the mind's ear
mind's ear

I hear every sentence as it's made, testing what it will sound like, inside the mind's ear.

The next thing I do while having this sound in the mind's ear is to turn my attention to my hand and arm.

Now what you have to do is to bring together the sound in the mind's ear of A and the awareness of the arm.

Their rhythm, pattern and cadence may be relished in the mind's ear, almost like a form of music.

But then the sentence, after a moment, plays back in the mind, in the mind's ear, as if perfectly "correctly".

In the mind's ear, one hears the patient cry: 'Send for some 66-year-old ambulance men and women: they're the only ones certified as healthy.'

The mar of murmury mermers to the mind's ear, uncharted rock, evasive weed.

I saw this vista, I say, and heard as with the mind's ear the blasphemous domdaniel of cacophony which companioned it.

In the mind's ear and eye, the reader hears the wail of sirens and sees the flash of guided missiles in the dangerous night.

The mind's ear recalled someone shrieking, "Remember Dan ..." and the mind's eye pictured the staggering derelict.

In a review of the Fiend Folio, Ed Greenwood called the caryatid column one of the creatures whose "names grate on the mind's ear".

The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination second edition published in 2013, Oxford University Press

The manuscripts, however much of an aura surrounds them, can never be more than reminders of poems that have their true existence in the mind's ear; the paintings are the thing itself.

H. P. Lovecraft used Domdaniel in the short story He (1925), as follows: ...heard as with the mind's ear the blasphemous domdaniel of cacophony ...

Among the elements of beauty in the parable are economy of expression; not a word too many; and the appeal to the imagination, giving us something to see with the mind's eye or hear with the mind's ear.

Iconic sounds are those which primarily reside as a conceptualized iconic in the mind's ear so that one does not even have to remember an occasion of hearing such a sound, but one simply identifies and labels the sound.

Today the supposedly temporary wooden barracks thrown up in haste 47 years ago stand as sentinels, white paint chipped and peeling, furnaces cold, lights out and the shouting of drill sergeants heard only in the mind's ear.

John Arlott wrote of her, "Hers was the voice in Fred Weatherly's songs, "Danny Boy" and "Roses of Picardy", that is preserved in the mind's ear of surviving 1914-18 trench fodder."

She has been described by Jimmy MacCarthy as "A voice that lingers in the mind's ear, when the enchanted listening is done," and Mick Hanly has said her voice is truly beautiful and beautifully true.

Although Kitchener could not hear, unless with the mind's ear, the exploding shells of the 4205 opening the roads through Liege, he asserted that the Germans would be coming through on the far side of the Meuse "in great force."

If hearing a voice is associated with focused attention to the inner senses - hearing with the mind's ear, seeing with the mind's eye - it suggests that prayer (which today, the National Day of Prayer, celebrates) is a pretty powerful instrument.

All my poems begin as a sound in the mind's ear and in the throat's sense, which is at the same time a moment of thought, emotion and feeling; the writing of the poems attempts to manifest, audibly, these shapes of sound/body and mind.

They paid allegiance only to a Platonic concept of a musical perfection that existed in the realm of spirit, in the mind's ear: "The musical lives of the best old masters epitomized the very purpose of art, which is the pursuit of what ought to be, not what was or is."

Straining with the mind's ear yielded only the cycling mind-waves of the sleepers and a single steely thread of awarenessa watcherwhose mental emanations were al- most completely outside the normal Tanu limit of perception- Finally, Gomnol said to the Lord of Roniah, "Recapitulate the day's melancholy events once again."