Crossword-Solution: OVERTONES
We have 12 clues for the answer “OVERTONES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Added implicit meanings | 1 answer |
| Harmonics | 1 answer |
| Hinted-at hidden meanings | 1 answer |
| Implications | 1 answer |
| More-than-meets-the-eye meanings | 1 answer |
| Richness of suggestion, as in a poem. | 1 answer |
| STREAKERS = TOP NOTES | 1 answer |
| They may be religious | 1 answer |
| implied messages | 1 answer |
| "__ suggestions?" | 8 answers |
| A BRITISH DUTY TO ARRANGE GARB FOR STREAKERS? | 10 answers |
| Hints | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERTONES (5)
Hacker slang is unusually rich in implications of this kind, of overtones and undertones that illuminate the hackish psyche.
Although it originally had its roots in a religious feeling, racism became secularized and, by the middle of the nineteenth century, took on political overtones and tried to assume a scientific foundation.
But then why not equally call religion an aberration of the digestive function, and prove one’s point by the worship of Bacchus and Ceres, or by the ecstatic feelings of some other saints about the Eucharist? Religious language clothes itself in such poor symbols as our life affords, and the whole organism gives overtones of comment whenever the mind is strongly stirred to expression.
The great defect of that instrument was the rendering of the overtones in music, and the hissing consonants in speech.
Far above his scale were shrilling murmurs of birds and insects, and beneath it ran those ground noises that the rabbit, for instance, understands so well; but between these overtones and undertones he heard the scream of the hawk, spiraling down in huge circles, and the rapid call of a grouse, far off, and the drone of insects about his feet, or darting suddenly upon his brain and away again.
Quotes with OVERTONES (3)
Gender bias is written and practiced throughout all of the world's societies. From the words 'mankind' to 'man'.From the inequality in 'pays for work done' and to 'tasks which are needed to be done'. From the sanctity of marriage when a woman takes a 'man's' name. From the religious overtones when women are not allowed or permitted to join in and be treated as equal and conduct rites. Even the words 'woman' and 'women' are gender orientated. The genders will never be equal, n…
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in relics -- guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It's not just about the music. It's about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a pa…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1951–2017).