| Playtime was Tati's last film, a ruinously expensive bid for respectability that gave off the empty rattle of perfectionism — pratfalls echoing tinnily through lavish, empty sets. |
| A broad scouse voice tinnily chimed out from my speakers as I watched the hubbub on the street below. |
| Hissing tinnily through his headphones, we can hear Talking Heads' Wild Wild Life. |
| I could hear shouting, both from somewhere down the hill and, more tinnily, from the monitor, which Armando kept an eye on. |
| Suddenly we could hear teasers of our fellow commuters' tunes, tinnily tss-ss-ing out of tiny tweeters. |
| So was the music, Marlene Dietrich and other World War II-era idols singing tinnily on a CD player. |
