A terrible noise pierces his skull, a chord randomly struck, discordant but not without some kind of deranged harmony.

He could not be mistaken, for he distinctly heard chords struck.

Is that the only chord of response this information strikes in you?

A violent chord struck sharply upon an unearthly instrument.

Chaumel's sally regarding superior trading power among the regions had struck a chord in the southern magimans mind.

On the receiving end, the question ought to be what chords the music strikes in us.

Still, there are enough fine chords struck and suggestions made so his own soundscape keeps resonating after the book is closed.

Here, it seems merely the capricious chords of sympathy struck on a haphazard tour of the lower depths.

Then he played another, even shorter snippet: a single chord struck once on piano.

Immediately striking a deeper note was Uchida's perfectly placed opening chord in the Beethoven.