Rain and thunder can be heard in the background throughout, as well as the sound of the pencil scratching onto the letter.

We hear the sounds of a pencil scratching on paper while his hands are out of sight; we see the round black eyes that have surveyed the finest and most putrid productions on Broadway since the 1920's.

There are hot pencils scratching on paper in the press rows.

Down the long corridor on the 14th floor that separated the two camps -union and management - they huddled in small groups, figuring and refiguring, pencils scratching against their legal pads, pulling at their hair, their voices rising and falling.

He returned to his notebook, and they listened to his pencil scratching on the paper until he looked up.

And Ms. Chouinard sets her dance to the Stravinsky score, as well as to a score by Rober Racine made of the amplified sounds of a pencil scratching across paper.

Crone shoots a glance at Tash, who has a perplexed expression as he follows the pencil scratching on paper.

Jack could almost hear the pencils scratching across notepads in the press gallery behind him.

Even my pencil scratching on the paper makes his teeth grate.