Glare from hundreds of ceiling-mounted Karlsson lamps was almost painful as they emerged from tomblike stillness to the noisy commotion of an active finishing bay.

Just ahead on the sidewalk, there was a noisy commotion as a small crowd gathered around a bearded man.

Her last words were drowned by a noisy commotion caused by the arrival in a grey limousme of a woman remarkable in the history of Mexican bullfighting.

Behind me, a lot of noisy commotion went on as the psychic Jen began her hot pursuit of whatever the hell she was seeing of me in the mirrors.

Ame-no-uzeme began to dance and create a noisy commotion in order to entice Amaterasu to come out.

That made sense-all those copters taking off and landing on the ship itself would be a windy, noisy commotion better left elsewhere.

But Krasta, full and sated, did sleep well- until, some time after midnight, a noisy commotion at the front entrance woke her.

Then the noisy commotion began again.

Jörmungandr shrieks, and a noisy commotion is heard from underwater before another lacuna appears in the manuscript.

He was saying something, a declaration to the audience, but one that was lost to me in the noisy commotion that scorched the air above him.