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  • But, then, principles went out the window some time back--otherwise, we would not hear the cacaphonous silence from the the office of once-liberal lion, Ted Kennedy.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • But, then, principles went out the window some time back--otherwise, we would not hear the cacaphonous silence from the the office of once-liberal lion, Ted Kennedy.

    Massachusetts and the Patrick Plan: More Apartheid Schooling for the Poor Jim Horn 2009

  • I can't explain that when you stand under a startled uprising of Arctic geese, their gabbling voices and swirl of black wing markings assault you like an overdose of cacaphonous calligraphy or that I wonder what impact an elevated whoosh will have on my writing.

    Giles Slade: Don't Be A Whiner 2008

  • Moved not by the music (created by five composer/musicians seated at synthesizer/mixer tables about the room), which ran its own largely improvised, cacaphonous course, but by internalized rhythms, the dancers bent and twisted their heads, torsos and limbs, jumped, ran, twirled and twitched alone or together.

    What Merce Cunningham Assembled at an Old Ford Plant 2008

  • Eunice and I have driven through the cacaphonous streets of Nyala, a post-genocide boom town with a population now over a million.

    Jane Wells: Witness to Darfur (Part 2) 2008

  • We've been reading Gerald McBoing Boing by Dr. Seuss, in which poor Gerald is born without the ability to speak communicating only through cacaphonous sound.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Tripp 2005

  • Why the room didn't burst out with cacaphonous laughter at Sen. Feingold's apparently serious assertion that McCain-Feingold avoided consitutional problems...

    Senator Feingold lectures at the Law School. Ann Althouse 2005

  • Wouldn't it be delicious if public furor grew so cacaphonous prior to the election that the Dems preemptively repealed ObamaCare in hopes of averting an electoral tsunami?

    Latest Articles Morning Call 2010

  • Wouldn't it be delicious if public furor grew so cacaphonous prior to the election that the Dems preemptively repealed ObamaCare in hopes of averting an electoral tsunami?

    Latest Articles Morning Call 2010

  • Wouldn't it be delicious if public furor grew so cacaphonous prior to the election that the Dems preemptively repealed ObamaCare in hopes of averting an electoral tsunami?

    Latest Articles Morning Call 2010

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