aural
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His gently oddball vision of loner heroics has plenty of terror-steeped imagery to go with the referential sound design’s aural innocence of antiquated bloops, blurps and synthetic tones.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026
The versions narrated by Mr. Dale and Mr. Fry are best for car journeys, because with fewer aural elements they’ll be easier to hear over the noises of the road.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
That sort of line is as close as the movie gets to being funny, and the songs, while reasonably tuneful, are bland aural wallpaper.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
Since horses are prey animals, they have evolved to respond to the subtlest of aural stimuli.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025
It is gradually reassuming a role it had for thousands of years: a free-flowing, unwritten, spontaneous, aural tradition based entirely on the lives, loves, hopes and fears of ordinary people.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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