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  • Anybody with a healthy disdain for mission statements, sloganeering and the unintentional kitsch of Hallmark greeting cards will immediately hear alarm bells and ear-bleeding sirens.

    Restaurant review: Create 2012

  • The boss characters are all absurd caricatures, the plot skates along comic book cliché at breakneck speed – on the E3 showfloor, it was a refreshing change to be given daft dialogue and silly in-jokes, rather than ear-bleeding rawk and crunching sound effects.

    E3 2010: Comic Jumper preview 2010

  • “Jonah!” she demanded over the ear-bleeding din, bewildered.

    My Soul to Keep Sharie Kohler 2010

  • It became vastly more aggressive, more complex, less inhibited, more transgressive, and (most importantly for my purposes) was amplified into ear-bleeding overdrive.

    Chicago Blues Orgy « Skid Roche 2007

  • Some guy decided to get back at a debt collector by subjecting him to one of the most shrill, ear-bleeding voices ever created on Earth: The sly evilness that is Judge Judy.

    Best Prank Ever? Judge Judy Schools a Debt Collector | Best Week Ever 2007

  • So I turn my system off and the senior citizens and young families with children are trying to eat while Tupac is talking about how he'd like to perform anal sex on them until he rips their colons in two at ear-bleeding volumes.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2007

  • But it's the hardest thing to do well and the easiest to make into a goddawful ear-bleeding annoyance.

    How to Write Dialogue? 2006

  • Sure, the tone-deaf Berkeley geek's ear-bleeding vocals were good for a chuckle during '' American Idol 3 '' auditions.

    kemo666 Diary Entry kemo666 2004

  • If you had the money—which he did—you could order more sophisticated triggering devices—which he had—and lovely “enhancing” kits that turned little ear-tingling pops into ear-bleeding booms guaranteed to take out a city block, or your money back.

    HEARTBREAKER JULIE GARWOOD 2000

  • If you had the money—which he did—you could order more sophisticated triggering devices—which he had—and lovely “enhancing” kits that turned little ear-tingling pops into ear-bleeding booms guaranteed to take out a city block, or your money back.

    HEARTBREAKER JULIE GARWOOD 2000

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