And then it begins: the joyous music that fills the church and, even to unaccustomed ears, carries a powerful message of praise, sacrifice and hope.

The wind yelped in his unaccustomed ear like a hound.

Or so it would seem to unaccustomed ears.

Although the music may seem strange to the unaccustomed ear, it certainly won't put you to sleep; cymbals and drums guarantee your alertness.

Or how close we were to the main road, where, to my unaccustomed ears, a highway seemed to be whizzing by.

Hagan spoke crisply, with traces of the pure highland which sounds so much like Irish to the unaccustomed ear.

"If the matter is so pressing, you will prefer that we visit the delegation tonight," said Riley, in a voice which had nothing mocking in it--to an unaccustomed ear.

With added flute, viola and bass, "Then or Never" has for the unaccustomed Western ear a resonating indeterminacy of intonation reminiscent of gamelan orchestras.

I'm sorry, I was adapting the phrase for your unaccustomed ears, but it loses certain nuances in translation.

The tenuous atmosphere was like a perpetual muffler on his unaccustomed ears.