These dozen variations, completed in 1964, are dazzling in their textural variety, but a listener can easily lose their thematic thread.

Amaechi Ihetu told us that she was 'disappointed that listeners have lost a true gem'.

Both vocal disks solve a particular problem that did not exist in the LP era: how to program 70 uninterrupted minutes of short, basically similar pieces so that the listener doesn't lose interest.

By the time the light of comprehension flashes, the listener might have lost the thread completely.

His fitness campaign called "Walk more, eat less" encourages listeners to lose a pound every month, "and lose 4 more for the people who won't exercise."

Talkin' trash, or trash talk, as it has been used in the world of sports, means "insulting language used to upset or intimidate; hot words intended to make the listener lose his cool."

The minuet of the second quartet in C major is built of tied suspensions in the first violin, viola and cello, so that the listener loses all sense of downbeat.

But the listener quickly loses the sense of sitting in front of a symphony orchestra as soon as the eyes open and pick up visual cues about the room.

People, I mean, our listeners are losing multiple tens of pounds, I mean, decades.

He couldn't talk about ideas; he couldn't speak in long, involved sentences, because by the time he got to the end his listeners would have lost track of the beginning.