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The American band Trivium released a song called "Like a Sword Over Damocles" on their 2021 album In the Court of the Dragon. The sword of Damocles is an oft-used symbol in modern hip hop , an allusion used to impart the threat "kingly" rappers face of being deposed as the best of the best.
Looming is a term found in the study of perception, as it relates directly to psychology.Looming occurs when an object begins moving closer to the eye. As the resulting image becomes increasingly larger on the perceiver's retina, i.e., when an object looms, there is an automatic physiological response to perceive the object as an approaching object or surface, instead of one that is stationary ...
The etymology of fetch is obscure and the origin of the term is unknown. It may derive from the verb "fetch"; [1] the compound "fetch-life", evidently referring to a psychopomp who "fetches" the souls of the dying, is attested in Richard Stanyhurst's 1583 translation of the Aeneid and the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary suggested this usage may indicate the origin of the term fetch.
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The word "loom" derives from the Old English geloma, formed from ge-(perfective prefix) and loma, a root of unknown origin; the whole word geloma meant a utensil, tool, or machine of any kind. In 1404 "lome" was used to mean a machine to enable weaving thread into cloth.
Economic data has been strong all summer, but there are some signs of softening not only in what people say, but in how they behave as well.
A few word choices could be changed to clarify: "Pitch was increased for looming sounds, and decreased for receding, to give the illusion on [of] sounds either coming towards, or away from the listener." and there was a spot where you say "looming, receding, or stationary " that would be improved if you added the word 'sound'.
(Weft is an Old English word meaning "that which is woven"; compare leave and left. [a]) One warp thread is called an end and one weft thread is called a pick. The warp threads are held taut and in parallel to each other, typically in a loom. There are many types of looms. [3]