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  • "Overtones, " she corrected him, with a tolerant smile, and then concluded her story.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • "Overtones, " she corrected him, with a tolerant smile, and then concluded her story.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Much better stuff is to be found in "Overtones," "The Pathos of Distance" and "Ivory, Apes and Peacocks" -- brilliant, if not always profound studies of Strauss,

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • Writer’s Block is featured on his second album, called Overtones and released in January 2007 for Mercury Records.

    No Fat Clips!!! : JUST JACK – Writer`s Block 2007

  • "Overtones" are not an issue, nor do I think you could point out a 'problem sample' which fails due to the presence (or lack) of "overtones."

    doggdot.us 2008

  • "Overtones" are not an issue, nor do I think you could point out a 'problem sample' which fails due to the presence (or lack) of "overtones."

    doggdot.us 2008

  • "Illuminati in Drama Libre," similar in style to "Waiting for Godot," but written 35 years before Becket's Vladimir and Estragon walked the boards; "He Said and She Said" about a busybody who questions why the unmarried Diana spends so much time with her best friend - and her best friend's husband; and "Overtones," the most talked about play of the 1915 Broadway season, where, for the first time on stage, two characters talk to their alter egos.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2009

  • If you shoved Michael Bublé, a Bugsy Malone DVD, five Moss Bros shop-dummies and a jug of Vaseline into the matter transportation machine from The Fly, the Overtones are what would come shoop-shooping out the other side, jauntily clicking their fingers and walking in formation like an Olympic Synchronised Bellend squad, before lunging at your poor old mum, and robbing her purse.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • The manband in question, the Overtones, are both dull as dishwater and half as attractive in total as the cleft in Gary Barlow's chin, but they do add a layer of crapulous doowop harmony that really does make everything better.

    This week's new singles 2012

  • Weidig's solo show "Small Things/Te Voglat" was featured at Overtones Gallery in the fall of 2007.

    Kimberly Brooks: Being a Mother is the Ultimate Artist: Alexis Weidig 2010

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