The speech is also peppered with local idioms, but by the end of the week my ear had adjusted.

As the show goes on, though, the ears adjust.

What sounded like "right in our living rooms" a generation ago is now a bit hollow and distant, but the ear adjusts.

As the ear adjusts to her vernacular music, her thumping narrative rhythms also take hold.

Still, the players were there at all the big moments, and the ears adjusted in between.

Glogauer's ear was adjusting to the accent now and he tried to simulate it better.

But listeners' ears adjust, and apparently Mr. Bell does, too.

But once my eye and ear adjust to the scale and rhythm, the jungle offers an equally satisfying nature fix.

Now that my ears had adjusted to the new, safer environment, I could make out the metallic rumble of a streetcar fading toward the city center.

Once your ears adjust to the soft volume, familiar preludes and fugues seem more eventful than usual.