In "Waltz," a simple vignette strikes a universal chord, although the aura is early 20th-century small-town America.

He expected these thematic components would merge to form a "One Note" or "universal chord" representing the audience, and by extrapolation, all of humanity.

A universal chord had been struck; people everywhere felt a physical loss.

Yet she touches a universal chord by reminding us that the artistic conscience is inseparable from the moral conscience.

The album artwork strikes a universal chord.

"Désenchantée", the album's lead single, became a phenomenon in French pop music, striking a universal chord with its political lyrics.

Ultimately, these thematic components would merge to form a "universal chord".

Dorothée had struck some kind of universal chord when she hung the angelic label on him.

Film garnered positive reactions at home on its spring release and has the emotional coherence to strike universal chords offshore.