The ground shakes when buses roar by, and his strings are barely audible in the orchestra of horns, trucks and sirens.

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"The entire movement is one large crescendo that lasts six or seven minutes, that starts very low, in the basses where it's barely audible, " O'Connor says.

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Every two minutes its 220, 000 giant glass mirrors, lined up in perfect rows, rotate imperceptibly with a barely audible click, tracking the sun's path across the sky.

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Through both days of testimony, he was visibly uncomfortable on the stand, averting his gaze from Mr. Clemens and speaking softly, often with short, barely audible answers.

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Crammed into the back seat of his minivan while Dhani lounges upfront, I struggled to scribble down his words, barely audible as the booming bass shook the seats.

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And the response of the national elite, the people Paul Krugman refers to as "very smart people" or I like to call the "chin-scratchers, " was a barely audible whimper.

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