The speaker cuts through the din to beam messages to the captain's ears only.

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"Don't expect people's ears to listen when they're hungry, " the other priest says helplessly.

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This phrase is on a lot more people's lips and in a lot more people's ears.

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To Rosenberg's ears that didn't sound like an academic paper, but like the foundation of a business.

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They tucked the scars around Culp's ears or underneath her eyelid, where they would not be visible.

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Leather ear pads float in an enclosed steel frame, with only soft leather touching the listener's ears.

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The story continues that Mongo's ears perked up, and he asked the young pianist to keep playing it.

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Events that involve pulling heavy objects with one's ears are also crowd favorites.

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That is why Mr Clinton's words were music to the prime minister's ears.

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Whatever makes it through all the filters generally sounds like TV on the Radio, because it's been through everyone's ears.

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Other than Mike Tyson, who was biting people's ears off, there wasn't another fighter who did something out of the norm.

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At the end of a particularly fine display, the jury may award one of the dead bull's ears to the matador.

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There is a roaring in Lillian's ears, and she wouldn't be able to hear Raisele even if she could let her speak.

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So the mentioning of Stonewall did not pass by everyone's ears unnoticed.

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The design is certainly flexible and light, but the slim amount of padding supplied was hard to forget about when wrapped around this editor's ears.

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However, if it seems like a bigger task than he can handle, he has agreed to call in the cavalry, music to any pioneer woman's ears.

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Indeed, even the foam tips here didn't perfectly seal around this editor's ears, letting more outside noise seep in compared to Klipsch's far cheaper Image S4i.

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The sales pitch would never cross the clerk's ears.

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He summarised the evidence Miss Lewis had given, including how she had seen Lloyd flicking her baby's ears, throwing him on the settee and a mattress and picking him up by the ears.

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With his other hand he rubbed Rose's ears.

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President Bush's ears are another target for Luckovich.

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That's a stage whisper meant for Murdoch's ears.

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Sounds like music to a record label's ears.

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The sounds are music to Eitan Rahimi's ears.

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Adorno meant that the magnitude of modern-day evil made the old-fashioned pursuit of aesthetic consolation, via poetry, music or whatever, the spiritual equivalent of plugging one's ears and humming a happy tune: immature, cowardly, even immoral.

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That was music to Mr Obuchi's ears.

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We've drained inventories to such an extreme that the cupboard is bare in many industries, and that's music to an economist's ears, because it means that regardless of what happens in Washington, the cupboard needs to be replenished.

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Music to Hogan's ears.

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To Bagehot's untutored ears, this sounds woolly and vainglorious: aircraft carriers are hugely expensive, hugely vulnerable, and far too precious to put in harm's way unless an overwhelming national interest is at stake.

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At that time, the Russians didn't mention the texts and made reference only to Mr. Tsarnaev's interest in joining "underground" groups, a term that to U.S. ears could suggest political opposition, Dagestani officials said.

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