5 sentences with 'scales'
Example sentences and phrases with the word scales and other words derived from it.
• « Since the Renaissance, Western musicians had basically worked on the same set of scales. As a result, listeners were "trained" from birth to expect certain sounds and certain rhythms in music. Schoenberg deliberately subverted these expectations, inserting dissonances and unexpected notes into many of his works. »
• « Night after night he prepared mixtures whose ingredients he weighed with his wife's kitchen scales, but his efforts were in vain. »
• « He weighed himself again on those magic scales, and the message that appeared on the screen was: "You still weigh 88 kilos, you are still married, and you just missed your flight to San Diego". »
• « The first research path taken was that of brain size: given the incredible mental capacity of certain famous people, it was logical to think that the answer lay in a larger-than-normal grey mass. However, the scales turned out to be negative. While Einstein gave birth to the theory of relativity with an absolutely normal brain, brilliant writers such as Anatole France or Walt Whitman possessed brains of smaller than average size. »