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Timbre is also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics, A sound may be described with such words as bright, dark, warm, harsh, and other terms. There are also colors of noise, such as pink and white.

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Criss-crossed patterns of light and shadows through a latticework screen.

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Falling into meditation decreases restless thinking, helps make more accurate judgements, and lowers cholesterol.

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The typical Catalan stew is cooked with snails. When I was a kid I used to go out in the country after it rained to collect them. Now I very much prefer Ratatouille.

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An indigestible single person: everyone has been one at some point or another. All it takes to change that is to trim off the fat and get sweet and salty, metaphorically speaking.

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One third molar was evicted. It was a sulky operation.

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Filumena Marturano is a dramatic play written in 1946 in which a former prostitute tricks the wealthy shopkeeper she’s been dating for 20 years into marriage so she can get the name for the 3 children she had while she was at the brothel. Sophia Loren plays her in the 1964 movie Marriage Italian-style.

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The art of cross-examination, as any art, has a measure of drama.

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The story of the plaster molds.

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Sensitivity, vulnerability, nurturing and nourishment are completely absent.

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Munching on a cold, dry, hard crust and having a strictly professional dialogue: some people never laugh, they only make noises.

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While there can be something terrifying about enclosed spaces, allow them to speak to you. Sit in the surroundings. Enjoy the narrowness. Small spaces allow you to create.