#strident #critical #angry #bellowing #LouderThanHell
#voices

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Justice #Amy #Coney #Barrett’s opinion was just a page long, all of two paragraphs.
But in distancing herself from both blocs in Monday’s nominally unanimous Supreme Court decision rejecting a constitutional challenge to former President Donald J. Trump’s eligibility to hold office, she staked out a distinctive role.

Justice Barrett was the third of Mr. Trump’s appointees, rushed onto the court after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arriving just before the 2020 election. But she is viewed as one of the more moderate members, relatively speaking, of the court’s six-member conservative supermajority. At oral arguments, she can convey a mix of intellectual seriousness and common sense.

In public appearances, she is adamant that the court is apolitical, though she sometimes says so in venues that undercut her message.
In 2021, for instance, Justice Barrett told an audience in Kentucky that “my goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks.”
-- She was speaking at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, after an introduction by Senator #Mitch #McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, who helped found the center and was instrumental in ensuring her confirmation. Last year, she was the featured speaker at the annual gala of the #Federalist #Society, the conservative legal group.

“This suit was brought by Colorado voters under state law in state court,” Justice Barrett wrote.
👉“It does not require us to address the complicated question whether federal legislation is the exclusive vehicle through which Section 3 can be enforced.”

Having established that she sided with her liberal colleagues on the #substance of what they had to say, she questioned their #tone, calling it #strident.

Members of the court who disagree with the majority, she said, face a choice, adding that her colleagues had made the wrong one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/politics/amy-coney-barrett-trump-ballot-scotus.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Her tone is clashing:
#strident, whining, and needy
so I close my ears.

#vss365 #haiku #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity

Sounds like melted chocolate: How musicians conceptualize violin sound richness

Results from a previous study on the perceptual evaluation of violins that involved playing-based semantic ratings showed that preference for a violin was strongly associated with its perceived sound richness. However, both preference and richness ratings varied widely between individual violinists, likely because musicians conceptualize the same attribute in different ways. To better understand how richness is conceptualized by violinists and how it contributes to the perceived quality of a violin, we analyzed free verbal descriptions collected during a carefully controlled playing task (involving 16 violinists) and in an online survey where no sound examples or other contextual information was present (involving 34 violinists). The analysis was based on a psycholinguis-tic method, whereby semantic categories are inferred from the verbal data itself through syntactic context and linguistic markers. The main sensory property related to violin sound richness was expressed through words such as full, complex, and dense versus thin and small, referring to the perceived number of partials present in the sound. Another sensory property was expressed through words such as warm, velvety, and smooth versus strident, harsh, and tinny, alluding to spectral energy distribution cues. Haptic cues were also implicated in the conceptualization of violin sound richness.

https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02361988/

#violin #semantics #perception #acoustics
#sensory #conceptualisation #haptic #music #synesthesia #smooth #strident #quality #verbal