But the riff comes back just as hard as before, if not harder, thanks in part to a staccato whisper that hits with percussive power.
The privileged few who have doormen in their buildings get to have someone to receive their packages and visitors, and keep the riff raff out of the building.
What seemed to matter was the claim that Mr Osborne didn't - or his aides didn't - seem to think he should have to suffer the indignity of sitting with the riff raff in standard class.
In it, Captain Kirk needs to acquire plague-fighting minerals from the planet Ardana, currently in the middle of a civil uprising against a super wealthy and socially elite class that live in a floating city, far above the riff raff.
He pointed to a recent Court of Appeal ruling that session musician Bobby Valentino should be recognised for his part in writing the violin riff on the Bluebells' 1993 number one hit Young At Heart.
After Love Me Do, it is probably the most famous Harmonica riff in the Beatles' history.
The blues riff you hear is an interpretation of Muddy Waters' song, Mannish Boy, and is performed by Nas' father.
When, for instance, Ms. Yokoshi's direction has the trio approximate the vocalizing of Lady Gaga for the score's riff on the pop singer's song "Bad Romance, " they are at their most amusing and confident.
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The haunted-house organ riff that opens the song sounds like a setup for a variation on modern garage rock.
Things got better after Three 6 Mafia won Best Song, giving both Stewart and most of the other presenters something to riff on - primarily the title of their song, It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp.
The copied flute riff is hard to detect, he said, negating any negotiating strength Larrikin would have had in 1982.
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In the first two minutes of The Nextnik (a word that is meant to riff off of the term beatnik), the fictional lead character, Larry Zimmerman, 55, gets fired, after 25 years on the job.
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He was like the rest of us riff-raff, middle class kids from unglamorous hard working families who believed in the future.
It may be the only buffet in Vegas without crab legs or peel your own shrimp, but it is also the only one serving Korean kalbi short ribs, tacos al pastor, and a delightfully doughy bite sized riff on the Vietnamese bahn mi sandwich.
This verdant riff on the original celebrates all shades of summer green loud and proud.
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And apropos of almost nothing, Gilligan launched into a riff on the relative merits of Three Stooges.
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"It's piano riffs, a riff on the drums, " he says, struggling for words.
While I will continue to serve hot chocolate after dinner, this novel concoction is a fun, delicious riff on the original drink.
For his debut Slow Food Fast contribution, Mr. Picard shares a riff on the fresh tomato tart he serves year-round at Au Pied de Cochon.
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For a hilarious riff on the advantages of attractiveness (and who on earth gets to be the omnipotent judge), check out this clip from The Daily Show with John Stewart.
Set up as a riff on the Academy Awards.
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For the vinaigrette, a riff on one served at his Manhattan restaurant, Le Bernardin, Mr. Ripert lets minced shallots soak in Sherry vinegar until their bracing bite mellows and their sweetness comes to the fore.
Originally posted online as a riff on the Twilight fan-fiction series Masters of the Universe, the story soon got picked up as an eBook, spawned two sequels and sold over a quarter of a million copies online.
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While the 920 is unequivocally part of Nokia's "fabula" lineage, this one's a design riff more comparable to the Lumia 710.
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It's a riff reminiscent of the fiscal cliff debates we're hearing in Washington, reflecting the growing gap between the super-rich and the middle class.
"The Bronx is building, " he added, a riff on Howard Cosell's famous line, "the Bronx is burning, " uttered during a 1977 World Series game at Yankee Stadium to describe a fire nearby.
Amazon is also going to control pricing, with developers allowed to set a "list price" that Amazon will riff on, adjusting the price based on magical algorithms.
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On blogs and Twitter, we share inside jokes and opinions, and riff off each other in the same way I do with my friends in real life.
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