In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.
My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.
To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
