoustically insulating glazing—and everyone in the hotel must be asleep.†  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

We saw this guy doing an acoustic set here one night, and it was surprisingly good.  (source) John Corey Whaley, Nogin, 2014

Katherine was apparently familiar with the dome's startling acoustical properties ....because the wall whispered back.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

Every tin can, every dustbin, every window, every car, every wineglass, every sheet of rusty metal became activated as an acoustically perfect sounding board.†  (source) Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979

There were a host of religious opportunities at Danbury: a Friday Mass for Catholics, and sometimes a Sunday Mass as well (usually delivered by the "hot priest," a young padre who played guitar and spoke Italian and was thus adored by all the Italian-Americans); a Spanish Christian service on the weekends; a Buddhist meditation group and also rabbinical visits on Wednesdays; and a wacky weekly nondenominational be-in led by volunteers armed with acoustic guitars and scented candles.  (source) Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black, 2011

Only Adler had previously demonstrated a clear grasp of the principles of acoustical design.†  (source) Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003

The actual range finding was done acoustically and often provided faulty readings.†  (source) Joshua Davis, Spare Parts, 2014

Acoustic guitar.  (source) Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits, 2012