: of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing
visual and aural sensations
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Examples of aural in a Sentence
a quiet room for people seeking relief from the overload of aural stimulus just outside
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Needless to say, everything turns out all right in the end, especially as told to us in the dulcet tones of narrator Alfred Molina — the aural onscreen version of the book’s author, treated in reverential fashion.
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Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2024
To enhance the aural and visual aspects of Empire of the Sun, Steele and Littlemore are inspired by the possibilities of AI, to put it mildly.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 26 July 2024
The film was shot in an indoor gun range, where the sounds of gunfire cannot be heard from the outside—a metaphor for violence done in a kind of aural darkness.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
So Battaglia understood there should be something hypnotic or trance-like about the aural world around the protagonist.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 14 July 2024
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Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2024
To enhance the aural and visual aspects of Empire of the Sun, Steele and Littlemore are inspired by the possibilities of AI, to put it mildly.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 26 July 2024
The film was shot in an indoor gun range, where the sounds of gunfire cannot be heard from the outside—a metaphor for violence done in a kind of aural darkness.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
So Battaglia understood there should be something hypnotic or trance-like about the aural world around the protagonist.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 14 July 2024
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“Aural.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aural. Accessed 22 Aug. 2024.
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